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How terrible to be, how many to kill. To expand the politics of the possibility

NEWS: Vote plan as of now per 2 sources with @VaughnHillyard that ends with "skinny" repeal pic.twitter.com/aYqmB9F8iv

— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) July 25, 2017

the freedom caucus are going to love skinny repeal

It's gotta be kind of a cool feeling, knowing you can tell a bunch of guys 'hey, guys, we're going to all vote on something today, not really sure what yet' and know that most of them are going to vote the same way on the thing that they don't even know they'll be voting for except that it's evil.

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Appropriate bait for a bunch of cow fuckers.

So no medicaid cuts?

Profiles in courage

.@SpeakerRyan just now, asked about Sessions: Trump "decides who to hire and fire in the Executive Branch. That's his prerogative."

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 25, 2017

Rand's in

This morning, @SenateMajLdr informed me that the plan for today is to take up the 2015 clean repeal bill as I've urged.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 25, 2017

They are just kicking the can down the road, which is all the GOP is good for. So the Motion to Proceed will probably pass. Rand Paul will be told that it's clean repeal, Murkowski and Heller will be told it's BRCA with less medicaid cuts, in the end it's going to be skinny repeal that is going to be 'fixed' by the house. Who will then proceed to fuck the whole thing up again, once the freedom caucus get's back on it.

so if "skinny repeal" passes, taking out the individual and employer mandates, it will tend to drive up premiums because there won't be enough young/healthy people paying into the system to balance out the high risk pool, right? which is maybe the plan, to "let obamacare fail" (by mutilating it and refusing to fix it).

How big is the West Wing? How did Trump and Sessions avoid each other if they were both there yesterday? If you've ever gotten involved with someone you work with, you know that from the moment you break up, you run into them 20 times a day. Must be a big place, that White House.

in the end it's going to be skinny repeal that is going to be 'fixed' by the house. Who will then proceed to fuck the whole thing up again, once the freedom caucus get's back on it.

normally i'd agree about the dipshits in the freedom caucus, but in this case i can see them agreeing to sign on the bulk of it. if it takes away the individual mandate, they get to go home to the dipshits who voted them into office and say "if you don't like your health insurance, you don't have to keep it!", a sort of twisted version of obama's "if you like your health care plan you can keep it". "because of us the evil government can no longer force you to get health insurance! yay, some of you are going to needlessly die!" = something the freedom caucus might be willing to settle for

really hope Trump fires Sessions tbh

The Freedom Caucus never settles, though...

How big is the West Wing? How did Trump and Sessions avoid each other if they were both there yesterday?

Justice Dept HQ is a few blocks down Pennsylvania Ave.; presumably Sessions' bunker is there.

That's what I should have requested back in 1998--a classroom a few blocks down from the French portable.

This new White House communications director's reaction to a story **that identifies him as the source of the news** is...something. pic.twitter.com/geSbNYNH2l

— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) July 25, 2017

On the lighter side

Hilarious hot mic moment after the hearing ends. Unidentified male senator and Sen. Susan Collins discussing Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas)

— Niv Elis (@NivElis) July 25, 2017

Male Senator assure Collins: “You could beat the shit out of him." Collins remarks: “He’s so unattractive, it’s unbelievable."

— Niv Elis (@NivElis) July 25, 2017

Susan Collins OTM for once

lol

Outic on Sessions - yeah, if they're going to be evil I prefer them incompetent, internally squabbling, and visibly disorganized.

Susan Collins might be fun to have margaritas with.

there's no downside to it, in my opinion. It would get rid of the worst, most effective member of his cabinet, it would create a political firestorm and possibly (hopefully) blowback against Trump, and it would cripple the Justice Dept while Trump flails around for a suitable replacement. Win/Win!

xp

i say they fire sessions and replace him with the mooch. that man seems like he's got ideas.

sessions isn't going to quit. he believes in what he's doing at justice too much.

trump will fire him tomorrow to distract from healthcare.

do we really want to go down the road of him appointing somebody who will then fire Mueller?

