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another mouthpiece forced out

President Donald Trump’s newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, said Tuesday that he is prepared to “fire everybody” in the White House communications shop in order to put an end to embarrassing internal leaks....

Scaramucci confirmed to POLITICO early Tuesday that he planned to start by dismissing assistant press secretary Michael Short at a morning meeting, but that move was apparently delayed. Short, who initially said Tuesday that he hadn’t yet been informed of any decision, resigned Tuesday afternoon.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/anthony-scaramucci-changes-white-house-communications-office-240928

Yeah, either posted here or elsewhere Mooch complained that the press was reporting on something he told the press.

Question: can Scaramucci fire the president?

MTP is gonna pass, thx to McCain. What monstrosity makes it through the amendment process, who knows

portman is for it as well

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170725/portman-will-vote-to-proceed-on-senate-health-care-vote

mccain's an asshole but so are the other 49+ senators who will vote for this thing

basically this floor vote = sausage-making in public, with McConnell hoping that the public shaming involved will keep the caucus together (except for Collins)

Again with Collins ... why is she even a Republican? Where does the Venn diagram intersect?

tax cuts

i think if you just change political parties or switch to independent, you lose a lot of the people who just vote for anyone with a R by the name, and don't pick up enough D voters who would be (rightfully) suspicious of someone who identified as a republican for so long

all this to cut taxes on the top. remember guys, the most pressing national issue is that the gap between rich and poor is too narrow. freedom is stifled, for reasons

welp, here we go, McConnell addressing the Senate = he has the votes for MTP now.

yeah this isnt even a healthcare bill its a tax cut/medicare defunding project

witness the spineless: https://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=c-span-2

a big story of 2017 has been that the GOP is totally unafraid of Dems, voters, their own constituents, the law

& they're right, apparently

— Mark (@haircut_hippie) July 25, 2017

collins and murkowski the only R Nays

Nobody is afraid of anybody, except the voters, who are afraid of everything.

the party of jesus, ladies and gentleman. 3000+ american die on 9/11, let's invade iraq. 20,000,000+ lose their healthcare, medical bankruptcies spike, untold legions of the poor and the sick die, the rich, the camel, heaven, the eye of the needle? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Horrible.

so far, at least

so, Pence for the tie-breaker?

does murkowski have a soul? guess we will find out

five republicans haven't voted yet:

mccain
johnson
flake
inhofe
sullivan

those guys are all yes votes c'mon

what is happening during this lull in the voting? is mcconnell going to each of the five and reiterating his promises to give them shit or whatever?

@jbouie
I confess I am skeptical that Republicans will suffer electorally for this. It's not just voter suppression either.

@jbouie
It's the number of Americans who will accept immiseration as long as they can stick it to the people they hate.

this sounds about right

delicious liberal tears

also, the midterms are more than a year away, several political eras in the future. remember how voters all remembered the blatantly stolen supreme court seat and took vengeance on the republicans 10 months later?

Elsewhere

Ann Coulter emails WashPost w/ msg for Pres. Trump: "Be a man – if you don’t want Sessions, then fire him. You’re the PRESIDENT."

— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 25, 2017

America is a massive beast. It'll take a while for news of its demise to reach all corners.

is McCain in the chamber yet?

it's only johnson and mccain who remain.

NYT had johnson down as someone with "concerns" about the bill, but eh.

guess they're saving the honorary Vote to Kill position for mccain

The public's going to wind up confused as hell about what health care bills Republicans did & did not support. https://t.co/03ia3LNPSO

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 25, 2017

nate silver doesn't get that this is good news for the gop

otm

did coulter have to email the post because she was blocked on twitter or something or couldn't get on air at fox

if they give mccain a standing ovation as he votes in favor of fucking over his country i'm going to garmonbozia all over my computer

with any luck the tumor will strike him down just before he votes

KM at least wait to hear what the Dems are going to sing this time

if they give mccain a standing ovation as he votes in favor of fucking over his country

totally waiting for this disgraceful shit to happen

i'm sure schumer will deliver a labored retort that absolutely no one will listen to

Murkowski voted no as well, so now they have to make a bill that can get 50 out of 50. This isn't over yet.

?

State spox Nauert says of Tillerson: He's taking a little time off.

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) July 25, 2017

here comes mccain

standing o fuck this shit

it isn't over yet because the amendment process is going to be hairy as fuck but it def tilts in favor of something passing

xp

"win" this vote or "lose" republicans are gaming the healthcare of millions of poor and desperate americans. somehow the current political discourse renders that both a matter of fact and a banal observation

#MRGA

actually i guess pence would be the deciding vote here

are they all bussing down to the white house to crush bud light in celebration

I would expect debate/amendment process to drag on for days, no?

i sure hope not. these tax cuts will spur growth ASAP :)