WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders and the White House, under extreme pressure from conservative activists, have restarted negotiations on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, with House leaders declaring that Democrats were celebrating the law’s survival prematurely.
Just days after President Trump said he was moving on to other issues, senior White House officials are now saying they have hope that they can still score the kind of big legislative victory that has so far eluded Mr. Trump. Vice President Mike Pence was dispatched to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for lunchtime talks.
“We’re not going to retrench into our corners or put up dividing lines,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said after a meeting of House Republicans that was dominated by a discussion of how to restart the health negotiations. “There’s too much at stake to get bogged down in all of that.”
The House Republican whip, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, said of Democrats, “Their celebration is premature. We are closer to repealing Obamacare than we ever have been before.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/us/politics/health-care-obamacare-freedom-caucus.html
I’m also closer to winning the lottery than I ever have been before. This isn’t horseshoes, get it done!
This is like when one person finds a huge millipede in the house and wants to “set it free” outside, while the other person insists, just kill it.
If the first person is a liberal she will boohoo that the monster might be carrying eggs. If the second person is...sane — the kill becomes an emergency.