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Has Paul changed his mind? Or will he vote yes on straight repeal?

It would be a real maverick move for mccains dying action to be to effectively murder tens of millions of people.

That's what mavericks do right?

I could be wrong but I highly doubt the straight repeal will work when the replace died. Straight repeal is even more obviously destructive.

Has Paul changed his mind? Or will he vote yes on straight repeal?

Paul will vote yes on straight repeal, but Collins, Capito and Murkowski (iirc) all said they would not, so that idea is also dead in the water.

only Ozymandias can save us now

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I don't know what the hell McConnell is doing. If the wheels an old sick man into the senate to vote for a doomed bill that is polling in the twenties...

they probably have a secret bill with free health care for all that will pass unanimously but will secretly have a provision that requires all people receiving the free health care to serve in the army for a year, regardless of age, and if the right % of conscripted don't die as predicted by the actuaries, the difference will be sacrificed to a lion

I don't think that's going to happen. I think that McConnell's gamble is that by forcing people to commit to a vote, the "no" votes will subsequently be more subject to pressure because they'll get a lot of blowback from Donnie Two Scoops, Heritage Foundation, FreedomWorks et al, which will bring them back to the table down the road. None of the leadership guys are ready to throw in the towel - the House precedent is instructive here - they figure this is just another move in a long drawn-out process. Of course, when reconciliation expires they're really up shit creek because then their options narrow considerably. But you can tell McConnell, Cornyn etc are gambling on doing further arm-twisting *after* this upcoming vote essentially draws battle lines.

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lol at "I don't think that's going to happen." after Neanderthal's scenario. good xpost.

anyway tho - having the vote could also blow up in mitch's face if a lot more No's than those decide to declare themselves - hey, we wanna be feted with kickbacks and pork too! - massively multiplying an already impossible horse-trading scene. but if the gambit works and somebody folds for fear of being made famous as The One Who Blew The Chance To Repeal Obamacare then this post will look pretty fucking stupid.

(fear of being The One obviously tempered, based on your electorate, by fear of being Killer Of A Million Kids With Cancer, etc.)

Don't ever count McConnell out.

I just want the damn vote to be over already.

nothing worse for a dude with OCD than to pore over hundreds of terrifying scenarios.

I suspect Shakey is otm

xpost hope he fuckin falls in the shower

Lisa Murkowski still undecided on the motion to proceed.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 24, 2017

Murkowski: "I do not" know what's after MTP.

Appropriate?

"I'm told we're going to be finding that out, which will be very important."

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 24, 2017

You don't know what's in the bill, right?

Murkowski: "That's correct, as far as I know at this time."

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 24, 2017

even Blobfish couldn't have foreseen McCain going awol

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the wikler reporting is based on something a staffer told constituents

the GOP leadership no longer fears Trump -- it's afraid of the Kochs, donors, etc who have wanted this repeal for eight years.

I almost feel like, at least Trump broke all the rules to get something for himself. McConnell is just breaking every norm and going further and further out on a limb in order to pay off his masters. At this point, it's almost pathetic.

almost?

all i know is the gap between rich and poor is way too narrow in the united states. freedom can't fit through. it's time to repeal the abominable shackles of healthcare from the downtrodden and harness all the pent up liberty unleashed

#MRGA

Almostalmostalmost

behold the fiscal conservatives, running government like a business :)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-gop-targets-non-partisan-cbo-for-staffing-and-funding-cuts

Susan Collins says she still doesn't know what's happening w health care, mentions she's heard there might even be a third version of BCRA

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) July 24, 2017

“They ought to be aggregators,” he said. “We ought to take a score from Heritage, from AEI, from Brookings, from the Urban Institute and bring them together for a composite score that would represent a wide swath of their abilities. We think that’s a pragmatic way to rely on the private sector and let Congress rely on a score that’s accurate.”

lol "what this data needs is MORE garbage data!"

I find Trump's use of "beleaguered" as a pejorative really funny. First, big surprise, it suggests he doesn't understand what the word means. Sessions is beleaguered, it's true, almost entirely because of his nutcase president. It also reminds me of something an editor said to me 30 years ago when I handed in a John Candy story: "We may put this on the cover...'The beleaguered dad in Summer Rental'--that's the best you can do?"

haunting
http://static.politico.com/dims4/default/094f12b/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F35%2F6d%2Fd753486e42baad8a276794c5dcaf%2Fmcconnell-ap-1160.jpg

Elsewhere

as Trump admin tries to pass agenda, Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells reporters on AF1 'Congress doesn't have best record’ on getting good deals

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) July 24, 2017

my daddy taught me that. so for now I am deferring to the king of bankruptcy to make good deals for the usa.

omg these poor boy scouts having to sit through a speech by a moron. I assume most of these kids know about the government than he does.

know more. I suck.

Trump now telling kids at the Boy Scouts Jamboree about “fake polls” and “fake news” and his “tremendous crowds”

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 24, 2017

sounds like a good civics lesson

kinda terrifying

Trump tells the Boy Scouts he's going to kill Obamacare; Boy Scouts respond with chants of "U-S-A! U-S-A!" pic.twitter.com/DQpFXJpGGF

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) July 24, 2017

Trump on Price and health care vote: "He'd better get it. Otherwise I'll say, Tom, you're fired! He'd better get Sen Capito to vote for it."

— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) July 24, 2017

Separately, this seems rather recursive

Senior White House official says Sessions-Trump may get worse because Trump watches TV coverage of him criticizing Sessions and gets madder.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 24, 2017

As for McCain

Most Rs do not think McCain is coming back tomorrow for health care vote, given his health and given how unpopular this bill is

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 24, 2017

Senators can vote by proxy, no?

pretty exciting to live in an era where the president's television consumption has massive impact on his actions

only in committee

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LBJ would watch all three networks' nightly news broadcasts simultaneously. But Trump is no LBJ.

He's not even PB&J.

"President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law this morning after reports he was dared not to do it by Walter Kronkite on the previous evening's newscast."

Reagan and his team lived on TV reactions.

One person close to Trump said POTUS asked him about how firing Sessions “would play in the conservative media." https://t.co/Xak0lVbcAu

— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 24, 2017

From the linked story:

President Trump and his advisers are privately discussing the possibility of replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and some confidants are floating prospects who could take his place were he to resign or be fired, according to people familiar with the talks.

Members of Trump’s circle, including White House officials, have increasingly raised the question among themselves in recent days as the president has continued to vent his frustration with the attorney general, the people said.

sweet. Jeff is bad, bad news, and his humiliation cannot come soon enough.

idk that giuliani is any better

or TED FUCKIN CRUZ who is also mentioned as a possibility

Cruz or any other senator would look at what happened to Sessions over these past few months and go "Yeah, think I'll stick with my seat, thanks."