Posted on 11/29/2023 4:01:33 AM PST by cotton1706
Former President Trump is creating new political headaches for Republicans locked in a highly competitive battle to win back the Senate majority by making extreme statements on health care, immigration and other issues unlikely to play well with swing voters in key states.
Trump shook up Republicans on Capitol Hill over the weekend by declaring that if elected president he would make another run at repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act.
The comments posted on Trump’s media platform, Truth Social, caught GOP lawmakers off guard because they haven’t had any serious policy discussions recently about getting rid of the landmark health care law, and there’s no consensus within their party on how to replace it.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.) admitted he doesn’t know what Trump is talking about.
“I’m for lowering costs and making our health care system more efficient, but I’m not sure — I’d want to know what the proposal is,” he said of Trump’s comments.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Health Committee, was similarly in the dark.
“It’s a narrowly divided Congress, it’s unlikely to happen,” he said, dismissing the prospect of a push to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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And their good buddy John McCain helped kill its full repeal.
They thought the issue was dead. They'd rather play defense on DEMOCRAT agenda items.
But oh, it's back!
So get discussing, pantywaists! Come up with some non-committal, mealy-mouthed talking points!
Poor babies.
The pathetic truth is that the GOP is filled with voters who love everything about ObamaCare except paying for it.
Pssttt...Biden is President
They need to shut their lyin mouths!
I am less worried about the need to repeal or replace Obamacare than the need to thoroughly root out the traitors and leftist acolytes in the military, the Federal police agencies, and the civilian bureaucracies. Trump cannot exert control when the entire Federal apparatus is hostile
National health care for taxpaying American citizens is looking better and better every day.
Don’t let them fool you. The voters want what Trump is talking about. It is the Senators who are out of line with the voters.
They “Feel” ambushed? My arse. They have been ambushing the will of the voters for many years.
I suggest they come around to what the people FEEL or retire.
For who?
Hey Thune & Cassidy, It is unaffordable and it is getting worse every year. With the Bill for 2023 around 22,000.00 per family, How can that be sustainable? It is time for these worthless POS Senators, to get off the lazy asses, and really try to reduce the cost of healthcare.
The Senate Rs have done nothing about exposing the Jan 6 lies, stopping the endless amount of corrupt money sent to Ukraine, investigating the Biden crime family or any other issue that is relevant. Instead, it is always go along to get along and they accomplish nothing.
But we surely all remember them campaigning on it for many years in a row. But when they had both Houses of Congress & the Presidency with one Donald John Trump, they exposed themselves as the frauds they had been with their campaign promises for all those many years since the ACA had become law.
Now they are worried that Trump brings it back up. What a pack of douche-canoes the GOPe in reality consists of.
They should keep it but tweak it, and rename it TrumpCare.
“I’m for lowering costs and making our health care system more efficient” — Senate Republican Whip John Thune (S.D.)
Those are the two things that government can NEVER do. Obamacare did the exact opposite — made health car more inefficient and more expensive. Trump knows that if you can get government t out of the way, effigies up and costs go down.
Undignified, Unsophisticated, Improper, Immature, Unrefined, Common, Non-Collegeal, Gauche.
(But the normal, ordinary people love his policies.)
Pearl clutching by the former ruling class.
It’s a one-party system, and Trump stands outside that system. As do the voters. Too bad for us.
Total BS.
With a name like Bolton, the author exudes credibility.
Ambushed? If they don’t support those basics, why are they there?
That attitude got them into the dog house with voters in 2020 and they have not learned anything from the experience.
Trump's stellar and historic record of success in the WH is obviously something they refuse to acknowledge and which seems irrelevant to their political, social, foreign policy, etc. goals. In terms of cold hard logic, that makes no sense for any ‘party’ which expects and certainly NEEDS my vote or my support.
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