Don't buy the emerging storyline that McConnell is expecting aTrumpcare fail

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The news since late last week on the Senate and Trumpcare is that it's in trouble, that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is having issues getting the 50 votes he needs as he makes concessions to so-called moderates that could end up losing the conservatives. We headed into the weekend with a story from Politico saying just that. A "Republican senator granted anonymity to discuss sensitive internal conference matters" told Politico that both Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) were "no" votes.

Worry is increasing among conservatives inside and outside the Capitol that the bill is “tipping toward the moderates," said a Republican working on the repeal effort. And after weeks of sparring, the tug-of-war between conservatives and more centrist Republicans is finally reaching its climax.

CNN follows up Monday morning with a story about how McConnell could be pushing ahead with the bill, knowing that it could fail.

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There are likely a couple of things at work here: conservatives are just staking out their position to remind McConnell he needs them, too and/or McConnell is putting the stories out there to pressure the moderates. The supposed concessions he's making to them—which would still destroy health care for millions—could be a way of coopting them into supporting the eventual bill. Throughout it all, he will make sure Republicans are aware of one thing, that repealing Obamacare as been the one thing they've been promising to give their base for the past seven years.

McConnell very rarely goes into a big legislative fight like this without knowing what the outcome will be and he has put this bill into motion, setting the stage for a vote by the end of the month. He's going to be banking on the Republican base being motivated for the midterm elections, gambling that the millions he's taking health care away from won't show up. It's a gamble that's been working for him since 2010.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/12/1671018/-Don-t-buy-the-emerging-storyline-that-McConnell-is-expecting-a-Trumpcare-fail

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. They will get it done, they dont fear the constituents because

they know we will all be WAY too busy trying not to die to bother voting.

This is a wet dream of the right, kill the poor and destroy Obama legacy.

Historians will of course call them murderers, but they are too dumb to care, they dont believe there will be a future anyway, you know, Jeebus is coming back.

THEY are TAKING your healthcare so THEY CAN kill you. period

[bdamomma]

2. Not only "Kill the poor"

it's all about control of the masses, that is why people power is what we need.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. People need to be FUCKING MAD and RIGHT NOW

thus the reason I constantly talk the way I do.

[bdamomma]

4. The healthcare issue

is the catalyst that will ignite the fire.

There should have been a massive march planned again for July 4th to get our nation back.

[Alice11111]

5. The point is to make the masses poor, sick & so weak

economically that they will be consumed w just trying to survive. There will be very little opportunity to get ahead. The Repubs can have the rich class they want and people can work for them for less than a living wage.