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Exclusive: U.S. Senate's McConnell sees tough path for passing healthcare bill
Reuters ^ | May 24, 2017 | Susan Cornwell and Yasmeen Abutaleb

Posted on 05/24/2017 12:23:08 PM PDT by Carl Vehse

Referring to behind-the-scenes work among Senate Republicans on a healthcare bill, [U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell said, "I don't know how we get to 50 (votes) at the moment."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop; healthcare; lazy; mcconnell; mcconnelltrumpcare; republican; senate; trumpcare; uniparty
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Testicular transplants, you gutless political eunuch!!
1 posted on 05/24/2017 12:23:09 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers so they can let me down one last time.


2 posted on 05/24/2017 12:24:00 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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To: Carl Vehse

GOP Mantra: “You can never fail if you don’t try!”


3 posted on 05/24/2017 12:25:25 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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To: Carl Vehse

You can’t rush a turtle. That’s why the spineless amoeba in the Senate keep voting him in as Leader.


4 posted on 05/24/2017 12:25:54 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Carl Vehse; Liz; HarleyLady27; flat; unkus; SkyPilot; vette6387; MinuteGal; ZULU; NFHale; ...

Turtle Face better see the handwriting on the next election’s walls. The Deplorables won’t except their excuses.

I suggest the Senate and House find their gonads like yesterday, ya think? Perhaps Mad Dog Mattis can tell them where to look for their Nads? Then again, they may have been born without a spine and a pair!


5 posted on 05/24/2017 12:27:38 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: KC_Lion

Hilariously true!
Hadn’t heard that one before ;n)

“When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers so they can let e down one last time.”


6 posted on 05/24/2017 12:29:36 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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How is it we got rid of Beohner, but we can’t get rid of McConnell?


7 posted on 05/24/2017 12:32:07 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: Carl Vehse

Maybe THIS is why the Dems are forecasting a “wave election” in 2018. Disgusted Republican voters are getting ready to pull the flush handle.


8 posted on 05/24/2017 12:32:27 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Carl Vehse
I don't care if every damn Republican in the House and Senate have to be promised $150K/yr lifetime jobs at HHS if they lose reelection because of their vote....

GET THE DAMN JOB DONE!


9 posted on 05/24/2017 12:35:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: KC_Lion
What a tagline....

When I die I want the GOP to be my Pallbearers, so they can let me down one last time.

10 posted on 05/24/2017 12:36:30 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

It’s hard to say that the alternative would be so much worse. Before the last election, I figured the best possible aftermath would be the total annihilation of the Party of Lincoln and the formation of something people actually could support. The Trump victory briefly made me rethink that. Now I’m going back to my original hope. Crush them!


11 posted on 05/24/2017 12:36:58 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Carl Vehse
Trump needs to call a meeting of all Congressional Republicans. At it, he needs to tell them what's what. He won the election, the voters want what he wants, they do not want the globalist agenda that has been dictating Republican policy since Newt. He needs to tell them that they will follow his leadership the way Democrats followed Obama's, or they will lose their majorities, rightfully, he will be impeached by a Democrat congress, Pence will get impeached, and Republicans will never again have an opportunity to govern in America, which will become a socialist nation. If they obstruct his agenda, he will actively campaign against those who do so, consequences be damned.

We knew all along that they would fight him tooth and nail. Trillions are at stake, and the leadership are all compromised and will do the bidding of those trillions. Those who can be convinced by craven interest or who are not compromised need to take charge of the caucus and understand that it is Trump's way or it is the end of America and the GOP. Maybe they will get it. Maybe they won't.

12 posted on 05/24/2017 12:37:01 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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That would be Trump’s leverage that he can use to get his program from lilly-livered Republicans, that he will run a pro-Trump Republican in many key districts, and fund them. They will respond to losing their seats. They have been playing the game of us having no alternative to them for too long.


13 posted on 05/24/2017 12:39:11 PM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: Carl Vehse

In about 24 months from now they won’t have any trouble getting to 51 votes on single payer.


14 posted on 05/24/2017 12:41:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Carl Vehse

There are not 50 votes to pass this bill.

I bet there aren’t 35.


15 posted on 05/24/2017 12:42:24 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Die Gedanken sind Frei)
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To: Carl Vehse

They don’t want to replace Obamacare. They just want their conservative voters to think they want to replace it - so they continue to put on a show like they have for 7 years.


16 posted on 05/24/2017 12:43:45 PM PDT by LostPassword
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Exclusive: U.S. Senate's McConnell sees tough path for passing healthcare bill

Wanns know why Mitch? It's because we have a p*ssy leading the Senate.

17 posted on 05/24/2017 12:43:47 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Carl Vehse

Let’s start with, The Affordable Care Act a/k/a 0bamacare is hereby repealed.

That wasn’t difficult was it?

5.56mm


18 posted on 05/24/2017 12:45:14 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: KC_Lion

Is there any downside to the Senate putting a Healthcare Bill to a vote so we citizens can see who votes WITH the Democrats BEFORE the 2018 Primaries?

Such a vote could lead to strong funding for primary challengers to those RINOs and to some NEW patriotic Senators.

And such an “acid test” vote might also persuade some RINOs that it would be in their interest to vote WITH the people.

For a change...


19 posted on 05/24/2017 12:45:31 PM PDT by pfony1
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To: Carl Vehse
...and then the dirty evil lying rats went...BOO!.. and immediately the spineless bastard pubs 💩 in their adult pampers!
20 posted on 05/24/2017 12:46:59 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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