The bill barely passed in the House, by 1 vote. Break out the popcorn to watch it in the Senate.
The bill barely passed in the House, by 1 vote. Break out the popcorn to watch it in the Senate.
eric a blair wrote:
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/860197229059092480
Tax reform is on-deck little babies!
eric a blair wrote:
https://twitter.com/peterdaou/status/860197229059092480
Republicans should be feeling great right now, specially deep in their gut. A bill which no one knows much about has been snuck through.
Calling it right now, Trump will spend all his political capital (whatever is left of it) on trying to pass ANY replacement bill. It's obvious he will try again if this one too fails. It's going to be a $hit show in those red states, GOPers trying to defend this garbage while their Republican voters lose their access to healthcare. Kevin McCarthy just tried to explain that no one is getting anything taken away by admitting they are losing their benefits. Excellent.
I am definitely not a liberal. Sober up, jackhole.
So much winning. I can't take it.
Isn't that like celebrating after getting a good mid-race split?
Or spiking the ball before you reach the end zone?
It ain't over.
Can't wait to see the headlines after the CBO finally scores the bill.
Senate rules prohibit voting on a bill before it is scored.
Fat hurts wrote:
Can't wait to see the headlines after the CBO finally scores the bill.
Senate rules prohibit voting on a bill before it is scored.
the repubs will just say 'eh...the CBO is always wrong'
Fat hurts wrote:
Can't wait to see the headlines after the CBO finally scores the bill.
Senate rules prohibit voting on a bill before it is scored.
Trump is doing a massive victory lap right now. I have never heard a more incoherent speaker before. The spineless Ryan is also speaking and keeping his head right up Trump's orange a$$. He's calling this "the best bill possible".
eric a blair wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:Can't wait to see the headlines after the CBO finally scores the bill.
Senate rules prohibit voting on a bill before it is scored.
the repubs will just say 'eh...the CBO is always wrong'
I can see this becoming an even more disastrous situation once the Senate has a go at the bill. The House is so lazy and complacent that they just wanted to push the most basic thing they could to get it moving. It's not going to fly in the Senate, and the GOP is going to just point fingers again. This time lets hope they publicly shift the blame to Trump.
Substantial tax cuts for the wealthy and a Tony Robbins self-help book up the ass for the poors. Same old sociopathic policies they've been selling for decades. A lot of Democrats seem to be pretty confident that the Senate will serve as some sort of resolute rampart against the craziness. I am not. Good to be young and healthy!
The Gallant Pig Man wrote:
Substantial tax cuts for the wealthy and a Tony Robbins self-help book up the ass for the poors. Same old sociopathic policies they've been selling for decades. A lot of Democrats seem to be pretty confident that the Senate will serve as some sort of resolute rampart against the craziness. I am not. Good to be young and healthy!
I agree. You never know what the senate might do.
But like I said on another thread, Mitch wants no part of this. He's probably looking for ways he can make it die. In the senate, there is more potential political damage in passing something than in killing something.
I don't know HOW Mitch might make it die though. There is a lot of pressure to get something passed.
TroLLminator wrote:
The bill barely passed in the House, by 1 vote. Break out the popcorn to watch it in the Senate.
To set the record straight, it was by 4 votes. When the House passed the ACA under Obama, it was by 7 votes. Not much of a difference.
They needed 216 votes and got 217. That's what is meant by getting it by one vote.
217-213 was the tally. On party lines except for the 20 Republicans against it.
If two yeas voted nay then 215-215 would not pass.
TroLLcorrector wrote:
TroLLminator wrote:The bill barely passed in the House, by 1 vote. Break out the popcorn to watch it in the Senate.
To set the record straight, it was by 4 votes. When the House passed the ACA under Obama, it was by 7 votes. Not much of a difference.
To set the record extra-straight, it was by 2 votes, depending on how you count.
The vote was 217 to 213. If two of the "yes" votes changed to "no" then it would be 215-215. Ties in the house are defeated.
But it all depends on whether "yes" changes to "no" or "yes" changes to "not voting".
Cite your source please. Both were passed by the House with 1 vote
TroLLcorrector wrote:
TroLLminator wrote:The bill barely passed in the House, by 1 vote. Break out the popcorn to watch it in the Senate.
To set the record straight, it was by 4 votes. When the House passed the ACA under Obama, it was by 7 votes. Not much of a difference.
This is so great. Trump is going back to Manhattan for the first time now. He couldn't go back without some victory, because he would have to lie low. Now he, Ryan and Pence are going to keep telling the public to just trust them with this bill. I hope all Trump voters feel great. Maybe it'll take this bill passing and them getting murdered even more in premiums and many losing their coverage, so they start to see just how duped they've been.
TroLLminator wrote:
He couldn't go back without some victory, because he would have to lie low.
He lies low.
He lies high.
Nothing stops him from lying.
L L wrote:
TroLLminator wrote:He couldn't go back without some victory, because he would have to lie low.
He lies low.
He lies high.
Nothing stops him from lying.
Paul Ryan in 2009:
"We want to see health-care reform done, but we want to do it right," he said. "And if you rush this thing through before anybody even knows what it is, that isn't good democracy. That's not doing our work for our constituents. What's wrong with going home for August, having town hall meetings, listening to our constituents, and then coming back in September and doing this right?" Watson offered a counterargument, but Ryan doubled down: "You're right, we could work this thing through, but we shouldn't rush this thing through just to rush it through for some artificial deadline. Let's get this thing done right."
http://theweek.com/speedreads/696569/watch-paul-ryan-2009-dont-think-should-pass-bills-that-havent-read-that-dont-know-what-cost