Posted on 09/27/2017 5:26:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Senate Republicans on Tuesday abandoned their latest effort to replace ObamaCare, or, more precisely, a handful of Senators defeated the Graham-Cassidy proposal despite their campaign rhetoric. Mark them down as ObamaCare’s saviors.
Top billing goes to Kentucky’s Rand Paul, who rode into Congress in 2010 on repealing the Affordable Care Act but in office has become the definition of a feckless libertarian. He helped to kill the Senate’s first replacement bill over the summer because it did not repeal every last footnote in the law. Then he supported “skinny repeal” that merely repealed the individual and employer mandates and medical-device tax, justifying that vote as realistic.
Graham-Cassidy would have done the same as the skinny bill plus devolve Medicaid control to the states—the most significant entitlement reform in decades—and the same Rand Paul who scolds everyone about runaway federal spending said no. Perhaps he thinks his vote for the skinny bill will protect him politically, but no one should be fooled. Mr. Paul did more than Chuck Schumer to save ObamaCare.
John McCain is another member of this dishonor roll, and he’s been reminding everyone that he kept his word that the process must be bipartisan. His commitment to Senate procedure is apparently more ironclad than his word to Arizona voters, who re-elected him against Tea Party challengers in part on his promise to repeal the law.
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska supported ObamaCare repeal until the moment a Republican President would sign it. She had not by Tuesday publicly announced whether she’d vote for Graham-Cassidy, though her Alaska First demands in private all but included an unmarked cargo plane dropping off pallets of euros in Juneau.
And don’t forget Maine’s Susan Collins, who opposed both bills after more or less token consideration.
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I tried to think of a common thread between these 4, but the only thing that comes to mind are expletives.
Common thread? All are mentally challenged, but only one has a medical excuse....maybe two.
.... Mark them down as ObamaCare’s saviors .....
Fake repeal, fake news.
This is disappointing. However if we can get rid of the RINOS in 2018 we can get a true repeal.
I agree that this would have been better than nothing, but now we have to look at our realistic options.
That's true of all 52 senators. Now instead of repealing they want to replace it with their own healthcare disaster.
If all four were out of the picture, the Rinos would come up with the next four to oppose repeal.
Virtually all Republicans actually support 0bamacare and more power and cash for themselves at your expense.
The only difference between Rs and Ds is what lies they tell to get power over you and cash from your wallet.
Why don’t you include senator lying Ted Hummmm!!!!!
I didn’t even know National Review was against Obamacare.
Collins talks like she has a mental impairment. They are all freaks that keep getting re-elected by their tard’ voting base.
A great big A M E N!
I do find some confusion on the reasons some might have to vote or not vote on this particular bill. In the end they didn’t get to vote, but that doesn’t necessarily end the confusion.
The bill just did not end Obama Care, kept all the taxes in Federal hands, and deceived the public into thinking this was some kind of repeal by giving block grants to States.
Ted Cruz also a no vote,mysteriously left out of story
These bastards need to be primaried and thrown out of office.
Don’t bother with McStain...GOD will throw him out of office.
Might add Cruz to that list - he was saying he didn’t like it and didn’t think Lee would vote for it either. I guess steps in the right direction aren’t allowed and an all or nothing attitude insures the status quo....
Obamacare needs to be repealed. Period. If the GOP were a real party, with real principles and a commitment to it's word and it's constituents President Trump would have had a repeal bill on his desk ready to sign when he came into the White House after the Inauguration Parade.
Next up. Single payer.
The fix was in, in my view, way back before the election. The moment “repeal” became “repeal and replace”, we were cooked.
Ted didn’t lie Obama Care has not been repealed and this legislation would not repeal it. SO who is the liar now?
TED CRUZ was a shocking “NO”, but “LOL” RINO National Review publication conveniently leaves their Golden Boy out of the story. Too obvious for words.
Ted Cruz states the obvious. Duh.
The point is RINO NR covers for the putz in this story. Always has, always will.
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