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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDavid Corn: "McConnell blamed Dems for not engaging "in a serious way"...
...after forcing vote on major bill two hours after releasing it. What a snowflake."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/28/mcconnell-blames-democrats-healthcare-loss-241067
By CRISTIANO LIMA 07/28/2017 02:42 AM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell expressed "regret" and "disappointment" immediately after the GOP failed to pass a minimalist Obamacare repeal bill early Friday, blaming congressional Democrats for not engaging "in a serious way" in the efforts to remedy the health care law.
"I imagine many of our colleagues on the other side are celebrating, probably pretty happy about this," a stunned seeming McConnell said from the Senate floor. "But the American people are hurting and they need relief."
"I want to thank everybody in this conference for the endless amount of time that they spent trying to achieve a consensus to go forward," McConnell remarked.
"Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn't want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious way to help those suffering under Obamacare," McConnell said.
ck4829
(35,100 posts)disease eradication?
bullimiami
(13,123 posts)teach1st
(5,939 posts)The Republicans have both houses of Congress and the president. Damn the Democrats for being so pesky and fighting against all odds to represent their side.
dalton99a
(81,730 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,540 posts)...and then wants to blame them for not being enthusiastic about building them a much inferior and flimsy shack on the smoking ruins?
sinkingfeeling
(51,514 posts)rewrite whole sections of it?
Initech
(100,174 posts)Take responsibility for your own failures, assholes!
tblue37
(65,590 posts)moondust
(20,042 posts)with ISIS wannabes to plot the deaths of millions of Americans.
spanone
(136,008 posts)PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Johonny
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