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Four online articles help to clarify the health care dialogue. The obstacles are: to pass tax reform, the GOP has to pass a budget, and to pass a budget, they will have to either accept ACA/obamcare as it is now or repeal or modify the program, and that does not look like any of those alternatives are going to get a majority of the Senate's votes.
The Stumbling, Bumbling Death of the Republican Repeal Dream
"This week, the Senate gave the public a fresh and powerful reason to view Twain as correct in his assessment . . . . Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, for example, wrote multiple op-eds for her hometown papers decrying what ObamaCare had done to her state, and vowing to repeal it, in the run-up to her 2016 re-election. In one she wrote that "the Affordable Care Act has unfortunately become one of the most ironically named pieces of legislation for Alaska in history."
It Was Trump's Fault John Podhoretz opines that "Exactly two years ago yesterday, I published a blog post on this site called Trump: The Case for Despairing—About America. I wrote: “The issue with Trump is that his approach can only be called ‘the politics of unseriousness.’ He engages with no issue, merely offers a hostile and pithy soundbite bromide about it. He yammers. He describes how wonderful things will be when he acts against something or other without explaining how he will act, what he will do, or how it will work. Reader, we married him. He is our president. And his unseriousness just played a key role in the disastrous fate of the Republican effort to save the country from ObamaCare.”
House Republicans Frustrated by Senate Failure to Act They awoke Friday morning to the news that their Senate counterparts had failed.
“A lot of us here in the House were gearing up again to do the hard work and try to make the mechanics and the dollars and the demographics work, and we wake up the next morning and the rug has been pulled out again by the Senate,” said Rep. David Schweikert.
“I think the Senate needs to grow up and understand that they’re part of the governing majority too,” he added.
It was a frustrating position for House Republicans. They had struggled for months to narrowly pass Obamacare repeal legislation, and eventually succeeded under the expectation that the Senate would improve, and then pass, their own measure. The failure, seven months into the Congress and on the eve of the House departing for the annual August recess, was a boiling point for many lawmakers, who consider their agenda and campaign promises to be in peril, and who question whether failures in the upper chamber will cost them politically.
The Stumbling, Bumbling Death of the Republican Repeal Dream
- There is a big difference between making promises as the minority party and governing as the majority party.
- Success in politics is never guaranteed. And promises made are rarely promises kept.
"This week, the Senate gave the public a fresh and powerful reason to view Twain as correct in his assessment . . . . Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, for example, wrote multiple op-eds for her hometown papers decrying what ObamaCare had done to her state, and vowing to repeal it, in the run-up to her 2016 re-election. In one she wrote that "the Affordable Care Act has unfortunately become one of the most ironically named pieces of legislation for Alaska in history."
It Was Trump's Fault John Podhoretz opines that "Exactly two years ago yesterday, I published a blog post on this site called Trump: The Case for Despairing—About America. I wrote: “The issue with Trump is that his approach can only be called ‘the politics of unseriousness.’ He engages with no issue, merely offers a hostile and pithy soundbite bromide about it. He yammers. He describes how wonderful things will be when he acts against something or other without explaining how he will act, what he will do, or how it will work. Reader, we married him. He is our president. And his unseriousness just played a key role in the disastrous fate of the Republican effort to save the country from ObamaCare.”
House Republicans Frustrated by Senate Failure to Act They awoke Friday morning to the news that their Senate counterparts had failed.
“A lot of us here in the House were gearing up again to do the hard work and try to make the mechanics and the dollars and the demographics work, and we wake up the next morning and the rug has been pulled out again by the Senate,” said Rep. David Schweikert.
“I think the Senate needs to grow up and understand that they’re part of the governing majority too,” he added.
It was a frustrating position for House Republicans. They had struggled for months to narrowly pass Obamacare repeal legislation, and eventually succeeded under the expectation that the Senate would improve, and then pass, their own measure. The failure, seven months into the Congress and on the eve of the House departing for the annual August recess, was a boiling point for many lawmakers, who consider their agenda and campaign promises to be in peril, and who question whether failures in the upper chamber will cost them politically.