GOP sneak attack on health care nears a critical moment and its a total monstrosity

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http://www.salon.com/2017/06/20/gop-sneak-attack-on-health-care-nears-a-critical-moment-and-its-a-total-monstrosity/?source=newsletter

Heather Digby Parton

A few days ago a Republican Senate aide was asked by a reporter why the GOP leadership felt the need to keep all the discussions for the health care bill completely under wraps and he replied, “We’re not stupid.” Leading Republicans know that what they’re planning is so poisonous to the voters that if they let anyone see the monstrosity they’re constructing before the bill is hurriedly voted on and signed into law by President Donald Trump, it could well cause riots. After all, according to recent polling, only 17 percent of the American people surveyed said they approved of the bill as it currently stands.

The fact is that Republicans are willing to destroy the health and financial security of millions of Americans so they can give massive tax cuts to Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and others like them who are lucky enough to be vastly wealthy. This is their first real chance to enact permanent tax cuts since 1986. (This Vox article explains why that is.) Republicans have been chasing this dream a very long time. It is their white whale, so important that even the prospect of millions of people suffering and going bankrupt is not enough to make them think better of it. They are willing to hold hands, jump over a cliff and commit political suicide for it.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is insistent that senators get this hugely unpopular piece of legislation done as quickly as possible, preferably before the Fourth of July recess when they might have to go home and face their desperate and horrified constituents. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday evening that McConnell plans to release the text later this week, then have the Congressional Budget Office release its estimate of the cost and the devastation to human lives early next week — which would be followed by an immediate vote and then a quick getaway. This is presumably so Republican lawmakers can spend the holiday counting up all the money they’ve just voted to give themselves and their rich friends.

In the meantime, GOP leaders are dealing with the avalanche of criticism that they’re receiving the way their puerile president has taught them.

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1. Most of us on this board

new from the get go,this was a Tax Break for the top 400 wealthiest families. For the GOP to retain their permanent Majority,they need these families to continue to dole out millions for Political Advertising. Bam!!! It is all about pay back for the past Election.

Call it like it is,The Koch Brothers Health and Welfare Bill. You get sick,tough Shit,go die some where. Oh BTW,you will be charged for the clean up.

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2. I've called Cory Gardner's office daily and left vmails.

I'm sure he'll do the right thing. He's described as a moderate.