McConnell’s new case to GOP Moderates for Medicaid Cuts – “Don’t worry a smarter future Congress will undo it.”
This is nuts. MCConnell tells moderates that a future (smarter) President will not sign off on Medicaid cuts and a future (smarter) Congress will not let them pass.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) learned from TPM last week that Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was telling moderate Republican senators in closed-door meetings that a future Congress and president will not let the bill’s harshest cuts to Medicaid go into effect.
On Monday, Johnson told reporters he went to the moderate senators in question and confirmed that report, causing him to withdraw his previous support for advancing the bill.
“I was strongly in favor of the motion to proceed before I read the comments by Senator McConnell,” he said. “The ‘don’t worry about it, it’s too far in the future, it’ll never happen.’ I’ve confirmed those comments with the senators they were made to, learned they were largely accurate, and I find those comments very troubling. It really does put in jeopardy the motion to proceed.”
This effin’ human turtle should be impeached along with that simpleton who occupies the Whitehouse and they should jail his family, in-laws and corporate oligarchs and put them in a maximum security facility….NO CLUB-FED. They’re destroying the fabric of this nation and any neanderthals that still support these treasonous buffoons should be forced to join them.
Representative John Kowalko
It doesn’t exactly put it in jeopardy
It means they’re kicking the can down the road. But it they pass Tumpcare, it will still mean they can check off an important box with the tea party base.
Problem for them is, it will be very unpopular with a large majority of american voters. Turns out the people who’ve been helped by the ACA aren’t stupid enough to forget (take that Fox News). And there are a surprising number of people who aren’t mean enough to slash health benefits for poor people to fund tax cuts for rich people (also, take that Fox News).
The pundit class has little to do with this. This is american public opinion, which has been swaying left for decades. This, I don’t know but I pray, is the beginning of the end of the dominance of knuckle drag America.
A stray thought. The sheer corrosion of adult reasoning and critical thinking that made it possible for someone as amoral and puerile as Trump (thanks Fox News) is a good argument for Bernie Sanders’ idea that we should make college affordable for more kids. Hell, I’d pay higher taxes.
Truth is the Republicans knew that killing Medicaid would be the biggest bombshell in Mitch’s arsenal of destruction and they feared it greatly, rightly so as it would throw tens of thousands of old people out in the streets. But as noted they’ll be back with a full repeal attempt, but they just might not get that either. Political cowardice is rising as these worthies contemplate 2018 and the unthinkable possibility of defeat. See what happens when we pay attention?
It’s a shame that it takes a repeal threat for everyone to realize that Obamacare didn’t suck nearly as much as the bullshit the right wing was spinning about it.