Excellent summary. Maybe it won’t get killed.
Even if it gets through the Senate, it’s hard to see it passing the House and getting Trump’s signature. But I suppose there’s always hope.
Selling a bipartisan deal is always tough. Doing it in a polarized Senate is very, very tough. Doing it in a political environment where the partisan fight is more important than anything else including the health of millions of Americans is almost impossible. I wish both Murray and Alexander good luck.
How Both Sides Are Trying To Sell Their Bipartisan Obamacare Deal
GOP will pretend the deal has failed until the next big deadline, most likely. December is going to be a doozy.
Ryan doesn’t like it, so it would not make it to a vote in the House unless a majority of GOP House members demand it. And I see very few GOP reps wanting to go into primary season next year with the “achievement” of saving Obamacare. After promising for 8 years to repeal every word of Obamacare and then voting to fund it, they will get tar and feathered and driven out of town on a beam for the the frauds that they are.
Pretty sure theyll get this through the Senate only to see the House lose their shit and try to pass only the Republican half of it…
Trumps’ schizophrenic position swaps and Bannon actively trying to primary any Republican who doesn’t hold his insane line in the sand aren’t going to help
That’s a nice piece of work getting both of those memos, Alice.
Alas, this probably won’t wind up going through–the majority of Republicans are too busy burning down the city and don’t want their fun to be interrupted. If it does fail, hopefully the Democrats will beat them over the head with it in the midterms next year.
Perhaps, but a lot of Republican House Reps. may be just as likely to be ridden out of town if enough of their constituents see spikes in their insurance premiums because their House Rep. refused to do anything to ameliorate Trump’s ACA sabotage.
In other words, it’s a bind for Republicans, as Josh noted yesterday (sub. req.), while it’s possibly a win for Democrats either way.
I hope it blows up. I don’t like it. I don’t like it at all. And yes, Trump is already taking credit for it as though it’s a fix of the ACA that he forced the oh-so-recalcitrant Dems to make, not mostly just an undoing of his deliberate sabotage. Fuck it. People need to learn their fucking lesson in this country and they need to learn it the fucking hard way. Enough with the “oh, sure, go ahead and elect the craziest white nationalist motherfuckers you can and we’ll be your safety net” bullshit. Stop negotiating with hostage taking terrorists and let them shoot the hostage for once. so everyone, terrorists included, can see what it really looks like and learn from the consequences.
Indeed. The republicans(?) will continue to pour H2S04 over everything.
And would these be the same GOP reps that are afraid of holding town hall meetings? This week is suppose to be constituent issues week back in their home districts.
Trump will sign it as soon as someone explains to him that it’s a real piece of legislation that he can take credit for as the hardest working president in the galaxy.
It’ll be interesting to see if Republicans can finally agree to a real compromise, instead of the one-sided compromise where Democrats give up everything and Republicans agree to not do what they didn’t want to do in the first place. When Sheriff Bart saved himself by putting the gun to his own head in Blazing Saddles, someone should have explained to Republican strategists that it wasn’t a documentary.
That Trump screwed congressional republicans it’s out of the question. It’s up for individual congresscritters to pick their own poison: Either vote for sabotage and face angry townhalls, or vote for “saving Obamacare” and face angry primaries. I have the feeling that GOP Reps will decide that townhalls can be avoided, primaries cannot. But then Paul Ryan might spare them of the decision by not calling a vote at all.
The Republicans’ problem is that they really think they’ve taken someone else hostage. (Maybe not all of them, but a significant portion. Your Foxxs, Gomerts, Bachmanns, et al.)
The (unfortunate?) acronym is MAIMS. If someone tells trump it is the MAIMS Obamacare Bill, he’ll suddenly be for it again