Instead of getting behind democratically elected President Donald Trump and his bold vision for restoring America’s economy to its former greatness, some businesses run by liberals are foolishly taking potshots at Trump at their own expense.

One popular company just took it a step further when its CEO announced that she was promising her whole company would help lead the “resistance” against President Trump.
Outdoor clothing a sportswear company Patagonia, which is based in business-unfriendly California, is dedicating itself to fighting against President Trump. Its CEO Rose Marcario is reportedly unhappy that Trump is reevaluating all the bogus “national monuments” former President Obama used an outdated 1906 law to create as part of a federal land grab.

Said Marcario, “A president does not have the authority to rescind a national monument. An attempt to change the boundaries ignores the review process of cultural and historical characteristics and the public input.”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend should be the life-slogan that Obama goes by. It has never been a secret that Obama is full of love and support for the very muslim countries that want western civilization eradicated, and he has always paid special attention to our biggest enemy-Iran.

In 2011 after Iranian-supplied rockets wiped-out nearly 15 U.S. troops every month in Iraq, General “Mad Dog” Mattis requested to launch a retaliation strike against Iran. Of course Obama denied the request out-right.
nstead of punishing Iran the way a true American President would have, Obama took it upon himself to REWARD them with more than $10 billion in gold, cash, and other assets starting in 2013.

The Traitor-In-Chief stated that he feared such a strike would infuriate the Iranians, and cause the dissent of the Iraqi Occupation to escalate, and he wanted desperately to end that. Obama feared the plan risked starting a war with Iran and he desperately sought to become allies with Iran instead.

In typical fashion, Obama is setting up his lackeys to take the fall for his crimes. Susan Rice agreed to testify before the House Intel panel on Thursday, prompting Former President Obama to jet off to Indonesia on a moment’s notice. He landed in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, Friday. (via ABC News)

Indonesia is one of the few countries that has yet to sign an extradition treaty with the United States, offering protection if an arrest warrant is release for the former president. Barack Obama spent his formative years in Indonesia, the most populated Islamic nation. He lived in Jakarta from the ages of 6 – 10, after his mother married Barack’s step-father, Lolo Soetoro.
Susan Rice served as the national security advisor under Obama, and has been accused by President Trump of spying on members of his transition team before he was sworn into office on January 20th. Investigators revealed that Susan Rice was responsible for revealing the names of members of the Trump campaign who were captured during the course of foreign surveillance, in a process known as unmasking. Rice originally denied any connection to the highly improper unmasking in March, claiming she “knew nothing.” (via Fox News)

However, after new evidence emerged connecting Rice to the unmasking, the former security advisor was forced to admit that she routinely sought the identity of Trump associates. The Democrat narrative immediately shifted. The mainstream media went to bat for Susan Rice, and moved the goalposts. It’s undeniable that Susan Rice spied on President Trump, so the Democrats, and the media, claim the spying was legal — and that Rice didn’t leak the information. However, President Trump never accused Rice of breaking the law or leaking information. Instead, Rice abused her authority, and performed a legal act in a highly unethical manner. She then made the information available to a large number of political operatives, who eventually leaked the information to the press.

CNN, The NYT and now the Associated Press are reeling in scandal after getting caught creating ‘fake news’ and now we know that one big source has been Mass. Senator Elizabeth Warren!
Elizabeth Warren became famous after she was caught using her ‘Indian Heritage’ to get her college and political perks. …Only to find out she has no ‘Indian Heritage’.

She is a great big liar!
Not only is he a big fat liar, she knows she has been lying!

The most recent scandal involves a story the Associated Press invented about an imaginary meeting between EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, and then alleged that some kind of impropriety happened as a result.

The AP had to retract the story. Wonder where the story originated?

Amazing that this is nearly the exact mistake that cost three editorial staffers at CNN their jobs in a scandal that first exploded a week ago today.

It came from Elizabeth Warren who already knew it was a lie. She had already asked the Senate Intelligence Committee to look into it and she already knew it was false!

