The GOP has 52 senate seates, 4 of which are wobblies who will defect if they don’t get the goodies they want.
It takes 60 votes for a stand alone clean repeal. Do the math.
Gutting Ocare through reconciliation takes 51 votes. So they are doing a 3 stage “fix” because that’s all the votes they’ve got. And the crappy nature of the fixes is due to the 4 wobblies (Portman, Capito, Gardner and Murkowski) who have threatened to defect over Medicaid expansion rollback.
We need to capture 8+ senate seats in 2018 to really strip Ocare and other federal overreaches out of their statutory spider holes.
The revolution isn’t over, it hasn’t hardly even started yet.
The revolution isn’t over, it hasn’t hardly even started yet.
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Paul Ryan is trying to strangle it in its crib.
The good news is we’ve been pretty consistently gaining for quite some time, we captured the presidency for Pete’s sake, and if we can keep the ball rolling we could do very well in 18. Especially if the radical alt-left keep driving the voters right.