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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday night the Senate will try to separate ObamaCare repeal and replacement, closing the door on the current GOP healthcare legislation.

"In the coming days, the Senate will vote to take up the House bill with the first amendment in order being what a majority of the Senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then-President Obama: a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period," McConnell said in a statement.

The move means Senate Republicans will try to repeal and replace ObamaCare separately, reverting to a plan Senate GOP leadership initially proposed earlier this year, but had to abandon due to lack of support.

like brexit style?

This will never end

Don't understand how a "blame dems" strategy could work when GOP is in unique position of controlling both houses plus white house

that's because you don't know the first thing about gall

the Senate supported it in 2015 when they knew it had no chance of passing Obama's desk, Mitch.

Trump re-certifies Iran deal aka worst deal ever.

Having spent countless hours listening to McConnell & years working with his office, I'd like to offer a few thoughts on tonight's news. 1/

— Adam Jentleson (@AJentleson) July 18, 2017

Rebellion against McConnell, or were they just reluctant to vote for a bill so bad that even republicans could recognize that it was a bad idea?

fuck mcconnell. i wish all these death cult republicans would purple nike it already.

sorry if that seemed harsh but then again not really since they don't give a shit about 99% of the people they supposedly serve.

no you are 100% otm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVuiCfIFKT0

I wish there was an aneurysm fairy

110% otm

In case u were wondering: Trump had no headsup on defections per @jdawsey1 @burgessev@jenhab https://t.co/OiAu9Kp0bY pic.twitter.com/Zf30YyG6aG

— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) July 18, 2017

good, hope his BP is 210/140

Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

This will surprise many!

Donnie's the puppetmaster without strings

There should be an app to watch all Trump interviews like this pic.twitter.com/sthgw5kuKK

— Ben Phillips (@benphillips76) July 16, 2017

Congrats on the good news, everyone.

Yeah, things are really looking up

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/trump-recertifies-iran-deal-after-arguing-with-aides-report.html

Trump has told his team that he’s not going to keep recertifing the Iran deal indefinitely, even if they’re keeping up their end of the bargain. That doesn’t give Iran much incentive to stay in the deal, but that may be part of the plan

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/342380-state-department-cyber-official-to-leave-post

Painter’s exit comes as many political appointee positions remain unfilled in President Trump’s State Department.

Getting wacky over there

Just heard a GOP congressman argue that lack of White House engagement isn't poor leadership, it's a blow against the "imperial presidency"!

— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) July 18, 2017

the Post-Prandial Presidency

Meantime, good times and camaraderie:

https://apnews.com/8dc3b9f1d7f140abb273464d35c1f810

As the government’s Russia investigations heat up, a growing cast of lawyers is signing up to defend President Donald Trump and his associates. But the interests of those lawyers — and their clients — don’t always align, adding a new layer of drama and suspicion in a White House already rife with internal rivalries.

Trump himself has both an outside legal team and a new in-house special counsel, Ty Cobb, for Russia-related matters. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who is also Trump’s son-in-law, has a pair of high-powered attorneys working for him. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., recently hired his own lawyer. And former campaign aides who expect to be caught up in the expanding probes are also shopping for representation — and dealing with sticker-shock over the price tags.

The result is a crowded group of high-priced attorneys bent on defending their own clients, even if it means elbowing those clients’ colleagues.

“Any one of those individuals can anticipate that they will be in a position to provide information adverse to any of the other individuals,” said Stephen Gillers, a New York University law professor and legal ethics expert. “They have to have their own lawyer.”

I would have never dared to hope GOP might screw up tax cuts, but it looks as if it could happen: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/18/15983410/republican-civil-war-budget-resolution-tax-reform I would still say small chance. But still.

lol keep whining Donny

The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of current 60 votes. Even parts of full Repeal need 60. 8 Dems control Senate. Crazy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

Michael Caputo, another former campaign aide, met with House lawmakers last week and says he expects to testify again in front of senators and potentially Mueller’s team. Caputo is being represented by former New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco, and said he’s liquidating his children’s college funds to pay the bills.

Asked about the campaign money covering Don Jr. and other folks’ legal fees, he responded: “Lucky for them. And unlucky for me. And unlucky for my children who are now going to community college.”

And your children will thank you for your wise decisions in life up to this point.

He should press Trump to push free college tuition, that should work.

or he can vote Sanders 2020

Can't remember if we have a more appropriate thread for famous child molesters or something, but Dennis Hastert's a free man again:

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/dennis-hastert-out-of-minnesota-prison-bop-records-show/

Gross

13 months ffs

That's like 15 years in dog years, imagine how it feels to be a dog.

not defending DH's actions, but the applicable term is ephebophile

what's the dog-years equivalent there

seriously bummed this tax cut keeps failing. a major problem in the US is the gap between rich and poor is just way too narrow

drudgesiren.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFBW-OnVoAAiWO3.jpg

Life imitating art. https://newrepublic.com/article/143875/living-coen-brothers-darkest-comedy

The past six months of the GOP being in complete control of the federal government is like some mid-level loud mouth who's spent years railing about how his place of work is run and how he could do it so much better than those clowns at the top and then he's suddenly promoted to president and gets to demonstrate that his only skills are floundering and impotently blaming others for his own incompetence.

the children's story about the emperor's new clothes comes to mind too

not a lot of people know this, but those are the most important skills in life

xp

btw lol @ Trump complaining about the 60 vote threshold when he only needed 50 to pass his stupid AHCA

Burn After Reading is a fun movie though

yeah those 8 dem senators holding the Trump agenda hostage-- Let's hear their names!

Hillary!

and

Now should be just about the time we saw that "contextual authoritarianism" we've been hearing so much about. pic.twitter.com/OcHbDz4OlE

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) July 18, 2017

does trump even understand that he doesn't need democrats at all for this, all he needs is for his crew of bumbling incompetents to agree on something for once?

hard to blame the President for the AHCA failure yesterday...I mean, he sat in a fire truck, he even tried wearing a cowboy hat...what more could he do?

the chapters about the importance of playing dress-up in the art of the deal were my favourites

he even tried wearing a cowboy hat

Pix please. I feel we all need a little Lonesome Cowboy Don today.