Posted on 07/18/2017 10:55:04 AM PDT by nodwam
Since 2010 Republicans have run on repealing and replacing Obamacare, but when the opportunity came the Senate leader couldn't muster 50 votes for a core GOP promise. Even spineless establishment globalist Paul Ryan was able to corral his caucus into passing a repeal and replacement of Obamacare. It's time for Mitch McConnell to put up or someone else lead the senate and GOP caucus.
McConnell was playing both sides of issues during the healthcare debate in the Senate. He was telling conservatives that bill provided massive reforms down the road and telling moderates that the reforms in the bill would never see the light of day. Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson told the Green Bay Press-Gazette, "I am concerned about Leader McConnell's comments to apparently some of my Republican colleagues — 'Don't worry about some of the Medicaid reforms, those are scheduled so far in the future they'll never take effect,'" he said. "I've got to confirm those comments ... I think those comments are going to really put the motion to proceed in jeopardy, whether it's on my part or others."
"Many of us, one of the main reasons we are willing to support a bill that doesn't even come close to repealing Obamacare ... was because at least we were devolving the management back to the states, and putting some level of sustainability into an unsustainable entitlement program," he said.
Johnson concluded, "If our leader is basically saying don't worry about it, we've designed it so that those reforms will never take effect, first of all, that's a pretty significant breach of trust, and why support the bill then?"
McConnell is a snake who has already lost the trust and confidence of his caucus and isn't competent enough to pull his team together.
"Regretfully, it is now apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful," said McConnell. "So, in the coming days, the Senate will vote to take up the House bill with the first amendment in order being what a majority of the Senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then-President Obama: a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay."
@SenateMajLdr Get the job done or we need a new leader. 7 years later, this is pathetic. Also end 60 vote super majority. #EpicFail— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 18, 2017
Now that repeal and replace is dead in the senate, McConnell and other GOP leaders have called for a clean repeal vote, but within hours the RINO caucus in the senate has already come out and killed repeal.
New McConnell health care plan doesn't make it to lunch: Murkowski, Collins and Capito OPPOSE motion to proceed - and others likely to also— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 18, 2017
Trump's nominees for his administration are stuck in the senate, tax reform is dead in the senate, repeal and replace is dead in the senate, this is McConnell's senate and McConnell must be repealed and replaced. These massive GOP majorities in congress will be wasted and 2018 will be a bloodbath for the GOP if nothing is accomplished.
Designated Losers know how to lose.
A representative government?I think I can still remember what it was like to have one.
Designated Losers know how to lose.
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Its what they are. Its who they are.
And its how they roll. Always downhill.
Ditch Mitch ASAP
This is political theater.
The GOP is all about what the corporate donors want.
(Subsidies, sweetheart deals, exemptions, open borders, idiotic trade deals)
Everyone else can go screw.
FR is slow again, too....
Put in a bill reducing the lack of coverage fine by $1 per year.
Bring it up for a vote.
Any chance we could give Manchin chair of some important committee and get him to switch? Somethings gotta f’n give here!
Put in a bill simply remitting/rebating the lack of coverage fines for tax year 2015.
Put it up for a vote.
Make these RINOs vote.
GOPe. Hiss spit
Worthless bunch
Hey Mitch, Schummer is doing a victory lap around you laughing his a$$ off at what a total failure you are
Repeal has been their #1 campaign issue for seven years. They won House with it in 2010; they won the Senate with it in 2014; and now they’ve won the WH in 2016.
I bet they didn’t expect to have all three House/Senate/WH, and thus would never have to deliver. Well, they’ve promised themselves into a box and had better deliver now, or there will be hell to pay come election time.
I’m ready to ditch then ALL. Everyone in Congress has been bought or is being blackmailed. Well, most of Congress...90% perhaps
Put a bill in the hopper:
1. allowing insurance companies to sell low-cost coverage for up to 16 days of life-saving hospital inpatient care with a $1,000 deductible, with available riders for:
a. up to $1,000 of outpatient testing with Medicare Part B level co-pays for most Part B covered tests
b. one emergency visit with a co-pay of $300 less $10 for each month of premiums fully paid under the policy prior to the visit
2. allowing purchase of such coverage to be considered qualifying coverage
In the meantime, I would continue to urge that we talk up the traditional arguments against a Federal role in civilian health care, coupled with an acknowledgment of the Promissory Estoppel phenomenon, which is a factor in preventing an immediate curtailment of Federal involvement. Consider:
The idea is that we need to continually push the debate in the direction that recognizes what actually works to achieve a better, less expensive, more clearly focused interaction between actual patients & physicians, with out the extremely expensive interference by a meddling bureaucracy!
Geriatric Mutant Nimrod Turtle.
Medicare for All is now on the table. Free stuff has never been taken away from the voters. We deluded ourselves in thinking otherwise. Also kiss goodbye tax cuts/tax reform that will benefit the middle class.
Alert to Mitch McConnell - Chuck Schumer is NOT your friend.
If he were, he would have already come up with a series of compromises to heal the rifts and shredding of the fabric of “comity” in the Senate.
There are TWO parties of “No” in Washington. Both at odds with Donald Trump and the US citizens who put him in office.
Talk about being unprepared and not up to the job, Both McConnell and Ryan have bolstered their ranks and gotten majorities running on this platform for 7 years and OOPS, they forgot to work on a plan and forgot to engage fellow Republicans to craft a great alternative.
And they criticize Trump??? They both should be replaced with someone who wants to execute on a plan and live up to the promises made to GOP voters.
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