A little off topic but . . .
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Monday, July 24, 2017
Friday, July 21, 2017
What’s wrong with Rob Portman?
cartoon credit: Walt Handelsman
via US News and World Report / The New Orleans Advocate
Scott McKay at The American Spectator asks:
Do Lisa Murkowski, Rob Portman, and Shelley Moore
Capito expect to ever get votes from Republican voters again?
Here’s a question: How long have Republicans been
running for federal office on repealing Obamacare, in Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell’s terminology, “Root and branch”?
Answer: since 2010.
. . .
You would figure that with Donald Trump in the
White House and Republican majorities in the House and Senate, repealing
Obamacare would be a no-brainer.
OK, the repeal-and-replace angle could be harder
to pull off. That’s understandable. There are lots of different kinds of
Republicans, and it might be hard to get all of them to coalesce behind a
single federal healthcare policy to replace it. Those of us whose studies of
the American public sector have led to an understanding that the less federal
healthcare policy there is the healthier the healthcare industry will be have
a far
simpler solution to that problem, but we are unfortunately not the majority
— in the House, Senate or public. That’s a shame, and it’s a symptom of a
larger civic disease, but that’s for another column in this space. There will
be a replacement for Obamacare, and we can hope it’s less awful than what it
stands in for.
But when the Senate version of an Obamacare
replacement foundered and McConnell announced the next step would be, early
next week, an up-or-down vote for an Obamacare repeal now and the crafting of a
replacement as a consensus for one emerges, that’s something an entire GOP
caucus can vote for.
Minus Susan Collins, of course; Maine’s
quote-unquote Republican Senator wouldn’t vote to repeal Obamacare back in 2015
when McConnell’s majority sent a bill doing just that to then-President Obama’s
desk to die. But outside of Collins and Mark Kirk of Illinois, who is no longer
in the Senate, the rest of the caucus was on board with the repeal.
And yet Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, West Virginia’s
Shelley Moore Capito, and Ohio’s Rob Portman have now joined Collins in announcing
they won’t support a repeal when the vote comes up next week.
What is wrong with these people?
Capito laced her announcement with a special bit
of arsenic for Republican voters. “I didn’t come to Washington to hurt people,”
she said.
No, Senator, apparently you came to Washington to
lie to people.
. . .
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Trump Rally July 25 in Youngstown
From The Daily Caller [cross-outs and edits mine!!]
President Donald Trump will hold a rally in
Youngstown, Ohio, next week as his administration struggles [Congress
fails] to follow through on his [GOP campaign] promise[s] to repeal
Obamacare.
. .
. His rally on July 25 was announced Tuesday by his 2020 re-election
campaign. It will be held at 7 p.m. EST at the Covelli Centre.
[map here]
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Monday, July 17, 2017
No repeal of Obamacare, again. Thanks GOP.
art credit: huffington post
The
GOP members of Congress who put the repeal of Obamacare to a vote dozens of times during the previous administration [per Treehouse, the Senate considered only defunding Obamacare, not repealing], and the GOP
candidates who pledged to repeal Obamacare in order to get elected, were all
lying through their teeth. They never dreamed that Trump would be elected and that
they’d be put on the spot to make good on their promises. And take a look at
the two GOP Senators who just announced their intention to vote no! From the AP :
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
latest GOP effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare" was fatally
wounded in the Senate Monday night when two more Republican senators announced
their opposition to legislation strongly backed by President Donald Trump.
The announcements from Sens.
Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican Party's
long-promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama's health care
legislation reeling. Next steps, if any, were not immediately clear.
Lee and Moran both said
they could not support Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's legislation in its
current form. They joined GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of
Kentucky, both of whom announced their opposition right after McConnell
released the bill last Thursday.
McConnell is now at least
two votes short in the closely divided Senate and may have to go back to the
drawing board or even begin to negotiate with Democrats, a prospect he's
threatened but resisted so far.
Some of us had higher hopes for Mike Lee and even
Rand Paul. Lesson learned: they are all politicians. And they lie.
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The Russians Are Coming and Fake News
“Whatcha doin’ up on the wall there, Muriel?”
Doro
Merande in The Russians Are Coming at
Great Big Canvas
Just got back from out-of-town, so blogging has
been light. But I did some of my usual web-surfing en route, and one of my regular Sunday stops is at the American Thinker. ICYMI, Clarice Feldman’s “Clarice’s Pieces” was a good way to sift through some of the Fake News in the MSM. including
the seemingly endless obsession with The
Russians Are Coming. She references Mr. Belmont Club (Richard Fernandez at PJ Media), Scott McKay at American Spectator, and PowerLine, among others, so if you’re short
on time, check out her Sunday articles for quick links to good analyses of phony
baloney reports:
the non-stop media promotion of some nefarious
scheme between Russia and Trump does not pass even the most cursory forensic
examination, proving once again in the age of fake news, you cannot remain a
passive consumer of news. You have to bring to each story the good sense and
diligence with which you handle your most important personal affairs. . .
Nothing so
illustrates why the media has deservedly lost all credibility than its
unending, overdone effort to fit any action on the part of the President or
those around him into a narrative of Russia somehow colluding with him to
defeat Hillary. This week’s take was the short meeting his son held with a
Russian lawyer in Trump Tower last summer. . .
You’ll just have to work harder in the face of
such ignorance and bias to find out what you need to know.
Clarice makes it a little bit easier.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
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