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Title: Jim Jordan Crushes Reince Priebus False Narrative on Obamacare Repeal
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URL Source: http://politistick.com/jim-jordan-c ... se-narrative-obamacare-repeal/
Published: Mar 27, 2017
Author: Matthew K. Burke
Post Date: 2017-03-27 17:47:53 by Tooconservative
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Views: 19364
Comments: 68
One of the false narratives peddled by establishment RINO squishes like Reince Priebus in order to get principled conservatives to act like liberal Democrats is to spew the phony premise, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Priebus said as much to FOX News’ Chris Wallace Sunday when he said, “We can’t be chasing the perfect all the time.” It was intended to be a slam against the House Freedom Caucus, which insisted that Republicans keep their promise of fully repealing Obamacare, something the failed American Health Care Act (AHCA) did not do and kept in place the entire Obamacare apparatus and many of the regulations that caused health insurance premiums and deductibles to unnecessarily skyrocket. But as House Freedom Caucus founding member Jim Jordan told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, House GOP leadership didn’t come anywhere close to perfection when they crafted Paul Ryan’s health care bill behind closed doors, the bill dubbed Obamacare 2.0, Obamacare Lite, RINOCARE, or Swampcare. Far from seeking perfection, the bill “wasn’t even good.” “The lesson here is, don’t try to pass a bill that only 17 percent of the country approves of,” Jordan declared. “That’s a problem.” “When no one likes the legislation, you have to do it different,” Jordan said. “It wasn’t going to bring down premiums — it had a host of problems. And frankly, the key promise we made to the American people in the 2010, 2014, and 2016 election[s] was we would repeal Obamacare, this legislation didn’t do that. And that was the fundamental flaw in this entire process. So let’s get back to work and let’s do what we said we would do.” Jordan went on to say that the House Freedom Caucus was completely united on the 2015 clean Obamacare repeal bill that was passed in both the House and Senate and was sent to Obama’s desk. But instead of starting with the “perfect,” Paul Ryan and his team of RINOs stupidly crafted a turd sandwich behind closed doors first and somehow thought it would pass muster with principled conservatives who were excluded from the writing of the legislation. President Trump, as the author of “Art of the Deal” should know, this is exactly the opposite way a negotiation should have been constructed. “Mr. Priebus was talking about don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Well, this wasn’t even good.”
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#4. To: All, misterwhite (#0)
Notice Jordan saying here that the House Freedom Caucus was united on starting with the 2015 bill passed in both chambers and then following up with another 'replace' bill. But Ryan refused to offer the House the same bill written by Tom Price. Because it was the RINOs who wouldn't vote for it again. The Freedom Caucus was ready before and is still ready to vote for the 2015 Price bill.
Again. What's the difference between the 2015 Price bill and what Trump proposed? Nothing. So I don't believe you or the Freedom Caucus. As Ted Poe said, they'd vote against the Ten Commandments.
Fine. Bring it back for a vote and we'll find out who the chickenshit hypocrites in the House GOP really are. I'd bet the Freedom Caucus people would have no problem voting for it again. It's the RINOs that wouldn't vote for it. I think it was likely the RINOs that were going to spike it if it came to a vote. On the Wall Street Jornal Report, an hour show on FNC on Saturday, one of their younger (fortyish) reporters had followed this and had a lot of contacts with House aides (he claimed). He said the RINOs were unhappy with it all along with a number of them looking for a reason to desert. As the Freedom Caucus kept insisting on the various repeal provisions (as they had all along), the RINOs got madder. The reporter said that by the time Ryan called Trump to let him cancel the bill, they didn't even have 100 votes left in favor of it. It wasn't just a loss by a few votes in the House, something they would have tried for like they did with the Pill Bill in 2004. It was an utter humiliation because they wanted to pass their own 0bamaCare but one that screwed a lot of working-class people in Red states to punish them for being dumb enough to trust Republicans would do what they campaigned for.
How would that be any different than if the Freedom Caucus got their way and wrote the bill? That's what you want, right? Hardcore repeal and replace, slash and burn, out with the old and in with the new?
Just bring back the Price bill from 2015 for a vote. That's all. It passed both chambers then. And again in a veto override attempt. Pass it again.
