GOP Sen. Heller Says He Won't Vote For Obamacare Repeal Bill

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published MARCH 17, 2017, 2:11 PM EDT

Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) on Friday said that he cannot support House Republicans' bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in its current form, signaling trouble for the legislation in the Senate.

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Heller's statement comes after Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said Thursday that she would not vote for the bill in its current form, either. Several other Republican senators, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), also have expressed concerns about the legislation.

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[msongs]

1. "in its current form" - change a few words and it will then be ok to vote for nt

[hedda_foil]

2. It's Dean.

[Matthew28]

3. Hopefully the thing dies and the republicans go on a

long vacation.

[ffr]

4. This may be a reflection of how blue Nevada would be if it weren't for stupid R voters

Nevada is a blue state and it's going to stay blue. We're passionate, invigorated and we fight until the last minute of the last round. We won Nevada for Hillary Clinton and Catherine Cortez Masto. That was Harry Reid's old seat that the republicans wanted.

Heller didn't earn his seat to the senate. He was appointed that seat by our republican governor when Sen. John Ensign couldn't keep his private parts in his pants and resigned in disgrace.

The resistance is working. Keep showing up and fighting for what's right.

[CTyankee]

5. And another one bites the dust...

[lambchopp59]

6. In the mindset of the Trumpeteer:

I work an ancillary medical job in a relatively rural area of California. A blue county, but some boisterous RW'ers.
One elderly gent I had a hand in caring for shortly before November's election was wearing his red "Make America Grunt Again" hat, the whole time I did my job he grumbled about "That damn Hillary better not get in there"... followed by all the expected RW talking points well pounded into his senile head.
Avoiding the politics subject to do my job as required, and directing him back onto questions related to why he was being seen through the emergency room, a couple of his off-subject ranting responses stood out:
"I don't go to doctors".
I cannot say this to him, but, my internal though processes go straight to "Hmm, is that why you're here now with pneumonia, pancreatitis, cirrhosis and 2 different kinds of cancer?"
"They gotta get rid of that damn Obamacare"
Once again, I'm forbidden to comment, but the dumb fucker doesn't even realize that the increased patient load, the fact we have new equipment to diagnose his conditions, the reason that my job is highly in demand right now over the late 2000's when the job market for my specialty totally bottomed out is... Obamacare.
This old grandpa was so RW brainwashed that his entire perception of his own reality is enough to make any caregiver facepalm themselves.
We stand in grave danger of going right back to all the problems the ACA helped to solve. NO, it wasn't perfect. No essentially free-market plan can be. But I get so angry at the republicans that put the "No public option" poison pill into the ACA, and now are ready to give the insurance lobby all the greedy profiteering without having to take care of pesky nutjobs like the aforementioned.