What a guy. Doesn’t kill enough, so he can’t support it. Stand tall, dude!
Now in fairness, McConnell didn’t expect Johnson could read, or would be able to understand when reporters explained to him what McConnell was telling moderates in private. And can any of us blame him for making those assumptions??
Not to mention the flim-flam on the investment taxes supposedly retained in this version.
Moderates need not worry. We have you covered:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-13/gop-may-revive-push-to-eliminate-obamacare-taxes-on-the-wealthy
Chickenshit tries to have it both ways. He will cave. Bank on it.
Nice reporting TPM and Alice in particular.
Next article headline needs to be
“McConnell talks out both sides of this … mouth” Telling Moderates one thing and conservatives another.
Keep that pressure up especially on the voice(s) of reason in the Senate, if there are any.
Ron Johnson (R - Slippery Eel)
By the looks of that picture Ron wasn’t just offered Opioid addiction rehabilitation money, he was also given lots of opioids.
Translation: Johnson was a Yes vote before that was a liar, and is still a Yes vote now that is a liar.
What they really want! (Which we knew all along)
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price suggested Sunday that the nation’s health insurance system ought to operate as it did before the Affordable Care Act was passed.
During an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Price was asked to respond to a blistering criticism of the Senate Republicans’ health care proposal by two major groups representing the U.S. health insurance industry. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) earlier this week, the groups called the latest version of the bill “simply unworkable in any form” and warned that it would cause “widespread terminations of coverage” to people with serious medical problems.
Edit. Link fixed.
Instead of being disappointed, I wish he would point out in public what the rest of us already know, that McConnell is a slimy, lying bastard who does not possess any redeeming human value.
Well, I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that McTurtle is speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Who’d’a thunk it???
“Yeah … If this bill doesn’t make sick people indigent and shorten American life-expectancy like McConnell promised, I simply cannot support it.”
What a schmuck.
My favorite Downfall video
Not cruel enough, Ron?
The people of Wisconsin actually preferred this ogre to Russ Feingold. Clearly, the world has turned dark.
When you’ve lost the albino demographic, you’re in a world of hurt…
That’s exactly what he’s doing. McConnell can bet on more than half of the GOP Senators never reading this bill and the rest not understanding it, even if they did. So he’ll talk smack, and continue to bamboozle as many as he can in order to get everyone on board. At some point, some of them will figure out that the only one McConnell cares about, is McConnell. Johnson is so dumb though. One day he’ll vote for it depending on how it makes him feel, and the next day he’ll do whatever the popular kids in the Senate are doing, just so he can still sit at the same table with them at lunchtime.
History has seen dumber, more craven, more evil people serve as US Senators, but there’s never been a bigger doofus in the chamber than Ron Johnson. He’s impossible to take seriously.
Johnson said that despite the Senate bill’s flaws, he was willing to vote for it because it ended the Medicaid expansion and sharply curtailed the growth of the program overall. But McConnell’s reported backroom conversations are making him doubt what he’d been promised.
“If our leader is basically saying don’t worry about it, we’ve designed it so that those reforms will never take effect, first of all, that’s a pretty significant breach of trust, and why support the bill then?” he told a small audience in Green Bay.
So, Johnson will vote for the bill and hope that those cherished cuts in Medicaid absolutely do take effect. “I’d prefer a guarantee, but if there’s a likelihood of taking healthcare away from kids, the elderly and the poor…I’m all for it.”
The fact that there has been ZERO outrage from the right on this makes me believe they plan to handle this under the tax reform legislation. I think they’ve actually alluded to it.