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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 11:58 AM Sep 2017

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 we’ll get there on the Republican side,” Cassidy told a group of reporters in his office on Friday. “We’re 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

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Senator says he nearly has the votes for ObamaCare repeal (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2017 OP
What is the matter w/these people? Botany Sep 2017 #1
Good question! red dog 1 Sep 2017 #24
late night w/many beers Botany Sep 2017 #30
Exactly! red dog 1 Sep 2017 #32
Ever since they pushed through HAVA (help america vote act) the elections have ... Botany Sep 2017 #33
So basically BlueIdaho Sep 2017 #2
They nearly had it the last time it failed Fullduplexxx Sep 2017 #3
"I just don't care about the coverage numbers," Cassidy said. dalton99a Sep 2017 #4
Well, you're nearly an asshole, Senator. louis-t Sep 2017 #5
Nearly? LenaBaby61 Sep 2017 #10
So those people in Texas and Florida who Phoenix61 Sep 2017 #6
"Medicare for All" would ge a great "Repeal and Replace" bill. mackdaddy Sep 2017 #7
That will never happen as long as the GOP controls both houses of Congress red dog 1 Sep 2017 #25
That's not what the Republicans have it mind. No where close. yardwork Sep 2017 #34
Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cassidy is a total liar. lark Sep 2017 #8
+ 1 red dog 1 Sep 2017 #27
In plainer words rock Sep 2017 #9
Time to start calling your Senator again: Saviolo Sep 2017 #11
Vicious, sadistic, unprincipled people, Republicans. Thanks for sharing these points. n/t Judi Lynn Sep 2017 #20
Thanks for that red dog 1 Sep 2017 #28
They have to deliver maxsolomon Sep 2017 #12
Go ahead, Charlie Brown. LudwigPastorius Sep 2017 #13
Hasn't McCain said that he would vote to repeal, now? -nt CrispyQ Sep 2017 #14
He could but then Ayn Rand Paul is opposed & if Collins/Murkowski still oppose, same outcome. nt BumRushDaShow Sep 2017 #15
So the no vote last time was all for show. CrispyQ Sep 2017 #16
That's how he normally rolls BumRushDaShow Sep 2017 #23
ther fuckers are bluestarone Sep 2017 #17
Terrifying hibbing Sep 2017 #18
yes....that is what they want.... Stuart G Sep 2017 #22
Sociopaths like Sen. Cassidy should be shunned, not put in places of power. Judi Lynn Sep 2017 #19
So Rand Paul...and the two senators : Maine and Alaska...remember? Stuart G Sep 2017 #21
I think Collins is a Co sponsor. karynnj Sep 2017 #31
This is murder. But nobody is gonna do jack about it until we say that Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #26
Cassidy is completely full of shit! red dog 1 Sep 2017 #29

Botany

(70,654 posts)
30. late night w/many beers
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 11:12 PM
Sep 2017

They know that the voting is rigged so they can do whatever they
want to do.

red dog 1

(27,918 posts)
32. Exactly!
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 02:58 PM
Sep 2017

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

(70,654 posts)
33. Ever since they pushed through HAVA (help america vote act) the elections have ...
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 04:03 PM
Sep 2017

.... drifted "red" but the demographics have been building against the republicans.

Phoenix61

(17,027 posts)
6. So those people in Texas and Florida who
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 12:54 PM
Sep 2017

lost everything now have the opportunity to lose their health insurance. Evil, nasty, little fuckers.

red dog 1

(27,918 posts)
25. That will never happen as long as the GOP controls both houses of Congress
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:34 PM
Sep 2017

But if the Dems can retake control of both the House and the Senate in November 2018.....

lark

(23,199 posts)
8. Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cassidy is a total liar.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 12:55 PM
Sep 2017

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.

CrispyQ

(36,567 posts)
16. So the no vote last time was all for show.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 02:00 PM
Sep 2017

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

(130,025 posts)
23. That's how he normally rolls
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:49 PM
Sep 2017

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.

Stuart G

(38,458 posts)
21. So Rand Paul...and the two senators : Maine and Alaska...remember?
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:48 PM
Sep 2017

It still looses....is that correct??

Eliot Rosewater

(31,138 posts)
26. This is murder. But nobody is gonna do jack about it until we say that
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 07:36 PM
Sep 2017

I said this is murder.

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