It's fun to hurt people! pic.twitter.com/bAoDfY5T5e
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 18, 2017
Telling moment from Graham:
Notes CA & NY are "big blue states"
“I'm not out to hurt them—but Im trying to, you know, create parity here”
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) September 19, 2017
Asked Ron Johnson why CA/NY House GOP should support this. Says he hopes they realize it's "unfair" that they get disproportionate share.
— Jim Newell (@jim_newell) September 19, 2017
They get a disproportionate share because the other states TURNED DOWN THE SAME FREE MONEY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
I'm losing my mind https://t.co/ulwRQqZUJs
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 19, 2017
if you're at a party and somebody says "who wants cake!" and you say "no," it's now unfair for people who said "yes" to have cake
— Seth D. Michaels ?? (@sethdmichaels) September 19, 2017
Lots of Repubs deliberately not getting the point…
Trump adviser Moore on unfairness of the healthy subsidizing the sick: "people want insurance for their own families, not other peoples' "
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 19, 2017
Then they don't want insurance, because that's how insurance works.https://t.co/UZW9ZmS7OY
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 19, 2017
Baud
I hope CA and NY cut services to their red areas to pay for the cuts.
Baud
OzarkHillbilly
Meanwhile in STL: Restaurant owners in The Grove find ‘Whites Only’ stickers on doors, windows
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Economic anxiety rears its ugly head again.
OzarkHillbilly
Also in STL restaurant news:Police group urges calls to Pi Pizzera about owner’s anti-cop statements
Add Irony to the list of victims of overzealous police.
Izabela
I try to think the best of people, but the way the GOP wants to f over healthcare in this country is an issue which makes me think they are nothing but immoral monsters lacking intellectual honesty and moral decency.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@OzarkHillbilly:
I keep wondering where the Oaf Creepers and 3 IQers are with their Second Amendmenty solutions to government tyranny, and suddenly remembered – now they’re WITH the cops and WITH authority, because n****rs.
Funny how that all works.
SFAW
Do these evil motherfuckers have anything in their play book other than “whatever variation of Cleek’s Law will be most effective today”?
Example #4793 for proof of the absence of a Just God.
oatler.
If the South had won the war it would behave…just like it is behaving. And Fuck the South.
SFAW
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Well, if you’re old enough, you’ll remember that the greatest threat(s) to Americas EVER!!! was/were Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
rikyrah
AL,
I thought that you were going to post the video from Kimmel
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
So I called McCain’s office yesterday for the first time ever.
What the hell: though I’m not an AZ resident, I have a relative who is.
WashingtonDC (202) 224-2235 – press #1
The DC has voice mail, at first the automated message suggests using email, but if you hang on it will connect you to voicemail.
I asked him not to vote for bill that has no bipartisan support, nor a bill that only has 50 votes, nor a bill that tampers with pre-existing conditions, nor a bill that tampers with medicaid. Today I’m going to add don’t vote for a bill that doesn’t have a CBO score.
Every bit helps.
clay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: When people blather about ‘government tyranny’, it’s never about local or state government. (I don’t think they realize that cops actually count as government.)
No, and it’s always jack-booted federal thugs who fill their solipsistic revolution fantasies. And, ironically, they never worry about the actual federal fascists, i.e., ICE.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@clay: People can get pretty worked up over zoning.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Shrillhouse
“Oaf Creepers” LOL
That’s gold, baby. Gold!
Baud
Not good precedent for people who want to sue Equifax
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Under what grounds? I’d think the cases would be pretty different, OPM is a sovereign, and were the folk suing employees?
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Standing. No harm from breach. (based on news reports. Haven’t read the decision.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Not in Houston.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: True. They have won their freedom.
bystander
My only reaction to the picture of those grinning ghouls is to wonder why there’s never a meteor when you need one.
