Ryan, McConnell decide to go full steam ahead on Obamacare repeal, and damn their own members

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican leaders have decided what to do about their fractious colleagues who can't agree on how to either repeal or replace Obamacare. They're just going to go for it with the flawed plan that they have, and dare fellow Republicans to block it.

WASHINGTON—Republican leaders are betting that the only way for Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act is to set a bill in motion and gamble that fellow GOP lawmakers won't dare to block it.

Party leaders are poised to act on the strategy as early as this week, after it has become obvious they can't craft a proposal that will carry an easy majority in either chamber. Lawmakers return to Washington Monday after a week of raucous town halls in their districts that amplified pressure on Republicans to forge ahead with their health-care plans.

Republican leaders pursuing the "now or never" approach see it as their best chance to break through irreconcilable demands by Republican centrists and conservatives over issues ranging from tax credits to the future of Medicaid.

Because that strategy has never backfired before for them, right? Just ask former House Speaker John Boehner, who had so much luck with that tactic against the maniacs in the Freedom Caucus that he's now former House speaker. That's something he just reminded Republicans about.

"In the 25 years that I served in the United States Congress, Republicans never, ever, one time agreed on what a health-care proposal should look like," former House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said at a health-care conference in Florida. "Not once."

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/27/1638262/-Ryan-McConnell-decide-to-go-full-steam-ahead-on-Obamacare-repeal-and-damn-their-own-members

[dalton99a]

1. Full steam ahead, assholes

[C_U_L8R]

2. Drop dead.

That's what Republicans want everyone to do.
They'll want your money and property too.

[Me.]

3. I Thought That To Get This Passed They Need Dems

Why would the Dems vote for such a flawed plan?

[flamingdem]

4. They need 50 votes and 2 GOP Senators don't want to repeal funding

for Planned Parenthood .. for now.

Third World country here we come..

[Cha]

5. Seems to me.. those voting for repeal will have to

answer to their voters back home when the time comes.. and they won't be happy having their health care taken away.

Sometimes in a life and death crises

[flamingdem]

6. I think they're rushing it through to keep senators from dwelling on the

hell they'll have to pay -- but demonstrations are not forever and plenty feel safe for 2012. I have hope that we only need to peel off a couple to stop repeal

[Cha]

7. Yeah.. I'm sure there's a stupid demonic method in their will to kill..

You mean "2018"?

[flamingdem]

10. Take me back to 2012!

[Cha]

11. Do Over!

And oh yeah.. I think if people start dying and pissed their health care is taken from them.. their loved ones will be in the streets and voting in 2018.. which is the Real Resistance.

[karynnj]

12. If there are 2 Republican Senators against defunding

Planned parenthood, I do not think they can pass anything. My reasoning is that this is a party line hot button issue. It probably means those two realize how key planned parenthood in some areas where there are not adequate alternatives to basic women's health care.
The Hyde amendment already means abortion is not funded.

If they wanted a political victory, I could imagine they might make simple changes like having birth control either not covered or covered as any other drug is with copays. Republicans would not care that that could both increase costs and the number of abortions.

[briv1016]

8. Th Koch Brothers are calling in their chit.

[Solly Mack]

9. Fuckers

[AgadorSparticus]

13. The problem is that they break it, a bunch of folks will lose their jobs come next year.

Team spirit and all that, but first and foremost, they are ALL about self preservation. That is why they can't agree on a Healthcare plan. This will be no different.

AND I think they are screwing themselves in the foot for next year.