There are only 5 GOP women Senators. THREE of them just killed repeal-only.

[pnwmom]

These 3 women are braver than all the GOP men.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/342534-gops-repeal-only-plan-quickly-collapses-in-senate

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says she will not support moving forward with a plan to repeal ObamaCare with a delayed replacement, effectively killing the latest legislative gambit from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Murkowski, who had balked at the last version of the ObamaCare bill, said she is a no on the motion to proceed to a repeal-only plan. She is the third Republican senator to take that position.

"No. I said back in January that if we're going to do a repeal there has to be a replacement. There's enough chaos and uncertainty already," she told reporters Tuesday.

With Murkowski's defection, GOP leaders do not have the votes to move forward to an ObamaCare repeal bill that passed the Senate in 2015, but was vetoed by then-President Obama. Earlier Tuesday, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) also said they will not support moving to the repeal-only bill. Republicans can only afford two defections if Vice President Pence breaks a tie.

[Stuart G]

1. k and r.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. electing women makes a difference and changes the focus of debates

even GOP women have more empathy for health care issues than their male counterparts

[YCHDT]

10. +1

[ehrnst]

11. +1000. (nt)

[dbackjon]

12. Yup!

[Grins]

17. Yes it does. My comment to some of my friends on that...

I wonder if all those Senators locked away in some room in the Capitol drafting that horrid document had been all WOMEN instead of all men.
Would the provisions canceling funding for breast and cervical cancer screening by Planned Parenthood still have been included?
Would they have gutted Medicaid that pays for about half of ALL births?
Would they, in any way, limit the access and availability to birth control while allowing coverage for Viagra?
Would they have provisions that said that only women have to pay for premiums for coverage of pregnancies while men are exempt because they have a "Y" chromosome and, "can't get pregnant"?
Would they have allowed premiums for women to increase a $1,000 a month - on top of their premiums and other health care costs - for an additional rider that covers maternity care and pregnancy?
Would they get into the weeds and prohibit federal tax subsidies from paying for individual market insurance plans because they just happen to cover abortion?
Would they write provisions requiring new mothers to return to work 60-days after giving birth or risk losing their Medicaid coverage all together?

I'm thinking - No!

[Honeycombe8]

19. Maybe McConnell should've had some WOMEN on his all-white, all-male secret meeting committee.nt

[Johonny]

20. +1

[madaboutharry]

3. One of the GOP women Senators is Joni K. Ernst.

Regardless of a youth spent castrating pigs, Sen. Ernst has proven herself to be an ineffective Koch brother's politician lacking all ability to formulate an original thought. When the national spotlight was on her, Ernst squandered the opportunity to strike out and become a national figure. She proved to be a mediocre follower. She continues to fail the people of Iowa.

[bettyellen]

5. She sounds almost as awful as the dozens of male GOP senators!

[NCjack]

15. Iowa needs more pig castrators -- she should return to the farm. nt

[C Moon]

16. +1

[Frustratedlady]

4. That is one main reason why Republicans hate women...they can't control them.

They can't be bought or shamed into doing as commanded like many of the wives. I'm sure that really irritates them, which brings a big smile to my face every time it happens.

[Initech]

6. Excellent!

We must resist the Koch traitors and their dangerous agenda!

[Ilsa]

7. The republicans will work extra hard

to keep them at home, barefoot, next time their seats are up

[oasis]

8. No loyalty owed to Mitch or Cheetolini.

[DFW]

9. The Republicans has no defections here. Zero. Not one.

None of them switched parties. These were not defections, but one of two things equally difficult to deal with--either a conscience, or a willingness to put the interests of the people of their state before the interests of Big Insurance and/or their Party leadership. As seen with Joni Ernst, not all Republican women "suffer" from either of these afflictions.

[DesertRat]

13. K&R

[Ligyron]

14. We need more women in government.

There'd be less war for a start.

[Still In Wisconsin]

18. And once again TRUMP: