You'd think that having to keynote a big Republican dinner the weekend that Obamacare repeal died because of a complete and total fuck-up on the part of Republican leadership would be a cause for some reflection, maybe even some self-examination. If you're Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, apparently not. He was the keynote speaker at the Cuyahoga County Lincoln Day dinner this weekend, and apparently blew the crowd away with utter bullshit. At least that's what Robert Frost, GOP chairman for the county, said.
"He was really incredible. You could hear a pin drop as he explained everything," said Robert Frost, county GOP chairman. […]"Everyone in the media has portrayed the repeal of Obamacare as this chaotic, upside-down, cloak-and-dagger soap opera," Frost said. "What we learned from Gardner is that, when it comes to process, well, process is messy and complicated, but that is what it is supposed to be.
"Funny how you forget that after eight years of not following regular order," a reference to the expansive use of executive orders by the Obama administration.
Eight years ago, the incredibly complex ACA legislation went straight from the House leadership's offices to the House floor for a vote, Gardner said. "There was no debate, there was no discussion, it was crammed down the throat of Congress to be voted on."
Gardner, who wasn't part of the GOP electoral sweeps that seized the House majority in 2010 and the Senate's in 2014, said Republicans have chosen to return to "regular order" in enacting legislation in Congress.
Where to start? If the 18 days in which Trumpcare was crafted and died was what legislative process "is supposed to be" we're in some deep shit going forward. Because it is about as far from "regular order" as anything we've ever seen.
from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2neSNMl
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