Republicans rip Rand for rejecting Obamacare repeal

[DonViejo]

And the Kentucky senator is just fine with that.

By SEUNG MIN KIM and BURGESS EVERETT 09/20/2017 05:02 AM EDT Updated 09/20/2017 09:07 AM EDT

Rand Paul might soon go down as the Republican who saved Obamacare — and he couldn’t care less.

"I'm actually happy to be out there as the leading advocate for repealing Obamacare, not keeping it," the Kentucky Republican said in an interview. Of his GOP colleagues, Paul added: "These people, they so totally do not get it."

Despite being one of the Senate’s most conservative members, Paul has been the loudest GOP critic of legislation to repeal the health care law that Republicans are desperate to jam through before a Sept. 30 deadline. His recalcitrant opposition left GOP leaders with virtually no breathing room as their whipping got underway, since they can lose only two votes and still pass the bill.

Even the face of GOP moderation, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, initially expressed more openness to the so-called Graham-Cassidy bill than Paul had. Paul has written op-eds trashing the plan, launched tweetstorms dismissing it as "Obamacare lite," and in case he wasn’t clear, gone on TV to reiterate his Lone Ranger stance.

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[standingtall]

1. Don't be gaslighted Rand Paul already voted

for less of a ACA repeal than this. Don't think for one second that if it comes down to him being the deciding vote that he will not vote for this awful bill the same way he did the skinny repeal bill.

[BigmanPigman]

2. He will end up voting along GOP lines...do not trust any of them.

[COLGATE4]

5. Absolutely right!!

[COLGATE4]

4. Yes.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Rand is in no way our friend...

his objection is that the bill isn't vicious and evil enough. He'll vote for it in a minute and regret that he has to wait longer and worker harder to screw more people over.

"Lone Ranger?" Bullshit. He's fucking Torquemada.