Senate Republicans Plan to Repeal Obamacare With 51 Votes

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

The Majority Leader is hoping to lay the groundwork for a Republican president to kill the Affordable Care Act.


Jul 28, 2015 2:15 PM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell championed a renewed push to bypass a filibuster and repeal Obamacare with 51 votes on Tuesday, he announced in a joint statement with Utah Senator Mike Lee, one of the most conservative Republicans in the chamber.

"Republicans are united in working to repeal the broken promises of Obamacare," McConnell said in the statement, adding that the Senate will "continue our effort to use reconciliation ... to fulfill the promise we made to our constituents."

Lee, who has often been at odds with McConnell, has long advocated using Senate procedures to try and kill the president's health care law. "A Senate vote to repeal Obamacare on a simple majority basis through reconciliation is the best way to pursue that goal," Lee said in the statement. "The Majority Leader and I are committed to using reconciliation to repeal Obamacare in the 114th Congress."

The gambit is unlikely to succeed due to procedural roadblocks in the Senate, and even if Congress were to pass a full repeal bill President Barack Obama is guaranteed to veto it. But the issue is a flashpoint in the Republican presidential race, where candidates are facing questions about how far they'd go to repeal the health care law.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-28/senate-republicans-plan-to-repeal-obamacare-with-51-votes

[forest444]

1. And Harry Reid refused to end the filibuster for fear McCocaine would pay him back in kind.

Sucker.

[geek tragedy]

4. this isn't ending the filibuster, it's using reconciliation procedures for budget bills nt

[forest444]

19. It's called an evasion technique.

While you're playing checkers, they're playing chess. Don't get so caught up in semantics.

[Adrahil]

30. And it's BS.

An amendment is supposed to only be applicable under reconciliation if it is germane to the underlying bill. How is the ACA germane to the freakin' HIGHWAY bill? This is a clear abuse of process, IMO.

But Obama will veto it, and vetos cannot be overridden using reconciliation.

I do hope the "i'll never vote for Hillary" crowd is watching, though.

[Angry Dragon]

2. I am glad they are finally getting down to work

have a horse?? the republicans will gladly beat it to death for you

[asjr]

3. The Republicans are determined to make the rest of us as dumb as they are!

[Va Lefty]

21. Here we go again

[kimbutgar]

33. Great gif!

[geek tragedy]

5. lol, this is all they plan to pass for this congress?

more tilting at the Obamacare windmill rather than cutting taxes for rich people, etc.

[Old Union Guy]

6. And if it's repealed? What then?

Not that I expect that to happen, but what is their game plan?

Making it like it was before isn't even possible.

[Gothmog]

7. McConnell is cooperating with the crazy factions in the Senate

[SoapBox]

8. Man...Pukes and Baggers want to kill Americans SO bad.

These fuckers just won't quit.

We've got to get these assholes out of office.

[hibbing]

15. totally

The hard on they have to hurt poor and working class people is of extra viagra proportions.


Peace

[ruffburr]

9. Fine-

Go right on ahead , If they managed to pull this off, I believe that would be the end of what's left of the Republicans and the beginnings of Medicare for all, So morons go right on ahead till the wheels fall off the clown bus.(a-holes)

[Merlot]

32. You may have a point, but in the mean time people will die

People currently in the middle of treatments, people with pre-existing conditions. People who don't know they're sick. They'll die without medical attention.

The dems need to point this out, loudly.

[Thor_MN]

10. Does Turtle have 51 senators that are politically suicidal?

[ananda]

11. Well, for so many of the senators, the job is just an avenue..

.. for further career advancement.

So if they want that cushy job later, they will vote as required.

[Vinca]

12. They've lost the black vote, the hispanic vote, the female vote, the gay vote and now . . .

they want to lose the vote of millions of people who won't be able to see a doctor if "Obamacare" goes away? Who the heck advises these people?

[Historic NY]

16. They don't care.

If they win the White house they will then be able to rule like they want.

[jalan48]

13. Kabuki government.

[blackspade]

14. Keep it up you fucking idiots.

There are millions of your constituents that you will be killing.
Their families will remember....

[packman]

17. I hope that it is

full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. Wish they would pick their noses away from the public's eye.

[Gregorian]

18. They'll do anything to promote the unhappiness of Americans; Keep them subservient.

Go Bernie!

It's time to pull the rug out from under these capitalist pigs.

[onehandle]

20. Hillary will sweep in a Senate Democratic majority in 2016.

Putting the turtle right back where he belongs.

And if not, she will veto this crapola as President.

[Stuckinthebush]

22. President Clinton will make GOP heads explode

With a Vice President Sanders and Democratic Senate she will be a helluva powerhouse!

[peacebird]

23. President Sanders will make GOP heads explode

With VicePresident of his choosing and a Democratic Senate he will be one helluva powerhouse!

[Stuckinthebush]

25. I'm sure that would as well

Sure.

[maxsolomon]

24. this is how it was passed - reconciliation

otherwise the GOP would have filibustered it.

the one problem: Obama's veto.

[d_legendary1]

27. Exactly! Good Luck getting Obama to sign off on it.

And if they're hoping for a Republican President they won't get one.

[phleshdef]

26. I thought you can't use reconciliation if it raises the deficit?

[geretogo]

28. The Rethuglican pigs are willing to throw millions of people off health insurance and some early

death as the pigs carry their Bible around and say " I am pro life " the fetus must be saved .

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Repeal. Veto. Veto sustained.

Kabuki theater at its finest.

What a f*cking waste of time.

[restorefreedom]

31. all i can really say it