{"id":12310,"date":"2017-09-26T17:49:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T00:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12310"},"modified":"2017-09-26T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T00:57:49","slug":"is-gop-obamacare-repeal-finally-dead-and-how-voters-were-robbed-in-2016-by-gop-in-wi-bradcast-9262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12310","title":{"rendered":"Is GOP ObamaCare Repeal FINALLY Dead? And How Voters Were Robbed in 2016 by GOP in WI: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_RegisterToVote_PuertoRico_Trump_HydrogenBomb_092617.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s very busy, very newsy <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we try, once again, to focus on the issues that actually matter. [<i>Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s show: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/NationalVoterRegistrationDay.org\">National Voter Registration Day<\/a>! Are you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/its-national-voter-registration-day-do-your-part_us_59ca665ee4b0f2df5e83b191\">registered<\/a> to vote? Are you <i>sure<\/i> about that? Are you <i>really<\/i> sure?;<\/li>\n<li>Republicans in the U.S. Senate finally <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/34cc8d59e8724569b38f95312f771bac\/Republican-leaders:-Senate-won%27t-vote-on-Obamacare-repeal\">throw in the towel<\/a> (again) on their latest scheme for killing the Affordable Care Act (&#8220;Obamacare&#8221;), which would have taken away health care from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/9\/25\/16361380\/graham-cassidy-cbo-score-lol-wat\">&#8220;millions&#8221;<\/a> of Americans. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/09\/26\/politics\/health-care-republican-senate-vote\/index.html\">is this<\/a> <i>really<\/i> the end? (Might we suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12299\">Bernie Sanders&#8217; &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221;<\/a> instead, Mr. President?);<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2017\/9\/25\/1701445\/-Puerto-Rico-Children-s-Hospital-No-fuel-No-power-desperately-saves-sick-babies-What-s-Trump-Doing\">humanitarian<\/a> crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria worsens. Rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/9\/26\/16349644\/puerto-rico-humanitarian-crisis\">take action<\/a>, Donald Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/san-juan-mayor-trump-debt-helping-separate\">tweets<\/a> insults appearing to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-puerto-rico-twitter-maria-hurricane_us_59c9f4ffe4b01cc57ff4eefb\">blame<\/a> the 3.5 million American citizens who live there for their woes after the devastating Category 4 storm;<\/li>\n<li>Trump continues to issue <a href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/2y6zfDG\">threats<\/a> to North Korea, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/trump-dangerous-bellicosity-raises-nuclear-war-risk-with-n-korea-1054832707644\">one expert<\/a> now putting the odds of a conventional war with the isolated Asian nation at 50% &#8212; and of <i>nuclear<\/i> war at better than 1 out of 10!;<\/li>\n<li>A new and very careful <a href=\"https:\/\/elections.wisc.edu\/news\/voter-id-study\/Voter-ID-Study-Release.pdf\">academic study<\/a> finds thousands of eligible voters were <a href=\"http:\/\/electionlawblog.org\/?p=94997\">prevented<\/a> and\/or deterred from voting in just two of Wisconsin&#8217;s largest counties in the 2016 Presidential election, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10604\">discriminatory<\/a> Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11649\">Photo ID voting restrictions<\/a> in the state;<\/li>\n<li>Desi Doyen joins us for the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">Green News Report<\/a> with updates on Puerto Rico after Maria, toxic exposure and cleanup in Texas after Harvey, and how global warming has made all of those dangers much worse;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, finally, <i>The Daily Show&#8217;s<\/i> Trevor Noah perfectly sums up Trump&#8217;s ginned-up &#8220;controversy&#8221; over NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem in solemn, respectful protest of racial injustice, in just 22 seconds&#8230;and it even rhymes!&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_GOPHealthcare_PuertoRicoCrisis_NKoreaWar_WIPhotoID2016_092617.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_GOPHealthcare_PuertoRicoCrisis_NKoreaWar_WIPhotoID2016_092617.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s very busy, very newsy BradCast, we try, once again, to focus on the issues that actually matter. [Audio link to show follows below.] Among the many stories covered on today&#8217;s show: It&#8217;s National Voter Registration Day! Are you registered to vote? Are you sure about that? Are you really sure?; Republicans in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,89,675,479,594,106,6,28,548,16,288,1030,1043,477,497,690,157,172,775,300,126,47,233,243,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-extreme-weather","category-florida","category-health-care","category-hurricane-harvey","category-hurricane-maria","category-kpfk","category-mitch-mcconnell","category-nfl","category-north-korea","category-photo-id-laws","category-puerto-rico","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-texas","category-us-senate","category-voter-registration","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}