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Related: About this forumGardner Stops Pretending that He's Voting for Coloradans
Cory Gardner isnt even pretending anymore.
The Republican Senator from Yuma once touted himself as a moderate voice who would always protect the interests of Coloradans in the U.S. Senate, using this carefully-crafted centrist message to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in 2014. Weve written plenty of words in this space about Con Man Cory and his endless slithering around taking definitive policy positions, but now that the healthcare legislation debate has finally reached the Senate floor, Gardners actions and votes have exposed him as nothing more than a partisan yes-man for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Senate Republicans needed Vice President Mike Pence to cast the tiebreaking vote on Tuesday just to allow them to formally discuss healthcare legislation on the Senate floor. Were now in the vote-o-rama stages of healthcare policy sausage-making, and Gardner is voting YES on everything Senate leadership tells him to support including supporting BCRA legislation with the Cruz amendment that would have all completely gutted Medicaid (the proposal failed on the floor Wednesday night, despite Gardners support).
As the Denver Post writes, Gardner is still comically evasive in answering questions even as he casts one YES vote after another:
The ambiguity is in line with how Gardner has approached the debate overall. For weeks, Gardner has spoken mostly in generalities; one exception was his recent support of per capita caps on Medicaid spending.
Read more: http://www.coloradopols.com/diary/97439/gardner-stops-pretending
madamesilverspurs
(16,011 posts)Unfortunately, he's my "senator".
Damn, I miss Mark Udall!
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