Good for them! Only 16 say they don't want their constituents to suffer or die unneccessarily. The rest are scum.

they will all do as they are told and vote for it.

'Now, hold on there. I get it, it's all fun and games until it's OUR ASS on the line in an election.' ...

And getting reelected not about saving medicaid

They are just posturing but at the end of the day they will all vote in lockstep because that is what their oligarch owners require them to do. There is no such thing as a moderate republican.

So they may be faced with choosing a primary challenge or being the underdog in the general election.

In other words BBB might be harmful to their re-election chances. Not that other parts of the bill are bad, or that it creates too much debt, or that trickle down doesn't work, mind you, but that it's harmful to them.

A leopard never changes its spots.

is some benefit to poor and working people.

And being able to see their own self-interest can't be taken for granted for Republicans, who tend to vote against it.

Why not threaten to call a vote to topple him? Seems more effective if you wanted to derail this whole process.

medicaid cuts. There’s got to be more than the 16 who were willing to put their names to this message to Thune and Johnson.

Do we have any R Senators taking this stand?

and there's supposedly others (Moran, Schmitt). But they haven't gone so far as that group from the House yet as far as threatening to not vote for the bill.

https://accountable.us/more-republican-senators-admit-the-truth-billionaire-tax-cuts-would-kill-healthcare-for-their-constituents/

Hawley is against the cuts to Medicaid. He has said so several times this year.

Shows the impact of gerrymandering. Only 16 out of how many are truly under threat of losing their seats?

Miller Meeks is a disgusting piece of filth from my part of Iowa who has been running afs how she proudly supports Trump's agenda against the Democrats. Not really a moderate.

I'll believe an actual no vote when she makes one.

She is too scared to hold a town hall. So why all of a sudden grow a conscience.

Or outright become Democrats. Senators could do it too, wouldn't that be a hoot and a kick in the balls to the Orange Man

and they won't get re-elected as Democrats.
No party support as independents.
No, they are stuck.

There are no moderate republicans in the house. There are spineless grifters who are terrified of the voters in their district. Who want to at least flame that they tried….. but we know they will fold in the rend.

He’s a useless back-bencher, 17 years in Congress from a safe Republican district — except now Democrats from all over his district have been pounding the shit out him in letters to editors, calls to his office, and attacks on him for not holding town halls and it may be having some effect.

understand that it is important to publicize every act of resistance against Trump? We all need to hear about this.

Not very adult of me, I know. But that's how I felt.

I just wondered if you ever considered that they can both write a letter to publicize their stance AND vote NO. You sound like a real know-it-all. You might be right, but you also might be wrong. There is room for two opinion without being nasty.

they are sure to disappoint. It will pass by one vote and the most vulnerable 2 Rs will vote no...

Which is awful. This is the endless oligarchy bill.