A Breitbart News investigation uncovered that no such “meetings” took place, the Senate Intelligence Committee was not investigating the matter, and the Treasury Department HAD ALREADY—at the urging of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to now Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin before Trump’s inauguration—looked into it and determined the matter to be entirely “without merit.”

The CNN story said the Treasury Department was investigating the meeting at the behest of Elizabeth Warren who wanted to know whether it had involved a discussion of the economic sanctions the Obama administration had imposed on Russia. She already knew and did not care that she was trying to stir up a lie!
Breitbart News’s investigation into CNN’s very fake news piece forced the network to retract it. That has led to the resignation of three top officials from inside CNN. Now that the Associated Press has made literally the exact same mistake with different actors and players. It alleged a meeting took place that never occurred. That it supposedly led to something untoward that also didn’t happen. The news wire service is not stepping up and holding its staff to the same level of accountability. The only difference between the CNN scandal and this AP scandal is that the AP did not also inaccurately allege the existence of non-existent Senate and Treasury investigations.

You can count yourself how many of the 7 she is guilty of:

Proverbs 6:16-19 – 16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Breitbart reports that Warren’s office has not responded to requests for comment on this matter. CNN’s Kuhn has not denied that Warren was involved in the publication of the hit piece the network has retracted.

Of course then there is the big NYT scandal:

The New York Times was forced to issue a correction on an article. It incorrectly claimed all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that “Russia orchestrated the attacks, and did it to help get [Trump] elected.” The lie was caught during the Comey testimony. Elizabeth Warren was an early caller for the Comey investigation. #JustSayin

Elizabeth Warren was one of the first Democrats to call for impeachment because of the supposed Trump/Russia collusion scandal.

Warren declared that allegations of collusion between President Trump’s inner circle and the Russian government were potentially worse than the Watergate scandal. She repeated that every ‘pressure’ available should be used to take him to the mat.

On a side note, there is also the time:

Life in the White House is a whole lot of hustle and bustle. Everything is important, and everything’s got to get done now. Especially all of the things happening in the Oval Office. The President has the incredible responsibility of signing bills into laws, sending out executive orders and building relationships with foreign dignitaries. This comes with its own set of challenges, like the media that feels the need to record every single move that he makes.

The media is extremely vetted before ever getting near the President or any of the other high profile people who enter the West Wing of the White House, however, when there’s only so much President and so many square feet around him to do their jobs, things can get ugly. The media that usually have clearance to be in the Oval office was recently expanded to include the local affiliates of South Korean news organizations while the South Korean leader and his wife are visiting the President and First Lady in Washington.

Since these are people usually unfamiliar with the practices of the White House in general, and the Oval Office specifically, they didn’t quite behave the way they were supposed to. They got so out of hand at one point that the President actually called them down. They pushed and shoved until they displaced the furniture, knocked over a table and lamp and put the President’s bodyguard on extreme alert.

Via Daily Mail:

“A crush of photographers and reporters nearly broke a lamp in the Oval Office on Friday as they elbowed for room to see Donald Trump meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

It’s customary for a limited contingent of journalists, called a press pool, to be allowed into the president’s office to witness him greeting heads of state.

But Moon’s arrival attracted a larger than usual contingent of foreign press from Korean outlets, and the White House gamely tried to accommodate them all.

Few in the group were familiar with how Oval Office photo-ops work.
As they clambered over each other to get the best view, still and video cameras smacked at least one print journalist in the head.

A few photographers pushed a couch. Which nudged an end table. Which sent an expensive lamp tipping over toward its doom.

A quick-thinking Keith Schiller, the former Trump bodyguard who now serves as director of Oval Office operations, saved the day with a one-handed grab.

‘Easy, fellas. Hey!’ a visibly annoyed Trump scolded. ‘Fellas! Fellas! Easy!’

‘Wow, you guys are getting worse.’

Moon seemed amused.
As impatient shutters snapped fast enough to sound like a Washington downpour, the president turned to his Korean counterpart.

‘They knocked the table down,’ he said.