I endured about ten minutes of Moanin’ Joe and David Ignominious tell me how twitler’s UN speech was really quite normal. So, now it’s on to Jacques Pepin to divert my attention.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: even if they had standing and demonstrated damages, I would think they would bump up against sovereign immunity.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Their freedom is under water.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I guess they weren’t employees then, they’d have standing at least.
bemused
@Baud:
Heh, happy to see Kimmel call out lying, liar Cassidy to his huge audience. I think I read Cassidy would have a statement today but I can’t imagine he will justify the bill in any new or creative way. They just don’t bother anymore.
Baud
Direct hit on Puerto Rico. Ugh.
bemused
@bystander:
Normal? Really? Maybe normal for extremely abnormal president Biff.
Baud
@bemused:
hueyplong
@Baud
“I dedicated my medical career to paydays such as the $400 million the Koch’s promise if and only if we pass this. That is why CGHJ must mass.”
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
Here, four cops were so overzealous, they beat a suspect right out of his clothes. The booking video was released last night, showing he had been dragged into the station unconscious and only wearing his boxers. He has now been cited for contempt for not appearing at a hearing because he says he can’t walk.
SFAW
@Baud:
Ron Johnson?
If only Hitlary had visited Wisconsin, right?
And interesting to see Heller give up any pretense of being a non-asshole.
Kay
@Baud:
Oh, God. He’s just shameless.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Jimmy Kimmel has been trending on twitter for the past 10 hours.
SFAW
@Kay:
That’s because Shame read that quote, and committed suicide.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Today is about to cover Kimmel.
Baud
@SFAW: Both sides. No difference.
@Kay: He can be shamed by money. Not by us.
bystander
Any mention of the oath Cassidy pledged to do no harm?
Baud
Video from Puerto Rico is remarkable.
Kay
@Baud:
I have never watched him before – the clip is good. He did a good job. I LOVE that he said he IS politicizing his son’s health problems. They’ve gotten away with that for a long time- the phony politeness rule where you aren’t allowed to talk about anything real.
Elizabelle
I am grateful to Hurricane Maria for displacing Hurricane Trump from the cables.
Had CNN on; could hear the whistling intensity of the winds. Unsettling.
Baud
@Kay: To be frank, I believe he did it the right way. He was serious but composed. I do feel that sometimes the noise of protestors overwhelms the content. But it’s hard to strike the right balance.
LaNonna
We’ve faxed, called and emailed (our reps are blue NYers), and we’re here in Italy for Il Nonno to have experimental medical treatment. I swear if this shit keeps up I’ll be encouraging the 3 children and 7 grands to seriously think about doing the family re-unification visas for residency here, just to protect themselves from “our government”* . It’s just unbelievable how hurtful and evil this administration, and those who support it, truly are. MAGATs
bemused
@Baud:
About what I’d expect, totally full of shit, knows it and doesn’t give a rat’s ass.
Kay
It’s a shame no one covered health care in the last election since it has absolutely dominated Trump’s first year in office and would have dominated Clintons. In ’08 there were whole weeks where McCain and Obama battled over health care- what happened? How could a billion dollar political coverage industry miss healthcare?
Baud
@bemused: Who’s going to vote him out of office? And if he is voted out, who’s going to stop him from getting paid for his service?
Baud
@Kay: Media was too busy not covering climate change.
Lapassionara
@hueyplong: This. The Koch’s are now in charge of health and tax policy. Follow the money.
bemused
@bystander:
He thought it was just a suggestion, do no harm as long as it’s not inconvenient to his political life.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@clay:
Well, them goldurned fed’rul jackboots keep ‘decent, law abidin’ folks from imposin’ the natural order o’ things on them n****rs, ch**ks, sp*cs, f*gs, d*kes ‘n hippies.
So of course it’s tyranny.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Hillary would have been worse!
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Pussy grabbing was headline news.
rikyrah
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Yes…be honest
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m glad we avoided a Goldman Sachs presidency.
