Let's talk about bitter GOP infighting over the ACA.... - Belle of the Ranch

Well, howdy there internet people. It's Belle again. So, today we're going to talk about bitter GOP infighting over the ACA.

Johnson continues to insist he hasn't lost control of the House. I just wonder if anybody's told the House that. The
bitter dispute over whether or not to follow Trump's lead and tank health care for the working class is spilling out
into public view to the point that it's no longer just being talked about on political analysis channels, but it's on
the TV, on the normal news. Even with the House on vacation, it's still making headlines.

Before the break, vulnerable Republicans broke with the party and pushed a discharge petition to bring an extension
of the ACA tax credits up for a vote. That sparked a new wave of dissent. The most recent development was Representative Eric Burleson of Missouri talking about Republicans who signed the petition and telling the press that, "Those members need not ask me for any help in their campaigns whatsoever."

Refusing to help vulnerable members of your own party during what is expected to be an incredibly rough midterm
election for Republicans certainly is a move. I don't know if it's a good one, but it's definitely a move. The vulnerable Republicans who know that the massive number of people being harmed by the Republican push against health care for the working class is more than enough to swing elections. are trying in vain to convince their colleagues that Trump's desire to undermine the ACA could have disastrous results for them. Many of the vulnerable Republicans wanted Speaker Johnson to bring a short-term extension of the ACA tax credits up for a vote, but he refused.

That left them with only one option. Side with Democrats for a longer extension. Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska described the situation as, "Our team should have put in the compromise. Now we're voting for the worse one. It's just sort of dumb."

Now Johnson will be coming back after the new year with a discharge petition on a vote he tried to stop on an issue
Trumpian Republicans are trying desperately to get away from. He's starting off the new year being forced to vote on a Democratic plan while trying to convince the public, other Republicans, and probably Trump himself that he hasn't lost control of the House. There were rumors of some Republicans opposed to the ACA tax credits planning on filing a motion to vacate if Johnson brought it up for a vote.

Representative Massie, who is becoming a louder and more frequent Republican critic of Trump, seemed to indicate that pushes to oust Johnson are all talk and said that "Johnson will be speaker till the day Trump doesn't want him to
be speaker."

The fact that that was even said gives some insight into the internal state of the Republican party right now. Republicans in the House are so committed to placating Trump's desire to pretend like the one big beautiful bill
wasn't an attack on the working class that they're going to further tank their own voters healthcare shortly before the
midterms just to keep the fiction alive. Either way, as it stands, it looks like Republicans will have to take another uncomfortable vote where they will be on the record about whether or not they want to help the working class of this
country.

Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.