‘It’s actually a very friendly press. Don’t let that get you, although we just lost a table.’

Schiller, one of Trump’s longest-serving aides, was famously dispatched to the FBI quarters on May 9 with a letter telling then-director James Comey that he was being fired.”

It seems that the press was only more out of hand than usual because of the increased presence, but that didn’t keep the President from holding them to his regular standard. One could assume that President Moon Jae-in was smiling because it’s really not his problem to deal with. It would be kind of like if you’re at a friend’s house and their kids are acting up. You just smile and thank heaven it’s their kids and not yours because you don’t have to deal with the problem.
Other news sources reported more about the incident.

1 London reports:

“A crush of photographers and reporters nearly broke a lamp in the Oval Office on Friday as they elbowed for room to see Donald Trump meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

It’s customary for a limited contingent of journalists, called a press pool, to be allowed into the president’s office to witness him greeting heads of state.

But Moon’s arrival attracted a larger than usual contingent of foreign press from Korean outlets, and the White House gamely tried to accommodate them all.

Few in the group were familiar with how Oval Office photo-ops work.

White House director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller saved an expensive lamp from tumbling to the ground on Friday when a crush of Korean photographers slid a couch into an end table as they jockeyed to get pictures of South Korean President Moon Jae-in.”

Before Barack Obama left office, he secretly funneled billions of dollars to radical anti-Trump groups, who are now serving as the militant arm of his shadow government. Obama’s pet project is now fully blossoming, as we see rabid anti-Trump groups like Antifa, MoveOn, Our Revolution, Indivisible, CREDO making up Obama’s “resistance movement,” who are now doing everything in their power to cause chaos and bring President Trump down.

Now in the light of President Trump taking a sledge hammer to Obama’s “legacy” of Obamacare, Obama is massively pissed. And as a way to get revenge on Trump and everyone who supports him, Obama and his lefists are now plotting to “make Independence Day a living hell for Republicans, in an anti-American move that will leave you speechless.
July 4th is a sacred holiday for many Americans, and a day that ALL AMERICANS should come together to celebrate our independence from the tyrants who once controlled us, despite being a Republican or Democrat. But because of the massive amount of patriotism and love for country that goes along with July 4th celebrations, liberals across the nation are now dubbing the holiday a “Republican holiday,” since naturally, these anti-American morons aren’t too thrilled about spending the day waving American flags around and celebrating our country.
So in a disgusting attempt to get back at Trump and Republicans for destroying Obamacare, nasty liberals across the nation have now announced their plans to hijack the day, where they’ve promised to make Independence Day “a living hell for Republicans” with left-leaning groups promising to interrupt parades and celebrations to make the day all all about their temper tantrum over Obamacare. According to the Daily Beast:

As the July 4th recess approaches, progressive political organizations like MoveOn, Our Revolution, Indivisible and CREDO, among others, are planning to keep up their momentum with peaceful protests at local Republican senators’ offices, floods of phone calls and even appearances at local Independence Day parades.

Just a couple of months into his U.S. Supreme Court lifelong term on the, Justice Neil Gorsuch started to give the left fits.

Senate Democrats are attacking the new justice which proves how the court has changed– or hasn’t changed– to the right after Justice Antonin Scalia passed away.
We cannot exactly say what they had in mind, but they’re only fuming that Gorsuch would carry on with the same conservative principles as Scalia, as guaranteed by President Donald Trump.

The Democrats in Senate – all of the Judiciary Committee members – whine about the fact that “we’ve got another Scalia,” as ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein, stated.
A few of the positions Gorsuch has occupied that have angered leftists:

Gorsuch publicly disagreed with his colleagues’ decision to pass up a challenge to the McCain-Feingold law’s ban on so-called soft money. He dissented from a ruling enforcing same-sex couple’s rights to have their names on their children’s birth certificates. He lamented the court’s refusal to hear a case about the right to carry a weapon in public. He took a strong stand in favor of churches’ right to public subsidies. And he signed an opinion saying he would have allowed President Donald Trump’s travel ban to go into effect now, in full.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat, did an “I-Told-You-So”, claiming he saw Gorsuch as a “tool of the creepy billionaire coalition,” whatever that may be.

