Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

And of course everyone's fave

Cruz says he needs more in the bill to drive down premiums. Reporters ask if he'll vote to proceed tomorrow. He's quiet as elevator closes.

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 26, 2017

why couldn't it have closed on his head

Rand Paul won't vote to proceed tomorrow. Ron Johnson, Rand Paul and Dean Heller. That's three.

B(efore)C(hrist)RA is a cute acronym, mitch!

how would people lose employer coverage under this? that I don't get.

It's ending the employer mandate penalty, right? I don't know how they calculate the number of shitty employers who will immediately fuck over their employees.

i don't get why people care so much. 22,000,000 is only 7% of the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We have too many people as it is, right?

y'know that Dickens line about decreasing the surplus pop.

"right sizing the employment pool" is some evil poop

Collins an official no

22 millions, that would be about 60% of Canada suddenly without health care. It is mindblowing.

Yay!

.@JimInhofe on health bill: "I'm not sure what it does. I just know it's better than Obamacare." Asked HOW it's better, gets into elevator.

— Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) June 26, 2017

needs the shaft

this elevator, man

do we have any reason to think this elevator hasn't been hacked by the russians, btw

In @DanaBashCNN interview tonight @lisamurkowski cited at least four major concerns with Senate bill. Hard to see how she gets to yes.

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 26, 2017

Hard to see how she gets to yes.

I expect she'll find a way. Only exception would be if she gets to jump overboard holding hands with six or seven other R senators.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDSa83nUwAApd2u.jpg:large

New: @RonJohnsonWI just told me if senate gop leadership insists on moving to h care this week he will vote against motion to proceed.

— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) June 27, 2017

also a good thread

Attention economy on Twitter encourages continuing the Bernie-Hillary primary fight. In reality, Bernie voters almost all voted for Clinton.

— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) June 26, 2017

Weird to me that Obama's highest rating is Philippines and trump only at 11% in Russia.

Read it the other way around

On Russia, i mean (trumps at 54)

I mean 53. Sorry, I'm making things clear as mud here

trump is at 53% in russia. obama is 11% there.

i guess the philippines thing is due to trump and duterte being buds.

Ah yup the colors obv show the inversion in Russia and Israel. I know the Iran and Bibi factors, but what portion of Israeli opinion is Russian emigres, or even how much favor does Putin have in Israel?

If this bill gets delayed, it gives Collins, et al more time to get bought -- unless protests increase.

$200 billion is p of monopoly money for mcconnell. Unless Collins insists in spending it all on planned parenthood

Susan Collins tweeted that she will vote no. Dean Heller, Susan Collins, what about Lisa Murkowsky?

Most reporting says that McConnell's been writing off Rand's vote from the get-go.

Then it's dead... We'll know this afternoon. I mean, you'll know, I'm going to go on a four day bender in a moment. Hope you'll be able to handle this without me :)

yeah I suspect McConnell counted on losing Collins + Paul long ago.

Isn't there a story that McConnell is anticipating a loss on this bill as part of his playing 6D Chess. All very covert and subtle and stuff.

Also seeing a couple of sources saying that Supreme Court ruling on travel ban actually gives more security to travellers on a couple of points,. Is that just open pollyannaing or is it true?

What McConnell doesn't know is that I'm anticipating his loss and I've been acting accordingly for over a year now

7D chess

is the only reason McConnell wants a vote this week is because he doesn't want to leave it in limbo when members go on recess? or are there other deadlines, like for passing tax reform, that depend on getting this out of the way by a particular date?

what kinda glasses do you gotta wear for 7d chess

I bet that if the GOP were remotely patient and not total dicks, and especially if Trump had not been like that x10 for months even before the get-go, they could have accomplished nearly every last asshole thing they wanted to accomplish.

i watched the documentary 'mitt' one time. worth a watch, lots of behind the scenes footage to a degree that you wonder how or why it was made. anyway, through the whole movie, mitt's advisers were basically spouting lines they'd read from ross douthat and the huffington post and shit, like barely even approaching chess let alone multidimensional chess. i'm skeptical of all the 'trial balloon' covert positioning theories, i think mcconnell wants to pass the bill and is trying to pass it.

He thought that the members wouldn't want to go on recess with the plan over their heads, so would make sure to pass it before. Because of the reconciliation process they have to get it finished before september, but I don't know of other deadlines.

people who donate millions to the GOP have billions of $$$ riding on this. of course they want it to pass.

There's always a crunch to get major legislation out of the way before the next election season starts ramping up. If they have to come back and spend another month trying to behead healthcare then the tax cut debate will take up pretty much the rest of the year, meaning that they'll come back in 2018 unable to do much of anything and possibly with two big self-defeats.

can we keep posting photos of McConnell

having to retract stories about "Russia" (what are the quotes for?) kinda plays into the Mad Tweeter's hands:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/trump-cnn-retracts-story-239988

https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-edition/20141101_USP003_0.jpg

what kinda glasses do you gotta wear for 7d chess

this is the base layer:

http://i.imgur.com/RBaXGwe.jpg

if it doesn't pass now (or doesn't even come up for a vote, more likely), it can still pass in July or August. remember the experience in the house

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/020/925/4dchesss.JPG

if mcconnell and co are playing any sort of medium to longterm game, they might be seeing where their heaviest opposition lies - moderates or asshole far right so they can recalibrate the bill toward those interests, change a few things around, carry the 9, push this medicaid cut to that year, carry the 3, get a new CBO score that's marginally better, and give it another push when the opposition has already played their hand. that's what i'd do if i was even more of a total asshole, and if i teleported into mcconnell's boots

Best photo of McConnell in a while

http://static.politico.com/dims4/default/08a2c5c/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fe3%2F66%2Fca53b3c94a968661e6770af54380%2F170623-mitch-mcconnell-2-ap-1160.jpg

Tied in with this:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/republican-health-care-bill-mitch-mcconnell-trump-239998

Mitch McConnell is delivering an urgent warning to staffers, Republican senators and even the president himself: If Obamacare repeal fails this week, the GOP will lose all leverage and be forced to work with Chuck Schumer.

Dogs and cats living together or something.