Cruz declines to support Senate GOP health care bill, while Cornyn defends it

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate on Thursday unveiled their plan to overhaul President Obama's 2010 health care law. Within hours, Texas' two Republican senators took opposite positions on the measure.

While U.S. Sen. John Cornyn took to the floor early Thursday to defend the bill against Democratic criticism, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz joined a bloc of conservative senators who announced in the afternoon that they couldn't back the bill at this time.

“Currently, for a variety of reasons, we are not ready to vote for this bill, but we are open to negotiation and obtaining more information before it is brought to the floor," Cruz said in a joint statement with U.S. Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.

"There are provisions in this draft that represent an improvement to our current health care system, but it does not appear this draft as written will accomplish the most important promise that we made to Americans: to repeal Obamacare and lower their health care costs," they added.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/06/22/senate-unveils-health-care-bill/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Like Cruz is going to stand in the way

of killing Obamacare. What a charade.

[COLGATE4]

2. That slimy little motherfucker is just trying to bargain

for something for his vote.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Cornyn just got re-elected

He probably thinks there'll be a roll of bright, shiny pennies strewn around the pavement to distract inattentive voters with long-term memory deficits between now and when he stands for re-election in 2022.