By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--July 20, 2017
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“Any senator who votes against starting debate is really telling America that you’re fine with Obamacare,” Mr. Trump said before a lunch with the senators Wednesday. He gestured at one wavering GOP lawmaker, Dean Heller of Nevada, saying, “He wants to remain a senator, doesn’t he?” and warned lawmakers not to leave town in August without a deal.
Senate Republican leaders conceded defeat earlier this week on their effort to roll back and replace the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, but at Mr. Trump’s urging, they dug in Wednesday for what is expected to be the final push. Senate Republicans said they were hoping to rustle up 50 votes for a third version of the bill. Mr. Trump, telling the senators they were “very close” to a deal, signaled the White House would take a more aggressive role in wrangling the 50 votes need to pass the bill. The GOP president suggested that Republicans had it easy in voting for the 2010 law’s repeal when his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, was in office because they knew he would veto it and there would be no consequences. “I’m ready to act, I have pen in hand, believe me, I’m sitting in that office. You’ve never had that before,” Mr. Trump said. “For seven years, you’ve had an easy rap: ‘We’ll repeal, we’ll replace, and he’s never going to sign it.’ ”Complain about Trump's lack of decorum all you want, but I love how blunt he's being in laying it to the senators here. Many liberals ripped the Republican Congress for their ObamaCare repeal votes during Obama's presidency because they said the whole thing was pointless, as they knew Obama would veto it. I often defended them, saying it was their job to pass good legislation and the president's job to sign good legislation. If they passed a repeal and Obama refused to sign it, then they were doing their jobs and he was failing at his.
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