Kay
@Baud:
I agree. I was afraid it would be ranty but it wasn’t. Perfect. I went to a candidate training once put on by the Ohio Dems. They filmed us answering a question – the idea was make it good enough so local tv news would use it. It was difficult to do.
rikyrah
@Kay:
The unmitigated gall??
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Pu$$y grabbing was headline news.
bemused
@Baud:
They just go on to be lobbyists, hedge funders, etc as do GOP staffers. Their time in government is just prep time for raking the big money in later.
A five year ban on that after leaving office should be law for federal and state reps and senators. Like that will ever happen…
Kay
@Baud:
The coverage of that election could have been titled “issues of interest to the base of the Republican Party”
I saw a Husted ad yesterday. He’s the Ohio Sec of State and he’s savvy. I consider him the big threat to Democrats winning the governor’s race. He’s promising to repeal “The Common Core”. This is a totally made up far Right issue. It’s nonsensical. I cannot even believe this is the focus of his ad, but as I said he’s a good politician. He must feel firing up the lie machine is the way to go.
Baud
@bemused: To be fair, few actually voluntarily leave off before they are very old. It’s more of an insurance policy.
I’m really not sure how a ban would work. What employment would be permissible?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
Emails.
We’re fucked. When well meaning democrats talk about fighting and people march in nonviolent protest, I’m afraid that we’re well and truly boned in the face of scads of money, single party control and a deliberate course by the leaders of that party to act as if they have a mandate all while they shatter a seven decade set of norms.
Marches can help, but conservatives need fear to back the fuck off – fear of violence from their victims, fear of organized political violence against their totems, possessions and families. Fear of economic ruin by general strike.
Nobody honors pickets anymore. Scabs don’t get beaten, deliveries get made, subcontracted site work on a workplace with a striking labor force still gets done. In a lot of ways, we are back to the 20s in terms of management control of the workplace – it will take similar efforts by labor to flip that.
I want the Koch brothers to have to hire somebody to sweep the bottom of the car every time it goes out, and to check for IEDs on motor routes. I’d like for there to have to be food testers at every Club for Growth or Federalist Society event. I want them to feel fear on a daily basis, that this is the day.
bystander
Apropos Moanin’ Joe’s “Well done!” to twitler this morning, here’s Adam on his thread about the UN speech yesterday:
Yesterday afternoon’s tv coverage was uniformly how awful he was. Joe did bring on Madeleine Albright and John Kerry who both calmly eviscerated twitler.
Baud
@Kay: It’s consistently worked for them. I’d be surprised if they didn’t do it.
Kay
@Baud:
I feel as if “talking on tv” is one of the many, many things people assume they could do well or better than people who do it for a living and really they can’t.
I tried golf once. How hard could it be? Really hard. It’s almost impossible :)
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Unless it’s white people doing those things, conservatives will just welcome it. Even if it’s white people, they will blame liberals and will still welcome it.
Baud
@Kay: Yeah, I’m getting tired of hearing people on the internet talk about how they could do things better. Then why haven’t you?
Baud
The reality is that the formula for stopping the right has always been very simple: Dems control the federal government for three elections, two of which are presidential. That would force change. But implementation is hard.
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I have read quite a bit of labor history over the years and you really have to put yourself back into that time frame totally to get it. They had very few labor laws. There was no “floor”. The labor movement itself inspired the labor laws partly as a way to tame it- to make it less chaotic, more predictable. Once the basic state and federal protections for labor went in people got complacent.
It’s like the “safety net”. At the height of the crash we had 16% unemployment. It was scary how many people were out of work. Page after page of foreclosures in the paper. But they had food stamps and unemployment and home heating assistance so there were no bread lines. The laws themselves act to tamp down some the anger and urgency and the laws come out of the prior movement. A successful “movement” puts itself out of a job because the need for really fierce action diminishes.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Oh, granted – Appalachian Americans and Rust Belt WWC will welcome it, but money won’t. Hedgies and Silicon Valley VC boys and that network of NYC directors won’t like it one bit. Those guys are craven and evil and not stupid – they can easily shrug off a peaceful with a “who cares”, and write a check to some useless vanity “charity”, but if they have to worry whether they’re going to die, they will make changes.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
The combination of laws AND norms made it work back then.
