Republicans Throw In The Towel: Senate Will Not Vote On Obamacare Repeal Bill – IOTW Report

Republicans Throw In The Towel: Senate Will Not Vote On Obamacare Repeal Bill

Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 16:19 MJA Uncategorized 42

ZH: With the Republicans Obamacare repeal effort having died no less than three times over the few days, on Tuesday afternoon Republicans announced the Senate would not vote on Republicans’ last-ditch bill to repeal Obamacare, putting an end to their seven-year push for now. According to Politico, the decision was reached at a party lunch Tuesday after it became clear the plan would fail. Three Senate Republicans had already said they would vote against the measure, and the GOP could only afford two defections.

“We don’t have the votes so it’s probably best we don’t do the vote,” said Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana. “We’ve lost this battle, but we’re going to win the war.”

“Why have a vote if you know what the outcome is and it’s not what you want. I don’t know what you gain from that. But I do believe that the health care issue is not dead, and that’s what counts,” said GOP Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama. “We’ve got some time this year to deal with it and I think we have to.”

Vice President Mike Pence told Republicans they should keep working on health care and not give up just because a key procedural deadline to pass the bill with a simple majority expires after Sept. 30.

“He does” want us to keep working,” said Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.). “He’s conveyed it outside of that meeting [too]. The votes aren’t there so let’s keep massaging.” However, Republicans may not opt to pursue a health care overhaul and tax code rewrite simultaneously, as some GOP lawmakers desire. Sen. Pat Toomey said it’s it’s better to “focus on taxes right now.”

Earlier, Ted Cruz acknowledged his conference does not have the 50 Republican votes necessary to muscle the bill through the Senate. “There’s more work to be done. I mean we don’t yet have 50 votes. I think we’re close and we need to continue working,” he said.

The hail mary legislation sponsored by Sens. Bill Cassidy and Lindsey Graham would dismantle ObamaCare’s insurance subsidy program and Medicaid expansion and convert their funding into block grants to states. more here

42 Comments on Republicans Throw In The Towel: Senate Will Not Vote On Obamacare Repeal Bill

  2. Obama was a member of this Republicant Party. He did everything he chose, with intent to trash the country and pocket as much loot as he could, and the GOP did NOTHING to even slow him down.

    All the BS excuses you heard for 8 years are clearly revealed as LIES. Obama’s hidden college transcripts must reveal that he was president of the McCain Fan Club.

    Issa, Gowdy, Graham,Ryan, Boner, McConnell, and all the rest of the skidmark posers can kiss my patriotic ass. They best never walk alone anywhere on this planet.

  3. Honestly, the first Cruzbot that says shit after Trump starts working with the democraps again is going to drive me over the edge.

    The Tax plan has about a zero chance of passing too. What a joke.

  9. A direct reflection of the principles held by Ryan, McCONnell and their RINOs.
    Tell them what they want to hear during the campaign, get elected and do what the special interests pay you to do.
    Worthless.

  12. Just heard a presentation this morning from a Medicare analyst about Medicare/Medicaid fraud issues. It was so fucking depressing. One of the scams made possible by AHCA is the drug rehab scam. It works like this…

    – Addicts get sent to rehab on the government dime. Often steered there by people who just want to get these bums out of town.

    – Addicts are sent to “rehabs” in Florida or California, and told that it will be like a vacation.

    – When the addicts arrive, the end up findings some shitshack run by some gangbangers who take their Medicare cards and any money on them and toss them on the street, if they’re lucky. If they’re young women or men, they may get forced into prostitution and doped up to keep them docile. Older people may just get thrown in a back room, kept on drugs, moved around from place to place in order to facilitate double billing.

    – In the end, the addicts end up homeless, far from home, and some gangster gets $10s of thousands of dollars richer off the government dime.

    Yeah, “Medicare for All” is just gonna be fucking fantastic… I swear to god, this country is so fucking evil now that I don’t even want to go to the doctor unless I absolutely have to… And I avoid democrat run towns like the fucking plague.

  13. PSA about Zero Hedge: the site has new owners (using the same moniker of “Tyler Durden”) who are quite Leftist in their slant of articles chosen and “messages sent.”

    But yes, this is more of the GOPe’s antics.
    *sigh*

  16. Some of us called it the moment it was declared a tax that no Congress will EVER repeal it, and they won’t…barring a YUGE primary slaughter and a bunch of cut throat faithful conservatives (which we desperately need) gets in office in large numbers.

    Hey, I can dream.

  20. Brad,

    Unfortunately Trump is being forced to work with the Uniparty, which is why nothing can move forward towards a positive in a conservative sense. The Democrats are the Republicans, and vice-versa.

    It’s sad and disheartening.

    It’s becoming more and more apparent that it’ll take a bloody insurrection to change anything back to what Americas principles of freedom were founded upon.

    Note to all parasites: Remember when the shit hits the fan that most of us just wanted to be left alone, free of government manipulation and moral intrusion.

    You’ve been asking for an ass whooping since the commie, flower-child Sixties. You’re about to get it.

  26. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. … Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Declaration of Independence (1776).

  27. It is definitely time for Trump, by Executive Order, to put congress into Obamacare. This has to come to an end, and that will cause some action to start right now! And right after that, fire Sessions and get an Attorney General that is up to the job.

  34. Hey Larry, FUCK YOU!!! I just got my mail and have a letter from my 3rd health insurance provider in the last 3 years. I’m so damn pissed off, you’re lucky you are not walking up my driveway right now!

  37. I think this is the best outcome. The whole thing will collapse on its own and the Democrats have 100% ownership. When it does fail, we need to make sure those responsible are loudly and repeatedly called to account for it. They all have a D by their name.

  40. I hope the Moore win in Ala. has the spineless Rs sleepless tonight thinking about what a mistake they made throwing in the towel on Zerocare repeal. Along with some Ds thinking they better join the repeal team or lose their job in DC.

  41. Don’t wait until we all are broke, homeless, and without medical care.
    It’s time millions of Americans, peacefully protesting but armed, descend on Washington DC to show how angry we feel because of the betrayal of our elected leaders.

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