Of course.
ABC NEWS – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s public warning that Republicans might have to reach across the aisle if they can’t craft a workable health care bill came as an abrupt shift in rhetoric from the past two months, when the Kentucky Republican repeatedly noted that drafting the health care bill was up to the GOP.
“Either Republicans will agree and change the status quo or … we’ll have to sit down with [Democratic Leader Chuck] Schumer,” he said after leaving a White House meeting with President Trump and most of the Senate Republican conference.
McConnell’s comments could be read as a threat to his conference to fall in line, an acknowledgement of a possible outcome or something else. A spokesman for the majority leader declined to elaborate on this remark, but based on McConnell’s past public statements, it is at the very least a stark deviation from his prior message.
Despite pushing off voting on the bill until after July 4th, McConnell is still reportedly pushing for a deal on the bill by tomorrow:
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing to strike a deal by Friday as several moderate and conservative GOP senators oppose the Senate’s current bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. While McConnell could still win over enough Republican members to pass his current plan, the prospect of the GOP having to work with Democrats to patch up Obamacare is increasing.
I have no sympathy for McConnell on this at all. He promised to repeal Obamacare many times, and yet now he’s threatening to enlist the help of Democrats to pass his RINO health care bill that doesn’t come close to repealing Obamacare?
We’ve sure learned a lot about Republicans this year amidst these Obamacare repeal bills and just how RINO they really are when it comes to their power.
Ugh.