President Trump should go to the people and demand that congress make a choice:
- Repeal Obamacare
OR
- Pass a law putting all government elected representatives and employees under Obamacare
and eliminating all their current healthcare plans
Posted on 07/22/2017 4:44:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Getting rid of Obamacare was one of Donald Trump’s key campaign commitments. Several Republican senators said this week they would not vote to support various forms of dealing with the controversial law. Political commentators have construed the announcements as another indictment of the president’s leadership. Yet this interpretation ignores the fact that congressional Republicans have built their majorities on promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act. If they fail, it’s not Trump who will be blamed by voters.
he come-hell-or-high-water stance by leadership tells Murkowski and Capito in particular that they will not be protected from the appearance of flip-flopping. “Historically, the Senate leader protects his colleagues from tough votes. He is forcing this tough vote on the people who talk out of both sides of their mouths,” one former McConnell staffer tells me.
The best-case scenario at this point may very well be a repeal-only vote. That way Republicans get credit with voters for coming through on their promises, Trump gets something to tout, and the conference gets two more years to try to come up with a replacement plan they can pass.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Those who will not repeal are heavily invested in the scam you can bet on it!
Let’s see now, the editors want to scare the spineless Republicans from passing something that most Americans want as evidenced by whatever the polls are worth as the number one issue on their concern list.
Obviously, it was working before they thought of writing this piece of crap.
Trump campaigned on repeal and replace simultaneously. He should have campaigned on repeal only, or repeal then try replace. This is 100% Trump’s fault. Now Murkowski and others can take cover behind Trump’s squishy campaign promise.
Not the Republican Representatives or Senators, so much as the money organizations that provide the bulk of their funding. Those elected officials that do not seem to respond to the very strong sentiment of their several constituencies, as expressed at the ballot box, in response to the message they were given during the campaign. Now, the shining knight on the white horse seems to have deserted them, all in response to the flashing fear that the next election shall go against them, if they do not play ball with the money interests.
Malefactors of great wealth. They are deserting the Democrat party in favor of strong support of co-opted RINOs who seem willing to defy Trump, a much more sure bet than squandering it on the corrupt and morally bankrupt Democrat challengers, most of whom seem to have badly tarnished reputations.
The Republican delegation may even increase in the mid-term elections, but beware, the seeming majority shall be compromised of even more RINOs than are already stacked in the ranks.
Progressives were, after all, a splinter of the Republican party to begin with, until they got so riddled with fervent socialists, Communists even, they were essentially read out of the Republicans and flocked in droves to the Democrat party, which was growing moribund during the Eisenhower years.
The influx of Progressives vastly revitalized the Democrats all through the 1960’s and 1970’s.
President Trump should go to the people and demand that congress make a choice:
OR
For all my future days I shall not vote for a single Republican for any office until Obama-care is eliminated. That may be forever.
For all my future days I shall not vote for a single Republican for any office until Obama-care is eliminated. That may be forever.
There will be no repeal and replace. The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that some of the key compromises added to get conservative votes can’t be done under reconciliation. So replace is dead. That leaves repeal only, and there are too many votes against that for it to pass.
-—Several Republican senators said this week they would not vote to support various forms of dealing with the controversial law.-—
Could these ‘several Republican Senators’ be Collins, Murkowski, and Moore? And are they a ‘no’ vote because the bill opts to defund Planned Parenthood?
Maybe it should be make clear.
“This is 100% Trump’s fault.”
Now matter how thin you slice that, it’s still baloney.
Excellent idea, but couldn’t Trump issue an EO to force everyone to take 0care?
If so, maybe he could tell them repeal, or I sign this prepared Executive Order in from of me now.
He needs to fully enforce Obamacare and stop giving illegal subsidies...back everyone into a corner. When unions want concessions they ,”work to rule”. Which means fully enforce every stupid rule and slow walk every thing. Most regulations and rules when fully enforced will vex everyone
CONgre$$ members, aka The Gang of 535, present and past (Obama, Hillary, Kasich) should be in federal prison.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Their assets should be seized.
But obamacare itself was done under reconciliation. You can pass obamacare under reconciliation basically a gigantic spending bill and brand new entitlement but you can’t alter it under same? The parliamentarian excuse is GOP hogwash.
That's a great idea!
An EO probably wouldn't stick after a court challenge but it would embarrass the heck out of the senators and congressmen
who are dragging their feet on the Obamacare repeal!
It would be a way to get the issue in the news and get the voters attention on the disparity between the Obamacare
insurance plans we get and the gold standard plans government people get that are financed with taxpayer money!
That's for certain!
President Trump should have Sessions’ DOJ file suit against the Congessional scam whereby Congress has FALSELY and illegally “certified” that it is a small business (fewer than 50 employees?).
Let Congress and their huge staffs live under REAL OBAMACARE!
This must be repeated over and over. Congress should be forced to be included in the programs they create for everyone else.
Congress has over a 90% return rate, their necks are never on the line. Meanwhile Trump has yet to get anything through Congress. I don’t know if that means his neck is on the line but it is a significant part of being President.
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