Posted on 07/19/2017 5:32:22 AM PDT by Rockitz
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a leading conservative in the U.S. Senate and driving force on the healthcare debate that has played out this year, told Breitbart News exclusively on Tuesday he is pleased that the U.S. Senate is going to move forward on efforts to pass a clean partial repeal of Obamacare. Paul, one of the four GOP U.S. Senators who publicly opposed the Senate health bill that aimed to simultaneously repeal and replace Obamacare leading to its eventual demise, has been driving debate on healthcare in the U.S. Congress.
In the wake of the Senate bill’s ultimate failure on Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump both publicly backed the idea he’s been pushing publicly for months now: That Congress should pass a clean repeal of Obamacare now, the bill they did in fact pass in 2015, then worry about the replacement later. Former President Barack Obama vetoed that bill then, but President Trump would sign it.
“I’m encouraged that we’re moving towards a clean repeal,” Paul told Breitbart News. “I’ve been advocating for some time that an insurance company bailout is not what we should be voting on. So now we’ve gotten rid of the insurance company bailout and we’re going to vote on what we voted on in 2015...."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Trump should announce at lunch that unless the ACA is repealed, he’ll sign an EO that places ALL Legislative aides and staff on ACA and not on the carved-out Congressional system... Let them all contemplate that.
The RNC WILL finance them. Defund the RNC, donate directly to good candidates.
I don’t think a repeal failure will reflect on Trump. Everyone knows the rino CONgress is at fault. Trump can use his twitter to point out who voted to keep Obamacare, and the voting anger will be directed toward the rino’s. This will help him clean up CONgress a little.
Agree 100%.
Trump should announce at lunch that unless the ACA is repealed, he’ll sign an EO that places ALL Legislative aides and staff on ACA and not on the carved-out Congressional system... Let them all contemplate that.
Yep. Way past time for Trump to start inflicting pain on the useless beltway pigs.
He would have to cancel their executive healthcare that they have also. Otherwise CONgress would just have 2 policies, and grandstand how they are also on Obamacare, while actually using the premium CONgressional health care, that we are not entitled to at any cost.
Everyone here who posts on the subject may say that but that's not everyone.
Regardless I am skeptical that it will ever come to a vote, if it does it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Here’s your Senate Target List for next year:
Orrin Hatch (absolutely must go)
Deb Fischer (?)
Roger Wicker (must go)
Bob Corker (absolutely must go)
John Barrasso (?)
Dean Heller (absolutely must go)
Jeff Flake (absolutely must go)
Ted Cruz (?)
It makes no sense to work on the 25 RAT Senators who are up next year if we leave these feckless turds in office.
“How many of these rotten turds are up for re-election in 2018 and 2020.....the RNC better NOT give them a dime for their re-election. Primary everyone of them.”
And just who’s a$$ do you thing these “rotten turds” are kissing? Answer: The RNC and their handmaidens over at the US Chamber of Communists ( er Commerce)!
Rand couldn’t command himself out of his own underwear.
Bears repeating.
It doesn’t need 60 votes, it was passed under Reconciliation and it can be be removed under Reconciliation. It can be written as a purely budgetary process to remove the subsidies and the mandate.
Rand is a libertarian. I am a social conservative. Those two viewpoints don’t always agree with each other, but frequently they do. This is one of those times.
I stand with Rand.
I think Rand Paul is a principled intelligent straight talker. I LIKE HIM!
He is RIGHT on Repeal then Replace.
He is one of our BEST Senators.”...
I agree with you 100%. He has character and integrity, he will not be bamboozled by lobbyists and he knows the health system because he is a doctor. He is not part of the swamp.
What are you talking about? Rand Paul is a dim witted moron?
Back that up with some rational arguments. He’s been right about this issue all along.
Those three women were paid demorats when they went into office to counterfeit themselves as Republicans......
President Trump does not seem to think so.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rand-paul-healthcare-meeting-tv-2017-7
Sen. Collins was elected in 2014 with 68%.
She and Sen. Paul opposed the measures proposed to date, for opposing reasons.
I’ll submit that she is one of the most powerful political figures in the country, at this time.
I seriously doubt, that she ran in 2014 on “Repeal” only.
I know that President Trump did not do so.
They keep talking about the vote in 2015; where 49 GOP Senators voted for repeal and since, 2 new GOP Senators have joined the Senate. This must be “plan B”; after plan A which failed.
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