Discussion: Key Senate Republican Says House Bill Raises 'More Questions Than Answers'

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And we move on to Chapter 2 of this nightmare.

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Good job, Alice. I didn’t know the CBO score was coming out next week. I figured that if the Senate was going to scrap the bill, we’d never see it.
This oughta be a riot.

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They did not have a bill on day one or day 100. So why the rush now? Just to get rid of the black guy’s law? The irony is that once the Senate gets done the GOP will probably propose the same law as Obamacare, just by a different name.

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We’ve seen old Sue’s tired act before…

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Ahhh…The Senate really is the saucer that cools the tea, as they say.

But just try drinking out of your saucer these days. Your wife will kick you under the table and your hosts will smile politely and wonder if you’ll use your fork for the entree or just lift your plate to your face.

You’re a hit with the five year olds though.

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Collins talks a good game, but when it counts, she’ll vote the way Mitch tells her to.

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It raises more questions than it answers. Like, “How could the Republican Party commit suicide when it controls both houses of Congress and the White House?”

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And, “What can we do to assist?”

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I’ve watched too many GOP fall in line and swallow the shit sandwiches they vowed they’d never eat to believe this will cause their supporters to vote against them.

If they somehow repeal Obamacare, even the supporters who lose coverage will say, “at least they kept their promise.”

If the repeal fails, they’ll vote for them because the vote was meaningless.

After watching Never-Trumpers, evangelicals, free traders, cold warriors and neocons line up behind the guy who ran against everything they claimed they believed in, I will never again underestimate the Republicans ability to get their supporters in line.

We can’t count on peeling off GOP voters; our only hope is that our voters turn out in huge numbers. And given how pathetic young people and minorities are about voting in the mid-terms, I’m not optimistic.

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Doesn’t it seem she always talks like that?

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Is there anybody in the Senate who can write legislation like this?

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Screws older rural voters in red states-delicious irony.

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She has spasmodic dysphonia. The muscles in her larynx involuntarily spasm.

“I am particularly concerned about the effect on lower-income people in rural areas.”

Their spirits will be crushed, their bank accounts will be drained, and they’ll likely lose their will to leave. No reason to be concerned; that was the entire point of the bill.

On the plus side, insurance company profits and stock prices will likely rise, so there’s that silver lining…

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…while millions of Americans prepare to move directly to Chapter 11.

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Thanks, didn’t know that, but I was really referring to the comment itself. She seems to have perfected a certain vagueness in her responses. She has a way of staying close to the middle with her comments and criticisms. I always like to listen to her. And her medical condition makes her sound like a ‘low talker’. I think Seinfeld used that phrase in one of his shows.

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His Orangeness, eager to shed his “grabbing” image, will open negotiations by requesting some Greek action.

Her aide will discreetly slip Him Olympia Snowe’s number.

The End :astonished:

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“I am particularly concerned about the effect on lower-income people in rural areas.”

Indeed…because the closest thing Maine has to an inner city is “that black family that lives down the street.”

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