So ...
Can't pass repeal and replace, eh?
Going to try just repeal, eh?
Where what that means in the budget rules is something like: remove medicaid expansion, remove subsidies, remove individual mandate, and keep the pre-existing clause?
I've a feeling that won't happen, either.
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Man the country is dysfunctional right now.
ReplyDeleteJudiciary has a pile of empty seats.
Executive is a shambles, and where it's still running, it's just erasers.
Legislative feels like it's been deadlocked for nearly a decade, and is now somehow even more deadlocked.
Foreign relations are whiplash central.
Maybe this is the "small government" republican Ideal? Make the whole thing so broken that private enterprise has to take up the slack?
Jesse Cox: Yes, there is definitely an arm of the GOP, well represented in this administration, whose explicitly stated goal is to monkey wrench the government from the inside.
ReplyDeleteThey often talk less about the slack being taken up by private enterprise, and more about it being taken up by violent militias and local warlords.
I wish to heck I was kidding.
The question is, which 3 republicans will vote against repeal with delay? I can't name them, personally, so I have to assume repeal will happen. But I'd love to hear their names, that would give me some confidence.
ReplyDeleteI can't speak to what folks might do after back-room dealings, but if you're just wondering "are there any Republicans who objected to the senate bill because they insist on seeing how their constituents will get healthcare?", my short-list goes: Collins, Moran, Cassidy, Heller, Hoeven, Lee, Capito. I'm probably missing lots, though.
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch that is reassuring to me. At least 3 out of 7 sticking to their guns seems like a reasonable bet, in the absence of any other information.
ReplyDeleteApparently I did a disservice to Murkowski. When the "Repeal only" item started getting a push from leadership, Collins, Capito and Murkowski immediately went to the press with variations on "I did not come to Washington to hurt people."
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, that's not happening.
I adore that this took what, 12 hours to fall apart?
ReplyDeleteWell, more time to move on to tax reform.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, just maybe, they're try a plan that they can get a dozen democrats to sign up for.
It's be nice if we were past this who "colluding with democrats is treason" thing.