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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 08:20 AM Sep 2017

Behind New Obamacare Repeal Vote: 'Furious' G.O.P. Donors

By CARL HULSE SEPT. 22, 2017

September 22, 2017 at 3:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

“As more than 40 subdued Republican senators lunched on Chick-fil-A at a closed-door session last week, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) painted a dire picture for his colleagues. Campaign fund-raising was drying up, he said, because of the widespread disappointment among donors over the inability of the Republican Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act or do much of anything else,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Gardner is in charge of his party’s midterm re-election push, and he warned that donors of all stripes were refusing to contribute another penny until the struggling majority produced some concrete results.”

Said Gardner: “Donors are furious. We haven’t kept our promise.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/09/22/republicans-tried-hard-repeal-obamacare/

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VOX

(22,976 posts)
3. The Kochs are pissed that their water-carriers are such miserable failures.
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 08:57 AM
Sep 2017

How the hell can they get their all-white, all-Christian, all-Ayn-Rand, all-polluting, all right-wing-paradise-on-Earth underway with such a shitty performance (that they PAID for) from their serfs.

Right now, they're probably mulling the effectiveness of public beheadings.

July

(4,750 posts)
4. The GOP's real constituents whine and close their wallets.
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:12 AM
Sep 2017

Too bad all the Chump voters out there don't realize Republicans will use them but will only represent the big donors.

genxlib

(5,506 posts)
5. They are finding out the hard way
Sat Sep 23, 2017, 09:46 AM
Sep 2017

That their platitudes are supported by 51% of the Country but their policies are only supported by 35%.

All those talking points might sound good to centrist but they end up being appalled when the details get filled in.

Now if we can only get those centrists to see through the BS up front.

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