Paul: GOPers 'Have No Earthly Idea' Of Repeal Bill They'll Vote On Tomorrow

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By ESME CRIBB Published JULY 24, 2017 4:57 PM

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday said Republican senators have no idea what Obamacare repeal bill they’ll be voting on Tuesday at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) request.

“Senator, what is up for a vote tomorrow? Could you update me?” Fox News’ Neil Cavuto asked.

“I thought you were going to tell me,” Paul replied. “I thought I was coming on air for you to tell me.”

Paul said Republican senators are completely in the dark about what measure they’ll cast on-record votes for or against on Tuesday. “We have no earthly idea what we will be voting on tomorrow other than that it’ll be moving to the House bill, but everybody knows it’s not really going to be the House bill,” Paul said.

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[tanyev]

1. Oh, c'mon, it's only health care. It's not like you're naming a post office.

[Roy Rolling]

2. All they need to know

It is against Obama, it will please those supporters who only want to poke a stick in the eye of the other side.

[Cosmocat]

3. While simultaneously driving that stick up the rectums

of their owns supporters ...

[lunasun]

4. Who cares about thier supporters ,think of all the people who did not vote for them or Ttump

that will be victims of this slash and burn bill

[forgotmylogin]

18. And then they can get back to the business of helping Americans...

...as Paul Ryan says.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. Exactly!

[Still In Wisconsin]

5. I hate it when I agree with Rand Paul...

even in some little tiny way.

[Kablooie]

6. That's a nice strategy. Order everyone to vote for it but keep it secret so no one can question it.

That was his first strategy too, by writing the whole thing in secret.

It's like they are con artists trying to get the marks to play along.

[jpak]

7. Cluster Fuck

yup

[WePurrsevere]

8. If you're not insisting on time to READ a bill first & vote for it...

You're an IDIOT and you're ceding your constituents very lives way to cheaply.

What kind of friggin moron signs onto a life changing legal document without READING it first? Apparently some of the 'Wrong Way' Right kind.

[BigmanPigman]

9. They ARE idiots! As well as greedy, hypocritical sociopaths

who sleep safe and sound every night.

Meanwhile I can't sleep due to my own health and financial situations. I called 16 senators today, crying to 4 of their staffers who actually did answer the phones.

[WePurrsevere]

13. I agree with you...

I'm truly sorry this is hurting you so much.

I keep hoping they won't be so cruel, that maybe people will wake up that the GOP is not truly on the side of the 99%, they are a THREAT to everything we hold dear and need and finally that we can vote these jerks far enough out of power that the Democrats can make American even better permanently.

[truthisfreedom]

10. Evil abounds, and it's always repukes.

Always always always.

[thinkingagain]

11. So if they don't know what they are voting for

They could be voting to give their first born to the devil and they don't even care.
Isn't it a rule you never sign off on something if you haven't read it first?

[SergeStorms]

21. They know they're voting.....

against something Obama did, and that's good enough for them. No other information is needed.

[dalton99a]

12. Like a bunch of dumb sheep

[SergeStorms]

22. Republican Senators make......

sheep look like rocket scientists.

[broadcaster90210]

14. And yet 47+ of them will vote "yes".

nt

[Honeycombe8]

15. That's funny. LOL. And then it's not. nt

[LuckyLib]

16. They don't have to know anything about it. It's "winning"! What disgusting cretins they all are.

[ThoughtCriminal]

17. Trust me - it helps super rich people and hurts everybody else. A lot.

What more would a GOP Senator need to know?

[red dog 1]

19. K&R...Thanks for posting

Tomorrow's vote will be interesting, to say the least.

[rlegro]

20. They've circled the wagons ...

Which means they have chosen deliberately not to move forward. Circling the wagons in the old westward migration days was a last, desperate measure that did not often turn out well. This is going to come back to bite them in a big way over the next couple years and behind. Trouble is, it's quite likely to bite 30 million or so innocent American citizens, cripple the health care market and cause a fiscal crisis. So be it! Republican leadership and our back-asswards president would rather "win" than do the right thing. Every time, in fact.