Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Reconciliation as a legislative tool is up in 4 days (#3161)

     If there isn't a deathcare bill passed in the next 4 days then there won't be any death care bill passed this year. Why? Because in 4 days instead of 50 votes to pass the republican deathcare bill it will take 60 votes. With republicans having a 52 to 48 vote advantage in the Senate we have been fortunate, we being the vast majority of the American people, that the republicans have a few senators who have a conscience about killing American citizens for money. Just enough to make the 50 vote threshold unattainable for the rest of the unconscionable republican senate cabal. In 4 days the reconciliation period is over and so is the attempt to destroy Obamacare and replace it with deathcare.
     If the trump presidency is a period of short deadlines that are thwarted by democrats then that is how the rest of us will succeed. These next 4 days are as important to me as any 4 days I will ever live. I don't trust republicans to stop trying to destroy health care for the vast majority of us working middle poor class American citizens. With 3 republicans already out against the death care bill it is looking likely that the bill will fail to even be presented for a vote but I believe it will be presented and the 3 and possibly more no republican votes will have to bear an unbearable amount of pressure from the republican lack of leadership in the Senate and even more so from the goon in the White House.
     But what we have seen so far from the no voters is a determined will to remain a no vote. However I don't trust rand paul as far as him actually staying a no vote since he is a weaselly type cad who can be maneuvered like a puppet. Until Murkowski comes out as a solid no I am still concerned about the possibility that this trump designed deathcare bill still has a chance to pass. These next 4 days will tell the tale and if Murkowski comes out against it then I can feel somewhat cautiously optimistic that, like the previous deathcare vote, the three will keep their word to vote no. 4 days and the nightmare of republicans once again harming the majority of Americans by destroying health care will be in the past.

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