“It sure looks like I was right,” Whitehouse told Politico. “It’s too early to draw any final conclusions, but the early signals are ominous about him being the tool of the creepy billionaire coalition.”

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who worked as a clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun, argued Gorsuch had displayed little of his boasted independent streak.

“In a way, I’m surprised that he hasn’t demonstrated more independence,” he said to Politico. “I am surprised because in his demeanor and his tone he really made a huge effort to show his openness — which some of us thought might be more an act than it was a real persona.”

It’s not only the Democratic Senators that are afraid of Gorsuch. Leftist are identically whiny regarding the new justice.

In an article titled “Neil Gorsuch Is The Anti-LGBTQ Nightmare His Gay Friends Hoped He Wasn’t,” the HuffPo informed that the whole civilized world will come crashing down now that Gorsuch sat on the bench.
Mark Joseph Stein states that Gorsuch is an “unmitigated disaster for the progressive constitutional project.”

“Gorsuch is the worst kind of justice. He is a reactionary who dresses up his cruel, antediluvian views in folksy charm; who professes restraint while espousing extreme, sweeping views; who has no sympathy for vulnerable minorities but believes Christians are being oppressed. And he will guide the course of the law for the next 30 years or more. He is a catastrophe for proponents of civil rights and equal justice. And his influence over the court only stands to grow.

Gowdy is on fire. He’s been utilizing his position on the House Oversight Committee to weed out government corruption and consider people responsible for their crimes. His endeavors have been perceived by his associates, which is the reason he was as of late named the committee’s new chairman. At late hearings, Gowdy has been attempting to reveal reality about the Obama organization’s reaction to Russia’s alleged “hacking” of the election.

The account and claims originating from the DNC are exceptionally suspicious, and it was made clear they’re concealing something as of late when the previous Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, affirmed before the House Intelligence Committee.
As revealed at Allen B. West, while doing a meeting on Fox News a week ago, Gowdy uncovered how the DNC declined to participate with Homeland Security after the hack, and how Johnson was more than willing to give it a chance to happen.

“Not only did they [the DNC] not cooperate with Jeh Johnson, they did not turn the server over to the FBI, I think it’s a little ironic to now criticize, some Democrats are, Johnson and Jim Comey and others for Not giving enough in 2016, when you had a really good piece of evidence you did not bother turning over, “Gowdy said.

After the massive hack of the DNC and consequent dumping of their messages by Wikileaks, the Left was incensed, guaranteeing that it was a Russian endeavor to enable Trump to win the election.
One would feel that they’d be helpful with an Obama-controlled government and attempt to find reality about the episode.

Yet rather than utilize the assets available to them, they avoided the assistance of different organizations.

Gowdy went on to speculate why, “Let me hazard a wild guess.” There may be something else on that server they did not want law enforcement to see? “

“Typically, the reason is, there is something else you do not want law enforcement to see. There is no reason to allow DHS to patch or fix vulnerability in the DNC system. Heaven knows there is no reason to give the world’s premier law enforcement agency, which is the FBI, the evidence they may need to stop another attack from hurting someone else, “he added.

It looks bad for the DNC to not inspire help, so there’s abundant motivation to theorize this is on account of they’re concealing something.

Be that as it may, what? What was uncovered in the DNC’s messages was harming enough, as it affirmed what we as a whole knew to be true–that the Left works as an inseparable unit with their water-carriers in the media and is pitifully degenerate profoundly.

With all the anger and nasty comments coming from Mika and Joe of MSNBC, the video below makes you wonder if the nasty Mika is just an act…Ya think?

