Your GOP Repeal Bill, folks!
âdonât need a weatherman to know which way the wind blowsâ ~ R.Zimmerman
âprincipledâ GOP opportunists with their wetted fingers in the airâŚ
i worry that this is just postponing the issue, and heâll put it back out after July and strong arm a bunch of these Senators into passing an even worse bill.
I just got the most amazing insight into how Republicans feel about left wing purity ponies.
The bill reduces the deficit by $320 billion, so thatâs how much McConnell can dole out to these senators. Of course, once you invite one hog to the feeding troughâŚ
Oh please. All Lee does crawl around Cruzâs ankles and copy him.
Thank goodness.
McConnell doesnât want to postpone, because whatever he passes has to go back through the House again. And if he delays, that would put this back in the House during an election year, where everyone is running. Town halls can be brutal, but they are nothing like what they would face trying to hold campaign events. And opting out of your own campaign really isnât an option.
I believe you are correct, however, than any substantial changes to the bill will be moving it to the right to placate the likes of Cruz and co. âModerateâ republicans have shown time and again that they will always cave and get in line, and moving it to the right is sort of inevitable anyway once it goes back to the House. The HFC will insist upon that.
Utah has 1 billionaire in the entire state, making him the only big beneficiary of the BCRAâs tax cuts. Meanwhile, 273K Utahans will lose healthcare if the BCRA passes.
It looks like McConnell will fail this week. So did Ryan, but then the zombie bill came back and got passed by 1 vote.
What makes this different? Maybe not much, but I would point to Heller. Heller made his decision based on the 2018 electoral calendar. Heâs already well below 50% as an incumbent and has drawn a challenger who can beat him in Jackie Rosen. I think other GOPers will be thinking similarly, including House GOPers that voted for this bill.
Every man for himself. Throw the women and children out of the lifeboats. Itâs not so much a panic as just Republicans in Congress being true to their core values â the comfort and convenience of themselves.
Maybe itâs time for the Dems to do some serious contingency planning.
If the ACA is not repealed, then likely the GOP in DC and the state capitals will let it die by inches, simply by not supporting it. Then what?
Then the GOP will sing âSee, I told ya so, Obamacare really is a disasterâ. Theyâre doing this already in Iowa. Somehow the Dems need to make sure the GOP owns that result.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on Monday night told reporters that the bill does not do the one thing he said was his priority: reduce premiums and out-of-pocket costs for health insurance consumers.
Somebody should explain to Cassidy that premiums and out-of-pocket costs move in opposite directions. If you reduce premiums then the insurance coverage decreases (the GOP plan reduces insurance coverage from 70% of cost to 58%) which necessarily increases the out-of-pocket cost to the consumer. The only way to reduce both is to reduce the cost of the underlying health care service, i.e. price control. Reality is a bitch when youâre a Republican.
I donât think Iâm being naive to think theyâll own the result no matter what. The GOP has been sooooo transparent in their desire to sabotage the ACA, I donât see how they get away with doing just that without leaving their fingerprints all over the crime scene.
He has at least all of July to do things though. I donât see any way to do enough to pass it this week, but I can see him declaring it dead, then bringing it back up in a couple of weeks like they did with the House bill; with some tweaks for the righties and a few sops to the moderates. Itâs still only Heller and Collins who have really laid out being solidly against, and of course even they have a record of being mushy.
I think there is value in both these points. The Demâs need to capitaize on whichever way the GOP vote goes, but I think that draping a failing ACA around the collective neck of the GOP has already been bolstered by Donnieâs TweetsâŚ
HAHA ⌠dead people!
The House Cheeto Forum (HFC) members say that the Senate version wonât pass the House.
What are the details on process when the bill returns to the House? I donât know much about this.
Hard as it is to believe, Mike Lee is the better of the two Senators we have here. He ran for reelection last fall, and his Democratic opponent was a 31 year old transgender grocery store cashier with a high school education who, a month away from the election, had $6000 in campaign funds.
Spoiler: He won handily.
Itâs pretty here, though. We always have that. It will still be pretty even after the Republicans take our five national parks and turn them into open pit mines.