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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 10:17 AM Jun 2017

Republicans kill their own health care bill: It's bizarro-world, but a real win for the resistance

WEDNESDAY, JUN 28, 2017 04:59 AM EDT

Republicans kill their own health care bill: It’s bizarro-world, but a real win for the resistance

Mitch McConnell is humiliated as Senate health care bill collapses — but Democrats have tough choices ahead

SOPHIA TESFAYE

Republicans’ efforts to repeal Obamacare are dead, at least for now. While that is certainly cause for celebration, Democrats are now faced with a new dilemma: Should they rejoice and retrench in resistance, or reorient towards compromise and cooperation?

Mitch McConnell, the GOP Senate majority leader, made the somewhat surprising announcement on Tuesday that his body would not vote on the Republican health care bill — or at least not until after the Fourth of July recess.

When their votes didn’t matter under President Barack Obama, Republicans in Congress voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his signature accomplishment, more than 30 times. Now an odd combination of moderate and right-wing Republicans in the upper chamber has come together to quash the Senate’s version of a repeal bill, leaving McConnell and Majority Whip John Cornyn unable to make their self-imposed deadline.

Democrats were certainly the ones celebrating on Capitol Hill late on Tuesday. “There will be single-payer [health care] in my lifetime,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., predicted to booming applause from dozens of activists gathered in front of the Capitol. Originally organized for days of resistance and protest in Washington, activists from several states and progressive organizations were suddenly jubilant after McConnell admitted that he lacked the votes within his own caucus to pass the bill this week as planned.

The number that broke the bill’s back: 22 million

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http://www.salon.com/2017/06/28/republicans-kill-their-own-health-care-bill-its-bizarro-world-but-a-real-win-for-the-resistance/

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Republicans kill their own health care bill: It's bizarro-world, but a real win for the resistance (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
I still worry about a lame duck session Renew Deal Jun 2017 #1
The COPF party. tanyev Jun 2017 #2
Ever watch a horror flick?... lame54 Jun 2017 #3
They will change a few things and it will pass on Friday. AJT Jun 2017 #4

Renew Deal

(81,801 posts)
1. I still worry about a lame duck session
Wed Jun 28, 2017, 10:23 AM
Jun 2017

When they don't have anything to lose and can screw people at will

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