{"id":22707,"date":"2017-06-28T02:19:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2017-06-28T02:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T02:19:52","slug":"whos-telling-the-truth-gop-or-democratic-senate-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22707","title":{"rendered":"Who’s telling the truth, GOP or Democratic Senate leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am certain today that I heard two diametrically opposed statements come from the mouths of the U.S. Senate’s top partisan leaders.<\/p>\n

The Senate was going to vote this week on a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act; then Senate Republicans said “no.” There won’t be a vote just yet<\/em>. They balked because they don’t have the votes to approve it. They might not get<\/em> the votes, either.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, said categorically that Democrats “aren’t interested” in working with Republicans to craft a new health care insurance bill.<\/p>\n

There. We have that statement.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour later, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, told reporters that Democrats “want to work” with Republicans.<\/p>\n

OK. Who’s telling the truth? McConnell said Democrats aren’t interested. Schumer said the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

I guess it depends on the partisan bias of those who heard the statements. McConnell said it in front of fellow Republicans; Schumer made his declaration in front of fellow Democrats.<\/p>\n

I tend to believe Schumer. I would be my hope that Democrats would be willing to huddle with their GOP “friends” in the hope of finding some common ground with regard to what McConnell called a “complicated” piece of legislation.<\/p>\n

The Senate will take up this matter after the Fourth of July recess.<\/p>\n

As Lyndon Johnson would say, “Let us reason together.”<\/p>\n\n

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