It's much easier to hold up a Supreme Court nomination because senators think of those things in very ideological terms and can't really know the short-term impacts of a new Supreme Court justice. With health care, however, the impact on a senator's home state could be immediate -- and devastating (if not done right).
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You seem to be making the mistake of assuming that McConnell is a national leader with some kind of broad authority over all of the GOP senators. It doesn’t really work that way. Senators answer to their own constituents, first and foremost.
It’s much easier to hold up a Supreme Court nomination because senators think of those things in very ideological terms and can’t really know the short-term impacts of a new Supreme Court justice. With health care, however, the impact on a senator’s home state could be immediate — and devastating (if not done right).
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And you seem to be making the mistake that Senators care of/for their State/constituents. If they did, they’d been clamoring to repeal O’Care since 1/20 for all the damage it’s done.
Like all elected, they answer to the one that fills their coffers, pads their pockets a/o gains them power/influence.