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West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin is said to be under consideration for Secretary of Energy. He would replace former Texas Governor Rick Perry in the position. The West Virginia Governor jus switched from the Democratic Party to th Republican. Party. This means Manchin would be replaced by a Republican. The implication for Obamacare is that McConnell would now have a needed vote to repeal Obamacare. The Republican attack is unrelenting.
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It strikes me as silly to suggest that repealing Obamacare is the sole purpose of this supposed plot to get a vote majority on health care issues in the Senate now. The righties have a lot of other goals that are more important to them, like taxes, the budget etc. And I don't even necessarily buy that it's a plot to affect the Senate.
I've read Michael Lewis'article on the current Energy Dept. and it's a mess, Perry is doing nothing much but collecting a salary and it could very well be that people in the Trump administration are just looking for someone else to effect more of their own agenda like coal coal coal and have more locked and loaded nukes. And isn't even thinking of how that would affect the Senate (until they read this Hill piece, maybe, if they turn off Fox for just a few minutes to check out TheHill.com.)
Furthermore, seems to me that a lot of those GOP Congresscritters who jumped on the repeal Obamacare bandwagon in the last 7 years have now found out that they are not going to suffer that much damage with their constituents for not keeping their "promise." So they have jumped off and are just not participating in the whole game, going to let the committees take care of it for now and move on to other goals.
To sum up, I find all of these suggestions dubious, it's conspiracy minded where we are dealing with people not smart enough to think of such a conspiracy. Not convinced at all that this is what's going on with this floater. Along the lines of: people cannot be both incompetent idiots and brilliant conspirators.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 12:50pm
Trump attacked McConnell for not repealing Obamacare. The Donald wanted Obamacare repeal done before summer recess. Word is that Trump is returning to D.C. on Monday to make an announcement. Remember the White House so under renovation. The Manchin story may not be true, but, I don't find it silly at all.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 1:08pm
I've seen an awful lot of ink about how attacking McConnell is one of the stupidest things Trump has done to date. And how his power to accomplish anything he wants done is receding further every day as he does such incomprehensible things. And how Congress doesn't care what he wants anymore....etc.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 1:26pm
Trump maintains high approval Republican base. Both Dean Heller and Jeff Flake face primary challengers for not keeping in line. Republicans will not stray far from Trump.
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 1:47pm
even if so, it would just never work now with health care until after 2018 elections, they can't do anything drastic. They've got to move on to other things pronto. This is their situation right now, from my most recent Health Care news thread, one Senator could not affect a "repeal and replace" by both Houses at this time, no way no how, it's typically delusional and clueless Trump to even think that would be possible:
Top Democratic, Republican health experts agree on this plan to fix Obamacare
By artappraiser on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 4:17pm |
By Sarah Kliff @ Vox.com, Aug. 9
Poll: 78 percent say Trump should try to make ObamaCare work
Insurers explicitly blame Trump for increase in Obamacare rates:
Obamacare Premiums Are Set to Rise. Thank Policy Uncertainty.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 2:28pm
Republicans respond to the base. The base wants Obamacare repeal.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/12/obamacare-repeal-republicans-po...
by rmrd0000 on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 2:35pm
with 78 % wanting fix instead of replace, GOP who wish to get on a suicide mission with Trump can promise that to a "base" of 22% but they can't actually do anything until after 2018 elections. That's why Trump is still screaming about it to McConnell. He is willing to throw McConnell under a bus with the Trump base just to keep 22% base deluded that something could happen when it can't, willing to make McConnell an enemy of the Trump base about something he can not realistically do anything about.
Liberals should make no mistake: major changes are probably coming to the health care system after the 2018 elections, I don't want to minimize that danger. But nothing can happen now by changing one Senator! Nothing. Not with the insurers themselves against any changes right now along with 78% of the population. And lots of current GOP congress critters wanting to wash their hands of the whole thing and move on to getting some stuff they can brag about.to their entire base, not just the Trump faithful
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 2:58pm
Manchin Says He Won’t Join Trump’s Cabinet as Energy Secretary
Bloomberg News, August 18, 2017, 2:51 PM EDTby artappraiser on Sat, 08/19/2017 - 1:28am