That’s why the vote isn’t in a day or two but rather weeks away. They need time not for the pubbies but to cajole their own members. This alone tells me that Obie knows he does not have the votes and is trying to buy time.
And with every passing day, hundreds of thousands of Americans reach the tipping point where they decide the don't like the man in charge, or his deaf lieutenants in the house and senate. Poll numbers ratchet downward. Wavering dems get flooded with angry words from motivated and outraged voters/contributors.
Perhaps it's possible they ram it through. And then they die on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Let's hope we can force them to crash into the ocean first.