OUT OF GAS. Obamacare Repeal Is Close. So Why Aren't Conservative Groups More Galvanized?

[DonViejo]

OUT OF GAS

Obamacare Repeal Is Close. So Why Aren’t Conservative Groups More Galvanized?

They fought the law for nearly a decade. Now that they’re close to a win, they’re losing the PR battle.

GIDEON RESNICK
SAM STEIN
07.11.17 1:00 AM ET

Eight years after they organized en masse to kill Obamacare before it became law and helped Republicans take over Congress in the process, conservative activists are having trouble galvanizing around the GOP’s best and perhaps last chance to do away with it.

Outside groups on the right have been outmatched in energy and enthusiasm by liberal groups at a critical legislative juncture. And the mounting worry among both the conservative groups and Republican lawmakers is that the debate over the future of health care in America may soon be irreparably painted in unfavorable terms, if it hasn’t been already.

“I certainly think, at the present, the most visible activism is happening within the left,” said Noah Wall, grassroots director for the conservative group FreedomWorks. “It is very simple. The left has a simple position, a clearly defined position, that they don’t want to make any changes or as few as possible to President Obama’s health care legacy. Our position is a lot more nuanced.”

That nuance has already manifested itself on Capitol Hill. Senate Republicans have stalled in their attempts to pass a health care overhaul and have been loath to hold public meetings to discuss the matter. Those who have were deluged with protests over their party’s legislation.

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[beachbum bob]

1. There is no winning this battle for repeal...America is not for it.

As senate republicans are finding out.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The Repeal is indicative of what democracy and representation have become.

Ideally, the elected representatives would vote according to the majority will of their constituents. THEIR constituents. Their CONSTITUENTS. Not the how the Party wants them to vote. Not how their donors want them to vote. THEIR CONSTITUENTS.

From the reports from around the country, it is quite clear how a majority of the constituents in the majority of the jurisdictions want their representatives to vote, and that's NOT to repeal the Affordable Care Act, at least to keep Medicaid in place.

If Mitch McConnell succeeds in getting the ACA repealed with just one vote, and that vote coming from the Vice President who will break the tie vote in favor of the repeal, this vote will demonstrate once and for all that both Houses of Congress no longer serve The People. We are fully in the clutches of an oligarchy.

Up until now, there has been debate. After this vote, there will no question.