Let The Caving Begin! Senate GOP Health Care Surrender Watch

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Source: Talking Points Memo

The dynamics for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to corral 50 out of his 52 Republican senators into supporting his health care bill dont get much easier, now that hes delayed a vote on it for at least a week for another round of tweaks. The only difference in the competing demands McConnell is facing from his conference between the days before he announced he was delaying the vote and the days after is that theyre going more public with their negotiating requests.

If Senate Republicans pass their bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, something will have to give. And for something to give, someone is likely going to cave.

Heres a look at who is asking for what so that you can monitor who caves and on which of their own demands:

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-gop-health-care-surrender-watch

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1. I think Lawrence O'Donnell was right on.

He was hammering that the most telling detail was that only *five* Senators expressed public support for it and were definite yes votes. That was too much uncertainty and though McConnell would have been fine with losing with a close partisan 49 votes in support (allegedly he's fed up and ready to be done with it as much as we all are, and he'd have a "well them obstructin' Democrats" talking point), he couldn't risk the publicity of a 5/95 defeat which would throw the last shovelful of dirt on his plan and ACA repeal by proxy.

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