{"id":28297,"date":"2017-06-28T13:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28297"},"modified":"2017-06-28T13:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:27:30","slug":"granny-1-republican-reich-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/granny-1-republican-reich-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Granny 1 – Republican Reich 0"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years now, ever since Barack Obama and the Democratic Party passed the ACA, Republicans have been fighting tooth and nail to establish death panels to ensure that Granny, along with any other poor Americans, who cannot pay for quality health care, will die before she has a chance to interfere with Republican welfare for billionaires.  Therefore, I’m most pleased that Republicans had to pull the Senate version of RepubliCare, because not enough Republican Senators were willing to commit political suicide by voting for it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Facing intransigent Republican opposition, the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday delayed a vote on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, dealing another setback to Republicans\u2019 seven-year effort to dismantle the health law and setting up a long, heated summer of health care battles.<\/p>\n

Mr. McConnell faced resistance from across his conference, not only from the most moderate and conservative senators but from others as well. Had he pressed forward this week, he almost surely would have lacked the votes even to begin debate on the bill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not be on the bill this week, but we\u2019re still working<\/strong> toward getting at least 50 people in a comfortable place,\u201d said Mr. McConnell, who is known as a canny strategist<\/a> but was forced to acknowledge on Tuesday that he had more work to do.<\/p>\n

The delay pushes Senate consideration of the bill until after a planned recess for the Fourth of July, but it does not guarantee that Republican senators will come together. Opponents of the bill, including patient advocacy groups and medical organizations, plan to lobby senators in their home states next week. Senators are likely to be dogged by demonstrators. Democrats vowed to keep up the pressure, and some Republican senators have suggested that their votes will be difficult to win… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <NY Times<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

The most important thing we need to understand is that killing Granny is far too important to the Republican Reich for them to give up now, especially when saving her life might reduce a billionaire’s tax cut by a few bucks.  Bought Bitch Mitch will bring it back, as both Chris Hayes<\/a> and Rachel Maddow<\/a> confirm.<\/font><\/p>\n

Kirsten Gillibrand on health care fight: ‘This is not over’<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand weighs in on what comes next now that Republicans have delayed a vote on their health care bill.<\/p>\n