...“Moments (after the luncheon), (click here) Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told
reporters that he disagreed with Lee's assertions that there is
considerable grass-roots support to defund the health-care law,” the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe and Paul Kane wrote.
Specifically, Hatch said, “There’s a lot of people upset on both sides, and I just don’t believe anybody benefits from shutting the government down, and certainly Republicans don’t. … We’re in the minority, we have to find a way of standing up for our principles without immolating ourselves in front of everybody, in a way when we don’t have the votes to do it.”...
When the Republicans used to state, "Repeal and Replace," there were many Americans that the replacement would be Single Payer. They never supported no health care law. The Affordable Care Act is a compromise. It includes the private sector which Single Payer does not. The extremists on the Republican side of the aisle have got it all wrong. They changed their message to "Repeal Obamacare" because they had no intention of replacing it with Single Payer or anything else.
It is unfortunate the political extremists in the Congress are wasting the nation's time and money with chronic politicking. At some point in time a reasonable Senator has to look at the facts and what is best for the country and do the right thing. That sort of reasoning is dearly removed from the dialogue of the country and it would seem the Congress as well.
Specifically, Hatch said, “There’s a lot of people upset on both sides, and I just don’t believe anybody benefits from shutting the government down, and certainly Republicans don’t. … We’re in the minority, we have to find a way of standing up for our principles without immolating ourselves in front of everybody, in a way when we don’t have the votes to do it.”...
When the Republicans used to state, "Repeal and Replace," there were many Americans that the replacement would be Single Payer. They never supported no health care law. The Affordable Care Act is a compromise. It includes the private sector which Single Payer does not. The extremists on the Republican side of the aisle have got it all wrong. They changed their message to "Repeal Obamacare" because they had no intention of replacing it with Single Payer or anything else.
It is unfortunate the political extremists in the Congress are wasting the nation's time and money with chronic politicking. At some point in time a reasonable Senator has to look at the facts and what is best for the country and do the right thing. That sort of reasoning is dearly removed from the dialogue of the country and it would seem the Congress as well.
