For years now, ever since Barack Obama and the Democratic Party passed the ACA, Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail to establish death panels to ensure that Granny, along with any other poor Americans, who cannot pay for quality health care, will die before she has a chance to interfere with Republican welfare for billionaires. Therefore, I’m most pleased that Republicans had to pull the Senate version of RepubliCare, because not enough Republican Senators were willing to commit political suicide by voting for it.
Facing intransigent Republican opposition, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday delayed a vote on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, dealing another setback to Republicans’ seven-year effort to dismantle the health law and setting up a long, heated summer of health care battles.
Mr. McConnell faced resistance from across his conference, not only from the most moderate and conservative senators but from others as well. Had he pressed forward this week, he almost surely would have lacked the votes even to begin debate on the bill.
“We will not be on the bill this week, but we’re still working toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place,” said Mr. McConnell, who is known as a canny strategist but was forced to acknowledge on Tuesday that he had more work to do.
The delay pushes Senate consideration of the bill until after a planned recess for the Fourth of July, but it does not guarantee that Republican senators will come together. Opponents of the bill, including patient advocacy groups and medical organizations, plan to lobby senators in their home states next week. Senators are likely to be dogged by demonstrators. Democrats vowed to keep up the pressure, and some Republican senators have suggested that their votes will be difficult to win… [emphasis added]
From <NY Times>
The most important thing we need to understand is that killing Granny is far too important to the Republican Reich for them to give up now, especially when saving her life might reduce a billionaire’s tax cut by a few bucks. Bought Bitch Mitch will bring it back, as both Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow confirm.
Kirsten Gillibrand on health care fight: ‘This is not over’
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand weighs in on what comes next now that Republicans have delayed a vote on their health care bill.
Victorious activists stay vigilant for next GOP health bill
Senator Cory Booker talks with Rachel Maddow about the public activism that contributed to the Republican failure to pass their health/tax plan and why it’s too soon for opponents of the Republican bill to celebrate.
It is imperative that we make life a living hell for Republican Senators as they return home for the 4th of July recess, and not let up for a moment, until a Senator commits firmly and unequivocally to vote against RepubliCare. Make sure they know that voting for it will cost them their jobs.
RESIST!!
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The Koch Brothers and ALEC and probably the Bradley Foundation, in fact all of the usual suspects, are shocked – SHOCKED! – that this didn’t already pass. They even claim to be humiliated. Go figure.
Seeing Kirsten, I note that it isn’t just Presidents who age in office, is it? Of course, as hard as she has been working for the American people, she has come by it honestly.
Cory Booker AND JOHN LEWIS started that rally. ONE of them is grandstanding IMO. That is not to say this interview was anything other than right on the money.
BTW, my hopelessly regressive Congressional District is being “adopted” by a nearby Democratic Congressman for a town hall Saturday. (“If you won’t talk with them I will.” One of those guys. I’ve checked and it looks like handicapped access will be decent, so I’ve said I will go. You see, this guy will be one of the Dem candidates for governor, and I may not get as good a chance to size him up.
Wooo Hooo JD!! I trust we shall get an article reporting on the event.
Probably more like a long comment or a short take. I have nothing to film it with myself. But we shall see.
Nope! Video of you doing flips!!
We need/must continue to fight those people who want this passed. I’ve called, and sent petitions to let home senators know we are not taking this sitting down. Take a deep breath, and continue fighting!
The House’s AHCA & Senate’s BCRA are Zombie bills – they’ll keep rising from the dead in some bastardized form or another … on that you can count.
To stop it is going to be very, very (just like Twitler would say) difficult, because the only way to stop a Zombie is destroy its brain – and we all know republicans don’t HAVE a brain (OR a heart).
Our work is cut out for us!
Chris Hayes: May Kirsten continue to rock and roll for decades to come!
Rachel Maddow: “Sinister cravenness” and “evil,” were used by MY senator to describe the GOPiggies, how nice is that? How clearly unusual for that language to be addressed to senators by a senator? But the times call for straight talk, calling a spade a spade, as it were; calling bastards by their real names, bastards!
Nelson Mandela:“It always seems impossible, until it’s done.” Rachel Carson, or Margaret Meade: Something like- “Never doubt what one person can accomplish, as all movements were begun that way.”
I couldn’t be happier to see someone defeated than McConnell. I have tried repeatedly to call his office to voice my disagreement with his bill, to no avail. Bought Bitch Mitch is an apt title for him.
Call one of his local offices – like Paducah or Lexington.
You can find any Congress critter’s contact offices through their official website by using their last name + House or Senate + gov
So to get McConnell’s website, just type the below in the URL address bar:
McConnell.Senate.gov
(If two have the same last name, the one there the longest gets that formula – the newer ones you have to add their first name)
Thanks!
History, something Republicans seem to fail to learn from, should at least teach Democrats that Republicans will never give up on a bad thing. The innumerable times they have tried to repeal Obamacare under Obama and tried to nail Obama or Clinton for Benghazi shows that they’re nothing if not tenacious. So Mitch McConnell will be back, no worries. Not with an adapted version of TrumpCare, but with an ever bigger slush fund, replenished by the Kochs et al. over the recess.
I do not fully agree with Rachel Maddow’s analysis that considering the number of Republican senators who crawled out of the woodwork and said they oppose the AHCA after the bill was pulled by McDonnell, this was a serious defeat of McDonnell’s handiwork and was getting worse by the minute as more senators joined in. Chris was more accurate, I think, by relating these “courageous” newcomers to the expectancy of a large cut from the slush fund. That and an insurance on their political careers. As long as the vote on the bill is delayed, they can now go home for recess and tell their angry base they oppose TrumpCare in its current Draconian form. As soon as enough money comes their way and they think the bill will make 51+ yes-votes, they find some excuse to make a U-turn.
A bit beside the point perhaps, but the GOP and Drumpf have managed to “normalize” corruption in less than 6 months. The media now openly speaks of McConnell buying the votes with the special fund he has for that as if it is completely normal and acceptable to do so. Time to stop and smell the outhouse politics, folks.
You should have seen Bought Bitch Mitch scream over the Corn-husker Kickback, the Democratic bribe to DINO Ben Nelson to get the ACA over the hump.
Thanks, hugs and Amen to all!
I continued watching Rachel until 26/06/17 episode when she had on Ezra Levin who is the co-founder of Indivisible. He reported that there are an average of 13 Indivisible groups per congressional district nationwide and they are on the ground running, protesting this unhealthcare bill that Republicans have congered up. There is only one thing I can say because so far it is working.
Resist and Persist!!!!!