Seven moderate Republicans voted against the clean Obamacare repeal bill in the Senate.
Sens. Dean Heller (R-NV), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John McCain (R-AZ), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against Sen. Paul’s clean Obamacare repeal bill. All of these senators except for Sen. Collins voted to rescind Obamacare in 2015.
Conservative activists previously branded Sens. Murkowski, Portman, and Capito "traitors" for betraying their promise to the American people to repeal Obamacare.
Conservative activist groups Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks urged Republican senators to vote for Sen. Paul’s clean Obamacare repeal bill. Ken Cuccinelli of the Senate Conservative Fund recently suggested that his group might primary faux-Republicans such as Capito, Portman, and Murkowski.
Senator Paul wrote in an exclusive op-ed for Breitbart News, "That’s a good question. I say yes, but I tell you this ‐ it’s hard to say yes if we can’t do something as simple as keeping our word. As simple as voting today how we voted before when we were asking to be in charge. If you tell people you’re going to do something, do it. It’s just that simple. Let’s repeal Obamacare."
After his bill failed, Sen. Paul argued, "It’s a victory for conservatives that we did get a vote for a clean repeal."
Not only have these six senators voted to repeal Obamacare, they publicly pledged to do so on the campaign trail and in the halls of the Senate. Here are six times these senators promised to repeal Obamacare:
Lamar Alexander, "The wisest course is to repeal Obamacare and replace it step by step with solutions that lower health care costs."
Shelley Moore Capito, "I have consistently voted to repeal and replace this disastrous health care law, and I am glad that a repeal bill will finally reach the president’s desk."
Dean Heller,"This DC bureaucrat-driven healthcare system will only result in limited health care choices and higher costs for Nevadans."
Lisa Murkowski, "This law is not affordable for anyone in Alaska. That is why I will support the bill that repeals the ACA and wipes out its harmful impacts. I can’t watch premiums for Alaskans shoot up by 30 percent or more each year, see businesses artificially constrained, or see the quality of public education decline."
John McCain, "It is clear that any serious attempt to improve our health care system must begin with a full repeal and replacement of Obamacare, and I will continue fighting on behalf of the people of Arizona to achieve it."
Rob Portman, "I’m for repealing this broken law and replacing it with something better that gives patients more choice, decreases costs and increases access to quality, affordable care."
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In elections, both Republicans and Democrats run to the right of their actual positions. They know what we want. Damn few are willing to give it to us.
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Why the flip-flop? The National Republican Party would be a Center-Right Coalition in a Parliament. Four of the seven (Alexander,Murkowski, Portman and Collins) are long time center-Left RINO's. McCain is McCain, self-styled loose cannon... The other two, Heller and Capito, *hmmmm* looks like we have two new baby RINOs hiding in the larger elephant herd.
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In elections, both Republicans and Democrats run to the right of their actual positions.
But now they have revealed themselves. It will be interesting to see how voters respond the next time they're up for reelection.
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It will be interesting to see how voters respond the next time they're up for reelection
It's at least a year away for them. Plenty of time to redirect the conversation, short attention span of their constituents and all that.
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07/27/2017 11:44 Comments ||
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Of course you're right, Mullah. The Senate was designed that way. But we can always hope they'll have opponents in the primaries who will remind the voters of broken promises.
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But we can always hope they'll have opponents in the primaries who will remind the voters of broken promises.
OTOH, the promise breakers will have the entire rest of the senate trying to push voters toward the incumbent. Sort of a skewed playing field...
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McCain is voting in accordance with AZ governor Ducey and the rest of GOP(e), in that Medicare is 'essential'.
[Daily Caller] Chris Gowen, Imran Awan’s lawyer, is a long-time campaigner for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a member of an attorney team that brought a fraudulent lawsuit against energy giant Chevron.
Pakistani-born Awan was arrested late Monday at Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia before he could board a flight to Qatar and then Pakistan on bank fraud charges. Awan, his younger brothers, Abid and Jamal, his wife, Hina Alvi, and Rao Abbas, his best friend, have been subjects of a federal criminal investigation led by the U.S. Capitol Police and including the FBI since February 2017.
The investigation is focused on allegations the Awan group abused their access as congressional information technology (IT) administrators for dozens of Democratic members of the House of Representatives, including former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.
Politico reported the criminal probe concerned "serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network."
