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This is v bad for mcconnell, his rep is shredded

re: heller, what a dolt, why wouldn't he just vote no now that it's already dead

McCain really screwed Heller.

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) July 28, 2017

lol all the responses to that are some variation of "heller screwed heller"

Aw, Mitch so sad.

here we go, mitch about to say some mean stuff i think

I have such a boner right now at this speech

I think heller was screwed no matter what. republicans turn on their own and don't give them breathing room for strategic votes.

alright fuck this, now he's butthurt, I'ma sleep

This is a sad day for everyone who wanted more people to die

mcconnell crying like a little boy who lost his ball rn is everyting you could want

Well McCain will be dead soon so there's that

he basically just played Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino dint he

So now he wants to move right on to the defense budget tomorrow, the one with wall money?

would bet they didn't want this bill going to the House and gave McCain the "No" due to his circumstances.

Why didn't McCain just stay home and recuperate? All this drama was completely pointless.

idk what Trump is up to right now but p sure it resembles this

https://68.media.tumblr.com/666bc093502119443f92b6efc79309e9/tumblr_o6soikuqNn1vsica7o1_r1_500.gif

No he's gonna b all "wait what does that vote mean...?" Our guy has no idea about parliamentary procedure

Surely I'll be greeted in the morning with fresh tweets trashing the 3 senators.

"hell yeah I saw it, we got 49 'yes' votes, that has to be good. I mean, there's what, 60 senators?....there's 100? so 100 - 49 is....41, right? so we won!...51? I don't follow. what do you mean "carry", what is carrying? ok ok let's say I take you at your word that it's 51 - we still won, right?"

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yeah not looking at the misogynist comments about Murkowski/Collins that are soon to come

McCain, w/e

Was wondering what Heller had to lose by going consistently "nay" on this repeal stuff. He would have one of the easiest newsroom "moderate-R" talking head positions in the world and still be getting paid.

oh now McConnell is pretending he wants to hear Democrat ideas, how cuet

The Republican guy on CNN surely has it right--this was one big middle-finger from McCain to Trump (which he couldn't really do if he'd stayed home, not in the same way).

Golly just say the president is an asshole it's easier

I was hoping he'd ask for the floor and then give the Blade Runner speech

and in scarier news

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/world/asia/us-admiral-nuclear-strike-china-trump-order.html

tho what could he say really

Yeah it's a hypothetical that only gets answered in the moment and that moment is a coup

the mcconnell speech was incredible

People who are, in truth, my friends are falling for this McCain shit

http://i63.tinypic.com/123nwvp.jpg

http://i.onionstatic.com/avclub/5600/79/original/640.jpg

Some goon on MSNBC just pronounced McCain the current "Lion of the Senate"

That's some tired ass old lion.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U5ihC2XpCVs/hqdefault.jpg

How many healthcare bills do we have tomorrow btw, 10? 20?

Trump tweets "3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down".

what a bitchboy

What a fucking loser.

seriously let this fool die now

i want my life back

Trump tweets "3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down".

what a bitchboy

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in the UK this would probably trigger a no-confidence vote and new elections, wouldn't it? a failure of this magnitude? the party of government not being able to pass legislation?

I'm pretty sure the US constitution mandates that there should be at least one non-functional branch at all times.

Did the final Russia / Iran / NK sanctions bill that the Senate voted on take out the bits that the EU was considering retaliatory sanctions over or was it passed as-is?

Surprising no-one - the_donald fucking loves Scaramucci - "they've had six months of attempting to work with Washington, now time to DRAIN THE SWAMP"

"hell yeah I saw it, we got 49 'yes' votes, that has to be good. I mean, there's what, 60 senators?....there's 100? so 100 - 49 is....41, right? so we won!...51? I don't follow. what do you mean "carry", what is carrying? ok ok let's say I take you at your word that it's 51 - we still won, right?"

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― Neanderthal, Friday, 28 July 2017 05:56 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WH staff going down the North Korea World Cup route and showing him edited footage of all 49 senators voting for repeal.

gaggle of communist-leaning magicians and witches had a good 24 hours

yet more proof that magick is real and good

Wow. Good morning!

did you guys ever see that "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" where Peter Lorre bets Steve McQueen over a series of cigarette-lighter ignitions, and if Lorre wins he can chop off Steve's thumb? That's where we are, only it's our head.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 28, 2017 3:52 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think this must be written by Roald Dahl since it turns up in the first series of his Tales of the Unexpected as Man From The South.
That's the version of the story I'm most familiar with , where the twist end has the would-be amputator's wife appear say she already owns everything and show the stumps on her hand where her fingers used to be.
I think McQueen character was supposed to win a beautiful car or similar.