GOP wants to put Democrats on the spot again with vote on 'Medicare for all'

April 11, 2019 By Rick Moran

Senate Democrats are livid with GOP majority leader Mitch McConnell for forcing them to put their money where their mouths are when it comes to their radical, wildly expensive proposals.

First, McConnell held a vote on the Green New Deal. Every Democratic senator voted "present." Now McConnell has turned his attention to the Dems' "Medicare for all" proposal with a view toward embarrassing them again. .............Democrats are bitterly complaining that the vote is more about politics than health care. 

That's exactly correct. 

McConnell might point out that Democrats are playing politics by introducing the bill in the first place.  There isn't a chance in hell "Medicare for all" would pass the Senate and Democrats know it.  So why shouldn't McConnell take a political route to highlight the out of control radicalism being pushed by Democrats — especially those running for president in 2020?..................Read more