Obama To Meet With Hill Dems Wednesday To Discuss Saving O’Care

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama will meet with congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill Wednesday to discuss their strategy to shield the Affordable Care Act from GOP repeal efforts, Politico reported Friday. Both House and Senate Democrats will huddle with Obama at Congressional Visitors Center auditorium at 9 a.m. that morning per a memo sent out to members, according to Politico.

Republicans have made clear that dismantling Obamacare will be on the top of their agenda when the new Congress convenes next week. They have signaled that they plan to use reconciliation—a procedural maneuver that requires only a majority vote in the Senate and thus thwarts a Democratic filibuster—though there have been disagreements among the GOP caucus as to what the repeal bill will look like.

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  1. The gop has voted to repeal the aca repeatedly. How can it not know what a repeal bill looks like?

  2. It should go away. Let all those morons who voted for the party to repeal it, suffer as they should. Kentucky etc need to learn and nothing like pain and suffering caused by their own actions.

  3. Hopefully he’ll be handing out spines as well.

  4. No. I get the anger over their votes but spiting them does no one any good.

  5. Avatar for cabchi cabchi says:

    I’m sure I’m missing something obvious about Obama’s Twelve Dimentional chess, but doesn’t it seem just a tad late to start strategizibg about how to save Obamacare?

    On the other hand, it seems of apiece with Obama’s other (non) actions in the critical and disasterous 2016. First, he finds himself unable or unwilling to exert control over the FBI. Then he decides that his vaunted position as a nonpartisan president (gads!) prevents him from going to the Anerican people in October with a speech spilling the beans on Putin and Trump, thus denying the American people the information they should have had before voting. And finally, he cedes American policy on the Middle East to those great democracies, Venezuela and Malaysia, abandoning the most loyal non-African American constituency he has ever had, while losing even Great Britain and making Donald Trump a hero.

    Really a great way to go out of office Mr President. Congrats.

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