Discussion: A Delay Won't Solve The Senate GOP's Deep Divide On Health Care

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Yet the latest news is the GOP Bill is being tweaked, re-submitted to the CBO, and rolled out for a vote on Friday?

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And even with permanent propaganda print ant Television media outlets, the Murdoch Right still had to cheat, both in the Brexit and the Trump Presidential votes. The Nixon-GOP -Gordon Liddy dark ops Dirty Tricks infrastructure never went away after Watergate.

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A delay won’t “solve” the GOP’s problem, it will only exacerbate it. As Mitch McConnell knows full well.

So Trump’s agenda stops right now, with its first step. Thank God.

Oh, yeah, Trump’s agenda:

  1. end ObamaCare, freeing up billions of dollars for other things.
  2. Give tax breaks to billionaires, like, for example, Trump.
  3. End the Estate Tax, which most affects the rich, like Trump,
  4. Rail against Truth and Justice enough to make journalists more “friendly” to Trump’s agenda.

As if that will work. OK, maybe it’ll work to some extent. Resist.

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I wish I knew too. It is the catch-22 of our freedom.

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If the three “No” votes from expansion states hold firm, then yes, the delay will only hurt McConnell’s chances for passing the bill. Because once its solidly known that is dead, more republican Senators will come forward with “No”. The pressure is always on those first ones, but once they clear the hurdle, more usually follow.

I do however think that Paul is not a solid No. Or let me put that another way…he will not vote No if her perceives there being a good chance that it gets hung on him as the guy who stopped it. In other words, if McConnell can (and I think he can…definitely with Johnson) the other 3 “right” guys on board, he only needs to pick off one of the other three. Capito seems the most likely target, IMO. Heller is gone to them, both because of the election is he facing and because of the money bomb they dropped on him, Collins may as well give up her plans for governor so I think she is gone, too. Capito isn’t face re-election until 2020, so she isn’t in urgent danger from voters. ( I think A LOT of GOP Senators are in trouble in 2020, if this passes).

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I don’t know, I know it isn’t coming back, but the Fairness Doctrine seems to have kept this in check for a while.

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In many ways, Paul is very akin to Sanders with regards to how he reacts to legislation. He always disagrees with it, takes one step to the libertarian side with why, but, at the end of the day, holds his nose and votes for it anyway. That is precisely what I believe he is doing now.

But don’t lose sight of why he is frustrated with this bill. Because he wants to pull the government out of ALL healthcare, completely. Its the libertarian view. His frustration is that the bill doesn’t go far enough in those regards. But he can hold his nose because hey, its at least cutting government programs.

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