Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday called for Republicans to put in “a lot of work” to fix problems with their bill to repeal Obamacare instead of “trying to rush to some arbitrary deadline.”
“I simply think that it’s not going to work to bring down premiums for working Arkansans and working Americans all across the country,” Cotton said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He called on Republicans to resolve issues with the legislation instead of trying to rush it through.
“It’s fixable, but it’s going to take a lot of work,” Cotton said. “And we need to roll up our sleeves and focus on fixing those problems rather than trying to rush to some arbitrary deadline.”
.@SenTomCotton says the GOP health care bill is “fixable but it’s going to take a lot of work” #CNNSOTU https://t.co/uecToW4lku
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 19, 2017
Or six years ago they could have put the health of Americans before party dogma and worked with the Democrats to create a working bipartisan health plan.
“It’s going to take a lot of work…”
But none of them ever offers concrete suggestions for amending it because every one of their Republican ‘principles’ will take it in the wrong direction.
And he has no real suggestions.
Looking haggard there, Tommy boy…
From a certain perspective, there is a bit of a gallow’s humor going on here.
The biggest problem they really have with Obamacare, is that people call it Obamacare. Which is the moniker they themselves insisted everyone call it when it was passed. So now they are in the process of slitting their throats with this disastrous bill, just to get rid of a name they came up with. They could just make a few changes to Obamacare and leave the Heritage Foundation framework in place, which is basically what folks like Cotton wanted to happen. But noo…
Its like a kid making a mistake on the title of his book report, but instead of using the pencil’s eraser to erase it and re title it, he uses the pencil to stab himself in the jugular and blot out the name with his own blood as he bleeds out.