GOP repeal foes face blowback

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




Angry conservatives promise primary challenges.

By ALEX ISENSTADT and GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI 07/19/2017 05:12 AM EDT Updated 07/19/2017 03:23 PM EDT

The anger commenced not long after Tuesday’s collapse of the Senate GOP bill to replace Obamacare. The Senate Conservatives Fund promised to “identify, recruit, and fund conservative challengers” to GOP lawmakers who vote against a clean repeal.

It’s no empty threat in a Republican Party that’s seen a handful of incumbents defeated — or nearly defeated — in primaries in recent years.

Senior GOP officials spent much of Tuesday surveying the anger and frustration within their own party and taking calls from bitterly disappointed contributors, some of whom threatened to turn off the cash spigot. Senators who refused to support the bill, the party officials predicted, would see their fundraising take an immediate hit.

Texas businessman Doug Deason, a backer of President Donald Trump, said he and other major GOP donors were warming to the idea of funding primary challenges to senators who had opposed the health care bill. There was growing frustration over the failure to advance the president’s agenda, said Deason, the son of billionaire Darwin Deason. In a text message referring to three senators — Susan Collins, Jeff Flake and Shelley Moore Capito — Deason ripped “the spineless Republican members from Maine, Arizona and West Virginia who seem to believe that Obamacare is actually succeeding.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/19/gop-repeal-foes-face-blowback-after-healthcare-losses-240700

[Cary]

1. So much entitlement

[emulatorloo]

5. Angry Rich Texas manchild thinks he has a right to mess around in states he doesn't live in

(I grew up in Texas only pointing out he lives in Texas, not Maine, Arizona or West Virginia)

[WhiteTara]

2. Put those seats in play

Good job

[emulatorloo]

4. I can see a lot of the "yes" Senator's seats coming into play, given how unpopular TrumpCare is

[WhiteTara]

6. Me too. but here they are helping out.

These people are well seated in their states, so they can only hurt themselves.

[emulatorloo]

7. Yeah exactly.

[quakerboy]

14. It never came to an actual vote

Between that and it not passing, so the negatives not getting to be proven in real life, they will back off of all the specifics and fall back on general dislike of obamacare among their constituents. Most will wriggle out from taking any personal responsibility.

[emulatorloo]

3. Only 12% of Americans support TrumpCare. I expect Collins and Capito's constituents will see thru

Your outsider money attempt to fuck them over.

[Stuart G]

8. Just as important...voting for Obamacare could help in a primary.

A whole lot of republicans benefit from ACA..and most of us know it. Voting for may actually help when someone is in a primary..even a republican primary. The idea of saving a persons total belongings, his/her home, savings, etc. may be more important in a primary...with real voters..than idea about keeping the government out of a particular field. ............even a republican primary..............

The rich assholes who come in from outside with money will find it would be more wise to throw it into the ocean...

[Honeycombe8]

9. They're framing it falsely. No surprise there. Those "spineless" Repubs have a different issue...

with repeal and with replace. Collins said her big problem with repeal & no replace is that there have been no hearings, no debates, on HOW this would affect the citizens. She needs to know what effect it will have on the people in her state. That's a reasonable position.

But this threat may work. Won't work w/Collins, I think, because she is so popular and rumored may run for Governor, nor Senate, next time.

The fact that Heller is not saying he'll vote no may mean he's caving under immense pressure.

[rpannier]

10. Spineless?

Judging by the whining and crying and threats from the soulless il douchebag supporters -- and everyone knew it would come, it is anything but spineless

Unless you consider listening to their constituents instead of a bunch of billionaire jackasses to be spineless

[PatrickforO]

11. You know what? The people who are about to be 'primaried' are Republicans.

The people who primary them, funded by freaks like Deason, are NOT Republicans. They are radical libertarians. They don't care if any of us live or die; their issue is they don't want to pay taxes for ANYTHING but national 'defense.' They don't want 'job killin' regulashuns.' They don't want democracy, and would much rather groups like AARP, ACLU, and others be regulated and legislated out of existence so that the American people enjoy NO collective input into the democratic process. They want voter suppression and privatization.

Basically a return to unrestrained, unregulated capitalism.

If you want to know what a shit-show THAT will be, read Jack London's People of the Abyss, or any book by Dickens.

A good book now, about what a total treasonous dirt-bag Charles Koch actually IS: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America.

It is a very good book, well researched, and no, you won't need a tinfoil hat - this is truth gleaned from source documents.

These people are fucking TRAITORS that want to tear down everything this nation stands for. So fuck 'em. Let 'em primary each other, and let's talk coherently and forcefully about kitchen table issues:

Fear of layoff.
Making ends meet.
Fear of losing healthcare. (remember, Medicare for all Americans polls far better than 'single payer,' so use that verbiage)
High cost of college for kids
A K-12 system we can be proud of
Good roads
Clean water
Clean air

Do this and you'll get the independent vote, and we'll begin winning elections.

[jmbar2]

12. Second that recommendation: "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Pl

I'm reading this right now too, and highly recommend. Provides deep look into what the Rethugs are doing, and why they are doing it. They are not libertarians. They are Totalitarian Capitalists and will destroy the planet, and our lives if we don't figure out how to get them out of the government.

We need to be thinking long-term how to save democracy from them.

[keithbvadu2]

13. New repub campaign theme... I'm an incumbent, internal outsider, against the GOP leadership and Pre

New repub campaign theme... I'm an incumbent, internal outsider, against the GOP leadership and President.

It just gets soooooooooooooo confusing.

[Beartracks]

16. LOL @ "internal outsider"

[Beartracks]

15. The spineless accusation is brainless. /t