republican who are actually excited about the bill. they acquiesced to the fact that politically they had to pass something and that is the kind of reality that they are going to hope will shepherd the bill through the senate. julian, quickly. a school of thought, a couple of op-ed out this weekend that mcconnell doesn t want this to pass and get this done and move on to tax reform. what is your view of that? i don t think that is impossible and in fact, i think many republicans are hoping this issue goes away for now that it s defeated and can blame the democrats for being obstructionists, quote/unquote, and they can move on to taxes. look. i think the republicans want to deliver on this promise but i don t think they have a bill that will work and i think they have a bill, if it actually passed, might cause more problems for them politically than it would bring benefits. so i don t think it s a wild speculation to suspect that senator mcconnell might be okay if at the end of the
something to their constituents and the bill will pass just like they said it would. i m in the first school of thought. mitch mcconnell does not want to make people vote for a bill that is 60% unfavorable and 40% favorable. everything bad that happens in health care with premiums and everything else in the next 18 months, voters will say, well, you changed obamacare, congratulations. let the conservatives go. he ll show up wednesday or thursday and say, it s terrible, i did my best. why cast a vote at all? i think he ll pull the bill and say, let s get on to tax reform, infrastructure and some happier talks. they ll revisit it and make some fixes later. it would be amazing if mcconnell pushed this to a vote. how has the president reacted? he said we re going to pass this bill, and he clearly, at least
legislation through. rather quickly. perhaps by next week. the second school of thought is mitch mcconnell sitting in his office, just wants to get republicans a chance to vote. simply wants to let them do that so he can move on to other issues. bret: and possibly use it as an election issue? well, no. i think both things can very much be true. it is possible they will put together i use the vultron analogy that different part of the robot will form up and ted cruz will say here is my piece. part of the working group will put it forward and people will say we like it. this is good. let s go for it. they will vote it, pass it out and send it to conference and away we go. the upside for mcconnell, even if it fails and they bring it out and nobody likes it, they can sink it to the bottom of the ocean in a 55-gallon drum saying no more, we are done talking about this. on to taxes. bret: the problem with that is they control the white house, the house and the senate. as the insura
legislation through. rather quickly. perhaps by next week. the second school of thought is mitch mcconnell sitting in his office, just wants to get republicans a chance to vote. simply wants to let them do that so he can move on to other issues. bret: and possibly use it as an election issue? well, no. i think both things can very much be true. it is possible they will put together i use the vultron analogy that different part of the robot will form up and ted cruz say here is my piece. part of the working group will put it forward and people will say we like it. this is good. let s go for it. they will vote it, pass it out and send it to conference and away we go. the upside for mcconnell, even if it fails and they bring it out and nobody likes it, they can sink it to the bottom of the ocean in a 55-gallon drum saying no more, we are done talking about this. on to taxes. bret: the problem with that is they control the white house, the house and the senate. as the insurance c
legislation through. rather quickly. perhaps by next week. the second school of thought is mitch mcconnell sitting in his office, just wants to get republicans a chance to vote. simply wants to let them do that so he can move on to other issues. bret: and possibly use it as an election issue? well, no. i think both things can very much be true. it is possible they will put together i use the vultron analogy that different part of the robot will form up and ted cruz will say here is my piece. part of the working group will put it forward and people will say we like it. this is good. let s go for it. they will vote it, pass it out and send it to conference and away we go. the upside for mcconnell, even if it fails and they bring it out and nobody likes it, they can sink it to the bottom of the ocean in a 55-gallon drum saying no more, we are done talking about this. on to taxes. bret: the problem with that is they control the white house, the house and the senate. as the insura