{"id":8256,"date":"2017-12-21T07:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2017-12-21T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:46:05","slug":"moving-the-goalpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=8256","title":{"rendered":"Moving the Goalpost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next attempt at sending this:<\/p>\n

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“Moving the goalposts (or shifting the goalposts) is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports, that means to change the criterion (goal) of a process or competition while still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an intentional advantage or disadvantage.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Let’s give it a look – here are the original goals that were to be met to vote for the tax scam :<\/p>\n

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Well, McCain decided to forgo this vote. \u00a0The rest caved. Every single one. Collins is for me the worst of the traitors, because she once got my hope up. As the Maine media point out:<\/p>\n

The Maine senator voted for the GOP tax bill earlier in December after securing promises from President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that Congress would pass\u00a0three separate measures<\/a>\u00a0she says would mitigate the damage done by the repeal of the individual mandate. (Several studies have found that while the policies might prevent some of the large insurance premium hikes caused by nuking the individual mandate, they would do nothing to fix the large increase in the number of uninsured Americans or the threat of \u201cbare\u201d counties with no insurance options on the individual market.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Collins has moved the goalposts several times since making these demands\u2014first saying they had to pass before the Senate took its first vote on the tax bill, then saying they had to pass before the final tax bill came back from the conference committee, then saying they had to pass before the end of the year. Now, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and other influential House members, action on Collins\u2019 health care priorities will likely be\u00a0put off until next year<\/a>, long after she has to decide whether or not to vote for the tax bill. And now that Republicans no longer need her vote to get the bill across the finish line, it\u2019s unclear whether the health care stabilization policies will be taken up at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

Collins told TPM on Thursday that the Senate would vote to insert the provisions into the end-of-year spending bill, but refused to answer what she would do if the House voted to strip them out.<\/em><\/p>\n

She did, however, complain that the media’s treatment of her was “sexist.”<\/p>\n

Here is what happens when you play with the goalposts as demonstrated with photographs of random posts:<\/p>\n

You cut people off from health insurance.<\/p>\n

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Infrastructure will crumble even more.<\/p>\n

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The democratic process will be stopped.<\/p>\n

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The frenzied feeding for the few will begin.<\/p>\n

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The future will darken,<\/p>\n

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The tears will flow.<\/p>\n

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Hope will wilt.<\/p>\n

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And all we can do is stand by and document, since we are no longer fairly represented in the process.<\/p>\n

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