These two media wh*res couldn’t be happier that now they’re in the spotlight.
The change has been huge…Mika has called President Trump every nasty thing in the book:

Hour one of the MSNBC morning show began typically enough with Mika and Joe. The assembled gang could barely contain their glee at the prospect of damning testimony from James Comey. That all set the stage for a typical Mika Brzezinski tirade that was honestly one of the most disgusting assaults on President Trump yet. It’s unhinged hate!
“I think Trump is such a narcissist, it’s possible he is mentally ill in a way and this is on the table, I said it months ago and now everyone is starting to say it like it’s new, and it’s ok to say. He’s not well,” she said. “At the very least, he’s not well. And he’s so narcissistic he does not believe the rules apply to him, and that’s where the ignorance label may apply because this is a man who says he can grab women anywhere because he’s famous.”

Then something very curious happened. Scarborough looked off camera and can be heard saying, “What’s that? Wow,” Then Willie Geist showed him something and the two started laughing. Then a clearly not listening Scarborough, banged the table. “Stop right there,” he laughed “I need an eject button.”

“He posted it?” Scarborough appeared to ask someone else?

Brzezinski finally realized that nobody was listening to her and demanded an explanation.

“Nothing I have said is crazy,” she said.

“We’ll talk about it in the break,” said Scarborough barely able to get it out through his own laugher.

The show soon went to break. When it returned Scarborough joked about “keeping it in the guard rails.”

Brzezinski appeared to offer an explanation of her actions. “I am keeping it in the guard rails. Everything I’ve said you all have thought and you know and you’ve said in your own way.”

The more information the alternative media receives about the Obama administration, the more it becomes crystal clear that our 44th president was a crook.

Obama, like a lot of progressive Democrats, used the federal government to increase welfare handouts to his constituents. A new 90-page report from the Government Accountability Office has established that between thirty-five and sixty-five percent of “Obamaphone” recipients lied on their applications, via Daily Caller.
The report makes it clear that this high percentage of fraud was capable because the federal government, through the Federal Communications Commission, left eligibility screening in the hands of companies that profited from signing up as many people as possible.

The “Obamaphone” program, otherwise known as the Lifeline Program, was controversial from the start.

Many conservatives pointed out that the government should not be in the business of giving poor or unemployed people money for cellphones.

Now, thanks to this damning report, we can conclusively see that the Lifeline Program not only encouraged widespread fraud, but also stashed approximately $9 million of assets in private bank accounts, via Washington Times.

Ironically, Missouri Democrat, Claire McCaskill, was the one who requested the GAO’s report.

The very same party that once supported Obama’s federal program is now lambasting it for its complete lack of oversight, via Fox News.

This is akin to a cat burglar complaining about faulty locks on the houses that he’s already ransacked.

In a broader sense, the “Obamaphone” fiasco is proof positive that the era of “Hope and Change” meant federal corruption and big money interests from the very beginning. Obama’s radical rhetoric was done at the behest of Wall Street and private donors.

According to GAO, “Obamaphone” fraud ran so deep that their own investigators fraudulently applied for government phones nineteen different times. Twelve of the investigators were approved, via Western Journalism.

Government waste continues to plague the United States. President Trump should not only think about limiting (or eliminating) the Lifeline Program, which has been around since the 1980s, but he should also look into other drains on the U.S. economy, including fraudulent welfare applications.

Statistics from Los Angeles alone show that, during the fiscal years of 2004/2005, there were 60,634 cases of welfare fraud. Imagine how much worse it’s gotten under Obama, via Get Out of Debt.

Is it just a coincidence that Barack Obama and family are on an extended vacation in Indonesia precisely when Congress is investigating some of his top former officials with possible criminal implications for the 44th president?

It can’t be ignored that Indonesia has no extradition treaty with the US, and that Obama has family in the world’s largest Muslim nation.
This suspect series of events was hinted at by Rep. Trey Gowdy during an interview with Fox News.Gowdy is leading the charge against former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and he’s looking to put former National Security Advisor Susan Rice on the stand, too.
But the one Gowdy’s really gunning for is those two women’s boss – Barack Obama.

Mad World News commented:

Muslims are lashing out as Fourth of July celebrations ramp up. It’s clear they don’t respect our country, or our values.