The norms have been shattered, though, and the laws are not being enforced or interpreted out of existence. This has been on the fast track since 2009.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: oh good. broad coverage is need these next 10 days.
bemused
@Baud:
It’s what I’d like to see happen, at least a couple of years. A fantasy, I know.
Two years ago we had a MN Dem senator in my area who wanted to accept position as executive director of an association group that helps Iron Range cities and schools get funds from state and local sources while still keeping his senator seat. That went over like a lead balloon with D’s and R’s alike so he had to give up that idea. Pissed off a lot of Dem voters including me.
Kay
My son and daughter in law have a Danish exchange student this year. He’s going to a Chicago high school, living exactly as one would if one lived in their neighborhood. He speaks and reads English but still- he’s so far from home!
They both have to work the week between Christmas and New Years and I take that week off so we’re taking him for those days. So far all I know about him is he loves soccer.
Tenar Arha
@Kay:
QFT
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I try to educate people about the laws- you don’t have to work for free, etc. I feel as if there’s a kind of historical mass memory that fades, though. My son is in an electrical workers union and the union backed Clinton and, as unions do, came out and told them to vote for her. Of course it;s not “required” but they don’t make any bones about the candidate they support. His young co-workers were making fun of the leadership “this is like Nazi Germany”. They don’t understand any of this. It’s as if these things have existed for all eternity and will always be there. That’s just not true.
Baud
@Kay: We are suffering through a period where a lot of people think they are entitled to be free riders.
Kay
@Baud:
We have a factory here that makes really high quality precision tooling- the tools that make machines. It is the best job in the county. They get hundreds of applicants for every open position. They’re union and they asked me to come reassure members about guns in ’08. I can’t help it – I see their paychecks. Get off the fucking GUNS already you morons.
They have the luxury of worrying about stupid Facebook gun-grabbing rumors. They won’t have a house but they’ll have 15 guns.
Baud
@Kay: No wonder they’re economically anxious.
Elizabelle
Those smiling Republican Senators in the top photograph? They are terrorists.
We made a good start — not far enough — on Obamacare. They’ve lied and scaremongered, and now they want to grab it back from us.
Because two whackjob gazillionaire Republican party donors have more power than the millions upon millions of Americans who did NOT vote for any of this.
This is terrorism.
FlipYrWhig
Unless there’s a lot more context, this line from Harwood doesn’t seem to be about the healthy subsidizing the sick, but about the white subsidizing the black. Which is the whole reason why Republicans hate Obamacare. AND NO ONE EVER FUCKING SAYS IT BUT ITS COMPLETELY THE SOURCE OF THE WHOLE FUCKING FIASCO CHRIST ALMIGHTY
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I worked with a lot of guys like that. Being in a rural local it was nearly all of them, guns over anything else. I always wondered if they’d like their guns with ketchup.
rikyrah
Here is the Kimmel Video:
https://youtu.be/cOlibbx5sx0
Elizabelle
@FlipYrWhig: I don’t think we should make this a racial issue.
I see it, and there is not always a racial context. It’s about “takers”.
We have too many uninformed people who don’t, apparently, understand the concept of insurance, or herd immunity, or how and why more affordable coverage brings down costs for the whole population, over time.
