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Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/342740-house-republican-senate-gop-has-failed-the-american-people

A top member of the House GOP whip team unleashed on Senate Republicans Wednesday for failing to advance legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare, saying that his colleagues have “failed the American people.”

“The Senate has failed the American people and abandoned voters who were promised that they would repeal and replace the disastrous Obamacare," Rep. Dennis Ross (R-Fla.), a senior deputy House majority whip, said in an extraordinary five-paragraph statement. "The House did its job. We honored our pledge and passed legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare in early May. There is no need to sugar coat this: I’m very upset with the Senate.”

He expressed frustration that the Senate has nothing to show for the past seven months of working to fulfill a nearly decade-long campaign promise, despite across-the-board GOP control of Congress and the White House.

“Senators have now wasted seven months doing nothing,” Ross said. “The American people are sick of the excuses from Senators. I’m sick of the excuses.”

“If they don’t repeal and replace Obamacare, like they promised and were voted to do, they are going back on their word and have some serious explaining to do when they go back home and face those who sent them to Washington to protect and help them. They will be held accountable,” Ross said.

He warned that if the existing healthcare system falters, “the Senate will be taking the blame. Not the House, and not the President.”

By contrast, other House Republicans have been more measured in expressing disappointment with the Senate.

“Obviously, any time that you get bad news in terms of things not moving forward it’s not a good day,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said on Tuesday. “And yet at the same time, I’m not so discouraged because I’ve been here. And I know that the phoenix can rise out of the ashes, so to speak. And the same thing can happen here.”

Nearly all but one of the current GOP senators voted in 2015 for legislation to repeal the healthcare law, but it was purely a show vote since President Obama was expected veto it.

 

[Sephzilla]

 

[Laevateinn]

The party of personal responsibility continues to desperately point fingers.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

^Damn beaten!

You knew the House was going to pull this shit.

 

[Trojita]

Your budlight party failed common human decency.

 

[Zolo]

Round and round the blame table goes.

 

[Guevara]

Congress was a mistake, it's nothing but gerrymandered trash.

 

[JCHandsom]

GOP failing the American people? Does a bear shit in the woods?

 

[SwiftDeath]

Only in America could you fail the people by not being willing to kill some of them

 

[Slayven]

Who knew a lameduck government was the best case for america

 

[Mathieran]

I totally thought this would be about Russia stuff.

 

[Hilbert]

Well at least he isn't blaming the democrats.

 

[butzopower]

Can never tell if these people believe the bullshit they spew and are actually convinced they are saving the American people.

 

[sleepykyo]

I should have seen this coming, but for a few seconds I thought it would be a Republican breaking rank when i saw the title.

 

[TheOctodad]

You're all adults. You're all getting paid. You all chose this career path. You're all in charge.


You're all responsible.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Trump just spoke about this. Now its back to repeal & replace. Such a disaster. He even tried attacking the Alaska senator like that is going to move her to vote for your vile shit.

 

[Fenderputty]

The house punted that hot potato and never looked back.

 

[BackLogJoe]

Who knew a lameduck government was the best case for america

I dunno about all that. Obamacare needs fixed or people are going to suffer.

 

[Surfinn]

Yes, not fucking over and killing millions of Americans is failing the American people.

 

[Guess Who]

Can never tell if these people believe the bullshit they spew and are actually convinced they are saving the American people.

Never think for a second the GOP actually cares about the American people.

They know full well that their healthcare laws will hurt people, and they're scared of the backlash. That's the only reason they haven't been able to actually pass shit - the moment their constituents realize what they will lose if Obamacare is gone, their House and Senate seats are in danger.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

The first I thought of when reading the title.

 

[Zolo]

You're all adults. You're all getting paid. You all chose this career path. You're all in charge.


You're all responsible.

Every congressman should go through boot camp.

 

[Electric Eye]

I dunno about all that. Obamacare needs fixed or people are going to suffer.

The Republicans aren't interested in fixing anything. The best case scenario right now is let it limp on until elections cause a shift because as it stands the GOP now want to just get rid off it altogether.

 

[Kurdel]

Too much winning from the GOP

 

[ThLunarian]

It's going to be so sweet one day, when these stooges get what's coming to them at the voting booths and sanity returns to the government

I think Obama will have the last laugh on the entire of Trump's presidency.

