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What is even the point

to hang Cruz, Lee, Paul, et al out to dry

Which is hilarious because movement conservatives types who celebrate that crew are currently crowing about the vote as a was to 'expose' those who betrayed them past on their past repeal votes.

If Yam blames Congress for months when none of the shiny toys get passed, I could see them turning on him as their best survival option.

After today I suspect more than a few of them are already contemplating this.

It's a happy day!

Ron Johnson runs - literally runs - out of Senate GOP Conference mtg on health care, doesn't want to answer questions

— John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) July 18, 2017

Angst, ennui etc

Coming out of lunch, both Toomey and Murkowski say no decision was announced on whether there would be a vote

— MJ Lee (@mj_lee) July 18, 2017

GOP Will Eat Itself

The banner alert on my Times app just says "breaking health care."

This week's the anniversary of Trump saying "I alone can fix it." (He meant "blame Dems." Blame the teleprompter.) https://t.co/bXnebBzYsl

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 18, 2017

Success!

Trump made it from the beginning to the end of his health-care initiative without answering a single question on the details of the bill.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2017

Nice to see this guy openly flail

"We'll have to see what happens," McConnell answers when asked what comes next if 2015 repeal vote fails

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) July 18, 2017

Wow.
"Well we have a new Supreme Court justice" McConnell says when asked how he'll justify failure on health care to voters

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 18, 2017

he says, anonymously

― I Love You, Fancybear (symsymsym), T

lol yeah

Indeed, sir.

McConnell on what will happen when repeal fails: “My suspicion is that there’ll be hearings about the crisis that we have."

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 18, 2017

Fox News does not have a single story related to the healthcare bill on their front page. Their big blaring headline is...

"Obama UN ambassador to testify in House unmasking probe"

crisis meaning... russia scandals? xp

idk I still imagine the Hill and Trump conspiring to destroy the health markets as much as possible in an attempt to blame Dems in 2018. Not that it's strategic -- the House has blood on its handsalready.

but if they can't pass anything, then the status quo holds - no?

i know it's a bad idea to run on a solely anti-trump platform in 2020, but these campaign ads of trump saying stuff like "i alone can fix it" write themselves

Wow.
"Well we have a new Supreme Court justice" McConnell says when asked how he'll justify failure on health care to voters

— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) July 18, 2017

it's a bad idea to run against two-scoops period. hillary voters will all have been arrested by 11/18 by armed 'kobach watch' small government troopers, rounded up according to the last four digits of "their" SS#s

xpost

Rumblings in the ranks at the press briefing

.@johnrobertsFox leaves briefing early. Sanders notes it from podium. He calls back, "If it was on camera, I might not be." Ooohs.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 18, 2017

we should just not submit a candidate for 2020, maybe "NObody" will win the electoral vote and we can just not have a President for a lil while

press briefings are pointless idgaf if they're filmed or not, tbh they could be cancelled altogether and I'd be fine with that. They're a sad charade that both the WH and the press corps are knowingly and smugly complicit in.

the white house press assoc. flak they had on pod save america did not offer up a rousing defense of his peeps.. 'we said tuff stuff at the correspondents dinner' ya thats not good enough my friend. the fucking dinner is part of the problem.

2:00 PM: President Trump attends a Cabinet Affairs meeting

2:00 PM: Press Briefing with Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

2:15 PM: Vice President Pence participates in a series of meetings with lawmakers

4:30 PM: Vice President Pence participates in a life insurers roundtable

Cabinet AFFAIRS, no less

On the other side of the Hill

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/house-republicans-spending-plan-240673

House leaders have so far fallen woefully short of the support needed to pass a massive spending package without having to rely on Democratic votes.

After launching a whipping operation Monday night to gauge interest, GOP leaders walked away with a tally of dozens of Republican lawmakers who say they can’t commit right now — as well as several hard “no’s” — to voting for the partisan bundle of federal funding measures, according to Republican lawmakers and aides.

