Oh jeez,not this again:Senate Republicans are trying to build momentum for a last-gasp bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, swearing that they are once again just a few votes short of delivering on their seven-year pledge.
Could this really happen? unusual York magazine's Margaret Hartmann thinks it's possible:... something shifted on Thursday. After making a presentation at the GOP caucus lunch, or Graham said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “encouraged everybody to jump onboard,” adding, “I can tell you this whether we had a vote factual now we would get 47, or 48 votes.”
whether they want to do this,it has to happen by the stop of the month, after which they'll need 60 votes, and not 50,for repeal. It's a tight squeeze. But they're going for it.
This is about more than Obamacare. In the near term at least, it's also about control of the president. He's cheating on Republicans with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, or largely because he can't manage to carve any deals with Republicans and he wants to be with a party that will do the things for him that his party won't do. How bad is the bill? This bad:read more
Source: crooksandliars.com