Thousand percent in favour of firing--the more chaos, the better. I have a tiny bit of sympathy for Sessions--just the ugliness of such a public humiliation of Trump's most loyal guy--that I know will be laughed at, but it's like Tony Bennett so sagely observed in The Oscar: you lie down with pigs, you come up smelling like garbage.

Imagining the quality of people who will fill cabinet vacancies and other appointments under this administration has somehow become even more thrilling and exciting than it was six months ago.

do we really want to go down the road of him appointing somebody who will then fire Mueller?

yes imo

Trump will soon start tweeting about how unfair it is that he can't appoint currently incarcerated people to run the justice department

xxxp a real turnaround from the hourly doom of thinking they might intentionally amount to anything

xp He can pardon them, can't he?

Trump will soon start tweeting about how unfair it is that he can't appoint currently incarcerated people to run the justice department

Or a certain individual highly placed in the government of the Russian Federation, whose name rhymes with Pladimir Vutin.

Sessions: he mad (allegedly, second hand, etc.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-sessions-is-growing-pissed-at-trump-his-allies-say-and-he-doesnt-plan-to-quit

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has no plans to leave office as friends say he's grown angry with President Donald Trump following a series of attacks meant to marginalize his power and, potentially, encourage his resignation.
“Sessions is totally pissed off about it,” said a Sessions ally familiar with his thinking. “It’s beyond insane. It’s cruel and it’s insane and it’s stupid.”

Buried deeper:

Sessions’ allies also point out that if the president wanted to get rid of Mueller, he could just get rid of Rosenstein. The fact that he hasn’t done so and is, instead, fixated on his attorney general, is treated as evidence that he’s behaving irrationally.
As Trump continues to torment Sessions, some of the AG’s allies have begun advocating steps to re-establish his position inside the administration. In particular, leading conservative voices have begun encouraging Sessions to undo his recusal, arguing that Mueller’s probe has extended beyond activities that happened during the campaign.

Breitbart is none too happy

this Breitbart lede 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/oDy8RyWbUY

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 25, 2017

too bad they can't have a sunny relationship like Clinton and Reno

So @burgessev's latest piece already has @LindseyGrahamSC against skinny repeal pic.twitter.com/gf2SwX1yMr

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) July 25, 2017

do we really want to go down the road of him appointing somebody who will then fire Mueller?

yes imo

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 11:59 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why? Would that cause the Republicans to impeach him or would it just end the investigation and put the matter effectively to rest?

More Collins fun

Here's Collins ragging on Farenthold, start at 36:30. "Did you see the picture of him in his pajamas?": https://t.co/BDZBOFRk6a

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 25, 2017

we have to hit rock bottom at max velocity

So annoying that so little leaks about McConnell. At some point I would love to read what on earth he has been doing for the last months.

would it just end the investigation and put the matter effectively to rest?

there is no "putting this matter effectively to rest" at this point. Firing Sessions would sow chaos and drag things out even further, there would be a fight over his replacement, a number of GOP Senators would be super-pissed to see one of their own treated like dogshit, Congress could just re-appoint Mueller, Trump would be getting himself even further into legal hot water (recall that the only reason Mueller's involved in the first place is cuz Trump fired Comey), on and on

there is no upside to it for the GOP, ergo I encourage Trump to do it

Trump only thinks firing Sessions and then Mueller is a solution because he is an idiot

Why? Would that cause the Republicans to impeach him or would it just end the investigation and put the matter effectively to rest?

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"I want you to get out there and hit back on this death-panel crap, okay? It's completely bogus."

Paul Ryan I understand. He thinks he's smart, and wanted to write a smart bill. But McConnell?

McConnell actually *is* smart and wants nothing but power and to ably serve his paymasters, what's the mystery

Adam Schiff intimated that Congress would just re-appoint Mueller if Trump fired him.

I think it's equally likely that they don't but, I'm not the ranking dem on the intel committee