Despite word from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that a draft of the Senate Republicans’ new health care bill will be made public Thursday, top Republican senators say they’re frustrated about being left out of Obamacare repeal discussions.
That includes Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who told reporters Tuesday that he hasn’t seen the bill, “nor have I met any American that has,” according to Bloomberg.
“I’m sure the Russians have been able to hack in and gotten most of it,” he said.
McConnell assured reporters Tuesday that the public will “have plenty of time” to read through the bill before a vote and defended his party’s closed-door approach to crafting it, saying Senate Republicans have been talking about a repeal of the Affordable Care Act “endlessly for seven years.”
H/t The Hill
Not bad. I’m sure he’ll disapprove of it until it’s time to actually vote on it.
The process–or lack of it–is plenty of reason for a senator to stand up and announce opposition. Will you do that, Senator? You call yourself a maverick–will you show that you are, or will you knuckle under and toady to the leadership, again?
Of course he’s senile, but this is still a shocking thing to say, in light of nobody at the WH having seen the bill. We all know the WH is on a party line with the Kremlin, but here he’s implying the same is true for Kentucky Machiavelli McConnell too.
“We have lost the South for a generation,” President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly told an aide after he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
If there were any justice in this world, the Republicans would lose the nation for a couple of generations if they pass this piece of shit.
Oh, by the way, your frustration will be duly noted Senator McCain when you vote for it.
Well Johnny… you just keep saying how concerned you are as you vote yes.