Con Man Cory Finally Feeling The Heat (RE: a member of the 13-man AHCA gang)
Last edited Wed Jun 21, 2017, 06:56 PM - Edit history (1)
by Colorado Pols
As the Denver Post’s Mark Matthews reports–as the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate prepares to unveil their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act tomorrow, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, one of the select group of GOP Senators allegedly involved with drafting the bill, is finally starting to buckle under the intense backlash against both the legislation and the secretive process by which it was written:
“It should be more open,” said the Colorado Republican in a brief interview. “I think there should be (Senate) hearings on this.” But, Gardner said, the fault lies with U.S. politics writ large, rather than with him and other Senate Republican leaders, who are writing the bill and control the chamber’s agenda. [Pols emphasis] “I’m disappointed that we have a Washington, D.C., so fundamentally broken that both sides of the aisle can’t come together to fix” health care, said Gardner, whose role as chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee makes him one of the top GOP officials in the Senate… Asked about the lack of Senate hearings, Gardner said it wasn’t his preference. “I would love to see the Senate hold hearings. I would love that. I have said that before. I have said that for months,” Gardner said.
Unfortunately for Gardner, Matthews didn’t take his word on that last part: Following the interview, his staff was asked to identify when exactly Gardner had called publicly for hearings; the response was that Gardner had done so whenever he had been asked about it, though no specific examples were cited.
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http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/96110/con-man-cory-finally-feeling-the-heat#sthash.UfIe9AiC.dpbs
The article also notes Gardner's well known slipperiness, "...Gardner has used the Affordable Care Act as his foremost political grandstand ever since his first run for Congress in 2010. Gardner relied on rank misinformation about “policy cancellations” to vilify the law, and even blamed the failure of health co-op organizations on Obama after he himself sponsored legislation to kill their funding."
Cory Gardner: AKA greased pig (my assessment)
Edit to add latest:
http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/96116/breaking-gardner-hasnt-seen-healthcare-bill-cant-answer-specific-questions#sthash.2dVO39BD.p0L6gY8L.dpbs
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What does that tell you? The committee isn't writing it, it's being handed to them by somebody in the White House.
Probably Steve Bannon or maybe another Nazi.
There's no representative government any more, this just became a dictatorship.
Revolution time!
I don't think anybody in the WH has a law degree.
This is f*cked 6 ways to Sunday.
Somebody in the White House is writing it, or it was handed to them by lobbyists from Big Pharma and Insurance. I'm pretty sure that nobody working at the White House even knows how to write legislation. None of them have law degrees and they aren't smart enough or fast enough to do this.
Time to call up the West Wing guys.
