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TexasTowelie

(112,226 posts) Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:35 AM Jan 2017

Conservatives fear GOP is losing momentum on Obamacare repeal

WASHINGTON - Congress is ready to start major work this week on dismantling the Affordable Care Act, but conservatives are fuming over lost momentum that they fear could doom a repeal.

Lawmakers missed a nonbinding deadline to deliver details of a repeal plan Friday, and left a Republican retreat in Philadelphia without reaching consensus on a replacement package that an increasing number of Republicans want to see agreed to before the 2010 law is taken apart.

Complicating the effort, Congress is struggling to find its footing with an unpredictable administration whose actions in only one week have distracted from what lawmakers thought was the top item on the Republican agenda.

Some conservatives worry that delay could be costly, perhaps even fatal, sapping lawmakers' drive to repeal and sidelining the effort in favor of other priorities, such as keeping the federal government running.

Read more: http://lmtribune.com/editors_pick/conservatives-fear-gop-is-losing-momentum-on-obamacare-repeal/article_8e74f275-0806-55e8-8dc2-c351794bffba.html

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Conservatives fear GOP is losing momentum on Obamacare repeal (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2017 OP

:) ZM90 Jan 2017 #1

+1 treestar Jan 2017 #4

After 7 years, NOW they're worried about losing momentum? randome Jan 2017 #2

If they were smart, they'd let their assault on Obamacare and safety net programs quietly die Vogon_Glory Jan 2017 #3

maybe because they are realizing that if they did repeal it, Javaman Jan 2017 #5

ZM90

(706 posts)

1. :)

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:47 AM

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treestar

(82,383 posts)

4. +1

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 09:23 AM

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randome

(34,845 posts)

2. After 7 years, NOW they're worried about losing momentum?

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 07:54 AM

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Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)

3. If they were smart, they'd let their assault on Obamacare and safety net programs quietly die

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 09:22 AM

Jan 2017

Much of their base depends on them. If those programs were repealed, a plot of wing nuts would have to face the fact that they aren't billionaires after all, and that like high-stakes gambling, big yachts, and private jets, being a right-winger isn't a hobby for folks of modest means.

Javaman

(62,530 posts)

5. maybe because they are realizing that if they did repeal it,

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 10:04 AM

Jan 2017

what few die hard right wing morons that support the orange menace would suddenly realize that ACA and Obamacare are one and the same.

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