Pelosi: GOP’s Rush To Vote On Repeal Bill Puts Them In A ‘Lose-Lose Situation’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks to reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday said that Republicans have put themselves in a “lose-lose situation” by rushing to vote on the latest iteration of their bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.

“They’ll lose if they don’t bring it up and it doesn’t win,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference. “They really lose if they pass it.”

She said Republicans are “deluding themselves into thinking that they can hide the truth, or hide from their constituents, when they take their votes.”

“Republicans are in a lose-lose situation,” Pelosi said. “So we welcome them to this great civics class.”

She said the furor over Republicans’ appeal attempt is “almost, I would say, a welcome debate.”

“Republicans are maliciously, again, attempting to destroy health care and coverage for the American people,” Pelosi said. “I would hope that they realize that this is really bad for the country, but I do say that it is good in one respect.”

She said “most people don’t know who their congressperson is” but will learn who their representative is as a result of the intense focus on which members are voting for and against the bill.

“Now they’ll find out,” Pelosi said. “They will find out that their congressperson voted to take away their health care.”

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  1. Hit 'em again, Nancy! HARDER!!

  2. I hope the repeal passes the House of Misrepresentatives by one lousy stinking vote.

    Because then every single Republican becomes “The Congressman That Killed YOUR Healthcare”.

    And if they Abstain, it gets even worse: “The Congressman that COULD have saved your healthcare, but was TOO SCARED to do it”.

  3. “They’ll lose if they don’t bring it up and it doesn’t win,” Pelosi said during her weekly press conference. “They really lose if they pass it.”

    They won't lose. The people they're ultimately going to hurt are a motley crew of low information, self loathing Trump voters that will be ecstatic to lose their insurance and suffer financial ruin during an illness so long as the Satanic liberals also get screwed in the process.
  4. Fixed.

  5. Avatar for nineo nineo says:

    Shorter version: pass it and you’re fucked, and you know it.

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