Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), one of the staunchest opponents of Republicans’ initial bill to repeal and replace Obamacare who nevertheless voted to pass it through the House, said Saturday that the current version is “not the bill” Republicans promised voters.
In a Facebook post, Amash called the American Health Care Act (AHCA) “an amendment to the ACA that deliberately maintains Obamacare’s framework.”
“Many of the AHCA’s provisions are poorly conceived or improperly implemented. At best, it will make Obamacare less bad,” he said.
Amash said a Democratic lawmaker joked that the first version of the bill “wasn’t a new health care proposal; it was plagiarism. He was right.”
“This is not the bill we promised the American people. For the past seven years, Republicans have run for Congress on a commitment to repeal Obamacare,” Amash said. “But it is increasingly clear that a bill to repeal Obamacare will not come to the floor in this Congress or in the foreseeable future.”
So why did you vote for it, idiot?
He has to say it because the bill will have less than 17% rating. They will ultimately shift the blame of bill passing to Democrats and their supporters will buy it.
So you’re admitting you broke your promise to your constituents, you two-faced bastard?
Yo, MI-3? I’m guessing that any half-bright Dem with a line of populist muckraking could take down this double-chinned smarmy asshole. Y’all Michiganders kindly wanna STEP UP?
Here’s our first glimpse of the damage-control from the “compassionate conservatives”. Let’s hope they can’t come up with anything more convincing than this BS. I’ll bet Amash starts making calls trying to line up another job as soon as he gets back to DC, if not sooner.
Dirtbag.