Fuck them. Just, fuck them.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well done with ketchup.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: High in roughage and iron! Very good for the anemic among us. Sadly, a hike in lead poisoning among family members has been detected. Studies are now being done to pin point it’s source.
rikyrah
The Danger to Obamacare Is Real
by Martin Longman
September 19, 2017
In this case, the Democrats are correct. The reason that House Speaker Paul Ryan and the White House are loudly signaling that they have no interest in pursuing the bipartisan negotiations between Senate HELP Committee leaders Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray is because they’re engaged in a whip operation in support of the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill:
A few things have happened in recent weeks that have revived the Republicans’ interest in giving repeal another go. One is that Trump started talking aggressively about turning to the Democrats to make deals since the Republicans clearly cannot deliver on their own. Another is brutal polling data. Gallup has approval of Congress at somewhere between 16 percent and 18 percent in August and September among Republican voters. It was at 50 percent among Republicans in February. For context, Democratic voters give Congress a 14 percent approval number. Probably more importantly, a quick glance at the generic congressional preference polling shows that the GOP’s position has deteriorated badly since the failure in early August to repeal Obamacare. Before August, the Dems’ advantage ranged roughly between two and six percent, with only a couple of more disturbing outliers. Since the failed vote on Obamacare, however, the range is more like six to nine percent. The RealClearPolitics rolling average is actually at 9.2 percent at the moment, which is high enough to predict a wave election that could cost the Republicans control of the House of Representatives. A third recent development is that the Senate parliamentarian clarified that the Republicans must repeal Obamacare by September 30th or give up trying. That’s because their special budget reconciliation instructions will expire at the end of the fiscal year.
rikyrah
Trump Is Isolating the U.S. From the Rest of the World
by Nancy LeTourneau
September 20, 2017
Here is the part of Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly that has received the most attention.
The president of the United States just threatened to destroy a nation of 25 million people. He also taunted their leader with one of his ubiquitous nicknames: rocket man. That is exactly the kind of alpha male approach we’ve come to expect from Trump. It also plays right into the hands of the other alpha male he is dealing with.
Of course, the same could be said for the president’s remarks yesterday about Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela. That is why this tweet struck me as the best summary of the entire speech.
FlipYrWhig
@Elizabelle: But when they imagine “takers” they’re inevitably thinking of lazy black people in cities (“thugs” and “welfare queens”) and brown people who shouldn’t be here (“illegals” and “refugees” who are probably lurking terrorists). Maybe sometimes they’re also thinking of their shiftless brother-in-law who sits on the couch playing video games all day. But it’s always, always “welfare,” and welfare, they think, flows away from them to Those People. I am not kidding: this is virtually 100% of what animates white people who aren’t rich to be Republicans in the first place.
rikyrah
Trump uses RNC donor money to pay his Russia scandal legal bills
09/20/17 08:00 AM
By Steve Benen
As the Russia scandal has intensified in recent months, Donald Trump has been forced to assemble an outside legal team, featuring a curious mix of attorneys who keep making embarrassing mistakes. What we didn’t know until yesterday, however, is who’s paying their bills.
Many assumed the president himself was footing the bill for his own legal team – as a self-professed billionaire, he can afford it – but as Reuters was first to report, it looks like Trump prefers to have Republican donors pick up at least some of the tab.
As Rachel noted on last night’s show, no other American president has ever used donor money this way – a decision made all the more curious given Trump’s vast independent wealth.
Making matters slightly worse, the Wall Street Journal reported overnight that the Republican National Committee has also helped pay for the legal defense of Donald Trump Jr.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/19/17
Trump paying Russia scandal legal bills with RNC donor money
Rachel Maddow shares new reports that Donald Trump is using money donated to the Republican National Committee to pay for lawyers for himself, family and staffers in the Trump Russia investigation.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/19/17
Trump lawyer violates deal with Senate Intelligence Committee
Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen violating his agreement with the Senate Intelligence Committee and being forced to reschedule his testimony to October for a open hearing.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/19/17
Mueller office interviewed Rod Rosenstein on Comey firing: WSJ
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about breaking news that special counsel investigators interviewed Assistant A.G. Rod Rosenstein about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/19/17
Manafort indictment may have already happened
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, talks with Rachel Maddow about whether it’s unusual for a prosecutor to inform a target of imminent indictment, and whether former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort could already be indicted under seal.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/19/17
Trump joins history’s list of unhinged speakers at UN
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly, and the emaciation of the State Department under Trump/Tillerson.
rikyrah
Jimmy Kimmel: GOP’s Cassidy ‘lied right to my face’ on healthcare
09/20/17 08:40 AM—UPDATED 09/20/17 08:41 AM
By Steve Benen
Several months ago, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took on an unexpected role in the national health care debate, talking to his audience about his young son’s heart surgery, and his belief that all Americans should have access to affordable, potentially life-saving, care.
