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WSJ-force the Senators to vote!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/our-self-in...1500592123
"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at this point has busted pretty much every move in his effort to rally 50 votes for an Obama Care replacement. He’s listened. He’s negotiated. He’s encouraged. He’s cajoled. Lather. Rinse. Repeat....
That rests in Mr. McConnell giving his caucus a drop-dead date to broker a compromise, after which he will proceed to bring up the House bill. And any Republican who votes against moving forward, “a motion to proceed,” will forever be known as the Republican who saved ObamaCare. The Republican who voted to throw billions more taxpayer dollars at failing entitlement programs and collapsing insurance markets. The Republican who abandoned struggling American families. The Republican who voted against a tax cut and spending reductions. The Republican who made Chuck Schumer’s year.
And that’s only a short list of the real-world accountability. That vote might also provide home-state voters a new, eye-opening means to account for the character of their senators. Few things drive conservative voters battier than phony politicians, those who say one thing and do another to avoid hard choices.
Nearly every Senate Republican is on record having voted to repeal ObamaCare—back when they knew that President Obama’s veto made the vote consequence-free. And to be crystal clear, any senator who now votes against simply proceeding to debate is doing so for just one reason: To again avoid consequences, to again avoid accountability....
Maybe, finally under the public glare, Republicans will get their act together."
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solohawks
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RE: WSJ-force the Senators to vote!
I agree. Quit the theatrics. Vote how you're going to vote and live with the consequences. Same with the Filibuster. Make them filibuster and let the public determine the worthiness of the cause.
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07-21-2017 01:27 PM |
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MplsBison
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RE: WSJ-force the Senators to vote!
McConnell has threated to hold a vote to proceed before ... and failed to do so every time.
Even if he does, when three or more Senate Republicans vote against moving to proceed:
- they can tell their constituents that they were only voting to block debate, not to block the bill, that's not a lie it's fact
- they can tell their constituents that they weren't the deciding vote, it was another senator, that's not a lie it's a fact
You can pretend that you can pin this down on someone or someones, but the fact is that the no voters are a cloud. You can't shoot a cloud.
Ha ha, neener neener!
(This post was last modified: 07-21-2017 01:52 PM by MplsBison.)
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