The survey underscores GOP leadership's ongoing difficulty in appeasing the party’s most fiscally conservative wing while still holding onto support from moderates, and serves as a reminder that ideological differences within the House Republican conference are likely to force the majority to continue making deals with Democrats to keep the government funded.

The initial vote count was so dismal, in fact, that Chief Deputy Whip Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) told Republican lawmakers in a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning that the tally sets a record for the most “undecided” responses, according to people who were in the room.

press briefings are pointless idgaf if they're filmed or not, tbh they could be cancelled altogether and I'd be fine with that. They're a sad charade that both the WH and the press corps are knowingly and smugly complicit in.

Yeah but the fact it's a Fox reporter trashing Sanders out the door is amusing.

Well I...huh.

Republicans on the Senate HELP Cmte say they will hold hearings on health care "after the Senate votes on the health care bill" pic.twitter.com/c2oV8jm70j

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) July 18, 2017

After I've thrown such a screaming meltdown of a tantrum that my parents have to literally drag me out of the store and apologize to everyone working there, I'd like to sit down with them and have a reasonable discussion about why they should buy me an Xbox.

I said at the first health care defeat in March that it is as bad a loss as I have seen early in a term. Reagan and his kind are dead meat.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 18, 2017

Meanwhile...

Scoop: @ianbremmer says Trump had second, private meeting with Putin during G20 summit. https://t.co/sG7P4IHARG

— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) July 18, 2017

a little rub'n'tug

Both the parties -- and my Democrat friends don't want to hear this -- have got to change, and quick. Because the breaks are similar.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 18, 2017

xxpost lol maybe that explains this exchange on Air Force One, he was confused about which meeting he was being asked about:

Q Are you mad that Putin lied about the meeting that you had with him, especially about —

THE PRESIDENT: What meeting?

http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/07/trumps-name-officially-removed-toronto-tower/

I don't know how long this takes. I'm downtown not too far from there tonight, so I might try to get a photo.

Hmm.

Fox News reporter leaves White House briefing early, blasts ban on TV cameras: https://t.co/s79YkiEdJ1 pic.twitter.com/LYaDTLcP3a

— The Hill (@thehill) July 18, 2017

lol @ FOX finding it impossible to write a crawl without blasting Dems.

politics is one thing; #content is quite another

aw: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449574/republicans-russia-health-care

He sorrows so.

lol the "of which there is no evidence" cliche is starting to turn into a classic case of "who ya tryin' to convince? me or you?"

kind of hilarious logic - "since there's no smoking gun now*, all evidence-gathering and investigation should stop!"

*dubious given the events of the last week

Anyway, health care? Who cares!

Campaign aides Lewendowski & Bossie spotted in West Wing on day healthcare bill collapses, per WH officials. Trump turning to old hands?

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 18, 2017

Also spotted in the West Wing, meeting with Bannon today, as WH pivots away from healthcare and onto other issues: Kris Kobach. https://t.co/Lgl8Fp59qI

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) July 18, 2017

Just in: Trump to rally in Youngstown, Ohio next Tuesday.

— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) July 18, 2017

man even the robots in D.C. are giving up

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/07/robot-security-guard-commits-suicide-in-public-fountain.html

When you're down and troubled,
And you need some love and care,
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and rally in Youngstown, Ohio

many people are saying they have great trucks in youngstown

Waiting for Mitch McConnell to say they're putting together a bill that will peal Obamacare immediately, and they'll come back later and work out the details of the re- part.

Also expect the lowest kids in my school will have a rough time next year when the classroom teachers and the support teachers both decide they're going to step back and let the other side own them.

People so stupid, they should just claim they passed it, made it the best it could be, call it Trump care, then demand the Dems get off their butts to make it better after all that hard work.

And then there's

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/trump-obamacare-markets-subsidies-cut-240684

PUTIN (in Russian): You are disgusting weak pig of man with face like melting candle

TRANSLATOR: You are very handsome

TRUMP: Yes. Yes.

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 18, 2017