Gingrich to GOP: 'Get something done' on Obamacare repeal

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 07/18/2017 07:32 AM EDT

With Senate Republicans unable to find compromise on legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich declared Monday night that GOP lawmakers, whose party controls the White House and both houses of Congress, need to "perform."

“We’ve had six months of patience. It’s time to perform,” Gingrich told Fox News’s “Hannity” Monday night. “Frankly, about healthcare, (if) you can’t pass the gigantic bill, tell me what you can pass, but get something done that starts to move us away from Obamacare.”

The former speaker vented his frustration just hours after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that his party would not move forward on a procedural vote on its repeal-and-replace legislation and would instead bring to the floor and vote on a so-called “clean repeal” bill that undoes the signature healthcare legislation of former President Barack Obama but does not replace it. Republicans in both the House and Senate passed a version of that legislation in 2015 that was vetoed by Obama.

News that Republicans had abandoned efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare simultaneously sent the value of the U.S. dollar tumbling Monday night into Tuesday morning. The dollar index, which measures the U.S. currency against a basket of foreign currencies, dropped to its lowest level since September 2016, CNN reported Tuesday. The dollar also weakened against the Euro, the British Pound and Japanese Yen.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/republican-health-care-bill-reaction-240663

[titaniumsalute]

1. GOP too Gingrich

Who the fuck are you again?

[beachbum bob]

2. lol....no chance of a repeal with nothing in place

McConnell decided to undertake healthcare with zero involvement of democrats, healthcare industry and the public....he knew where this was going to lead to.

failure.

repealing ACA would mean a gigantic democratic tidal wave in 2018. We all know that

[mdbl]

3. Oh boy, a speech from Noot Gangrenous

Doesn't he think he's done enough damage? His version of governing is kicking someone in the head when they are already dead. This country has been F'd for a long time largely due to him.

[forgotmylogin]

4. "Get something done on ACA reform."

Fixed it for you, Newt.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Republicans are trapped between unpopular solutions

They have earned this.

[leon8822]

6. This idiot

Gingrich shut up

[harun]

7. I still think the GOP don't really know what the ACA does.

[Cosmocat]

12. They should - it was THEIR version of health care reform

that they don't, and you are likely correct, shows just how deranged they are.

[Paladin]

8. Eat shit and disappear, Newt...... (nt)

[BigmanPigman]

9. Once an asshole, always an asshole! The GOP is consistant.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. Gingrich and the

nut jobs he helped get elected to Congress with his so-called "Contract with America" in 1994 really helped create the GOP of today. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2052.html

The CwA was a fraud then and is still a fraud. But those 1994 nutjobs have paved the way for the outright GOPer crazies we have today.

F*ck Gingrich and everything about him!

[diva77]

11. +1000 !!

[Cosmocat]

13. YEP - they put the slide idiocracy into motion

nm

[Hortensis]

14. So what? Is Newt's snake oil cancer cures business slow?