A Muslim landlord demanded that Asian-American, Duy Tran, remove the American flag which Tran flew immediately after moving to the apartment complex. “I’m gonna leave my flag there, as an American, until she shows me proof that I don’t have the right to leave my flag there,” He shot back. (via The Political Insider)

Duy Tran says his landlord approached him shortly after he moved in, demanding he remove the flag hanging off his balcony — because it was a threat to Muslims!

“What really stunned me is that she said it’s a threat towards the Muslim community,” he told reporters in disbelief, adding, “I am not a threat towards nobody.”

The disgusting request was made just before our Independence Day celebrations. Other apartments in the complex featured proud displays of red, white, and blue.

Managers at the apartment complex refused to respond to questions from the local media. They justified their demand by referring to the safety of the community.

However, Duy Tran is not backing down, and he will not remove his flag willingly. Tran says he hangs the flag to honor his friends who died serving our country.
True patriots have leapt to the defense of the Asian-American, who is proudly displaying our greatest symbol of freedom. Thousands of patriots have complained to the building’s management.

Ultimately, the disgusting demand made by the building’s management reveals an unspoken reality about Muslims in America. Muslims do not respect our country, our flag, or the values it stands for. This is why Muslim immigrants, unlike other immigrants, flaunt American law in favor of their system of Sharia.

If you’re offended by the American flag, then you have no business being in America. America is the number one destination for immigrants the world over. We live in the most free nation in the history of man. If Muslims are not willing to assimilate to our customs and our culture, there are many other immigrants who will.

Now, there’s no denying that Muslims have no intention of integrating into American society. It seems the liberals know this is true, demanding patriots around the country, not just Duy Tran, quiet their patriotism.

Amidst all of the reports from and about the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), most of it in the last ten days is good news.

An excellent article entitled, “He Runs VA. He Soothes Trump. He Is: The Most Interesting Doctor In The World”, discusses the challenges Dr. Shullkin has experienced in his new position. As VA Secretary. After all, he is the first in this position with two attributes that are totally different from all of his predecessors: he’s not a veteran but he is an M.D. Many veterans think this is one good way for the VA to get their house in order.

And the VA announced last week a “Plan to Dispose Of Or Reuse All Its Vacant Buildings in 24 Months” (either by demolishing or setting for reuse). VA Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin said,

“We owe it to the American taxpayer to apply as much of our funding as possible to helping Veterans. “Maintaining vacant buildings, including close to 100 from the Revolutionary War and Civil War, makes no sense and we’re working as quickly as possible to get them out of our inventory.”
Then last week, President Trump signed the “Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017”. This bill will now allow Dr. Shulkin more freedom to reprimand or fire VA employees for failing to carry out the duties of their office. This is not automatic since all VA employees have an opportunity for an Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) for a review of their circumstances. Basically, the grievance procedure has been well established for years.

Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander Brian Duffy commented,

“Accountability must be a two-way street, and today’s signing now provides VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin the authority to manage his people in a manner expected of all senior executives, public or private. Weeding out the non-performers and those whose personal conduct brings doubt and dishonor upon thousands of dedicated employees is essential to restoring the full faith of veterans in their VA.”

We can only hope that with this new too., Dr. Shulkin will be much more able to get rid of the troublesome personnel who were involved with the VA appointment scandal.

But it’s not all good news, depending on your point-of-view. First, Military Times is reporting Veterans with other-than-honorable discharges will be able to access Veterans Affairs emergency rooms for urgent mental health care starting July 5,

At first, this idea may dismay many veterans, but Dr. Shulkin had a more important reason for this decision: he was recently quoted saying,

“We have 20 veterans a day taking their lives; that’s totally unacceptable.”

and

“Suicide prevention is my top clinical priority,” Shulkin said in a statement. “We want these former service members to know there is someplace they can turn if they are facing a mental health emergency, whether it means urgent care at a VA emergency department, a Vet Center or through the Veterans Crisis Line.”

Actually, saving veterans lives is always a good thing to do.

