The Republican Senate’s Terrible Week Bodes Ill For The GOP

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The Republican Senate’s Terrible Week Bodes Ill For The GOP
 
Roy Moore's victory in the Alabama special election and the Senate's failed effort to repeal Obamacare point to a GOP whose voters are losing patience.

By John Daniel Davidson   
September 29, 2017
 
It’s been a bad week for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans announced they did not have the votes to pass the Graham-Cassidy health spending bill, marking the second time in three months the GOP-controlled Senate has failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Later that same day, Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced he would not run for reelection next year.

And of course on Tuesday night conservative firebrand and former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore easily won a Republican runoff election to fill the seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. He defeated—by 10 points—appointed senator Luther Strange, who not only had the backing of the GOP establishment but an in-person endorsement last week from President Trump at a rally in Huntsville.

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http://thefederalist.com/2017/09/29/republican-senates-terrible-week-bodes-ill-gop/

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Distrust of Senate grows within GOP

By Alexander Bolton - 09/29/17 06:01 AM EDT  

A day after the GOP presented a united front around the rollout of President Trump’s tax plan, House Republicans are expressing deep reservations about the Senate’s ability to get the job done.

Lawmakers stung over the failure to pass ObamaCare repeal worry the same fate could befall the tax measure if a handful of senators raise objections.

“Donald Trump won with an electoral landside and his three big campaign points were ObamaCare repeal, tax reform and border security. For a handful of senators to derail that agenda is very frustrating,” said Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas).

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/352999-distrust-of-senate-grows-within-gop