Thursday, March 23, 2017

Kevin Robillard — Koch network pledges to defend Republicans who vote against GOP health bill

The Koch brothers' network of well-funded outside groups says it will spend millions to protect Republicans who oppose the party's health care bill from political fallout.
Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners, the Koch network's big budget grass-roots activism and advertising groups, are teaming up to create a "seven-figure" reserve fund to support lawmakers who buck President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan on the health care vote, as the threat of primaries looms over some opponents of the bill. The Koch groups will spend the money on paid media, direct mail and grass-roots canvassing.

Freedom Partners called the GOP bill "Obamacare 2.0" and said it falls short of truly repealing the 2010 law....
The Koch groups argue that the GOP's bills refundable tax credits to make health coverage more affordable are a new entitlement….
The GOP goes to war with itself over purity versus practicality.

Politico
Kevin Robillard


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lastgreek said...

The GOP goes to war with itself over purity versus practicality.

For the sake of Americans (as well for the rest of the world, of course), I hope those F#*&ers kill each other off ... literally, not figuratively.

I know I dump headlines here, Tom, but this story today on msn.com regarding American worker safety conditions in the nonunionized auto-parts supplier plants in the American South just pissed me off. And as you are reading the story, you get even more pissed off because you know that OSHA defunding is probably coming soon as part of Trump's MAGA :(

Inside Alabama's auto jobs boom: Low wages, little training, crushed limbs

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/markets/inside-alabamas-auto-jobs-boom-low-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs/ar-BByDueX?li=AAadgLE&ocid=spartandhp

Noah Way said...

Funny, the candidate that spent the most (2:1) last time lost.