Senate Republicans stood in solidarity for once. They heard the message loud and clear from America: “WE DON’T WANT OBAMACARE!” They begged for assistance from their appointed political leaders and the senators responded with a resounding, “WE HEAR YOU! WE WILL REPEAL OBAMACARE!”
With much fanfare and bravado, they stood up and made a show of force. Here’s what some of the prominent senators said:
Lamar Alexander, “The wisest course is to repeal Obamacare and replace it step by step with solutions that lower health care costs.”
Shelley Moore Capito, “I have consistently voted to repeal and replace this disastrous health care law, and I am glad that a repeal bill will finally reach the president’s desk.”
Dean Heller,“This DC bureaucrat-driven healthcare system will only result in limited health care choices and higher costs for Nevadans.”
Lisa Murkowski, “This law is not affordable for anyone in Alaska. That is why I will support the bill that repeals the ACA and wipes out its harmful impacts. I can’t watch premiums for Alaskans shoot up by 30 percent or more each year, see businesses artificially constrained, or see the quality of public education decline.”
John McCain, “It is clear that any serious attempt to improve our health care system must begin with a full repeal and replacement of Obamacare, and I will continue fighting on behalf of the people of Arizona to achieve it.”
Rob Portman, “I’m for repealing this broken law and replacing it with something better that gives patients more choice, decreases costs and increases access to quality, affordable care.”
That was the very end of 2015! These Republicans were on-board and they made all the right (and politically expedient) decisions and announcements. Their votes were cast, the bill went to President Obama’s desk and, with the stroke of a pen, he vetoed their historic vote.
Just yesterday, nearly an identical bill was handed over to the Senators, courtesy of Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and…well, let’s just say that the six senators listed above, realized that Obama was no longer in office. Fully aware of that, these RINOs joined the Jackasses and voted down the same bill they passed only 18 months ago! A truly cowardly and despicable act. And a complete betrayal of the trust of the people who voted them into office again.
For Senator Capito, she is a Republican in a state of Democrats in West Virgina. A state of Democrats, mind you, that absolutely detested Barack Hussein Obama. Ever wonder why Joe Manchin always sounds so much like a Republican, yet he’s registered as a Democrat. It’s because these Democrats look and act like Republicans. They would be better called DINOs (Democrats In Name Only) because that is precisely what they are. The only problem with West Virginians is they typically vote Democrat even when they disagree with the Democratic platform. It’s nonsensical, it’s insane, but it’s a reality. And this is precisely why Capito talks big, but in the end votes Democrat.
Murkowski is in a different, but similar situation. All around the state of Alaska, there are Republicans. However, when you start getting closer and closer to the capital in Juneau, you begin to see a mini-Swamp, as much a microcosm of Washington, D.C., as any other large Liberal-run city. Most Alaskans are hard-working people who cannot afford to take the day off and protest. Take a jaunt to Juneau, though, and go toward the offices of the politicians and you’ll find a cluster of Liberal protesters mouthing off at Trump supporters walking by on their way to work. There aren’t even many of them, but there are enough of them to scare the Hell out of RINOs like Murkowski. She is not a fighter for Alaska, she is a fighter for the Establishment. The Establishment is their God and they fall at the foot of that altar every single day to pray for more gold.
I won’t even talk about the others or Susan Collins who failed the vote on this exact same bill in 2015, instead of joining her kindred Liberal spirits in the Party of the Jackass over her constituents in Maine who are among some of the most poverty-stricken and unemployed in the country. Instead, she is interested in bad-mouthing other fellow Republican senators, body-shaming them for being fat AND unattractive. She’s pathetic and ought to step down from the Republican Party right now.
As for John McCain, I can only say, thank God he had this life-threatening condition temporarily staved off, for the time being, considering that we have paid a very steep price for the Cadillac health care plan he and his fellow government employees enjoy. If only he and the others were forced into the same boat their employers (us) were coerced into boarding.
Some prominent critics had a few things to say about these turncoat liars who knew very well that Obama would be vetoing this bill 18 months ago, so they happily signed onto the bill.
FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon called out the Senate’s six hypocrites. Brandon charged, “Our activists have fought for the better part of a decade, led on by campaign promises and actual votes to repeal Obamacare, to get Republican majorities in the House and Senate, as well as a Republican in the White House. Sens. Dean Heller, Lisa Murkowski, John McCain, Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, and Lamar Alexander each voted for the very same bill in 2015. We now know that these six senators are Obamacare repeal frauds. Even though we’re still wondering if Sen. Susan Collins is in the right party, at least she was consistent with her vote.”
Tea Party Patriots President Jenny Beth Martin said that the seven senators who voted against the clean Obamacare bill broke the biggest political promise in history. She said:
Today, seven Republican Senators betrayed their constituents and the American people by breaking what is arguably the biggest political promise in modern American politics, and refusing to vote to repeal Obamacare. For the last four election cycles, Republican candidates have promised to repeal Barack Obama’s signature legislation and as a result, have increasingly been granted more power in Washington by the American people. Now, Republicans are completely in charge and should find it easy to keep this critical promise that lifted them to power. However, Senators Capito, Heller, McCain, Portman, Alexander, and Murkowski should be ashamed for having flip-flopped and voting against repealing Obamacare, just 18 months after they voted to send virtually the same exact legislation to President Barack Obama’s desk. And the seventh, Susan Collins, seems more concerned with critiquing the looks of House members or the sanity of the president than providing relief to the American people from rising costs and deteriorating quality of care under Obamacare. This is precisely the reason President Trump was elected. It is precisely the reason Congress has an approval rating worse than cockroaches. And it is precisely why the American people voted to drain the swamp in 2016. Tea Party Patriots will never give up the fight to fully repeal Obamacare and restore health care freedom to the American people. We call on President Trump to take action to end the congressional exemption from Obamacare so that senators, their families, and theirs staffs are forced to experience the same hardships that they refuse to lift from the American people. Perhaps if they were forced to live under the law that was unfavorably imposed on the American people, they will finally have the motivation to repeal Obamacare once and for all.
Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued a statement condemning the six moderate senators who voted to repeal Obamacare in 2015 but have reneged on their promise to the American people. Manning declared:
It is sad to see six Republican Senators, John McCain, Shelley Moore Capito, Dean Heller, Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman and Lamar Alexander who voted in 2015 to repeal most of Obamacare have now decided to change their votes when it actually mattered and there’s a president in the White House who wanted to sign the bill. This betrayal of their constituents’ trust threatens to leave the failed Obamacare system in place.
This is outright fraud. These senators have repeatedly lied to the American people about where they stood on one of the signature issues facing the nation.
Obamacare has failed. Premiums are higher than ever and the options on insurance marketplaces are dwindling. In the meantime, the employer mandates still create a disincentive against hiring full-time employees and Medicaid expansion is bankrupting state budgets.
Someone had made a very good comment on some blog. They wrote that Congress should enforce a rule that, if an elected official abandons his constituents and votes with the other party, he should immediately lose his position and have to re-run for his seat under the other party standard. I kind of like that. Then again, that would mean that people like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul would have to run as Democrats! Yikes! Maybe not such a good idea.
This is a travesty and these liars need exposing. As an Alaskan, I have to say I’m personally mortified that my one of my senators was too cowardly to do the right thing. I don’t care how many Leftists were protesting outside your office! They weren’t voting for you anyway! Do the right thing for your constituents. Screw the Liberals. Woman up and vote what’s right, not what will get you face time on CNN and the idolatry of the Washington Post!
Source: Breitbart
Image: AMSF2011, Gage Skidmore
I voted for him!
Feel sorry for you honey. Forgive her Facebook friends, for she knows not what she does.
LAMARAlexANDER HAS T TO GO. HE IS THE SHINING EXAMPLE OF WHY WE NEED TERM LIMITS.
I hope everyone remembers comes election time.
More proof that they don’t give a s**t about the people. Need term limits & cut out all their freebies at the taxpayers expense.
Alexander is a piece of s**t
Might be some recalls in order!
Vote them out!!