The Congressional Budget Office is also working on a score of the legislation, the Washington Post reported.
Senators are rumored to hope the CBO score will show as many as 30 million people will lose insurance, and those managing to keep coverage will suffer a drastic reduction in the quality of coverage and care. The consensus is that will make it far easier to sell to their constituencies.This isn’t going to end until the GOP majority in one or both houses is smashed. Even then, there will be court fights for years.
McConnell and his cronies are a death panel.
“Reportedly considering.” No wiggle room there.
Old White Male Privilege!
This is really a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation. They try again and if they don’t get enough, well, they look like fools because they have blabbed about it for, what, going on 8 years by now, and they can’t produce. One more failed try isn’t going to make them look better…
Of course, it does go through. then they have the problem that they will have to face that they have knocked down something which more American favor repairing, rather than eliminated, and also face what to do about the millions that they uninsure…
And then turn around and give big tax breaks to the rich after they take away affordable health care from those who need it…?
Yup. A real winner, no doubt about it.
“Bring the bill to the Senate floor if 50 senators back it,”
is about half of what’s wrong with Senate rules. The filibuster would be an improvement if they ever really had one, but this whole reconciliation fiasco was staged to avoid it. So instead, we have a chamber full of cheap talkers, taking credit and pointing fingers for supporting this, obstructing that, and wishing the President would show a little leadership.
But the Cheap Talker in Chief can’t pry his eyes and thumbs off the Crackberry long enough to be bothered.
Ah, back again.
Flagged.
Here they control all the levers of fed. govt - and yet they seem dead set on committing political hari kari to their party.
Weird how Trump can blare crap over Twitter to millions that would get a common person banned from a blog comment forum.
Yeah, every day I wish I could ban him from my inbox…
A guy at my gym is an unabashed Trump fan. He was miffed I didn’t share his enthusiasm. I made a point to ask him in front of his wife why he supported a guy that bragged about committing sexual assault. He continued to defend him. I asked his wife what she thought of rapists and people that commit sexual assault? And what she thought of her husband for ignoring the fact that was part of someone’s history, something they bragged about proudly in private to other men?
They steer clear of me now.
As was my intention.
The Congressional Budget Office is also working on a score of the legislation, the Washington Post reported.
I think Dies Irae from Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor would make an excellent score for the legislation.
I agree completely. Congresspeople need to know in spades they will be looking for work after 2018 and those not up for reelection like Mitch will have zero power. We need to turn the tide on the Gop majorities.
They either work for voters and citizens, or they find something else to do. Mitch and his cohorts are totally responsible for America’s disrespect of governmment. History will treat the badly, tho some don’t mind since the corporateers have funded their reelections.
Vote against EVERY Republican supporting big tax cuts for the wealthy, de-regulation on consumer protections, and FAILING to bring America into the real world with Medicare for All. NOT FREE HEALTH CARE, just getting the profiteering insurance companies out because they provide ZERO value added to America’s health.
Congress needs to spend its time, NOT saving insurance companies, but promoting competition between PROVIDERS with publication of fees, reducing duplication, and opening drug purchases overseas to us. And eliminating secret campaign donations at all levels. We need to know who owns our Congressmen!
TOday’s GOP is not my father’s Republican party.
We don’t really need to concern ourselves with terrorists from abroad there are 52 of them sitting in the US Senate doing a good job of terrorizing this nation daily.
Politico was first to report that McConnell told Republicans he would bring the bill to the Senate floor if 50 senators back it.
That’s a mighty big “if.” I suspect McConnell is just covering his ass, now he can truly say that he tried, but failed. Folks, time to get to the phones, write letters and send faxes; this is the same crap they tried to push through last time. Let’s hope Murkowski, Collins and McCain (?) do the right thing again, hopefully with a few more of their colleagues.