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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust saw this great article on Facebook:
I thought it explained what happened very well.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/28/16055132/murkowski-collins-mccain
Here's an excerpt:
Murkowski and Collins were the only Republicans to vote against a motion to proceed with the health care bill debate. Both women cast votes against the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which could have led to 22 million more uninsured Americans. They both also voted against the Obamacare Reconciliation Act repeal and delay which could have led to 32 million more uninsured Americans.
Both senators said they could not support bills that would leave millions of people without health insurance. When skinny repeal seemingly the last shot for the GOP came down, they stood their ground and voted no again.
Through all of this, the backlash against these two women senators was severe. Two House Republicans threatened them with violence...
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)those two women showed a lot more courage and resolve on this issue than McCain did.
Girard442
(6,083 posts)...that 49-51 is a loss, but 49-49 is a win?
thbobby
(1,474 posts)Hard to admire any repug. Easy to respect and admire women that stand up to bullying and chauvinsim for their beliefs. I respect Murkowski and Collins a great deal. I also disagree with them a lot of the time. That is what democracy embraces. The GOP has become a mafia like organization and not a political organization. Murkowski, Collins, and even McCain put themselves above the GOP Cosa nostra.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)For once, John McCain did the right thing.
Also contributing to their latest defeat was the ineptitude of the Republican leadership. Things could have been a lot worse. Just imagine what would happen if the incompetent president and the incompetent Senate majority leader were replaced by more effective right-wing politicians.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,682 posts)It seems to me that the Republicans don't know how to legislate.
They only know how to block, and lie, and try to stop any real progress from being made.
Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)... of republican senators and reps are incompetent. The ran against Obama and were elected to oppose him. That's all they did for 6 years. They don't know how to do anything else. Most of them STILL blame Obama for every failure they muster.
Easy to get elected and re elected when all you have to say is I'll oppose Obama, and then conveniently blame Obama for everything.
Now they will have to run on "what have you done lately". I think they will find the going a little tougher.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,682 posts)than simply oppose.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)skinny repeal up for Trump to sign, without ever going into conference with the Senate to hash out a compromise bill.
HAB911
(8,911 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Sort of like how Hank and Tommie Aaron share the major league record for home runs by brothers. Hank hit 755 home runs, Tommie had 13.
But I will credit Sen. McCain with faint praise: By forcing the so-called "skinny repeal" bill to a vote of the full Senate and failing, it cut Majority Leader McConnell off at the knees, and might very well end this nonsense at least for this legislative session.