I bet you WILL vote to repeal Shelley, regardless.
They can’t replace it because they know ACA is their plan. If a president Romney had implemented it, they would be praising it as a triumph of the free market and conservative ideology. Instead, because of Obama, it’s a job crushing socialist takeover of the health market.
They really blew it by going all in on demagoguery instead of trying to shape it and own it.
This is going to be amazing theater…30 hours of debate, going well into the night, on how much to screw over the American people. I expect McConnell to overrule the Senate Parliamentarian at some point, in order to push some amendment through that will make several Republican senators happy. Democrats will barely get to submit anything, which will be voted down…hopefully the Democrats put up amendments that will help people so they can point out the cruelty of the Republicans later. At the end, McConnell will present something, likely unread by most senators, unscored by the CBO, and demand its passage. And, the majority of senators will realize it is bad for America…though I can’t predict that the Republicans won’t shove it through anyways.
Again, great reporting by Tierney and Alice on this, TPM is really on top of the story with in depth articles.
“It’s a way to get into conference and maybe have a more extended conversation,”
A.K.A. We’ve been incapable of doing jack shit for six months even though we control all branches of government.
I mean, remember when Democrats ran the show? They didn’t do anything either, except passing healthcare for millions.
Our President would call this sad, but we don’t think agreeing with everything he says is in our best interest, but we need to cater to what his base wants, but at the same time we need to act like true Republicans but independent from the rabid base.
So anyway, we passed something! Yay us!
You can give 'em a “like” up top if you want.
Because they chose such an irregular, secretive and undemocratic process, they still haven’t accomplished very much. But congratulations on their placeholder.
Nobody still has any idea what the bill will look like. But hey, let’s go round and round in circles some more. After all, the bill is an absolute dog.
Am currently watching C-SPAN. The Ds required a 178 page amendment to be read into the record. It’s petty but kind of hilarious.
Highly ironic that repugs keep calling for cooperation and debate on their bill, but won’t allow anyone, even “supporters” to know what’s in it. These people are evil. Evil.
Pssssst! Turtleman, I have the solution for you. Repeal Obamacare then turn around and replace it with…Obamacare. Just give it a new name.
Nobody on your side will ever know - they haven’t paid that much attention to reality in years.
No matter if they pass it or don’t the damage is done. The smiling faces of these Republicans at the mere thought of throwing tens of millions off their health care is going to haunt them in 2018. I tend to agree with Boehner when he says they will never R & R the ACA, but they tried their hardest and that does not bode well for them. The ads write themselves.
I had no idea about this exciting new 60-vote threshold. And I tend to think I’m at least reasonably aware of how the process works.
I don’t tend to make comments of this sort, because TPM’s reporting is uniformly good and informative, but Ms. Sneed is to be commended for a writeup that here rises above that already high bar.
“It’s a way to get into conference and maybe have a more extended conversation,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) told reporters after Tuesday’s vote.
It’s a way to hand the grenade over to someone else and pray you don’t have to deal with it again.
Give the article a like up top.
She’s simply The Best.
Glug, glug, glug. Yertle the Turtle going down…
More like 7 years and six months! You would think that someone in their caucus, anyone, could be a staffer, the janitor, whoever, would have had enough sense to spend some of the past seven years writing something up for replacement, wouldn’t ya?
They are truly odious, hateful, ugly, tiny little people.
