Republicans are past masters at “chrome plating turds!” The RATs are adroit at picking turds up by “the clean end.” Take your pick!
Remember - the GOP analysis of the effect of Obamacare on the IRS was that it would add somwhere around $5 billion dollars to the IRS operational costs and require the hiring of between 15,000 and 20,000 new employees to enforce the Obamacare laws.
Any republican bill that doesn’t roll that cost back and cut those employees is a sham.
Or they could just repeal the whole thing like they promised.
If the new bill subsidizes insurance companies and doesn’t rein in pharmaceutical costs, it’s “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” with DC swampthings. If it doesn’t end the mandate and allow for alternative policies, it means just about every elected Republican in the US Senate and HOR is a bare-*ssed liar.
“Try Winning Over Skeptics?”
The only skeptics they should be concerned about are the voters. What the senate and the house vote is what we will get from them and the skeptics need to get their two cents in before it is signed by Trump. The senate and house conservatives don’t have anything to prove to their peers. They were elected to do just what they are doing. And coming from the source listed, NY Times I can understand that the libs can’t win by vote, so they will try to win by attempting fear. Same old democrat playbook. If you can’t win with facts, destroy the person trying to improve the problem. Most of the time with lies.
The conservatives need to let the libs know that the conservatives are in charge because the people put them there. So, lead, follow, or get out of the way. I don’t have time for Judas.
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Washington Republicans still pretending they don’t understand why voters gave them the presidency and majorities in the senate and the house.
Trying to replace Obamacare with McConnell-Care.
Fine, Rand Paul and the GOPe senator from Maine can vote against, and maybe a few more, and then we will see if McConnell has the balls to put direct REPEAL up for vote.
A REPEAL bill would smoke out the many GOP liars and frauds who have been running on REPEAL for the past 6 years and those congresspeople, when they vote against direct REPEAL, can be primaried and hopefully defeated.
Collins of Maine says she won’t vote for it because it has too many cuts in Medicaid but she’ll happily work with Republicans and Democrats to fix Obamacare - Hannity tonight showed a three year old clip of her on the Senate floor speaking about how bad Obamacare was for the country and how it had to be replaced with something much better - this pathetic excuse for a senator should be primaried at the earliest possible moment.....