BREAKING: McConnell proposes straight REPEAL of Obamacare, 2 year delay to replace.

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[springwater13]

This is breaking on McConnel's twitter feed. Statement to abandon repeal/replace for a straight repeal with a 2 year delay to replace.

[lightman]

Two years?

Primaries are coming!

Replace it or be replaced!

[jimfree]

It falls off the face of the earth in 2 years. In the interim, it is according to the existing statute and “as the Secretary may direct.”

[mrsmith]

The big change is that the subsidies to insurance companies will be authorized by law. Heretofore they have been paid illegally.

[Newbomb Turk]

Maybe the Republicans finally saw the polling numbers and figured out how pissed the electorate is.

[bigbob]

Brilliant strategic move.

Every Senator will not be on record. Trump wins either way, either they repeal or he can point to each and every reason why not.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

You have a problem with a repeal?

[Rusty0604]

It doesn’t work that way.

[Amendment10]

I wonder what Sen. McConnell has up his sleeve?

Otherwise, if Trumpcare requires new federal powers beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) as interpreted by previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices, then 2 years seems reasonable time for the states to ratify a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution — that is, should the states choose to ratify such an amendment.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• "State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that voters have plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballets for the 2018 elections. Then, when Trump has a Congress that will actually support him after the elections, then Trump may get what he wants on McConnell’s timetable, including a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution if one is needed as previously mentioned.

[Syncro]

HHS Secretary Tom Price details how GOP health plan is set apart from ObamaCare @FoxNewshttps://t.co/EYrewtsPqc— All American Girl (@AIIAmericanGirI) July 18, 2017

Mitch... what are you doing... https://t.co/qgQnmc3JI3— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 18, 2017

Mitch... what are you doing... https://t.co/qgQnmc3JI3— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 18, 2017

Saving stupid, feckless, cowardly GOP from itself. I don't want 2 own Obamacare. Let it collapse, or repeal it. https://t.co/Mt08NAjLGh— Wayne Allyn Root (@WayneRoot) July 18, 2017

BREAKING: Trump, McConnell, Call For Full, Clean Obamacare Repeal https://t.co/Ho8uVpZI7k via @dailycaller— Christopher Bedford (@CBedfordDC) July 18, 2017

[Cheerio]

Truly have been showing the whole world to see how gutless they are - how many times did they vote for straight REPEAL when they knew it would be blocked by Reid or stopped at the oval office desk???? HOW MANY?!?!?!? Now when the rubber will hit the road, so to speak, they are quivering under their desks because of re-election prospects. IF THIS THING CANNOT BE STRANGLED IN IT’S CRIB, THEN AMERICA WILL NEVER BE AMERICA AGAIN.

[Newbomb Turk]

The (GOP)doesn't run the Senate, a majority of the Senators do.

True but Trump can tell every senator that he will campaign in their district and raise money for their challenger.

Real polls have Trump polling off the charts.

The only polls he's weak in are by the same people who said Hillary would win in a landslide because the massively oversample Dems.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

if Trumpcare requires new federal powers

There should be no "Trumpcare" the term is offensive. There should be 100,000 new private sector insurance programs...all available to the various individual and group markets.

[spokeshave]

Incoming...Geriatric Atomic Ninja Turtle ...

[Rusty0604]

Then there will be another election in two years so congress will still be afraid to do anything.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Would there be a sunset provision in the repeal to allow folks to purchase or be migrated to replacement plans?

[PTBAA]

I prefer they never replace it. Let the free market sort itself out.

[Windflier]

forging its replacement.

Why do so many conservatives view 'replacement' as a fait accompli?

I'm beginning to feel like our side has given up on the idea of getting government out of the health care business, altogether.

[luvie]

I thought I read that he was just abandoning the whole thing.

THIS, I could go for. The old goat!

[Repeal 16-17]

But if it goes to a vote.... the electorate knows who to primary.

That's why this is a win-win. The bigger win is if it passes, but at least we will know whom to target if the vote is against us.

[eyedigress]

Why is TAC always getting hit?

Let SAC get some training.