Discussion: Paul Says He And 3 Others Will Oppose Current Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill

Why should we settle for the ‘death of a thousand cuts’ when we can have beheading?

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Your Death Panel buddies won’t be happy, Rand. People actually may live if you stick with this…

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They oppose it “as written.” Translation: “I can and expect to be bribed to vote yes.”

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Hmmmm, there goes the argument about the Randians in Congress wanting this bill so they could cull the population.

Who was that arguing with me?

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Oh, were it that a certain political party had a marketing team…

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… until it comes time to vote on it.

Do we dare ask who the other “3” are?

Or have they gone into the Spineless Protection Program to avoid harassment from Hair Furor?

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That’s only part of the death panel. The photo is missing the Turtle.

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It doesn’t help when they already have their hands out for the bribe when they announce their ‘opposition’.

Collins and Murkowski are two of them. Any “moderate GOP” triumvirate always includes these two.

Sen. Rand Paul says he and three other GOP senators oppose health bill as written, putting passage in jeopardy.

The first part of that is true. Unfortunately for us, it doesn’t “put passage in jeopardy” since the GOP will make some minor tweak and suddenly two of those four will fall in line.

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Ohio’s Portman, Alaska’s Murkowsi, and Maine’s Collins? Perhaps Nevada’s Heller?

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It doesn’t matter. They’ll find some sweetness in the pot to turn them ol’ votes around

banging on tables
Make It Worse!
Make It Worse!
Make It Worse!

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And I think that tweak will be pulling the Planned Parenthood defunding. One year seems rather silly after all the GOP threats. Was it added just to be taking out?

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There could be 15 pretend-to-be-concerned Republicans at this point, and they’ll still pass it. Hell, it’s not even the weekend yet. But, I bet there’ll be a lot of them taking their phones off the hook and sending all emails to spam for the next week.

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That’ll give Murkowski cover, but I expect her to vote no anyway because Alaska gets royally screwed. She’s not as dumb as some of her colleagues, and she barely managed to keep her seat the last time.

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Hell most of them have been doing that since January.

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There’s a whimsical side of me that almost wonders whether Yertle plans for this to fail, just to further weaken Donnie?