Senate Dems plan late-night protest over ObamaCare

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The Hill ‏@thehill 48m48 minutes ago
Senate Dems plan late-night protest over ObamaCare http://hill.cm/SfcpfwI

Senate Democrats are planning to hold a late-night talkathon Monday protesting Republicans push to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

The protest comes as Democrats face an uphill battle to block Republicans from repealing ObamaCare, which only needs 50 votes to clear the upper chamber through the budget reconciliation process.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate Democratic leader, said Democrats will use the Senate floor and Facebook Live to denounce the GOP plan and accuse them of causing "chaos" by moving forward without a replacement plan.

“Tonight, we are taking to the floor and social media to denounce this plan and warn the American people that the Democrats will be fighting tooth and nail against this potentially catastrophic move," Schumer said.

read: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/313279-senate-dems-plan-late-night-protest-over-obamacare

[bdamomma]

1. hmm....

any constitutents of Mr. Schumer out there his re-election depends on his fighting for the American people.

[HoneyBadger]

3. If Gillibrand wants a win to propel her to be the 2020 nominee

Winning the Obamacare battle would lock that up. Let's see how Schumer positions her in this fight. She will only take a high profile if she plans to win.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The republicans feel compelled to vote to repeal Obamacare or face humiliation.

I wonder if there are some who DON'T want to vote to repeal but fear the leadership of their party.

In order to allow for republicans to vote to repeal Obamacare BUT also not to allow it to pass, could there be a secret deal to have a half dozen republicans go rogue and vote with the democrats?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. I get the sense that the Republicans boxed themselves in on the issue

Republicans have been demonizing, attacking, sabotaging, and otherwise undermining the law since day one, however as long as President Obama has been POTUS, their efforts have (mostly) amounted to nothing and the law is still largely intact. However, Republicans in Congress have built up a large amount of "street cred" on the basis of repealing PPACA and now that they have the power to actually deliver on it now, there's really no way they can back out of it now without suffering the political consequences (even if some of them want to). If they don't get a PPACA repeal on Donald Trump's desk by 2018, then they will be in big trouble. Of course, if they do repeal PPACA, they own the inevitable consequences but I don't think they're going to stop them from doing it. They'll just try to figure out a way to spin it that makes President Obama and the Democrats the real culprits.