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getting to conference with the House doesn't really solve anything - then they just have to renegotiate a bill and bring *that* back to the Senate, where it will probably have a whole bunch of garbage the hard right and the "moderates" don't like, and then we're back to another nail-biting vote with a thin margin for victory.

the above-referenced scenario with the House agreeing to the stripped down "skinny" repeal is probably going to look more attractive to everybody that matters (incl Trump)

Moral victories!

.@RandPaul: "It's a victory for conservatives that we did get a vote for a clean repeal." pic.twitter.com/CoY9qn3Kbq

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 26, 2017

what is falling out of his nose at exactly 0:57 (as he says 'even as a civilian')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KBBmINdFRs

I still don't get this separate back and forth, honestly

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/26/russia-sanctions-bill-240984

calcified brain matter afaict xp

So let me understand, "skinny repeal" is the one where individual mandate goes away but insurers still have to abide by ACA regulations so they quickly stop offering coverage and there's a massive crisis?

Everyone wins!

https://thinkprogress.org/buddy-carter-snatching-knots-in-asses-murkowski-ba795e4388f5

wow 27 1/2 whole hours . fuck you

Can they really get everything past the senate parliamentarian, though? Wouldn't it have to impact the budget to get under budget reconciliation? I don't understand what's going on at the moment.

On this one, Rand is correct.

It IS useful to see that the same Republicans who can vote for root-and-branch repeal 50 times or whatever - when it's empty anti-Obama symbolism - won't do so when they have full control and it might actually happen.

This is valuable information for both sides.

https://thinkprogress.org/buddy-carter-snatching-knots-in-asses-murkowski-ba795e4388f5

wow 27 1/2 whole hours . fuck you

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:14 PM (

The url...intrigues me

is that some redneck colloquialism I am unfamiliar with?

Can they really get everything past the senate parliamentarian, though? Wouldn't it have to impact the budget to get under budget reconciliation?

they have to show that removing the mandates/medical device tax shows a certain amount of savings, I think that's the only requirement under the Byrd Rule for this effort

After 101 years of life and surviving Pearl Harbor this is how it ends pic.twitter.com/Zkclkj9qlF

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) July 26, 2017

Place not your faith in the Senate Parliamentarian, people.

Once someone tells Trump that there is such a person, that person could be Comeyed, good and hard.

(Side note: as a child, I used to play with the children of the then-Senate Parliamentarian.)

they have to show that removing the mandates/medical device tax shows a certain amount of savings, I think that's the only requirement under the Byrd Rule for this effort

― Οὖτις, 26. juli 2017 23:32 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Right, but... how can repealing a tax mean savings?

yeah i don't get that either

when trump has to talk to a group of people he always defaults to this shitty nightclub warmup act steez regardless of venue or occasion

Right, but... how can repealing a tax mean savings?

idgi either tbh but that's probably what a bunch of these mystery amendments are going to address. maybe the argument is that repealing the mandates = less people in the pools = less people requiring subsidies? idk

Fun deep dive into Kush statement from my buddy:

https://www.justsecurity.org/43522/annotated-reading-kushners-statement-federal-prosecutor-white-collar-defense-attorney/

Only 3 GOP sens voted against both bills. One of them voted for MTP. That means only 2 GOP senators are NOT itching for some kind of repeal. pic.twitter.com/97pXeVUpB0

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) July 26, 2017

Oh well!

https://www.axios.com/republicans-remain-unsure-how-their-health-care-effort-ends-2465871820.html

It ends as everything ends, with death.

I saw more than one comment the other day that the whole approach felt like a 'let's just do it and be legends, man' punt, and so it seems to be.

"This is like a car crash. Everyone will slow down to look at the carnage but no one will get out to help," said one senior GOP aide.

I would say that this is indicative of GOP philosophy in general, except that's probably being unduly generous, a more appropriate analogy would involve them causing the crash in the first place

(but seriously what kind of asshole just drives by a crash without stopping to help)

the whole approach felt like a 'let's just do it and be legends, man' punt

Ooh, ooh, Can they somehow contrive to call it the LEGENDS Act?

"Legislation Endangering Geriatrics and Everyone Not Djillionaires, Seriously (LEGENDS) Act of 2017..."

Ah but of course

Sen. Cornyn on a floor hot mic to Sen. Young: "We're trying to figure out what to do with the individual mandates..."

TELL ME MORE PLZ

— Amelia Frappolli (@AmeliaFrappolli) July 26, 2017

Whoops!