Yes

 

[woolley]

The house passed a shitty bill because they knew the senate would get all the blame for it. Now they are just trying to pile on to keep the blame away from themselves for reelection.

 

[RPGCrazied]

Too much winning from the GOP

I think Obama will have the last laugh on the entire of Trump's presidency.

 

[pompidu]

I dunno about all that. Obamacare needs fixed or people are going to suffer.

What they brought to the table was not helping but infact would have made it worse.

 

[SlimySnake]

Only 17% of Americans want to repeal Obamacare. They just failed the Republican base.

 

[Trojita]

Only 17% of Americans want to repeal Obamacare. They just failed the Republican base.

Edit: Aah, I kind of feel bad if the woman in the poster actually doesn't support Trumpcare.

 

[tbm24]

Gotta love how with this administration it's never the president's fault. Just a victim of super unfair circumstances.

 

[Kurdel]

Only 17% of Americans want to repeal Obamacare. They just failed the Republican base.

Pretty pathetic numbers, condering they took power with the promise to repeal for 7 years now.

Imagine them fucking up so bad that they melted that support in 6 months.

 

[Strike]

Your entire party failed the American people. That and a good number of you are possibly traitors.

 

[Skellig Gra]

CYA

 

[moeman]

If being unable to repeal the ACA is failing the American people, I would love for Congress to keep failing us.

 

[Username1198]

Lmao they are failures for sure, just not in the way they think. Their masters are probably pissssssed though lol

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

"Please don't vote us out next year"

That's really what he's saying. The House wants to act like they actually did something other than punt the hot potato to the Senate knowing that only a portion of their seats are up each election.

Meanwhile, you've got a President who just wants to check a box on a list. You could send a blank piece of paper with a title to him and he'd sign it.

 

[shiba5]

So those bills were hugely unpopular, so I guess the majority of us aren't the "American people".
It's just Trump's base now. The rest of us don't matter.

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

"Please don't vote us out next year"

That's really what he's saying. The House wants to act like they actually did something other than punt the hot potato to the Senate knowing that only a portion of their seats are up each election.

Meanwhile, you've got a President who just wants to check a box on a list. You could send a blank piece of paper with a title to him and he'd sign it.

considering he held a signing ceremony where he signed a memo(not a bill)-definately

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Too much winning from the GOP

Someone needs to create a plugin for me to block this photo, my blood pressure spikes every time.

 

[DarkKyo]

So those bills were hugely unpopular, so I guess the majority of us aren't the "American people".
It's just Trump's base now. The rest of us don't matter.

Trump's trying to prove the rest of us don't even exist with this voter fraud bullshit he's currently wasting our time and tax money on.

 

[Zolo]

Someone needs to create a plugin for me to block this photo, my blood pressure spikes every time.

If you have an adblocker, you can probably use that.

 

[LakeEarth]

Who are these American People he's talking about? Over 80% of Americans were against this bill.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Who are these American People he's talking about? Over 80% of Americans were against this bill.

The only Americans that matter are hardcore Republicans. No RINOS, moderates, and Dems allowed.

 

[zulux21]

He warned that if the existing healthcare system falters, “the Senate will be taking the blame. Not the House, and not the President."

hey... at least he isn't trying to say the dems will take the blame like others are.

I don't think he gets that people will just blame who ever is in power in general and not look at the why... but still at least not the dems lol.

 

[Deuce Deuce]

Ah the ol' bully them into submission maneuver. A favorite among elitist thugs.

 

[Trojita]

After redistricting, Ross decided to run in the newly redrawn Florida's 15th congressional district. Because no other candidate qualified to run against him by the deadline, he won re-election to a second term unopposed

Wow

 

[Jaguar Victory]

We need more specifics. They've been failing the American People so hard for so long it's difficult to pinpoint where/when they actually figured that out.

 

[Game Guru]

Obama only just barely got healthcare passed with 60 votes in the Senate, so what makes Trump and the Republicans think they could repeal and replace healthcare with only 50 votes in the Senate?

 

[Sciz]

Not the Freedom Caucus: "You assholes were supposed to fix it and now we're on the hook because of you fuckers."

The Freedom Caucus: "lol I'm in an R+20 district suckersssss"