Can We Do Something Constructive Now?

Emerging from a closed-door lunch meeting, Republican senators told reporters that leadership had decided to call off a vote this week on a bill to repeal much of the Affordable Care Act and convert Medicaid into a shrinking block grant.

“I don’t believe there is going to be a vote,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said, declining to reveal how she would have voted on the controversial bill, but adding: “There’s still a lot of work to do on health care.”

Minutes later, the bill’s authors made the official announcement.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), flanked by Senate GOP leaders, promised the measure would pass eventually, but acknowledged it won’t happen by the Sept. 30 deadline.

  TPM

Eventually? So they're STILL not giving up?

“With a process that gives more intention and time we will repeal Obamacare with a block grant.”

Graham’s co-author, a visibly downcast Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), then confirmed to reporters: “We don’t have the votes.”

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“Let’s engage each other and find a bipartisan path forward,” he said.

Ya think?

Waiting for the nasty tweet from Dotard J.

..but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.