Cotton: Obamacare Replacement Will Put the GOP House Majority at Risk

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Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said he was “afraid if they vote for the bill, they’ll put the House majority at risk next year.”

Cotton said, “As it’s written today, this bill cannot pass the Senate. I believe it would have adverse consequences for millions of Americans and wouldn’t deliver on our promises to reduce the cost of health insurance to Americans. I would say to my friends in the house of representatives, with whom I serve, do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote. George, you were in the White House in 1993. You remember when House Democrats voted for a BTU energy tax. Not only did that not become law, it didn’t get a vote in the Senate. And those Democrats lost their next election because they voted on that tax. They call it getting BTU’d. I don’t think this bill can pass the Senate. And therefore, I think the house should take a pause and try to get as close as we can to a good result before they send to it the Senate.”

He added, “I’m afraid if they vote for the bill, they’ll put the House majority at risk next year. And we have majorities in the house and the senate and the White House. Not only to repeal Obamacare and get health care reform right, to reform our taxes and our regulations and to build up our military and to accomplish many other things. I don’t want to see the house put at risk on a bill that won’t pass the Senate. That’s why I think we should take a pause, try to solve as many of the problems on Medicaid and the individual insurance market in the bill in the house, and then allow the Senate to take its work up. ”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/12/cotton-obamacare-replacement-will-put-gop-house-majority-risk/

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While I agree with Cotton in principle, the message he's sending is stupid.

It's "Hey, Numbnuts, if you -- as a professional politician -- value your job and want to further your professional career beyond this particular Congress, you'll pause and take another look at this pile of shit that you want to send to us, the REAL professional politicians. We can make you look real good, and we can make you look real bad."

We shouldn't have a SINGLE professional politician anywhere. Now we're infested with the damned things.        

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While I agree with Cotton in principle, the message he's sending is stupid.

It's "Hey, Numbnuts, if you -- as a professional politician -- value your job and want to further your professional career beyond this particular Congress, you'll pause and take another look at this pile of shit that you want to send to us, the REAL professional politicians. We can make you look real good, and we can make you look real bad."

We shouldn't have a SINGLE professional politician anywhere. Now we're infested with the damned things.        

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Public servants are NOT public servants - they are public servants working for PRIVATE CORPORATIONS - which run this country.

Therein lies the layer, and source of corruption in this government.  It is corporate-driven instead of citizen-driven, which is common knowledge.

Until the day laws are written to outlaw private lobbying by both elected and prior elected congressmen and senators we will remain in the ownership of the private corporations.  Now, the 'corporations' are going global, meaning that not only can American owned corporations have central influence and power in our government, but now global (e.g., foreign) owned corporations want in on the pie also - as well as the corporate control that comes with it over US government operations and the span of control they/it has over the daily lives of the average American.

I think that is what we see playing out here, and you are right - these 'career' politicians hypocrisy glows bright blood neon daily as we see them (both worthless parties) jockeying and lobbying in public and broad daylight as they are plainly telling us they will, or will not act based upon HOW IT IMPACTS THEIR SORRY-ASSED future political fortunes and careers.

It may not be possible to clean this swamp.  It is certainly not possible with this current 2-party/UniParty/OneParty system that continues to lie, cheat, steal (and even murder, now that we are finding out via the internet) it's way into remaining in its corrupt form, and with its non-impeachable power over the electorate.