The 2015 Price bill is no different than what Trump offered. If it was, I'd agree with you. But it's not. Republicans voted for the Price bill and 53 other similar bills because they knew Obama would veto them. Even if the 2015 Price bill was flawed, who cares? It's not going to pass anyways. But when the 2015 Price bill was turned into a real bill by Trump, the Freedom Caucus got cold feet.
They are not the same. And the idea that Trump even read it is laughable.
What do you know that I don't? If they are not the same then tell me the difference.
Why don't we just glance at the text? The differences are glaring. Or are you too lazy or incompetent to find the bill for yourself? H.R.2653 — 114th Congress (2015-2016), the American Health Care Reform Act of 2015 The list of changes is quite extensive. High-risk pools at the state level, extensive support for medical savings accounts, VA reform, tort reform, association plans (for self-insured and small businesses), and more. That. Pass that. Like they did twice only 14 months ago.
That's not the Tom Price bill. That bill went nowhere. I gave you the link to the Tom Price bill which Congress DID pass and looks just like what Trump proposed.
No, it doesn't. Tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements aren't there and it is at least twice as expensive.
Where did you see "tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements" in the 2015 Tom Price bill?
Here, for instance:
Uh, no. That was "tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements" in a 2015 Tom Price bill (HR2300)that was introduced and went nowhere. You referred to the 2015 Tom Price bill that passed and was vetoed. THIS is the bill and I posted it to you once before: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3762 No mention of "tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements". From now on, use HR3762.
Just how many 0care repeal bills did Price write in 2015 anyway? I see this one has a title of "Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015". Yet other reporting did indicate that its title was AHCRA. At any rate, the Price bill does not go far enough. It will result in another 0bamaCare death spiral. But the GOP will own it 100% with the voters and the Dems will be happy to point out that the entire exercise was just so the GOP could deliver big tax cuts to the richest Americans (with a few tax cut scraps for middle-class Americans to go along with it). And the GOP has publicly admitted that this was just something to cut costs so they could make their tax cuts bigger while complying with budget law and reconciliation. Trump should get on his knees and thank God for the Freedom Caucus spiking this atrocity of a bill. It fulfills every negative stereotype in the public's mind about the GOP.
"... big tax cuts to the richest Americans?" You should change your screen name to Tooliberal". They get the biggest tax cuts because they pay the biggest taxes. You want to scrap a bill because the middle class gets a tax cut, but it's not as big?
Me? I don't want any tax cuts until the national debt is paid down. Neither should anyone else who actually gives a damn about the country. OTOH, if you want to levy debts and taxes on children not even yet born to pay for your luxuries and your retirement, then I suppose you like it just fine.
Again, spoken like a liberal. A "tax cut" is a tax rate cut. Reagan cut tax rates and tax income to the treasury increased. Liberals think that's voodoo.
Cut government spending, not tax rates. You can cut taxes after the debt is reduced. And you stop robbing babies and unborn children by passing your debts on to them, ya deadbeat.
What else do you suggest? Is the deficit something we can "cut" our way out of?
For Trump's budget to mean much, he'd have to be willing to veto bills that spend more than he wants for given departments. I'm not sure he will do that. This is why presidential budgets are routinely declared DOA on the Hill.
When's the last time you saw a President propose a budget like that? Yet it's not good enough for you.
That's all it is, a proposal. But if Trump wants to hold the line on a budget, he has to be ready to veto. Right up to closing down the government if need be. I assume you do know that it is Congress that sets spending. The prez can only veto specific spending bills and dare them to override him.
Yes. But I thought we were discussing Trump.
That is because you somehow think everything is about your lord and savior, Donald Trump. And Trump doesn't even care what is in the bill. "Forget about the little shit", is what he told the brave and wonderful Freedom Caucus when he went to the Hill to threaten them. I was talking about Congress who is, after all, the only ones who can pass or repeal anything. Unlike you, I don't think Trump has read so much as a single page of RynoCare.
What bill? The budget bill? The healthcare bill? You're jumping all over the place.
I've only discussed RynoCare, not the upcoming budget (which doesn't exist yet).
In your post #33, you said, "Cut government spending, not tax rates."
As a general principle, sure. Naturally, there is no budget bill from Ryan so we have nothing to discuss yet. A president is required to propose one to indicate to Congress what he wants in the budget but Congress never pays that much attention. Well, unless the prez is insisting on massive new spending and expansion of federal power so they can dole out a lot of goodies and further control everyone's lives. This would be for major wars and such when they shift into high gear. LBJ and FDR and Lincoln would be prime examples.
