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g and you're going to give somebody something so that you know you've compromised, what's the best thing to give them? The answer is nothing. The best thing to give them is nothing. Do you know what this is? It's nothing. It's nothing because you wouldn't be able to fix Obamacare in seven weeks or whatever we have before we have to have a real law. It's going to take a year to fix it. Whatever th…
← Previous segment →happen. In the real world this takes a year. Am I wrong? So really what he's offering is what was going to happen anyway. Hey, this is going to take longer than you thought. Why don't we do it right instead of slapping it together? Now if your take is no, I'm not going to spend one more dime, you were going to spend the dime anyway. You just didn't know it. If I could prevent you from having to spend one more dime on Obamacare, I'd help you. I'd do it. But there's no path to that. There's definitely a path to spending more than we want to spend for one more year but getting serious about fixing it. I don't even know how you would lower the cost, but smarter people would be involved than me.
So I'm looking at your comments because I'm actually very interested. Sorry, I'm in such pain in my one arm. Nope. I'm on the wrong page here. I thought I was looking at your comments but they were the old ones. Here we go. Now we're good. Damn it. Just looking at your comments. One next crisis brings us to the next crisis. Your geek bar just kicked in. You do two years. One year is reasonable. Makes us look bad at midterms. When are we once again going to say no to subsidies? Do you think there's a clever midterm play that the Democrats are doing? I don't know. The COVID subsidies which don't apply.
All right. Well, my current take is that the Democrats are trying to find an ego-free way we didn't really lose to get past the government closure. This looks reasonable to me. It looks reasonable. You know, if Trump negotiated it down to nine months or six months or something, also reasonable. But we now have entered the what I would call the common sense zone where what the Democrats are offering sounds like, you know
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, there's a lot of nuance and all this stuff. I could be wrong about where the details are going. It sounds like they're at least creeping into something that would be reasonable. You know, giving somebody a little extra time to do something that's really complicated. That's just a reasonable ask. I don't know how you argue against that, but we will. Apparently 30 subpoenas have gone out in Flori…
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