For whom the bells poll, eh Senator?
Lesson learned.
I donāt mind if GOPers do the right thing out of fear of pissing off their constituents-thatās how democracy is SUPPOSED to work, after all. Now with him, Collins and Rand it fails and there are likely several more GOP no votes.
Collins, Heller, Paulāthree strikes youāre out, McConnell. Not to mention Cotton, Murkowski, Cruz, Lee, and potentially Graham.
I bet those poor sods in the House will love voting for a dead bill on Thursday, what with the AARP keeping score and all.
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In the words of that great Cuban philosopher Ricky Ricardo "Donāt cross your chickens until your bridges is hatched.
they wonāt get anything done until these turds are re-elected next year. by then it will be too late because we will have taken control of the House and will be in the process of impeachment. No time for this bullshit.
The catch, however, is that some wonāt support it because itās not draconian enough.
Even better, Paul, Cruz and Lee all insisting the bill needs to be even more cruel to win their support (seems to be where Grahamās at too based on a quick scan of his Hewitt interview), whereas Collins, Heller, Cotton (still struggle to accept this) and I would assume Murkowski would need it to be less cruel. They seem to be fundamentally irreconcilable, as each group is enough to block passage.
Murkowski has to be a no ā she has said before just defunding Planned Parenthood is a nonstarter for her, and the bill is BRUTAL for Alaska in terms of lost subsidies.
Secretary Clinton narrowly won NV. Heller must be reading the tea leaves and they donāt guarantee heās going to keep this seat. Throwing Rump under the bus on this is pretty damn easy.
Iām curious as to Sen. Dan Sullivanās (AK-GOP) position on this as well. Heās not up for re-elect until 2021.
Canāt help wishing that some of the GOP Senators had had the ā um, intestinal fortitude ā to think for themselves during the 8 years in which we had a real President.
So Heller, Collins, and Paul have all come out against the bill, that is it. Dead!
Theyāve all come out against the bill āas it now standsā. So change a punctuation mark somewhere and offer them the right perk and theyāll fall in line.
The uninsured rate has dropped by more than half in AR since 2013 (Gallup, 2013-2016; and Harvard Med that focuses on low-income adults, 2013-2015). I guess there is no way someone with serious presidential ambition in the future can support it as a good ideaā¦
Sinking ship. Rats. Watch them leave.
Beady-eyed Hellar goes yellar. Well, until the vote.
āSENATOR YOU HAVE A WHOLE YEAR TO BLAME OBAMA!ā
Thing is, thatās not much different from the national trend.
But the Governor of AK did stick his neck out to be the first to say sure weāll expand Medicaid but only if you let us make it worse by outsourcing to private sector. State party probably wants some return on that investment of political capital. Also, insurers operating the expansion likely lobbying hard.