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I never watch Colbert or any late-night anymore, but just stopped on him for a few seconds and heard "a flaming blindfolded toboggan ride." Seemed accurate enough.

They'll do it, they'll blame the collapse of healthcare on Obama, and then they'll win their their elections next year.

xxp

what else should we be paying attention to? mooch?

OK fine.

The entire executive branch is leaderless except for the bit where Kelly at DHS is ripping families apart via ICE and CBP. That's literally the only part of the federal government that's got a leader who is capable and empowered to do his job right now.

That piece Michael Lewis wrote about DOE? It applies to almost everything at this point. They're gutting everything, out of sight and in silence. The DoD is trying to run itself with almost no input from the WH. The IC is briefing into a memory hole. Every institutional pillar that has preserved the Pax Americana, for better and worse, is being defunded, denigrated, and dismissed. Oh and science? We don't do that anymore in the government. OSTP is already gone. What happens when the government is only staffed by toadies and PR people?

I get what you're saying tombot but this is worth paying attention to and the result is not preordained

jfc

John McCain just applauded for Chuck Schumer's floor speech calling for senators to vote against skinny repeal, so there's that.

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) July 28, 2017

the health care kabuki could kill millions of americans if it passes and is allowed to stand in court
the executive branch being decimated by neglect has the potential to lead to a nuclear event

Think of it this way: we aren't quite to the point of a nuclear disaster yet, we are indeed on the brink of a healthcare disaster.

I cant really do anything about the executive branch

I'm going to go out on a limb and say both are very important

Sure, but it shouldn't be mysterious why people are focused on healthcare at this particular hour.

we had pre-Obamacare health care eight years ago
we have never had this level of incompetence, absenteeism, and apathy from the cabinet level upwards, not even under the last half-dozen GOP POTUSes (you could argue that some of them, like Dubya/Cheney, did worse by intentionally nominated asshats, and you'd probably end up being right, but I maintain my worries: this is genuinely unprecedented)

i'm sure grover norquist is willing to pitch in

capito and murkowski no so far

What would u like me to do about it tombot

did ted cruz just vote no?

this is not passing?

I had to look away from c-span, not sure whats going on

hatch, cruz, murkowski and capito voted no. and now rubio. and heller

Huh

i worry i am confused here

It's not the repeal vote

It's a motion by a democrat to send the bill back to a committee

I thought this was them voting on a specific change of procedure or something first? That's why the dems are all voting "aye" and the repubs "no," unless I missed something.

i am not sure this is _the_ vote tbqfh

:-(

ah word, it started getting weird with hatch and cruz. sorry all.

The repeal vote is next

Yeah this is a Dem move-to-committee vote

Example of complaints on the right about what's being voted on

http://theresurgent.com/skinny-repeal-does-not-repeal-and-is-not-responsible/

Again, quite obviously our perspectives here are rather different, but you get a sense about why it's so loathed all around.

Nearly every Republican on the floor looks distressed.

The exception?

McCain, Murkowski, Collins — standing together — have a laugh.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 28, 2017

Every body language sign points to doom for McConnell, but again, this could change quick.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 28, 2017

I hate Pence and his stupid horseradish head

Shakey: None of us can do much about it, I guess. I am just feeling overwhelmed with what I perceive as a lot of useless information about something that seems overly predetermined, as we say.

wow mccain just blew a kiss at schumer who caught it & put it in his pocket to save for later?? mcconnell is spinning in circles shrieking!!

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 28, 2017

lol

Hope the McCain murkowski Collins thing is right, though

Huh? I'm watching the stream and everything seems chill. Lotsa smiles all around ...

Graham talking to the Turtle.

we had pre-Obamacare health care eight years ago

yes, but it didn't immediately follow an Obamacare system and wasn't on the brink of a death spiral, crappy as it was. and 16 million people weren't at risk of losing coverage from one year to the next.

one of my close buddies is self-employed and is really anxious about this as the ACA (fuck calling it "Obamacare") got his family affordable coverage for the first time

body language pundit class saying the fact that pence is talking to mccain is a sign they don't have the votes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

looks like they're circle jerking in the middle

Idk all i see is a bunch of dorks standing around

Lol xp

looks like they're circle jerking in the middle

It's called a Cockus.

Trump supposedly said "I promise" to Murkowski.

WHAT DID YOU PROMISE???!!!

Lindsey Graham keeps pacing nervously like he's secretly cropdusting or something

It's no secret.

looking at the job of a Senator, I can't believe these fuckers want to hold onto their jobs so badly, this looks like the shittiest career imaginable

Pretty sure they get free admission to national parks, though.

Also a series of blowjobs iirc

Could soon be one of the few jobs left with guaranteed health insurance.

Why arent they voting already