Factoids

1. The Senate has had the courage to have an up-or-down vote on everything the House has sent to it the last few days.  The House has had no votes on what the Senate has sent its way.  (Reason:  in an up-or-down vote, the House would probably pass a "clean" continuing resolution.)
2. The House's idea of "compromise" is--in effect--for the Dems to scrap the ACA in exchange for six weeks of funding the government.  Are you serious?!
3. When I was in high school, I actually thought I was a conservative.  How embarrassing.
4. I am equally embarrassed for my conservative friends who--apparently with a straight face--contend that the "compromise" in factoid 2 above is actually reasonable.
5. In 2012, Democratic House candidates received something like 1.4 million more votes than Republicans.
6. Bush and the Republicans cut veterans benefits (presumably to pay for unneeded tax cuts for the wealthy) back in the 00's.  As a veteran, I consider it the height of hypocrisy for the Wingnut Republicans to try to use another phony bill in the House to play politics with the lives of the same veterans they turned their backs on during the Bush administration.
7. This is more an opinion (or suspicion) than a factoid:  If the Wingnuts in America are convinced that the ACA is totally despised and that it will be an utterly unsuccessful train wreck, why aren't they eager for it to roll out?  Then--if they're right--the public will demand repeal and will run the Dems out of town.  We'll have a Wingnut House, a Wingnut Senate, and maybe (gasp!) a Wingnut in the White House.  So, my (totally unbiased) opinion is that they must think it's going to succeed and be quite popular.  Just sayin'.