I see. In the middle of a healthcare debate, you just decided to throw in overall government spending as a general principle? In case I forgot? In case you forgot?
The reason they went with specific measures in RyanCare was to drive the CBO score downward so they could have a bigger tax cut. As it stood, it sounds like they started out wanting a $350-$400 billion tax cut but after the House worked its magic, the savings would have been down to $150-$200 billion. And that was before it headed over to the Senate to get porked up some more. And for all that bait-and-switch to pretend that this is the repeal the GOP dangled in front of us for the last four elections, you want these tiny cost savings for a small tax cut (which would go to the richest people in America who happen to be overwhelmingly Dem donors and advocates). And the GOP would utterly own it. The libmedia would accurately call it GOPcare, RyanCare, or TrumpCare.
The CBO scored it as a $337 billion savings. That's the only CBO number that I've heard. So, where did you get your $150-$200 billion number? From the Tooconservative magic calculator?
I think it was an article someone else posted here. Or maybe it was another news site. I don't recall. I still think its dead. McConnell has declared it dead until 0care goes off the cliff, probably because he knows that Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and Tom Cotton are three hard no votes. Add in Sasse and some others who like the 0care Medicaid gravy train to continue forever and you have a miserable and divisive defeat in the Senate. No matter what the House does, McConnell will not move on any House healthcare bill until Gorsuch is confirmed. And I tend to doubt he will want to even then. I think he wants to wait for the fall and the next round of bad news for 0care: spiraling premiums, more companies pulling out of the market, counties or even entire states where no insurance company will offer a policy through the exchanges.
And what to people do when they're riding something that's going off a cliff? They scream. Probably loud enough to be heard in Washington, DC. Even loud enough to be heard by Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Tom Cotton and every Democrat running for reelection in 2018.
We'll see. McConnell is still riding the wave of admiration for refusing to move on Merrick Garland. They won't get McConnell to move again any time soon. Since Kentucky is the state that CBO projects will lose the most from RyanCare because they have so many working poor in the 55-65 range, McConnell probably never wanted to do this to begin with. Toss in stiff opposition from Rand, Cotton, Lee, Sasse (none up for re-election in 2018) and even opposition from Cruz and Collins and Murkowski (both representing states that would lose under RyanCare) and it's just unwinnable for McConnell. So Mitch the Bitch plays the waiting game and hope it pays off a second time. In the meantime, he doesn't want any new fights (like 0care "repeal") to show up until he gets Gorsuch confirmed and a good start on the new budget, the wall, defense increases, infrastructure, and tax cuts. To McConnell, this would look like way too much for the Senate to pass anyway. Would you really be that much happier if RyanCare had failed in the Senate instead of the House?
Trump got 63% of the Kentucky popular vote based on Obamacare repeal and replace. If Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell want to tell their constituents that they have to live with Obamacare, that's up to them.
They have a lot of voters in KY who are currently in the Medicaid expansion as working poor, partially subsidized. RyanCare (supposedly) will see them going from, on average, around $3500/year to over $10K/year. Anyway, those are the figures thrown around and KY seems to be identified as the state where the most people will take a big hit to the pocketbook. Neither McConnell (up in 2020) nor Paul (up in 2022) has any great incentive to vote for something that would hit these people that hard. All politics is local.
So in other states where Trump's healthcare bill will help the people, those Democrat Senators will vote for it.
Since Dem senators already know they will control the budget, they have no incentive to vote for anything and a lot of incentive to vote against everything. If you're powerless, obstructionism is quite often the way to go. Look what McConnell did in 2009-2010 and beyond. Schumer did notice it.
Sure they do. You said "All politics is local". So if Trump's plan helps their constituents, surely the Democrats will vote for it.
I think the senators of a lot of states have reasons to vote for and against a lot of these RyanCare policy ideas. And there is a small core of no votes in the Senate that looks hard to crack.
#62. To: Tooconservative (#61)
(Edited)
there is a small core of no votes in the Senate that looks hard to crack. They might soften up some after President Trump signs, the Ron Paul Audit the Fed bill. Trump has a few things left to learn from the Freedom Caucus, about The Art of the Deal.
Let's make it easy. Who are the Democrat senators voting for these RyanCare policy ideas?
