Rep. Dave Brat (R-Va.) told PJM that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has violated the law of Moses by not following through on the Republican Party’s promise to totally repeal Obamacare.
Reflecting on President Trump’s time in office, the conservative lawmaker was asked if the president had “excessive expectations” as a candidate, as McConnell has suggested."Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before," McConnell told a Rotary meeting in his home state in August. "I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process."Brat replied that Trump “had the exact expectations that Mitch McConnell and everyone in the Senate promised, that they are going to repeal Obamacare – that’s the expectation we all had.”“Don’t lie, right? The reason we had those expectations is because you all voted on it 50 times on total repeal, not a skinny bill, so that’s a bunch of bull, having the ‘wrong expectations,’ that’s a bunch of bull. The American people had the exact correct expectations if you live in Judeo-Christianity land and you expect people to basically tell the truth, right? It’s in the big 10. Go check Moses,” Brat said during an interview on Capitol Hill.
That's what liberals might call "an inconvenient truth".
It's hard to take away an entitlement as a politician, it never plays out well for them in elections or the media. Even if the ACA wasn't executed in the best way, the approval shot up a bit past 50% after Obama left and it was threatened to be taken.
ReplyDeleteMitch McConnell could promise to try; he was stupid to promise success. And he was stupid to think he could call in every single Republican vote with the terrible bill that he championed. Remember, Trump promised to replace Obamacare with "something better." Nothing better was proposed. Who do you listen to: your party leader, or your Republican (and Democrat) constituents?
ReplyDeleteYou're ignoring that McConnell had promised to repeal Obamacare.
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