Senate Democrats have blocked an amendment to repeal Obamacare that Mitch McConnell attached to the transportation bill.
The final vote was 49-43, which was 11 votes short of 60 needed for passage.
The McConnell amendment was overshadowed by the
looming procedural move that was going to be pulled by Cruz
and Lee to try to use the nuclear option to repeal Obamacare with
51 votes. Senate Republicans like Hatch argued against the move
that Cruz and Lee tried to pull by claiming that if they were
successful, Senate leaders would lose control of the calendar and
agenda. In other words, if Cruz and Lee were successful, the Senate
would become the House.
The McConnell amendment was a show vote that was
designed to appease those Senate Republicans who outraged over the vote
to save the Ex-Im Bank. The procedural move by Cruz and Lee to try to
repeal Obamacare with 51 votes is unlikely to be successful.
The only thing that McConnell has accomplished
today is to bring the raging civil war within the Senate Majority out
into the open.
The Republican pretender candidates in the Senate
all voted for the repeal of the ACA, but McConnell’s amendment to
repeal the ACA was dead before the first vote was cast. Democrats are
never going to support anything that repeals Obamacare.
The point is that Republicans are determined to take
away affordable healthcare from millions of Americans. They don’t care
how well the law works, or how many people that it helps. Republicans
are going to take away access to health insurance to millions.
McConnell has been defeated again and is taking steps by the day to
become as bad of a leader as Boehner.
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