CBO just scored the “skinny repeal” bill. 16M Americans would lose insurance + 20% spike in premiums, per senior Dem aide

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 26, 2017

Is anyone going to come up with an alternative direction? If not, are any Senate Republicans going to oppose a skinny repeal bill solely because of this lack of clarity about where this is all going? When asked this question, one of the current GOP aides answered, "Nope. Because [Majority Leader Mitch} McConnell has some mystical power to convince people he knows what he is doing."

It's really not McConnel Mystery Magic as much as it's the rest of the GOP senators being complete idiots...

Better late than never, etc. And is she wrong?

http://caitlynjenner.com/2017/07/my-response-to-president-trumps-attack-on-transgender-service-members/

maybe if more of these dimwits could be weaned from their 'team' and 'battle' metaphors enough to recognize that their offices entail duties to exercise their own judgment and oversight.... : (

wait, what?

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/steve-bannon-pushing-for-44-percent-marginal-tax-rate-on-the-very-rich/

Rumors just hit overdrive

Everybody in D.C. Shld b warned that the agenda for the judiciary Comm is set for rest of 2017. Judges first subcabinet 2nd / AG no way

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 27, 2017

NEW: Trump talks privately about a recess appointment to replace Sessionshttps://t.co/5pjKo0qw45 @CarolLeonnig @AshleyRParker @PhilipRucker

— Sean Sullivan (@WaPoSean) July 27, 2017

Well, duh, of course he would. This piece of shit president is such a piece of shit on so many levels that I think I'm already burnt out on righteous indignation editorials. Like, fuck you, Trump, and fuck everything about you forever. When you were elected I was not sure the country would survive, and things have not gotten any better. So fuck you, Trump, fuck you forever until you die, and then fuck your kids and your name and everything about you.

It's a horribly fascinating botch to watch. Horrible because all of the real consequences, fascinating because it is, grimly.

Meantime

BREAKING: Bipartisan group of 10 Governors slams "skinny" repeal, agrees with McCain that the Senate should return to regular order. pic.twitter.com/YGE0Jm0YMB

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) July 27, 2017

Josh and Ned otm

Michael Lewis, meantime, with a big new story

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis

wait

government . . . actually does important things?

xp @reggie

Bannon is a culture warrior with larger aims than Trump, or the GOP. He's a populist, yes, but mostly fixated on a perceived decline of the West that came with the 18th century Enlightenment. Tax rates mean little to him, he's trying to roll back modernity. See the Ian Masters interview with Joshua Green, author of Devil's Bargain.

wait, what?

https://theintercept.com/2017/07/26/steve-bannon-pushing-for-44-percent-marginal-tax-rate-on-the-very-rich🕸/

The Intercept has been completely co-opted (if was ever "opted") as a psyops mouthpiece to sow discord in the left while pretending to be of the left, when it's not at all. It's mostly a venue for exaggerated, fact-challenged, unedited barf pieces where the upshot is always "Democrats Suck," to reinforce the insipid bubble that certain people (ahem) live in.

It should merit approximately as much credulity as the NYT editorial page, in other words, although since there's no print edition it's not as useful for a charcoal starter or birdcage liner.

Oh now THIS is fun

SCOOP: Senate Intel Committee Wants To Interview Chuck Johnson As Part Of Trump-Russia Probe https://t.co/ztODX6njWh @dailycaller

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) July 27, 2017

Even better -- it's about the GOP operative suicide guy

Johnson says that he believes that the committee wants to talk to him about his work with Peter Smith, a longtime GOP opposition researcher who formed a team of investigators and cyber sleuths last year to obtain emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private email server.

Johnson, who has reported for The Daily Caller in the past, says that he plans to accommodate the Senate committee, though he will insist on testifying in a public setting. If he ends up giving a closed-door interview, which has been the norm so far for the committee, Johnson says he will likely attend without an attorney present.

He did add that he plans to turn any Senate appearance into a “circus.”

I have a feeling this is not going to turn out the way he thinks.

I just used the word credulity either completely incorrectly or at least really awkwardly but the point stands that not even parakeets can take sufficient shits on the intercept to make it worth anyone's time.

It us

Man behind me at concert in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, pulls joint from pocket, prepares to light & asks friend: "Is Jeff Sessions still AG?"

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 27, 2017

Internal turf wars? Who knew?

Scaramucci financial disclosure spills... https://t.co/ALcQSRxTeI

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) July 27, 2017

In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 27, 2017

I just love how Reince is 'casually' tagged in that tweet.

lol, Christ I hope these assholes all eat each other

Are sentence fragments a topic of concern on Twitter?

when celebrities @ each other, do they expect that the other person will see it? reince probably gets @'d like 4000 times a day (most of those being variants of "hey @reince, fuck you!!!")