February 11, 2017

Republicans really have no soul. Watch Bill Akins, a Florida Republican official, tell the crowd what his problems are with the Affordable Care Act.

"And there is a provision in there, that when you're 74, you have to go before a death panel," he told them.

The crowd erupted in jeers and shouted him down as he admonished the "children" to calm down.

What a craven, idiotic fool.

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