09-25-2017, 06:20 PM
All Republican elected leaders who were present and accounted-for voted on the initial and final Obamacare bills.
Just because the Republicans' lockstep, partisan, unanimous 'no' votes were outnumbered by non-unanimous Democratic 'yes' votes............. doesn't mean there were no Republican votes, obviously. And, it certainly doesn't mean that the Republicans were 'done wrong' or anything like that. They lost, that's all. The Republican opposition and protest wasn't powerful enough to kill the legislation -- despite 39 Democrats joining Republicans in voting 'no'.
Anyway, it was a victory for Obama's Democratic administration. So far, Trump hasn't been able to realize the same type of victory in his promise to get Obamacare repealed and replaced, despite having Republican majority in both houses of congress. There are strongly opposing factions within the Republican party itself who can't agree on a plan -- at least not yet. It's clearly not a matter of the Democrats being less bi-partisan then than the Republicans are now. It's a matter of the Republican party being more splintered now than the Democratic party was then.
Just because the Republicans' lockstep, partisan, unanimous 'no' votes were outnumbered by non-unanimous Democratic 'yes' votes............. doesn't mean there were no Republican votes, obviously. And, it certainly doesn't mean that the Republicans were 'done wrong' or anything like that. They lost, that's all. The Republican opposition and protest wasn't powerful enough to kill the legislation -- despite 39 Democrats joining Republicans in voting 'no'.
Anyway, it was a victory for Obama's Democratic administration. So far, Trump hasn't been able to realize the same type of victory in his promise to get Obamacare repealed and replaced, despite having Republican majority in both houses of congress. There are strongly opposing factions within the Republican party itself who can't agree on a plan -- at least not yet. It's clearly not a matter of the Democrats being less bi-partisan then than the Republicans are now. It's a matter of the Republican party being more splintered now than the Democratic party was then.