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The Trumpcare failure just keeps getting more fun by the hour. All those House Republicans who fell on their swords for the sake of a (premature) Rose Garden celebration with popular vote loser Donald Trump are “steaming mad” at the vote they had to take, for nothing.
After an extended diatribe about the process and all the “bovine scat flying around” on the policy debate, Amodei walked away — only to return to admit he was “pissed” at how the Senate dropped the ball. […]
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) barely won reelection last fall in a district Trump lost by 8 points, and is a top Democratic target heading into 2018. He nevertheless voted for the bill after remaining silent on his position up until the vote itself. And he’s not pleased that Republican senators weren’t able to get their acts together.
“The Senate dropped the ball,” he said, sounding a bit exasperated. “They had almost a blank palette and they scribbled on it and came up with nothing. … Senator McConnell and [Senate Republicans], they failed to do their job.”
“We agreed that there was not much use in criticizing the Senate while they were going through their process and I agree with that. I just find it interesting to note the number of geniuses serving in the United States Senate,” Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) told TPM, after a long pause and a deep breath, when asked how he was feeling Tuesday evening. “Politically it all still needs fixing whether the Senate does nothing, whether we walked the plank or whatever.”
That's going to make the next year of getting a budget, and a debt ceiling increase, and an infrastructure plan, and a massive tax reform bill all done so much more painful. There's already Republican infighting within the House, and within the Senate, AND between the two chambers over all these issues, but particularly the budget. We're looking at a Republican House, Senate, and White House that could be shutting itself down!
Great job, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. That's some kind of leadership.
We defeated Trumpcare, but now the GOP leadership is hell-bent on repealing Obamacare without a replacement. We need only three Republicans to stand firm and oppose the bill. Call your senator at (202) 224-3121 and tell them “DON’T REPEAL OBAMACARE.” Then, tell us how it went.