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The McCain thing is huge, but let's not forget Rand Paul was first. The GOP sure didn't. That's why they tried to bribe and bully him. He made it loud and clear, that would not work.
He's dying - and doesn't want his legacy to be having passed a bill with the word "health" in it that actually kills people.
And I do hope the others hold out.
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Agreed. Stop this dead in it's tracks.
Sept 30 is the deadline, right? Then 60 votes to pass similar legislation, correct?
Eh, I really doubt McCain's vote actually has to do with the bill itself. He basically repeated the same thing he made a big deal over on the first one:
I think if exactly the same bill was presented but Democrats helped write it, he'd happily vote yes. He's just mad that Republicans keep trying to cut Democrats out of the process altogether.Originally Posted by John McCain
Democrats are the best! I will never ever question a Democrat again. I LOVE the Democrats!
you're right. Its called reconciliation. I don't understand the specifics of it, but basically it allows them to pass a "revenue" neutral bill with only a simple majority. It would only be "revenue neutral" until the CBO can process it, which is why this last ditch effort wouldn't even be scored by the CBO before a vote, and it already has 49 Republican senators signed on to it. That really is telling as to how they are trying to do this. They're crooks that are trying to swindle the American people.
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CBO= Congressional Budget Office. btw
Well Trump went out and rallied for that Strange guy, and of course, decided to...Trump. There's no other good word.
On topic, he took the gentlest of digs at McCain, but mostly went after the GOP, calling them out for not repealing and replacing when Obama was president. Called them out for voting 61 times when they knew Obama wouldn't sign it. Incidentally, if the House bill had been voted on -- they yanked it at the last minute -- and also, this new bill gets voted on, the GOP is proportionally working faster than they were under Obama. Plus, Trump appeared to miss the three votes in the Senate and the one in the House.
Trump also said he had a list of 10 GOP Senator "no" votes, and McCain wasn't one of them, so this was unexpected. What? More than half of the people on these forums expected it, and we didn't have a list of anyone. And who are those ten "no" votes? Only one I'd heard of that was a definite "no" was Paul.
Other items of interest:
-- Trump said supporting Strange could be viewed as a mistake, but that he did it to show loyalty.
-- Trump once again bragged about his Electoral College win
-- Trump seemed almost proud of firing Bannon. Yes, Bannon caught that.
-- Trump suggested he might fire Ben Carson. Carson endorsed Moore.
-- Trump said he would back the winner, whoever it was -- that was actually big of him, but I don't think his base cared for it.
-- Trump brought up Clinton, waited till the "lock her up" chant began, then blamed Sessions for it not happening
-- Bannon said 2 days ago Trump was worried about crowd sizes and he was right. In addition to it being a small building and not selling out, Trump said the "fake news" wouldn't show the crowd as CNN was showing the crowd the literal moment he said it.
-- Trump said the NFL should fire people who kneed during the anthem
-- Trump actually took time, at a rally for someone else, to defend Melania's choice to wear heels heading to a flood disaster area.
-- Trump told Strange “I think you’re going to come back and you’re going to kick everyone’s ass, and you’re going to be great,” while Strange is down 8 points and has basically no time to make it up.
-- brought up the Russian investigation...for some reason...
-- said Strange would drain the swamp. Breitbart is calling him a swamp creature. #WAR