I’m not too confident on them being able to stop ReaperCare but I have to admit reading this gives me a dash of hope.
/crossing fingers
It’s just impossible to tell what’s theater and what’s real as far as these Republican “holdouts”/people who “oppose” the bill/etc.
And I suspect that Mitch McConnell knows very well what the real story is, and which way this is likely to go. But there is no way for the rest of us to tell.
Still, I have hope. :S
There’s no way that this theater is part of McConnell’s plan.
I wouldn’t say the wheels are coming off, but having roughly 7 GOP Senators saying “hell no” or “probably not” is very damaging.
RoJo faces a real dilemma. Does he want to take more insurance away from people who live here, give bigger tax cuts to people who don’t, or both? My money is on both.
Medicaid is what Republicans hate more than anything. Nothing kicks off the bonfire-beer bitching olympics like a subsidy which cuts out at 125% of poverty, among friends who make 127%.
In the end if McYertle doesn’t have the votes to pass it he won’t put it up for a vote. He’s hateful, heartless and despicable (among many, many other vile things) but he’s not stupid.
With Collins, Paul and Heller that makes four. And those are the ones who were willing to go on record to say they will oppose this bill. I guarantee there are at least a dozen more Republicans Senators who never even wanted to see or hear of this bill, let alone vote on it. It’s radioactive waste as far as they’re concerned and I would give good odds that they’ll want to make McConnell pay for getting them into this mess.
Johnson can pretend to court both sides by saying the new healthcare plan “doesn’t go far enough.” Simple fact is lots of Scott Walker’s supporters in Wisconsin are on O’care. Walker is currently trying to look a bit left, no doubt fearing the Trumpian backlash will bleed into his next run for governor. No Walker and redistricting could succeed in destroying the Wisconsin republican “majority” rule
I have hope that they will not vote on it this week from these results. But that does not stop it from being voted on. From what I remember though delaying this throws off the reconciliation package idea quite a bit. As only one can be worked on per some increment. So, that is probably why McConnel is so obsessed with doing this fast.
I am not optimistic that this never makes it through though. It probably will. And not great things will come of it.
Dios te oiga…
Losers lose. Trump is the biglyest loser of them all.
Exactly. What would be the point of theater? All it does is further sour the public and the media against it. Political theater is what we saw when Democrats, day by day, came out in support of filibuster reform. They knew what they were going to do, but wanted it to be a slow rollout in order to gain support politically. This isn’t that.
Looking ahead, if Trumpcare fails and the Republicans then continue to deliberately sabotage Obamacare, what do you think the Democrats can and should do?
I don’t know. I think he’ll put it up for a vote in order to get it off the table. I think that’s what all of this has been about: getting it off the table. They can throw up their hands, collectively sigh, and say, “Folks, we tried!” Then they can move on to tax cuts and infrastructure.
This travesty is the centerpiece of their tax policy—it has nothing whatever to do with health care and everything to do with the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class/middle class to the uber-rich in American history.
After this fails, the GOP will continue to struggle because the conservative agenda is massively unpopular with the American people.
-Next year, closer to the election, Democrats should unveil a plan to expand Obamacare, fix the problems, and include a public option. They should then get it scored by the CBO, and pummel Republicans with comparisons of both plans.
-I would also come out with a simple, easy to understand economic plan that includes a massive jobs program, job training, and infrastructure.
-I’d also like to see them come out with a simple, easy to understand messaging strategy. And, something I think is really important, I’d send every Democratic candidate in the country to a marketing/ branding class because I think the biggest problem Democrats face is not policy, it’s how to talk to people and credibly sell the message to different groups.
ETA: I’d also add a plan to combat the opioid epidemic and I’d tie that in with the above mentioned jobs program.
Ron Johnson, the so-called conscience of the GOP?
Welcome to Bizarro-World…
True, but they’re not even acting like they seriously want to pass this mess. Every step of the way, from the closed door talks to the rushed rollout, it stinks of a desperation to throw a bill together and just get it voted on.
I agree with everything you just wrote. I would also like the Democrats to message in terms of the number of jobs that Obamacare has supported in the country.
The Trumpcare travesty would cost many healthcare workers their jobs and close many hospitals and other facilities.
The Republicans campaigned on Obamacare being a jobs-killer; a false charge that I think went largely unanswered. I would hope that the Democrats would apply the same message about Trumpcare because it is true about that, and talk locally about the effects it would have on local businesses specifically.
Good affordable healthcare creates lots of good local jobs and a healthier workforce.
Ron Johnson Says He'll Vote To Block Obamacare
Repeal Bill This Week
Oh… sure he will …
if he can ever get that turtle dick out of his mouth long enough —