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Mitch McConnell Wants You to Be Confused - Senate Sets Up a Slew of Health Votes to Try to Pass Anything


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2017 Jul 26, 6:22am   1,730 views  3 comments

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Pay attention to what Republicans in Congress are really doing.

McConnell cajoled his caucus into beginning a debate without revealing the text of all the bills that will be considered. Whatever the bills are—and there will be several—we can be sure they will not have passed through a single hearing, a single committee markup, and in most cases nobody yet knows what the Congressional Budget Office will say about them. That didn’t stop McCain from giving a long speech right after his vote about how the Senate must return to its procedural norms.

The pure absurdity of this situation is largely by design. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell needs confusion to get an Obamacare repeal over the line: confusion about what’s being voted for, who is supporting what, and what the legislation will do to people. (The House of Representatives is already moving to gut the CBO and replace it with a small agency that will simply aggregate the findings of DC think tanks, many of which are funded by deeply ideological conservative interests.) McConnell also needs to rely on procedural radicalism—this level of chicanery and deceit has never been seen before in the Senate.

Constant contradictions and confusion, attacks on authority, and naked power grabs are the hallmarks of the Trump era, and they have many stepchildren: the campaign against “fake news,” which the president has dubbed the “enemy of the American people”; a mushrooming campaign to reduce voting rights under the pretense that millions of illegal votes were cast for Hillary Clinton; and this health-care process, among others.

The series of Senate votes over the next few days, before that happens, will allow vulnerable Republican senators to make a show of voting against various proposals, and claim they opposed such and such cruel repeal plan—but McConnell doesn’t care. He just needs that final “skinny repeal” piece of paper.

The strategy is deeply radical and, in the end, probably unlikely to work—it’s hard to see how the differences in the Republican caucus about the extent to which Medicaid should be cut, and how much of Obamacare should be repealed, can ultimately be bridged. But to defeat it, activists will have to understand exactly what McConnell and Ryan are up to, and they have done their best to keep that obscured

Full Article: https://www.thenation.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-wants-you-to-be-confused/

Related: Senate Sets Up Health Votes for Chaotic Obamacare Debate

Senate Republicans have embarked on an unpredictable and potentially chaotic floor debate aimed at repealing Obamacare amid significant doubts that they can muster 50 votes to pass any kind of health bill.

GOP leaders will hold votes on a slew of different health bills to see how close they can get to passing something. The debate -- which will be punctuated with skirmishes over obscure rules and parliamentary challenges -- will culminate in an all-night “vote-a-rama” later this week that could feature dozens, or even hundreds, of amendment votes.

More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-26/senate-sets-up-slew-of-health-votes-for-chaotic-obamacare-debate

#Healthcare #GOPGreedOverPrinciples #TheyDontMindYouDontMatter #MAGA

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1   FNWGMOBDVZXDNW   2017 Jul 26, 6:51am  

It's obvious that something unpopular (Obamacare) polls better against an unknown opponent than against a specific and more unpopular opponent. Republicans are exploiting this, because they have run out of other options.

2   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2017 Jul 26, 8:20am  

I don't know why the knuckleheads on the Left are droning on about.
This process is purely reconciliation, and no policy changes will be made not on the mandate not on how it burdens the middle class.
The only thing the Liberals and the Soon to be voted out Resisters are voting on are how it impacts the Federal Budget.

Truth be told the Liberals are doubling down on placing more of the burden on the Middle class voters.

Good luck with that you Stupid mother fuckers you are handing US Patriots a Congress full of our choosing in 2018.

You can't make up this kind of stupidity. You fiduciary Fucktards.

3   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2017 Jul 26, 10:07am  

Oh he can Tweet nonsense all day. His base has gotten the message loud and clear from the Liberals.

This first two years is going to be about destroying the careers of Career Congressmen that have been in office for 40 years.
Then from 2018 to 2020 will be about tightening our voting system so the Primaries in 2020 will be a cut and dry winner. States must certify the voters vote not what Ted Cruz thinks it should be, or some Pakistan IT expert in the DNC Tech Bunker decides what the outcome should be.

Trump is our smoked ribs he's on there low and slow. It's after 2020 we expect him to deliver on his campaign promise after he gets the gloating Schumer, Schults, Lynch, Clinton all behind bars and out of the American political process.

American can't survive with them!

You idiots are in for a long road if you think we're so finicky that we will abandon Trump over a few bumps in the road some Liberal house faggot put in the highway to MAGA!

I've only been right about everything I've said about politics and the future since I've been coming here so don't take my word for it you Silly Fools!

We have Trump until 2024.

But that has less to do with Trump and more to do with the voting psyche. I fully expect every President from now on out, to serve 2 terms.

Even the next eventual Liberal that ever gets in there again.

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