Posted on 07/10/2017 6:01:41 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
This is a really important article and should inspire all of us to demand that our Senators change this ridiculous rule. The Constitution says that most issues should be decided by a MAJORITY. That means 50% + 1 vote. The Senate has only had this ridiculous 60 vote rule during the last 35 years, or so. Change it back.
In true GOP establishment fashion, the Senate will be unable to pass a terrible Trumpcare bill but will instead work across party lines to pass an even worse Trumpcare bill.
This is just like that old Discharge Petition scam that Rush Limbaugh blew the whistle on in the 90’s. Huff and puff and make a big deal in public about the legislation you’re sponsoring, while quietly refusing to sign the petition to discharge it to a floor vote.
Because Republicans want it to remain.
Because we have a Uniparty in Congress. No difference between Ra and Ds.
Trump has exposed them and continues to do so.
The real reason the GOP doesn’t repeal Obamacare is that the biggest beneficiaries of it are older people (Republican voters) and the ones screwed most by are younger people (Democrat voters). It’s really that simple.
False party is false.
They can say anything they want to, they told us they had a bill ready to go that would over turn this POS thing called health care, but guess what:
They were NOT expecting anyone but Hillary to win and did nothing...they told us that to get votes to get back their seats...they never had a bill, they didn’t have crap...they were not expecting to have to work and do something, thinking the ‘rotten hag’ was going to win so they could sit back and rake in more money while America was over taken and the American people starved to death...
Now how about going out and voting for some real people to help Our President who WE elected to run this country and save America and her people!!!
Yes
As long as the focus is on how to pay for grossly inflated healthcare costs, any plan is doomed.
We the People are well aware of the realities inside that stench-ridden Beltway.
Question is, who is more at fault - the anti-American swamp dwellers, or We the People for allowing it?
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The best thing “government” SHOULD do is get out of the insurance business all together.
The best thing “government” SHOULD do is get out of the insurance business all together.
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help you” historically tells you that if it can be screwed up, it will be. SNAFU!!!!!!!!!!!
Dying to know what we’re going to do about it.
The Republican Party is truly the Ben Sasse brigade. They just won’t say so.
Republicans’ have shown themselves to be weasels.
Republicans cannot be trusted any more than Democrats. Trump won because he’s an outsider. We need outsiders in Congress, too.
“Now how about going out and voting for some real people to help Our President who WE elected to run this country and save America and her people!!!”
I beg to differ, HL27.
Better that We the People work on the state level to invoke Article V or nullification or something.
President Trump is a good man, an honest man - but he is only one man. Washington will never voluntary give up power, no matter how unconstitutional that power may be.
You’re 100% right. I can’t wait to see what the primary season brings us, although I’m afraid we’ll see many of them show their true colors as did Thad Cochran (R. Miss) a few years ago.
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