Republicans are going to absurd lengths to keep their healthcare votes secret

[applegrove]

Jim Newell, Slate, Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-are-going-to-absurd-lengths-to-keep-their-healthcare-votes-secret-2017-5

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Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin has yet to declare either his support or opposition for the bill. As he was walking out of the House Republican conference’s morning meeting Tuesday, I asked him if he had arrived at a decision. He said nothing and made a beeline to the restroom. Unfortunately it was the door to the women’s restroom that he had first run to, so he corrected himself and went into the men’s room. When he emerged several minutes later, he was wearing his earbuds and scurried away.

Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, another undecided member, met with Vice President Mike Pence on Monday afternoon. Pence had come up to Capitol Hill to whip health care votes. When Diaz-Balart emerged to a flock of reporters, he had with him his wife and child, to whom he introduced everyone.

I am not saying that Diaz-Balart brought them solely as a diversionary tactic, but if he did, it didn’t work. When asked about his health care vote, he merely stated that his focus was on appropriations. (Negotiations on the appropriations bill are complete, but it’s still awaiting a final vote.) So what was Pence’s pitch to him on health care? He said that they were talking about other things. Of course.

No undecided member is leaning more heavily on the focus-on-appropriations excuse, though, than the Appropriations Committee chairman himself, New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen.


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[2naSalit]

1. Once the vote is cast...

it becomes public... they can only hide for so long and the veil is getting so thin that they can't do that effectively anymore either.

[applegrove]

2. And democrats will hang the yes votes around their necks come 2018.

In the meantime they do not want any footage of them saying they would vote yes to exist. That would make local democratic ads write themselves come the midterms.

[trof]

3. I bote "No".

[2naSalit]

7. LOL!!!

I just caught that typing blunder!

You know how little kids like to "see" things with their hands? Those little eyeballs in their fingertips do all the "seeing".

I now claim that as I age the eyeballs in the ends of my fingertips are going blind and can't read the letters on the keys so well anymore! Once the letters wear off the keys, I can no longer type and have to get a new computer!

[nikibatts]

4. And they really go to absurd lengths to make Trump appear rational and sane. No matter what

he says or does there will be at least two or three RW pundits to try to make it all seem normal, helpful, and sane.

[CupcakeQueen]

5. I'm obviously missing something

I thought I read yesterday they had enough no votes to kill it. What's going on now?

[applegrove]

6. Yesterday I understood that they did not quite know exactly where they

were but it was close.

[CupcakeQueen]

8. Thanks. Damn.

I thought it was dead already. It looks like it will be dead soon though.

[applegrove]

9. I certainly hope so.

[spooky3]

10. I think a percentage of the "yes" votes hope the Senate will kill it

[tblue37]

11. I posted this reply on another thread:

It won't make it through the Senate. The House Republicans are counting on the Senate to save them from their own self-inflicted damage. They want to pass some legislation--ANY legislation--so they can claim to have kept their promise on Obamacare. And Cheato is seriously badgering them to get something passed so he can add it to his list of "accomplishments."

But most House members absolutely do NOT want that bill to land on Cheato's desk to be signed, so they are counting on its being killed in the Senate.

If it does end up getting to Trump to be signed, they will be as freaked out as Trump was when he actually got stuck with being president.

[spooky3]

12. Good post n/t