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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC ******BREAKING ****** SENATE PULLS BILL AS SUPPORT FALTERS *
We rolled them.
*No vote this week. This version of the bill has been pulled. The only thing delay will do is give the opposition time to coalesce. Of course they can reintroduce a bill. They can reintoduce it to infinity. Great article on why :
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/politics/senate-healthcare-mcconnell-delay/index.html
wryter2000
(46,026 posts)Really? OMG.
elleng
(130,832 posts)I wonder if MSNBC has something newer. Hope, hope.
FSogol
(45,466 posts)bdamomma
(63,812 posts)Democrats like usual finding a scapegoat.
leftstreet
(36,103 posts)No shit that's how he'll likely see it
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,315 posts)elleng
(130,832 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,315 posts)idea. Particularly when there are already other threads about the delay.
elleng
(130,832 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)underpants
(182,730 posts)ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Out loud even and I'm home alone. LOLOL
elleng
(130,832 posts)bdamomma
(63,812 posts)lets keep pushing back, they take us for fools.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)I wonder if any will come out of the meeting with the Liar-in-Chief and acknowledge he really is bare naked and dumb as a rock!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)I hope some have the self respect not to get on the bus like a freaking school child on a field trip.
madokie
(51,076 posts)cause what you just typed got a big ass laugh out of me too.
"I wonder if any will come out of the meeting with the Liar-in-Chief and acknowledge he really is bare naked and dumb as a rock!"
lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)They did something right for a change.
MFM008
(19,803 posts)All those people can live a while longer...
world wide wally
(21,739 posts)Watch for the propaganda ads to start soon
Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)We need to keep on fighting this.
orbitalman
(1,098 posts)just like their hearings!!!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Thank you.
B2G
(9,766 posts)EDIT YOUR POST.
TIA.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)What part of "No vote this week. This version of the bill has been pulled. The only thing delay will do is give the opposition time to coalesce. Of course they can reintroduce a bill. They can reintoduce it to infinit " don't you understand?
B2G
(9,766 posts)I have seen nothing to that effect at all.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Senate Republicans pull plug on healthcare vote this week
Washington Examiner · 2 hours ago
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Pulls Trumpcare Bill ... For Now ...
www.dailywire.com/.../breaking-senate-majority-leader-pulls-trumpcare-ben-shapiro
BTW, I copied my header deliberately from the MSNBC chyron as the story broke.
BigmanPigman
(51,582 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)He's trying to twist some arms and offer "sweeteners" to get him to 50.
This is a way to buy him some time (and drum up some $$$$).
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Then every single R Senator would face a Tsunami that they were the deciding vote back home.
There will be no vote.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I think McConnell would take that gamble. We need to put pressure to make sure he can't get to 50, IMHO.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)If they pass it with 50 plus Pence then every Senator has to return to his home state as being the deciding vote.
If they pass it with 51 one every Senator can say "it was going to pass anyway and I was able to get some valuable changes into it".
For this reason Republican leadership NEVER brings things up for a close vote. They want at least 4-5 votes so every member can walk away from personal responsibility.
If it comes down to 50 votes plus Pence they will not bring it to a vote because every Republican Senator would have to take 100% responsibility for a terrible bill knowing that Trump will still criticize it on a tweet one day.
This bill never had a chance to pass and will never come to a vote.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I hope you're right.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)No Republican senator wants to be Marjorie Margolies
grantcart
(53,061 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)They are like the dog that caught the bus.
ffr
(22,665 posts)Republicans can't even pass their anti-American pro-Republican agenda. They're pathetic!
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)hibbing
(10,095 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)It's the turdle that won't flush.
hibbing
(10,095 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)The gang that can't shoot straight, misses yet again...
The other repeal votes were in full knowledge that if the Senate didn't vote them down, Obama would veto it. So they didn't bother to put together a workable replacement. And, so far, it looks like nothing has changed on that score, although they can't blame it this time on Obama's expected veto.
Sad.
.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)However if they keep tinkering with bill they might get to a pint where they can't do it through the reconciliation process and it will will be filibustered.
bucolic_frolic
(43,115 posts)but a few laggards don't want to face the political consequences of destroying their party
I'm so sorry the sick people who are pawns in this game of chicken
but know the GOP RIGHT has painted itself into a corner here: fail to repeal - failure.
repeal - failure of policy. Painting this as a win for anyone other than Mitch's 400 Billionaires
is a hard sell.
Democrats will make bank on it either way.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)cstanleytech
(26,276 posts)last minute vote to get it passed to avoid any push back by the voters in their states.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)"as support falters"
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)on facebook too...yes yes yes ! We have to keep up the pressure...the closer to midterms, the less chance there will be to pass this piece of shit...murder bill.