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[VendettaRed07]

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Lol

"We did our job by telling the senate to do it for us and are so mad that they couldn't figure out the difficult parts we punted"

 

[balladofwindfishes]

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RIP McConnell's career

 

[Kusagari]

Gov. Mike Huckabee‏Verified account
@GovMikeHuckabee

Time to repeal 17th Amendment. Founders had it right-Senators chosen by state legislatures. Will work for their states and respect 10th amid
12:32 AM - 28 Jul 2017

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890837365891018752

Fuckabee literally saying fuck democracy.

 

[teiresias]

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Oh please, they're just mad they're on the record for a shitty bill for nothing. Stop voting for bad policy if you don't want to look like fools, problem solved.

 

[Hopfrog]

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And I just posted about this. Excellent.

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[benicillin]

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I like this.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Oh please, they're just mad they're on the record for a shitty bill for nothing. Stop voting for bad policy if you don't want to look like fools, problem solved.

Yup. House just pissed all of their votes for AHCA are on record.

 

[Hopfrog]

RIP McConnell's career

I mean, it should be. This is a huge indictment of his leadership.

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

The best knives are GOP backstabbing knives

 

[Kusagari]

Rachael Bade‏Verified account
@rachaelmbade

Rachael Bade Retweeted Rachael Bade
IN THE ROOM-@SpeakerRyan told conference the House is the most functioning part of government right now; House has done its part 2 repeal

Ryan - Ain't my problem.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

He's awake!

@FatCheeto

If Republicans are going to pass great future legislation in the Senate, they must immediately go to a 51 vote majority, not senseless 60...

 

[Hopfrog]

He's awake!

Goes without saying, but he is too much of an idiot to realize that they couldn't get to 50 votes, much less 60.

 

[teiresias]

He's awake!

And apparently has no idea that this wouldn't have fixed last night.

 

[Schucky Ducky]

https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/890837365891018752

Fuckabee literally saying fuck democracy.

An awful idea from an awful man.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Wouldn't a new bill have to start over in the House again?

I think so because the Senate needs a new appropriations bill to start from.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

McConnell is a goner.

 

[benicillin]

He's awake!

This kind of rhetoric is why McCain defected in the first place. McConnell has lost control of the senate by pushing it to it's breaking point.

 

[aspiegamer]

Did no one tell him that the GOP was already stretching the rules farther than anyone ever has before to find a way to do this all with 50? Or did someone explain to him that it effectively goes to 60 for everything with them taking up other business? If yes to the later, good luck explaining reconciliation to him. Not that I doubt he's never understood even the tiniest aspect of it. Hell, career political junkies barely understand reconciliation. It's not supposed to be abused like this.

McConnell is a goner.

One can only hope.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

He's awake!

So nobody told him it had 49 votes?

This kind of rhetoric is why McCain defected in the first place. McConnell has lost control of the senate by pushing it to it's breaking point.

Yep, McConnell has gone too far in his rule stretching and it's causing problems in the senate

 

[teiresias]

I wonder what would happen if some of the insurance companies filed suit against the government if they failed to pay CSRs?

 

[Gotchaye]

Surely most of the House Rs are happy that this died in the Senate and they can plausibly claim to have done their jobs.

I really want to know if Ryan talking about maybe not going to conference was an attempt to give some Senators cold feet.

 

[Veritigo_X]

Senate must immediately go to a 49 vote majority!

 

[Schucky Ducky]

McConnell is a goner.

But who else would take the job after all this mess? I can't see anyone wanting it.

 

[Gurgelhals]

McConnell is a goner.

Nobody will want that job at the moment, so I fear the turtle is here to stay for the time being.

Still, it would be all kinds of hilarious to see McConnell being toppled even before Priebus and/or Sessions step down from their positions. I mean, who would have thought?

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Surely most of the House Rs are happy that this died in the Senate and they can plausibly claim to have done their jobs.

I really want to know if Ryan talking about maybe not going to conference was an attempt to give some Senators cold feet.

It was. He didn't want to see the bill again. The AHCA was a punt to begin with.

 

[sc0la]

He's awake!

They couldn't even get 50 tho 🤔

 

[BotoxAgent]

He's awake!

governing is hard

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

I wont belive mcconnel is gone until it happens, i remember how confident we were that rubio was done.

 

[Gruco]

Random thought - Jeff Flake was absolutely no where in this whole process. Up in 2018, supposedly an adult in the room kind of guy, and his yes was seemingly never in question for a moment. Seems to have hung back entirely under the radar.

 

[Schucky Ducky]

Senate must immediately go to a 49 vote majority!

