Republicans' dream of repealing Obamacare ends - By Jennifer Rubin

[DonViejo]

We’ve said it before, but the Senate has reached a new low point in a once revered body. (On the bright side, at least Republicans’ hypocritical invocation of Senate traditions and Constitutional niceties need not be tolerated.) To the rescue, however, rode two brave women and a war hero stricken with cancer.

Since the healthcare debate got underway, the Republican-controlled Senate has had a fundamental problem: It had no bill it could pass. We’re not talking about meeting the 60-vote threshold; they had not been able find 50 votes (plus Vice President Mike Pence’s tiebreaker) for any version of repeal and replace. So they hit upon the idea of passing an atrocious bill that would repeal the individual mandate, dumps 15 million people off healthcare insurance and raises premiums 20 percent. Then the kicker, as The Post reported Thursday:

In other words, millions more people wouldn’t have insurance, and it’d be more expensive for everybody else. It’s no wonder, then, that even the Republicans who are voting for this bill don’t want it to become law. Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) called it a “disaster” and a “fraud.” Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said “the only possible problem” with it is that the House might vote for it too. And Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) wants a guarantee that the House won’t turn around and pass it.

Three senators actually held a press conference to say they’d vote for it — but only if they got an ironclad guarantee the House wouldn’t pass it. That’s right: They would only pass something they hate in order to kick the can down the road, with no prospect they can find a bill satisfactory to enough Senate Republicans. Really, gentleman, that’s your idea of responsible governance? Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) smartly characterized the goings on as “weapons grade bonkers.”

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[Phoenix61]

1. But all three of them voted for it

The repubs really can't govern. They have spent the last eight years doing nothing but complain and seem to have completely forgotten how to govern.

[mucifer]

2. They can try again later. I just don't trust that this is over.

[dawnie51]

3. They ll try again.....

but never forget, for a second, the weeks and months of anguish and despair and fear that people were put through, for nothing. All those nights of nausea, contemplating loss of life saving insurance for their family. How do you fix that? What is all that pain worth? Remember who caused it and why.