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#10. To: Tooconservative (#4)
"The Freedom Caucus was ready before and is still ready to vote for the 2015 Price bill."
#11. To: misterwhite (#10)
What's the difference between the 2015 Price bill and what Trump proposed? Nothing.
#12. To: Tooconservative (#11)
"The reporter said that by the time Ryan called Trump to let him cancel the bill, they didn't even have 100 votes left in favor of it."
#15. To: misterwhite (#12)
(Edited)
How would that be any different than if the Freedom Caucus got their way and wrote the bill? That's what you want, right? Hardcore repeal and replace, slash and burn, out with the old and in with the new?
#17. To: Tooconservative (#15)
"Just bring back the Price bill from 2015 for a vote. That's all."
#18. To: misterwhite (#17)
But when the 2015 Price bill was turned into a real bill by Trump, the Freedom Caucus got cold feet.
#19. To: Tooconservative (#18)
"They are not the same."
#20. To: misterwhite (#19)
#21. To: Tooconservative (#20)
H.R.2653 — 114th Congress (2015-2016), the American Health Care Reform Act of 2015
#22. To: misterwhite (#21)
#23. To: Tooconservative (#22)
"Tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements aren't there"
#24. To: misterwhite (#23)
(Edited)
Where did you see "tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements" in the 2015 Tom Price bill?
#26. To: Tooconservative (#24)
#27. To: misterwhite (#26)
(Edited)
Uh, no. That was "tort reform, interstate purchasing, and a lot of other elements" in a 2015 Tom Price bill (HR2300)that was introduced and went nowhere.
#30. To: Tooconservative (#27)
"was just so the GOP could deliver big tax cuts to the richest Americans (with a few tax cut scraps for middle-class Americans to go along with it)."
#31. To: misterwhite (#30)
#32. To: Tooconservative (#31)
"Me? I don't want any tax cuts until the national debt is paid down."
#33. To: misterwhite (#32)
#34. To: Tooconservative (#33)
"Cut government spending, not tax rates."
#35. To: misterwhite (#34)
(Edited)
#36. To: Tooconservative (#35)
For Trump's budget to mean much
#37. To: misterwhite (#36)
(Edited)
When's the last time you saw a President propose a budget like that? Yet it's not good enough for you.
#38. To: Tooconservative (#37)
"I assume you do know that it is Congress that sets spending."
#39. To: misterwhite (#38)
(Edited)
Yes. But I thought we were discussing Trump.
#40. To: Tooconservative (#39)
"And Trump doesn't even care what is in the bill."
#41. To: misterwhite (#40)
#42. To: Tooconservative (#41)
"I've only discussed RynoCare, not the upcoming budget (which doesn't exist yet)."
#43. To: misterwhite (#42)
In your post #33, you said, "Cut government spending, not tax rates."
#45. To: Tooconservative (#43)
"As a general principle, sure."
#47. To: misterwhite (#45)
In the middle of a healthcare debate, you just decided to throw in overall government spending as a general principle?
#49. To: Tooconservative (#47)
"As it stood, it sounds like they started out wanting a $350-$400 billion tax cut but after the House worked its magic, the savings would have been down to $150-$200 billion."
#53. To: misterwhite (#49)
So, where did you get your $150-$200 billion number?
#54. To: Tooconservative (#53)
"McConnell has declared it dead until 0care goes off the cliff"
#55. To: misterwhite (#54)
And what to people do when they're riding something that's going off a cliff? They scream. Probably loud enough to be heard in Washington, DC. Even loud enough to be heard by Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Tom Cotton and every Democrat running for reelection in 2018.
#56. To: Tooconservative (#55)
"Since Kentucky is the state that CBO projects will lose the most from RyanCare"
#57. To: misterwhite (#56)
If Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell want to tell their constituents that they have to live with Obamacare, that's up to them.
#58. To: Tooconservative (#57)
"All politics is local."
#59. To: misterwhite (#58)
So in other states where Trump's healthcare bill will help the people, those Democrat Senators will vote for it.
#60. To: Tooconservative (#59)
"they have no incentive to vote for anything"
#61. To: misterwhite (#60)
Sure they do. You said "All politics is local". So if Trump's plan helps their constituents, surely the Democrats will vote for it.
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#65. To: Tooconservative (#61)
"I think the senators of a lot of states have reasons to vote for and against a lot of these RyanCare policy ideas."
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