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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 01, 2017, 01:07:49 pm
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Cruz and Lee play inside game in health fight
The conservative bomb-throwers are trying to build consensus in the Senate GOP, but their proposal could push the Obamacare repeal bill so far right it collapses.
By Burgess Everett
07/01/2017 07:55 AM EDT
Four years ago, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz launched an all-out media blitz to stop Obamacare implementation that culminated in a 16-day government shutdown. Now the conservative senators are still pressuring GOP leaders to go further than their colleagues in gutting the law, but they’re making their push through quiet backroom conversations instead.
It’s a shift for the Senate GOP’s two leading agitators, who are trying to build consensus in their own unique, hard-line way. And where they end up will ultimately determine whether Republicans are able to pass a bill.
more
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/01/cruz-lee-health-care-gop-240147
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Cruz and Lee play inside game in health fight
The conservative bomb-throwers are trying to build consensus in the Senate GOP, but their proposal could push the Obamacare repeal bill so far right it collapses.
By Burgess Everett
07/01/2017 07:55 AM EDT
Four years ago, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz launched an all-out media blitz to stop Obamacare implementation that culminated in a 16-day government shutdown. Now the conservative senators are still pressuring GOP leaders to go further than their colleagues in gutting the law, but they’re making their push through quiet backroom conversations instead.
It’s a shift for the Senate GOP’s two leading agitators, who are trying to build consensus in their own unique, hard-line way. And where they end up will ultimately determine whether Republicans are able to pass a bill.
more
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/01/cruz-lee-health-care-gop-240147
Good for Cruz and Lee and thanks to Politico for the negative spin.
Little do they know we have our own negative spinners right here.