{"id":31607,"date":"2017-09-23T14:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31607"},"modified":"2017-09-23T14:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:25:02","slug":"lied-to-again-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31607","title":{"rendered":"Lied To Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how many times Senator John McCain<\/a> promised to repeal ObamaCare<\/a> when he was running for office. Evidently he doesn’t remember either. So it’s time to take a different approach to repeal. Understand that the Democrats will never support a bill that de-funds Planned Parenthood<\/a>, something that the Graham Cassidy bill does. Every Republican should support the bill for that reason alone.<\/p>\n

A website called The Stream<\/a> posted an open letter to Senator Rand Paul<\/a> yesterday. Here are some highlights from the letter:<\/p>\n

Dear Senator Paul,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let me start by saying \u201cThank you.\u201d On issue after issue, from individual privacy to economic freedom<\/a>, from constitutional war-making to criminal justice reform, you have been a light in an often murky Senate and a muddled GOP<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Your stand on foreign policy in the 2016 election was equally brave and principled. Here at The Stream<\/em> I echoed<\/a> your sensible objections to the Syria policies of GOP establishment politicians. You were right in warning against Marco Rubio\u2019s support for arming Syrian rebels. And against Chris Christie\u2019s proposal to threaten to shoot down Russian planes in defense of jihadists. Indeed, you helped lead the fight to stop President Obama<\/a> from a reckless and destructive U.S. intervention in Syria a year before.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You have been a voice of principle, of course. In the Republican party you may have\u00a0the best claim to Reagan<\/a>\u2019s mantle. His optimism, his confidence that Americans would prevail if the government simply protected their rights and left them alone \u2026 there\u2019s too little of that spirit in the GOP today, much less in the country. In an age where the competition seems to be for the label of \u201cvictim,\u201d you carry on like the Gipper.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is the purpose of the letter:<\/p>\n

I urge you to reconsider your position. To support an imperfect bill for the sake of the greater good. The Graham-Cassidy Bill<\/a> is not the repeal of Obamacare that any of us hoped for. It doesn\u2019t dismantle the huge array of perverse incentives, subsidies, and crony-capitalist tinkering that distort American medicine. However, as National Review<\/em> has noted, it does make some real progress. It does restore some liberty. In fact, the bill offers some concrete benefits not to be sneezed at. Per NRO<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

It abolishes the individual and employer mandates, caps per capita spending on Medicaid, blocks federal funds from going to insurance plans that cover abortion, and lets interested states attain freedom from some of Obamacare\u2019s regulations. Some of those states could use that freedom to create markets in which people outside of Medicare, Medicaid, and employer-based coverage would finally be enabled to buy cheap, renewable catastrophic-insurance policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of those are important improvements. But I\u2019d like to focus on one. Pro-life groups have put heavy pressure on you <\/a>to reverse your stand on this bill. That\u2019s because it\u2019s the one plausible chance to accomplish something which you\u2019ve tried manfully to do on several occasions: to defund Planned Parenthood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The letter concludes:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s crucial to keep the close attachment that evangelical Christians<\/a> and conservative Catholics have had to American ideals of liberty. We don\u2019t want the growth of a statist, nationalist party in America<\/a> along the lines of France\u2019s National Front. That\u2019s not our GOP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With your principled stand on life, your balanced stance on immigration, you could help anchor the party. You might well come to lead it. But if you get blamed for the failure to defund Planned Parenthood, and undo at least some of Obamacare\u2019s damage. \u2026 I fear that will never happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So please, Senator Paul. The causes of life and liberty are here in perfect alignment. So is political prudence. And your own lofty ambitions, which I support. Please change your vote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is obvious that we cannot count on Senator McCain. Can we count of Senator Rand Paul to help end the nightmare of ObamaCare? This may be our last chance to get rid of this horrible law. I suggest that if we cannot end ObamaCare that President Trump immediately sign an executive order putting Congress under ObamaCare. If Congress if going to force the American people to live with a bad law, they should have to live with it also.<\/p>\n

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