Originally published at: Both Dem and GOP Messaging Bills on Expiring ACA Subsidies Fail in Senate As Expected - TPM – Talking Points Memo
The Senate voted on two competing health care plans to address the expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies on Thursday. Both were largely messaging votes that gave both parties something to point to when constituents are hit with skyrocketing health care costs after the subsidies expire at the end of the year. Both failed to…
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So here we have the result of the Big Lie that was given to get the government re-opened. The GQP has no plan and they don’t care. They’ll say they tried to keep their half-assed promise to fix ACA, but they failed because the Dems wouldn’t come around.
Now, their constituents that are going to get burned with the new rates will have permission to blame the party that tried to save them, instead of the party that took their insurance away.
It’s funny how this works…
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So let me get this straight; Dem’s vote to invoke cloture to bring the short term government funding measure to the Senate floor so R’s can vote for it. R’s promised D’s a vote on extending ACA subsidy but would not even support cloture on the measure. Sounds like the D’s & D adjacent senators got played like fiddles. What a bunch of spineless pathetic bureaucrats the D traitors are, unclear how the Senate works in practice. Sad.
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How fucking USELESS can a person be?!? Hey Dumbass, the people of MT sent you to Washington DC to DO something—even if it’s wrong!?! 
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) did not vote on either plan.
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This is the headline on my local news. Frustrating that it just makes it sound like everyone was on board instead of blaming the people responsible. Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
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It’s the result of the lie we all knew the GQP was selling when they bribed the Senate to re-open the government on the basis of a promise of this vote.
We got exactly what we were supposed to get from this. We got a vote. We got no extensions. And now, the Dems will get the blame for the increase in the insurance costs.
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I am shocked—shocked—to find gambling in this establishment!
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Some of the sleepwalkers are going to be shocked into a state of awake in Jan. They’ll demand that the Dems return their affordable health care. “Make us live with lower premiums even though we vote for people who make it go higher!”
Meanwhile, the wraiths try to hand out money so that the shitbag can say he wanted to hand out money but they wouldn’t let him. Tiny Johnson hasn’t heard about any of it. Seems like an attack on Congress now wouldn’t be completely unreasonable.
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it’s positively Kafkaesque these days. how have we sunk so far. I guess it really is true in the words of the immortal Bob Marley that the harder they come the harder they fall one and all.
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it never ends.
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As others have said, the deal to open the government was for a cloture vote on extending ACA subsidies. It was bad enough that a vote on the bill was meaningless because the House would likely never take it up. But this wasn’t even a vote on the Bill - the Dems didn’t get the Senate Rs to guarantee a vote on the bill itself.
I thought they got nothing out of the shutdown deal. But, really, it’s less than nothing.
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Don’t forget your red hat, or you’ll find yourself in a world of trouble… 
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I wouldn’t be so sure that people losing their ability to obtain healthcare won’t recognize that the Repubs’ $2,000 check to start a healthcare account would be next to useless. Even Dems should be able to get the message out on that one.
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