He plans on removing Maine, Alaska, and Arizona from the Union.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Trump has no idea what is going on now.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

But who else would take the job after all this mess? I can't see anyone wanting it.

It'd be chaos, but it's chaos I want to see

Nobody would step up, or better yet, a huge political war as different factions fight to fill the power vacuum

 

[Blader]

Surely most of the House Rs are happy that this died in the Senate and they can plausibly claim to have done their jobs.

I really want to know if Ryan talking about maybe not going to conference was an attempt to give some Senators cold feet.

There are a handful of House Rs who are probably not happy about having their names attached to a bill that was never fixed and still earned their votes after it was revealed it would cost over 20 million people health insurance.

 

[metalslimer]

Random thought - Jeff Flake was absolutely no where in this whole process. Up in 2018, supposedly an adult in the room kind of guy, and his yes was seemingly never in question for a moment. Seems to have hung back entirely under the radar.

He's going to have McCain voting against and him voting for brought up over and over

 

[nature boy]

He's awake!

"I alone can fix it"

 

[Kusagari]

Flake is secretly one of the most conservative members of the entire caucus and it's somehow never brought up because he's from a not deep, deep red state and that he spoke out against Trump.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

@PunishedCheeto

...Even though parts of healthcare could pass at 51, some really good things need 60. So many great future bills & budgets need 60 votes....

Do it Donny. Do it.

 

[RustyNails]

Lol whats Trump even saying. Does he even know that all the GOP plans were shot down by simple majority?

 

[Pixieking]

Oh man, the Warren reference in this WaPo article.

The Daily 202: Trump's hardball tactics backfire as ‘skinny repeal' goes down

Later that day, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called Murkowski and the state's other Republican senator, Dan Sullivan, to threaten that the Trump administration may change its position on several issues that affect the state to punish Murkowski, such as blocking energy exploration and plans to allow the construction of new roads. ”The message was pretty clear," Sullivan told the Alaska Dispatch News.

Nevertheless, Murkowski persisted. In fact, she took it one step further and demonstrated that she has more leverage over Zinke than he has over her. As chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Murkowski indefinitely postponed a nominations markup that the Interior Department badly wants.

A slap in the face for McConnell, there, if he reads it.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

I like the morale boost this gave people

Everyone is optimistic and ready to keep fighting

Having the actual vote fail added more permanence to this. While past indications they were still trying were met with "here we go again... sigh" are now met with ridicule.

Nice

 

[metalslimer]

If there still wasn't a lot of time to fuck up the country I would rather them nuke it so it's already waiting whenever dems come back to power

McConnell already destroyed his legacy though so I doubt he's willing to do that

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I like the morale boost this gave people

Everyone is optimistic and ready to keep fighting

Having the actual vote fail added more permanence to this. While past indications they were still trying were met with "here we go again... sigh" are now met with ridicule.

Nice

Yep, this shows that rallying together, calling, and protesting works.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Yep, this shows that rallying together, calling, and protesting works.

It's nice we can sit back and laugh as Trump's cabinet falls apart next month without a feeling of looming despair.

 

[Deuce Deuce]

Lol whats Trump even saying. Does he even know that all the GOP plans were shot down by simple majority?

He probably means that being hobbled by reconciliation prevents them from writing a completely new bill instead of twiddling with Obamacare lite.

 

[Chained Prometheus]

I like the morale boost this gave people

Everyone is optimistic and ready to keep fighting

Having the actual vote fail added more permanence to this. While past indications they were still trying were met with "here we go again... sigh" are now met with ridicule.

Nice

Yeah, seriously. Last night, I was thinking I'd need to step away from most political threads here on GAF for a few days, but this turn of events really has ignited some hope for everyone.

It's not over yet, but by god, this is absolutely a win and a much needed one right now.

 

[dramatis]

It's probably over for this year but I'm not sure if it will rise from the dead next year.

Granted I really don't think healthcare is a good thing to touch during midterm campaign season.

 

[Hopfrog]

It's probably over for this year but I'm not sure if it will rise from the dead next year.

Granted I really don't think healthcare is a good thing to touch during midterm campaign season.

Yeah, I don't think most Republicans will want to touch this with a ten-foot pole during an election year.

 

[Pyrokai]

Do it Donny. Do it.

He can't do shit. He needs to stop telling other independent institutions how to run themselves, like the Senate and DoJ. Fucking fascist piece of shit.

 

[Schucky Ducky]

This will negatively impact their efforts for tax reform as well right? Didn't they need some of the cuts from this to help pay for it?

 

[zethren]

This will negatively impact their efforts for tax reform as well right? Didn't they need some of the cuts from this to help pay for it?

They sure did.