Senator says he nearly has the votes for ObamaCare repeal
Source: The Hill
BY PETER SULLIVAN - 09/15/17 10:45 AM EDT
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is predicting he will win enough votes to pass his last ditch ObamaCare repeal and replacement bill through the Senate, despite the long odds he seems to be facing.
I am pretty confident well get there on the Republican side, Cassidy told a group of reporters in his office on Friday. Were probably at 48-49 [votes] and talking to two or three more.
The problem for Senate Republicans when it comes to ObamaCare repeal has always been getting the final few votes to put them over the top. The repeal legislation that failed in July got 49 votes, but fell short because three senators bucked leadership and voted no.
There is an extremely short window to pass the bill before a procedural deadline of Sept. 30. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday announced his opposition, saying the bill kept too much of ObamaCare. Cassidy said that if the bill does not pass by Sept. 30, he would try again in the future.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/350842-gop-senator-says-he-nearly-has-the-votes-for-obamacare-repeal
Botany
(70,762 posts)Heartless bastards.
red dog 1
(28,020 posts)In Orwellian terms, it's Animal Farm and the Pigs are in charge!
Botany
(70,762 posts)They know that the voting is rigged so they can do whatever they
want to do.
red dog 1
(28,020 posts)Speaking of rigged elections, here's an article from yesterday's Alternet:
"The GOP is Plowing Ahead with an Audacious Effort to Hijack the Vote and Rig Elections"
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/republican-efforts-hijack-voting-and-rig-elections-seen-full-force-week
Botany
(70,762 posts).... drifted "red" but the demographics have been building against the republicans.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)He's no closer than they were the last time they tried this stunt...
Fullduplexxx
(7,905 posts)dalton99a
(81,929 posts)'Nuf said
louis-t
(23,335 posts)Asshole.
LenaBaby61
(6,983 posts)No, he's a heartless, evil Grade-A asshole.
Phoenix61
(17,044 posts)lost everything now have the opportunity to lose their health insurance. Evil, nasty, little fuckers.
mackdaddy
(1,537 posts)I would consider that a "Win-Win".
red dog 1
(28,020 posts)But if the Dems can retake control of both the House and the Senate in November 2018.....
yardwork
(61,893 posts)lark
(23,274 posts)He knows this is their one and only opportunity because not one Dem will vote for his kill the poor and grandma too bill. After 9/30, they have no chance in hell of repealing Obamacare. If they do get this passed by 9/30, things get very interesting in a really bad way. Will enough poor Drumpf voters realize they are losing their healthcare and bail on Repugs to make a difference in the mid-terms when this won't take effect until 2020? With all the takeaways they are currently doing to Obamacare, they could be undercutting their own sneakiness and making people feel the pain earlier, like before the mid-terms. What horrible inhumans inhabit the far right.
rock
(13,218 posts)He does NOT have enough votes for a repeal.
Saviolo
(3,289 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,846 posts)red dog 1
(28,020 posts)maxsolomon
(33,531 posts)Or they'll have to answer for it a year from now.
LudwigPastorius
(9,385 posts)I just know that, this time, you're gonna kick that football.
CrispyQ
(36,674 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,932 posts)CrispyQ
(36,674 posts)I recall how the media gave him most of the credit & Collins/Murkowski were hardly mentioned. He's as shallow as the rest of them.
BumRushDaShow
(130,932 posts)although a bunch of them tend to do that (I remember when Arlen Specter used to do it too and would wait until "prime time" to cast his vote for the benefit of the CSPAN2-viewing audience). They will look around and see who else is voting the same way and if there is a chance for passage without them, then they will almost always "go rogue" (because it's meaningless).
That last vote was a unique one given the gravity of it, although the outcome still offered more bang for their buck, but also assured the expectation for them to party-line vote in all other cases to quickly regain GOP street cred.
bluestarone
(17,238 posts)inhuman
hibbing
(10,124 posts)They just don't stop, they want to kill people.
Peace
Stuart G
(38,486 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,846 posts)Stuart G
(38,486 posts)It still looses....is that correct??
karynnj
(59,527 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,180 posts)I said this is murder.
Murder
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red dog 1
(28,020 posts)K&R