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Walk the plank?

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3. Arkansas Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, appearing on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday, urged House GOP leadership to not “walk the plank” by passing a bill that doesn’t fully repeal Obamacare and therefore has no chance of passing in the U.S. Senate.

“I would say to my friends in the House of Representatives with whom I serve, do not walk the plank and vote for a bill that cannot pass the Senate and then have to face the consequences of that vote,” Cotton advised.

Cotton said that the bill, labeled by principled conservatives across the board with such derogatory nicknames like Obamacare-lite, RINOCARE, Ryancare or Obamacare 2.0, reminded him of a similar situation in the early 1990’s that cost Democrats their majority in the House.

Remembering that Stephanopoulos was a former Democrat operative for Bill Clinton at the time, Senator Cotton said:

“George, you were in White House in 1993. You remember when House Democrats voted for a BTU energy tax, not only did that not become law, it didn’t even get a vote in the Senate. And those Democrats lost their next election because they voted on that tax, getting BTU’d.

“I just do not think that this bill can pass the Senate. And therefore, I think the House should take a pause and try to get as close as we can to a good result before they send to it the Senate.”