Gowen described Awan’s arrest as "clearly a right-wing media-driven prosecution by a United States Attorney’s Office that wants to prosecute people for working while Muslim."
Gowen is a founding partner of Gowen, Rhoades, Winograd and Silva law firm, with offices in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, Penn.
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Asswan hires Hillary's legal team. That is a high-dollar defense. Does a Pakistani IT guy have that kind of money? I wonder where it's coming from.
Could be quite a lot riding on this one. Now back to Mueller and the Trump-Russian distraction, Mike Flynn, Jared and Ivanka, Wikileaks, Islamophobia, Global Warming, Mesican border wall.
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I don't know if this is true but it has been widely reported. Anon sources reported that Hillary said to Donna Brazile and others after the Matt Laurer NBC interview: “If I lose, we all go down and that Fascist Fvck will have us swinging from nooses! What the fvck is wrong with you idiots?”--“You stare at the wall like a brain dead buffalo, while letting fvcking Lauer get away with this betrayal? Get the fvck to work janitoring this mess- do I make myself clear???” October, 17, 2016 "
Worth a lot. It might mean staying alive. Others have not fared too well.
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The MSM will largely ignore this. They are much more concerned that Trump is discriminating against the "thousands" of transgenders in the military.
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The guy kept smashed Harddrives. I'm guessing he smashed them to prove to Hillary and company they were destroyed and then he saved them as a 'get out of jail free card' in case he got caught by US Intelligence. Otherwise the hardrives would be in the foundation of some building by now.
Really curious what is on those platters, and I suspect HIllary's people are as well which is probably why they've offered up expensive lawyers to ensure the guy never gets scared enough to cop a plea deal.
[DAWN] United States (US) Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... fired a Pak-origin information technology (IT) staffer following his arrest on a bank fraud charge at a Virginia airport where he was attempting to fly to Lahore.
Wasserman Schultz front man David Damron said Imran Awan was fired by the Florida politician on Tuesday.
Awan's attorney, Chris Gowen, confirmed that his client was nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! at Dulles Airport on Monday. He said Awan was cleared to travel and had informed the House of his plans to visit his family before the scheduled trip.
The 37-year-old Awan of Lorton, Virginia, was arraigned Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on one count of bank fraud.
He pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." and was released pursuant to a high-intensity supervision program, including the restriction that he not travel beyond a 50-mile radius of his home, according to the court.
An affidavit filed with the criminal complaint states there is probable cause to believe that Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, engaged in a scheme to defraud Congressional Federal Credit Union based on misrepresentations made to obtain a loan.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Brandon Merriman said in the affidavit that the misrepresentations revolved around written assurances that the home serving as collateral for the loan was a "principal residence".
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I read that as: US politician Wasserman Schultz flees to Pakistan.
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Wasserman-Schultz is a little late in the game. She is trying to distance herself from this mook by firing him. We should be so lucky as to have her flee to Pakistain.
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Apparently Awan had DWS's iPad pwd and access to her emails. What I want to know is Awan's link to the ISI. If only we had a real counter- intelligence investigation agency...
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With their money troubles, family feuds and shady business dealings and total deniable access to powerful congressional Democrats' data stash the Awans were too perfect bait for foreign intelligence agencies.
Was this another(?) botched(?) honeypot operation?
Were they playing a role similar to Alec Leamas', or is this yet another example of Western politicians' suicidal naivete?
[Daily Caller] Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin announced Friday that she is heading up a new committee: "Conservatives for Maxine Waters for President." But not for the reason you may think...
"As chairman of Conservative for Maxine Waters for president, I pledge to do my best to spotlight Mad Max’s long record of coddling gang members and using her office to enrich herself and her family," Malkin said...
"There you have it in a nutshell, liberalism in living color," Malkin said. "Corruption, cronyism and cashing in for friends and family while your constituents and taxpayers get screwed."
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Maxine : America written LARGE. The Political essence of Black politicians.? maybe. But then, maybe its just that being a Democrat is that way. Thank God for Ben Carson and the other half which is fine stuff.
Maxine doesn't stand a chance. Americans are not stupid. You don't have to taste a rotten fruit. The smell should be enough.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Daily Caller] Chris Gowen, Imran Awan’s lawyer, is a long-time campaigner for former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a member of an attorney team that brought a fraudulent lawsuit against energy giant Chevron.
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