Lisa Murkowski has sealed her legacy. The Big Bad Bill has passed the House of Representatives and will now be sent to the President to sign, which he will.
The bill will add $3 trillion to our deficit. It will cause millions of Americans to lose Medicaid. It will now be harder for people with Affordable Care Act policies to acquire them. It will close down hospitals. SNAP benefits now have a work requirement to them. While there are some people on SNAP that can work, I don’t know many businesses that will employ 80 year old Alzheimer’s patients.
There are more things that will happen, but these are the biggies.
All in all, more people will die every year because of these policies.
Joni Ernst said, “We all die.” Yertle the Turtle (Mitch McConnell) said, “Americans will get over it.” In its essence, this is the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in the history of humanity. It is Lisa Murkowski’s legacy.
She stated that it was a bad bill, yet, she still voted for it. She stated it wasn’t ready, but, she still voted for it. She stated that she hoped the House of Representatives would take the bill up and make needed changes, but, she still voted for it. Only two House Republicans had the stones to vote against it with the entirety of the Democratic Party.
This was her John McCain moment and she showed herself to be lacking. She justified all this by saying she obtained carve outs for the citizens of Alaska. She sold out 350,000,000 other Americans when she sold her vote for carve outs for less than 750,000 Alaskans.
Alaskans who may have family in other states that will suffer because of this bill. What is worse, is that, in the end, those carve outs will only delay the above for the state of Alaska. Her constituency will still suffer.