And finally, veterans should register with non-profit Veteran Tickets Foundation (Vet Tix) to have access to hundreds of free events for them and their families during the remainder of the year. Vet Tix has provided veterans, service members, caregivers and family members of those killed in action with more than three million free tickets to major sports games, concerts, and a diverse mix of other ticketed events

Indeed, they list on their website 2, 073, 294 tickets (and counting) they have already distributed.

To give you an idea of what’s coming up in July, Task & Purpose lists 21 events occurring in just this month alone.

We can only hope good news will continue to occur from and about the VA over the next six months of 2017!

In statements echoed by President Trump on Twitter, two prominent Republican senators have called for the GOP to skip the health care overhaul and focus on simple repeal of Obamacare if Republican Senate leadership cannot find 50 votes to move the current health care reform bill forward. Earlier this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that a vote on the health care bill would be delayed until after the July 4 recess.

In a letter to the White House quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said, “On the current path it looks like Republicans will either fail to pass any meaningful bill at all, or will instead pass a bill that looks to prop up many of the crumbling Obama care structures.”

“We must keep our word,” Sasse continued. “Therefore, if on July 10 we don’t have agreement on a combined repeal and replace plan, we should immediately vote again on… the December 2015 Obamacare repeal legislation that the Congress passed but President Obama vetoed.”

Within a few minutes of Sen. Sasse’s discussion of re-introducing the 2015 bill, HR 3762, President Trump tweeted support for the idea. “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!” Trump said on Twitter.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) also endorsed the idea. “I have spoken to @realDonaldTrump & Senate leadership about this and agree. Let’s keep our word to repeal then work on replacing right away,” Paul tweeted.
The 2015 bill in question, HR 3762, was not technically a full repeal of Obamacare either since it also amended the Affordable Care Act rather than repealing it outright. A full repeal would require 60 votes for cloture in the Senate, which is far out of reach. The bill passed the Senate in a largely party line vote on December 3, 2015 by a 52-47 margin.

Sasse has not suggested a strategy for passing a 2017 version of the bill. The problem for Republicans on passage of the current health care reform bill is that nine Republican senators are reportedly in opposition to the bill. Assuming no Democrats cross the aisle, Republicans could lose no more than two senators and still be able to pass the bill.

The current Republican opposition to the health care reform is from both the center and the right wings of the GOP. Moderate Republicans such as Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) argue that the bill hurts too many people on Medicaid in their states while conservatives such as Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) say that the bill does not go far enough in reforming Obamacare. With eroding support from both ends of Republican political spectrum, the current bill has little chance of passage.

Sasse’s plan to revive the 2015 bill is a partial answer in that it should bring the conservatives back on board. The problem is that Republicans would still need moderate votes to move the bill forward.

When the bill originally passed in 2015, Republicans held two more seats in the Senate than they do today. Back then, two Republicans crossed party lines to vote against the bill: Susan Collins and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). Kirk lost his seat to Democrat Tammy Duckworth in 2016, but Collins is still in the Senate and could be counted on to vote against the bill once again. That leaves Republicans with a one vote margin.

Earlier this year, The Resurgent reported that four Republican senators who had voted for the 2015 bill would refuse to vote for a bill that did not allow a slow phase out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. If Shelly Moore-Capito (R-W.V.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Corey Gardner (R-Col.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) stick to their pledge, it would doom Sasse’s plan.

Still, a deficit of five votes is a more surmountable obstacle than the deficit of nine votes that the GOP currently faces. It is possible that pressure could be brought to bear on the four senators who previously voted for the bill that would keep them in the “yes” column.

An additional risk would be with the reform that still must come after the passage of the near-repeal. Democrats might be persuaded to join the reform effort if most of Obamacare was gutted, but they might also adopt a you-break-it-you-bought-it policy that would allow them to campaign against the Republican-created chaos in the health care markets in 2018 and beyond. Given recent Democrat obstructionism, there is little doubt which course they would take.

Still, as the Republican health care reform seems increasingly dead in the water, Sasse’s plan, long shot that it is, may be the only viable option to keep the GOP promise to repeal and replace Obamacare.