Soon after, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) began referencing the “Jimmy Kimmel Test”: for a health care proposal to have merit, the Louisiana Republican said, it should ensure families are covered regardless of income. Cassidy even appeared on Kimmel’s show, vowing to protect Americans who need protecting.
That was then; this is now. Cassidy is currently pushing his own right-wing Graham-Cassidy legislation, which does largely the opposite of what he publicly vowed to do, and which clearly fails the “Jimmy Kimmel Test.” Last night, the ABC host let the country know just how outrageous this is.
The host added that “this new bill actually does pass the Jimmy Kimmel test, but a different Jimmy Kimmel test. With this one, your child with a preexisting condition will get the care he needs if, and only if, his father is Jimmy Kimmel. Otherwise, you might be screwed.”
Before pleading with his audience to call Capitol Hill and urge lawmakers to defeat the bill, Kimmel went on to note that Cassidy “just lied right to my face.”
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: I would like to see Cassidy go DOWN for this one. No awe shucks physician persona. He absolutely lied. It’s on tape.
WRT Graham: I wonder if he’s decided he’s on his last Senate term? He was able to count on soft support from Democrats; he’s usually the least awful option on the Republican side. No longer. He’s trying to gut health insurance nationally, and his actions will literally kill and injure many Americans.
The genial goober mask is off both of these Senators. They are whores. (Apologies to sex workers.)
rikyrah
Winners and losers in GOP’s last-ditch health overhaul
The GOP’s last-ditch effort to repeal “Obamacare” would redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal financing for insurance coverage, creating winners and losers among individual Americans and states in ways not yet fully clear.
Independent analysts say the latest Senate Republican bill is likely to leave more people uninsured than the Affordable Care Act, and allow states to make changes that raise costs for people with health problems or pre-existing medical conditions.
After closed-door meetings Tuesday, supporters seemed confident but acknowledged they’re not sure if the bill can pass. There’s only a narrow window for the Senate to act under special budget rules that expire at the end of the month.
The Congressional Budget Office has said it doesn’t have time to complete a full analysis of the impact on coverage before the deadline.
The biggest changes would start in 2020 — the next presidential election year. That’s a political risk for Republicans, since health care changes often involve unforeseen problems.
A key feature of the legislation from Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana would put the ACA’s financing for subsidized private health insurance and Medicaid expansion into a giant pot and redistribute it among states according to new formulas. States could obtain federal waivers allowing them to modify insurance market safeguards for consumers. For example, states could let insurers charge higher premiums for older adults.
The 31 states that expanded Medicaid are likely to see a funding reduction over time, as well as states, like Florida, where many residents received subsidies for private health insurance, said Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
rikyrah
THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 9/19/17
Lawrence: Why Trump’s UN speech worst, most dangerous in history
Donald Trump says the U.S. could “totally destroy” North Korea. Lawrence O’Donnell revisits a speech by Amb. Adlai Stevenson in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and argues Trump’s speech is the worst ever delivered by the United States at the United Nations.
rikyrah
Tom Price’s private-jet travel raises eyebrows
09/20/17 09:20 AM
By Steve Benen
In September 2009, Tom Price, at the time a far-right congressional Republican, appeared on CNBC and railed against government use of private jets. Now, in September 2017, Politico has a report on that same Tom Price, the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, taking full advantage of private jets.
Mandarama
@oatler.:
8th gen southerner / 6th gen MS native here, cosigning. No one should let us lead on much of anything; look at our track record and statistics. ?
schrodingers_cat
@Mandarama: The Rs want the rest of the country to have those statistics, this latest bill is their vendetta against states like MA, NY and CA.
rikyrah
From Andy Slavitt:
Andy Slavitt
@ASlavitt
JUST OUT: Under Graham Cassidy ACA repeal…..
