Trumpcare Megathread: It's dead (for now)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Shameless sociopathic Republicans back to lying about the bill:

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What lies? It's far easier to cover people if you only give them a threadbare sheet instead of a thick winter-weight quilt.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Shameless sociopathic Republicans back to lying about the bill:

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What lies? It's far easier to cover people if you only give them a threadbare sheet instead of a thick winter-weight quilt.

Something something, ability to cover versus them being able to actually take such coverage. Like Bernie Sanders said, the ability to buy a multi-million dollar home doesn't mean I can afford to buy it.

What you want people to have coverage that's actually worth having? What are you a commie, or worse, a socialist?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

gop should really expel mccain. anyway after next year senate elections republicans will have at least 57 seats, so trumpcare will easily pass.

Cool story, bro.

While it's still likely the GOP gains seats in 2018 because the Dems performed way above expectations in 2012, there's no way they gain five seats with Trump as President. Heck, it's remotely possible that Dems retake the Senate in 2018 (Nevada, Arizona, and Arizona special) but even that would require Trump deliberately sabotaging the ACA by screwing the marketplace insurers out of funds should get under current law.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I just thought got an evik thought as to how the GOP could maybe get its cake and eat it too. With this CBO score, they might pair a requirement for the CSRs to be paid with a $194 billion tax cut and pass it under reconciliation. I think they can probably get the Senate parliamentarian to hold eir nose long enuf to agree to such shenanigans.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Not going to celebrate until after September 30th ......

This. Hopefully they won't be holding votes open until 11:59 PM...

Or worse, do what the South Carolina General Assembly has sometimes done when facing a hard deadline, stop the clock as far as official time is concerned.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At this point, the only way there could be a vote before the reconciliation deadline is if a Senator opposed were to die and a Republican governor hastily appointed a replacement.