Discussion: GOP Divided Over Using Budget Process To Attack O-Care

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Yep.

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But that’s not all! For absolutely no extra cost to the country, the Congressional GOP Congress promises to bring its entire power, to combine the focus of every single erpublican vote whether in the House or the Senate and hone them all down like a power beam into a frickin LASER towards doing nothing but returning to the president’s desk, again and again, the same House majority and the same less-than-two-thirds Senate majority vote supported bill repealing Obamacare, for whoever long Obama remains in office and do not one single thing otherwise except normal budgetary renewal and debt ceiling raises.

IOW just DARE - and double dare, and triple dare, and quadruple dare, etc etc etc, the president to keep vetoing the repeal of his signature eponymous legislation. He’ll back down sure.

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“The only way to do entitlement eligibility changes is on a bipartisan basis,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday at a news conference at a GOP issues retreat in Hershey, Pa. “We do not intend to be offering unilateral, one party-only entitlement eligibility changes.”

I may be a bit slow after a tough weekend, but does anybody else read this as McConnell’s calling the House idiots for setting up a battle over SS with their rule prohibiting transfers from the trust fund to the disability program without paying for them? Or was he just deflecting? But I don’t think McConnell’s ever used the language of the established and popular safety-net programs to refer to the ACA. Anyone know what question he was answering?

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The GOP better not screw around too much. They should remember that they have to now prove they can govern. I don’t think they can govern. if they screw around they will end up painting themselves into a corner they cannot get out of.

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The terrapin could have just been flapping his jaws.

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I’m with you in that I’m having a hard time reading Mitch on this. It might be part trying to rein in a restive caucus, holding his fire over the implications of a Supreme Court ruling that stripped away subsidies and directed Congress to provide a rememdy, and trepidation about the prospect of yet another bombshell being dropped at the State of the Union tomorrow.