– a 31% cut to Medicaid FOR KIDS
– a 15% for people with disabilities
I say never.
Please RT
8:31 AM-Sep 20, 2017
rikyrah
This Trumpcare bill decimates the states that have done the most to cover their residents: https://t.co/rkzRRc6WGf
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) September 20, 2017
rikyrah
JUST OUT: Independent analysis shows $4 Trillion in Federal cuts from ACA repeal Graham Cassidy.https://t.co/NMxtNka6Go pic.twitter.com/bXAYZkJke6
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 20, 2017
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: People can be funny about how their donation money is spent. I wonder whether this will make people STOP giving to the RNC or whether this will actually increase donations. Could this actually be considered winning by people stupid enough to support Trump?
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Apparently, even Trump’s attorneys are stupid.
Mandarama
@schrodingers_cat: Agreed, and it is just rage-inducing. My husband is a MA native, and it became clear to us early on that we really grew up in two separate countries. Ironically, he used to be a Republican. Living in the mid-south, the rise of the crazies, and deep respect for President Obama has cured him of any of those tendencies, thank Dog.
rikyrah
Senate Republicans derail bipartisan health care compromise
09/20/17 10:00 AM
By Steve Benen
The effort hasn’t generated much attention, but in recent weeks, there have been meaningful bipartisan negotiations in the Senate on a compromise health care measure. As of late yesterday, however, that measure is now dead – and it’s important to understand why.
The top two members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP) – Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) – have quietly been moving forward on an important bill, acting like you’d expect real senators to act. They’ve held real hearings, listened to real testimony, and have tried to find a real solution that both parties could live with. The emerging agreement was fairly narrow, but senators like John McCain (R-Ariz.) have praised the work and urged his colleagues to support it.
That won’t happen. Yesterday, as TPM reported, the compromise measure was taken off the table.
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With Republicans opposing the compromise, that window quickly closed. Patty Murray left no doubt that the GOP’s repeal crusade was responsible for killing the bipartisan deal.
As a matter of partisan strategy, I suppose this isn’t too surprising. Republicans want to destroy the existing system, not make it more stable. So long as there was a bipartisan compromise in the works, McCain and others would see it as a better alternative to the right-wing Graham-Cassidy bill.
So GOP leaders scuttled the deal, narrowed everyone’s focus, and left Republicans with a choice between Graham-Cassidy and nothing.
rikyrah
Accused by Kimmel of lying, Cassidy lies some more: https://t.co/KIaClwC7gJ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 20, 2017
rikyrah
This new study deals a blow to Trump’s latest Obamacare repeal push
By Greg Sargent
September 20 at 9:11 AM
Senate Republicans are stumbling forward with their new zombie Trumpcare bill to repeal Obamacare — and they will hold a vote this month, before the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office tells them how many people might be tossed off of coverage if it becomes law. The drawback of this — or is it a benefit, given that the public is also being kept in the dark? — is that Republicans will vote on the bill without knowing all that much about how it would impact their own states, not to mention the rest of the country.
Unfortunately for the bill’s supporters, a new study just came out that will enable Republicans to make a somewhat more informed decision about this legislation, after all. And it could deal a blow to the bill’s chances. It should, anyway.
The study, which was released this morning by Avalere Health, a consulting firm, finds that many states will see sizable cuts to the federal money that would flow to their states, relative to current law. Some of those states are represented by the GOP senators who are currently deciding whether to back the bill, including Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine), Rob Portman (Ohio) and John McCain (Ariz.).
O. Felix Culpa
dis·in·gen·u·ous :
adjective
not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
synonyms: insincere, dishonest, untruthful, false, deceitful, duplicitous, lying, mendacious; hypocritical
Yup. That about sums it up.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
It should be a crime to be a Republican.