Senator says he nearly has the votes for ObamaCare repeal

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY PETER SULLIVAN - 09/15/17 10:45 AM EDT

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is predicting he will win enough votes to pass his last ditch ObamaCare repeal and replacement bill through the Senate, despite the long odds he seems to be facing.

“I am pretty confident we’ll get there on the Republican side,” Cassidy told a group of reporters in his office on Friday. “We’re probably at 48-49 [votes] and talking to two or three more.”

The problem for Senate Republicans when it comes to ObamaCare repeal has always been getting the final few votes to put them over the top. The repeal legislation that failed in July got 49 votes, but fell short because three senators bucked leadership and voted no.

There is an extremely short window to pass the bill before a procedural deadline of Sept. 30. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Friday announced his opposition, saying the bill kept too much of ObamaCare. Cassidy said that if the bill does not pass by Sept. 30, he would try again in the future.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/350842-gop-senator-says-he-nearly-has-the-votes-for-obamacare-repeal

[Botany]

1. What is the matter w/these people?

Heartless bastards.

[red dog 1]

24. Good question!

In Orwellian terms, it's Animal Farm and the Pigs are in charge!

[Botany]

30. late night w/many beers

They know that the voting is rigged so they can do whatever they
want to do.

[red dog 1]

32. Exactly!

Speaking of rigged elections, here's an article from yesterday's Alternet:
"The GOP is Plowing Ahead with an Audacious Effort to Hijack the Vote and Rig Elections"
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/republican-efforts-hijack-voting-and-rig-elections-seen-full-force-week

[Botany]

33. Ever since they pushed through HAVA (help america vote act) the elections have ...

.... drifted "red" but the demographics have been building against the republicans.

[BlueIdaho]

2. So basically

He's no closer than they were the last time they tried this stunt...

[Fullduplexxx]

3. They nearly had it the last time it failed

[dalton99a]

4. "I just don't care about the coverage numbers," Cassidy said.

'Nuf said

[louis-t]

5. Well, you're nearly an asshole, Senator.

Asshole.

[LenaBaby61]

10. Nearly?

No, he's a heartless, evil Grade-A asshole.

[Phoenix61]

6. So those people in Texas and Florida who

lost everything now have the opportunity to lose their health insurance. Evil, nasty, little fuckers.

[mackdaddy]

7. "Medicare for All" would ge a great "Repeal and Replace" bill.

I would consider that a "Win-Win".

[red dog 1]

25. That will never happen as long as the GOP controls both houses of Congress

But if the Dems can retake control of both the House and the Senate in November 2018.....

[yardwork]

34. That's not what the Republicans have it mind. No where close.

[lark]

8. Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cassidy is a total liar.

He knows this is their one and only opportunity because not one Dem will vote for his kill the poor and grandma too bill. After 9/30, they have no chance in hell of repealing Obamacare. If they do get this passed by 9/30, things get very interesting in a really bad way. Will enough poor Drumpf voters realize they are losing their healthcare and bail on Repugs to make a difference in the mid-terms when this won't take effect until 2020? With all the takeaways they are currently doing to Obamacare, they could be undercutting their own sneakiness and making people feel the pain earlier, like before the mid-terms. What horrible inhumans inhabit the far right.

[red dog 1]

27. + 1

[rock]

9. In plainer words

He does NOT have enough votes for a repeal.

[Saviolo]

11. Time to start calling your Senator again:

Link to tweet

[Judi Lynn]

20. Vicious, sadistic, unprincipled people, Republicans. Thanks for sharing these points. n/t

[red dog 1]

28. Thanks for that

[maxsolomon]

12. They have to deliver

Or they'll have to answer for it a year from now.

[LudwigPastorius]

13. Go ahead, Charlie Brown.

I just know that, this time, you're gonna kick that football.

[CrispyQ]

14. Hasn't McCain said that he would vote to repeal, now? -nt

[BumRushDaShow]

15. He could but then Ayn Rand Paul is opposed & if Collins/Murkowski still oppose, same outcome. nt

[CrispyQ]

16. So the no vote last time was all for show.

I recall how the media gave him most of the credit & Collins/Murkowski were hardly mentioned. He's as shallow as the rest of them.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. That's how he normally rolls

although a bunch of them tend to do that (I remember when Arlen Specter used to do it too and would wait until "prime time" to cast his vote for the benefit of the CSPAN2-viewing audience). They will look around and see who else is voting the same way and if there is a chance for passage without them, then they will almost always "go rogue" (because it's meaningless).

That last vote was a unique one given the gravity of it, although the outcome still offered more bang for their buck, but also assured the expectation for them to party-line vote in all other cases to quickly regain GOP street cred.

[bluestarone]

17. ther fuckers are

inhuman

[hibbing]

18. Terrifying

They just don't stop, they want to kill people.


Peace

[Stuart G]

22. yes....that is what they want....

[Judi Lynn]

19. Sociopaths like Sen. Cassidy should be shunned, not put in places of power.

[Stuart G]

21. So Rand Paul...and the two senators : Maine and Alaska...remember?

It still looses....is that correct??

[karynnj]

31. I think Collins is a Co sponsor.

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. This is murder. But nobody is gonna do jack about it until we say that

I said this is murder.

Murder

M U R D E R

murder

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[red dog 1]

29. Cassidy is completely full of shit!

K&R