Sunday, March 26, 2017
Paul Ryan could have passed repeal easily, but deliberately crafted a bill that wouldn't pass
The 206 Republicans in the current House of Representatives named below voted for H.R. 3762 in October 2015, repealing Obamacare with the additional votes of 33 Republicans no longer there (Mulvaney, Pompeo, Price and Zinke resigned in 2017 to serve in Trump's administration--all voted for repeal in 2015). The bill passed the House 240-189-5.
More importantly the repeal bill passed the Senate as well, winding up on Obama's desk, where Obama promptly vetoed it.
Now we're supposed to believe Paul Ryan couldn't whip this vote again, and couldn't require repeal votes from the 28 freshmen just elected in 2016. All he needed was 216 votes. He had 206 in his pocket, 206 Republicans he could publicly and effectively intimidate if he needed to, and needed only 10 more from the freshman class.
How hard was that?
We can only conclude Paul Ryan and leadership deliberately didn't bring up that repeal bill again for a vote because they knew it would pass. They obviously didn't want repeal to pass. They crafted a different bill they knew the Republican caucus would reject.
Now it is Paul Ryan who must be rejected.
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Flashback January 1, 2013, 2257 hours: 151 House Republicans who voted against making the Bush tax cuts permanent
The roll call vote is here.
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Flashback January 1, 2013, 0159 hours: Senate Republicans who voted against making the Bush tax cuts permanent
From the roll call vote (89-8-3) here:
Grassley of Iowa, Lee of Utah, Paul of Kentucky, Rubio of Florida, Shelby of Alabama.
Demented Jim of South Carolina didn't vote, and neither did Mark Kirk of Illinois (stroke victim).
Democrats still controlled the Senate at the time, the close of the 112th Congress, 53-47. Their caucus power increased by 2 in the 113th Congress.
John Boehner must be laughing his ass off this morning
John Boehner got Obama to sign the Bush tax cuts, but Paul Ryan can't even get a bill on Trump's desk.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Real GDP forecast for 1Q2017 from the Atlanta Fed: 1.0%
Watch how fast that great Obama economy becomes Trump's awful economy.
Friday, March 24, 2017
HR 3762 should have been on Trump's desk on January 20th, but Republicans were too full of themselves for that
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We'd be long into tax reform by now.
Day One repeal of Obamacare my sweet German-American ass.
Mark Levin is a jerk . . .
P.O.S. is Mark Levin.
We don't need no stinkin' new bill: Obamacare repeal H.R. 3762 passed the Senate on Dec. 3, 2015 52-47
The roll call vote is here.
Senate Republicans passed the repeal of Obamacare despite two defections, from liberal Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Kirk of Illinois.
Pass H.R. 3762 again and dare Trump to veto it.
House Freedom Caucus' Meadows was one of just 7 Republicans to vote against the 2015 Obamacare repeal
Meadow's leadership against the current repeal bill, which is in fact a crummier bill, obscures his isolation previously.
The roll call vote is here. Buck, Dold, Hanna, Jones, Meadows, Salmon, and Walker voted No. The majority of the Freedom Caucus voted for the bill, including leaders like Justin Amash and Jim Jordan.
Unlike Meadows, Americans for Tax Reform here also supported the bill at the time, as did the broader Republican Caucus in the House (it passed 240-189). ATR acknowledged the difficulty of repealing Obamacare's policy provisions without 60 votes in the Senate, which remains the problem now in 2017.
Jim Jordan is right. Repass H.R. 3762 and send it to Trump.
From ATR:
H.R. 3762 repeals most of the heart of Obamacare. The individual and employer mandates and their attendant tax penalties are gone. The medical device tax is repealed. The “Cadillac plan” excise tax is prevented from coming into effect (more on that later).
On the spending side, H.R. 3762 repeals some unaccountable Obamacare slush funds, shutters IPAB (the Medicare rationing board that Sarah Palin called a “death panel”), and ends Obamacare auto-enrollment. Importantly, it also defunds Planned Parenthood for the fiscal year.
At a markup for the bill, liberal Congressmen went apoplectic at the effect H.R. 3762 would have on Obamacare. Top House Ways and Means Democrat Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) said that the bill ”effectively guts [Obamacare].” Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) said, “this bill really is pulling the legs from under [Obamacare]. It is a deliberate, systematic attempt, not just to repeal, but to destroy [Obamacare].” ...
When the Republicans took the Senate in the 2014 elections, there was a lot of talk about moving bills from Capitol Hill to the President’s desk to force showdowns with the White House. That hasn’t happened, largely because Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has bottled up the Senate in 60 vote purgatory.
The one area he cannot do that is on a privileged budget reconciliation bill like H.R. 3762.
The Wall Street Journal lies: No alternative to AHCA could pass the House and Senate
Here:
No one has offered a better policy alternative to the American Health Care Act that could pass the House and Senate.
Lies! The 2015 repeal bill already passed both the House and the Senate and Obama vetoed it in early 2016.
Republicans knew Obama would veto it, so nothing was really at stake for them at the time.
But now that there is, they won't send that bill to Trump, either because they're afraid Trump might sign it, or because they're afraid he'll veto it too. Instead they've crafted a bill they know can't pass the Congress.
What a contemptible lot are the Republicans, the Democrats, both presidents Obama and Trump, and The Wall Street Journal.
And your mother wears Army boots.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
If the Republicans had any balls they'd send the 2015 repeal bill which Obama vetoed to Trump and make him veto it
Jim Jordan of Ohio supports this.
Trump turns tables on Republican Congress, demands vote on healthcare bill that won't pass
Scorched earth politics, making the Republicans humiliate themselves.
In other words, "You're fired!"
From the story here:
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, a member of the whip team, said he believed Trump's ultimatum is "credible" and predicted the bill's passage during Friday's vote.
Mickey Kaus had the House Freedom Caucus figured out in 2015: Preeners, and open-borders lunatics just like Paul Ryan
Aka libertarians. You know, that motley crue 100 of which in the same room can never all agree about any one thing of importance.
Here.
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