McConnell: Senate to try to repeal ObamaCare next week

[applegrove]

BY JORDAIN CARNEY at the Hill

07/18/17 06:33 PM EDT

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/342622-senate-gop-to-try-to-repeal-obamacare-next-week

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Republicans will try to move forward with their plan to repeal ObamaCare next week, even as they appear short of the needed votes to pass the proposal.

“For the information of all senators, at the request of the President [Trump] and Vice President [Pence] and after consulting with our members, we will have the vote on the motion to proceed to the ObamaCare repeal bill early next week," McConnell said from the Senate floor on Tuesday night.

The Senate is expected to vote on whether or not to take up the House-passed healthcare bill, which is being used for any action in the upper chamber. If they are successful, McConnell would offer the ObamaCare repeal proposal as an amendment to that legislation.

But the push to vote comes as GOP leadership appears short of the simple majority needed to even open debate on a healthcare bill — much less repeal ObamaCare.

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[Bleacher Creature]

1. I've never seen a group of people so committed to harming others.

It's just sick.

[sunonmars]

4. Why should that be a requirement, heartless people have kids too

You are effectively saying childless people and gay people are not good enough.

[applegrove]

6. You are right. I'll delete. PS I am childless but that is because I am too passive and

like to be in my own brain and was harrassed.

[dsc]

5. wow

holy bigotry batman.

[applegrove]

8. I am childless and see myself of missing out on much because of that. But you are correct it was

bigotted.

[Stuart G]

2. McConnell is evil

He deserves what ever he gets. He has treated others in an awful way, and he deserves the same..

[flamingdem]

7. So what is his point?

??

[Ruby the Liberal]

9. Excellent. Make them own it.

They don't have the votes. Even though he is laying this at the admin's feet, I'm still surprised he is calling the vote.

[Mr. Ected]

10. Still playing to Trump's base

This has all been kabuki theater, albeit one where art is coming perilously close to imitating life.

The rhetoric of killing Obamacare gave the GOP 7 good years of faux anger to rile up the masses. They could never really articulate what was so bad about Obamacare, just that it WAS bad, and they should all hate it and its namesake. Especially its namesake. And Hillary, for good measure.

Now the curtain has lifted and we can see all the actors for what they are, con artists, rebel rousers, liars and cheats. Their loyalists haven't figured this out yet, and may never, but the thespians in Congress have been outted as inciteful yet empty caricatures of what they masquerade to be. They see their base as pawns, and their base deserves no better.

Republicans predicate their policy on slogans and defiance. That's not sufficient to govern.

[Initech]

11. Let me guess how that is going to go!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. Rinse, repeat

start all over.

[Luz]

13. They need to, as my granny would say, shit or get off the pot.

if they repeal, they harm millions, if they don't, they lose their base. Lose lose.

[rufus dog]

14. OK, this concerns me for the following reason

There is no logic for the Turtle to do this, it won't pass, so why put Repukes on record?

In a normal world it would put the Senators on record with limited upside and huge downside. So why?

Now let's think back to the Turtles last crazy move, that is not holding hearings for Garland. So if the fix is already in and the purpose is to identify those repukes that can't be bullied and aren't under Russian control, then it makes sense to hold a vote.

IMO, if this vote goes through then we need to really think about the options because it appears that we are dealing with something that we have never seen before.

[bearsfootball516]

15. That's what he wants

They want to put Collins, Murkowski and Capito on record as voting no. Then next year, the Trump administration helps primary those three, and whoever else votes no. They lose the primary's to conservatives who are more Trumpian, win their general elections, and then they vote to repeal Obamacare again, this time with more senators who are willing to vote yes.