He's such a jackass.

Senator Turtleass McConnell from the great state of Kentucky.

It has a nice je ne sais qua.

He was a ReTHUG

Blanche DuBois just announced that they have abandoned the vote

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Charles was a Democrat who made some impressive moves against racism. But in the end, he followed the money wherever it took him including Apartheid South Africa or Republican events.

https://hollowverse.com/ray-charles/

but he was against racism in his better days. We blacklisted him and our own Jimmy Cliff over South Africa.

that he didnt desroy Obamacare.

Now they LOVE Konnect or whatever it is called there in Kentucky, but they hate Obamacare.

Dumb shits

and then have a 3:00 AM vote before Oct 1st. It is like a horror film and at the last second the bad guy who you thought was dead comes back to life.

I definitely call that a concession!

on other fronts, leave snipers to take out guards, troops to take undefendable ground, return to wipe out and mop up.

The plan, after all, is to take control of federal and most state governments, make most mandatory taxation illegal, destroy all the progressive plans of the last century at both levels, and make it legally impossible to rebuild them. No SS, no ACA, CHIPS, VA, Medicaid or Meicare, no Unemployment Insurance, and on and on. Charles Koch and some others (question how many) want to get rid of compulsory education and publicly funded education, with, of course, the education taxes required to support them.

They've been at this for 40 years and are now so close. They're very ruthless and will hit harder and harder, and they obviously don't care about expending congressmen to do it.

These people don't do concession or surrender, just restrategize, regroup and reattack. Their contempt for us is enormous, not without some justification, and they think we'll lack the will and organization to stop them.

I wanted to see him look like he was trying to swallow a mildewed slug again.

And the reason why they don't have a bill is because they refused to work with Dems to craft a good law.

They could have easily peeled off a few Dem votes, or made a sane bill that they could get 51 Reps to vote for.

They failed because they didn't even take the time to write a sane law.

...is going to look a lot like Obamacare (or something leftward of it). A plan that's significantly to the right of Obamacare wouldn't deliver healthcare.

Healthcare is for grownups.

Link to tweet

"In the end, the president's closing message – that the football players are bad – couldn't put the bill over the top"

The turtle tries to slowly cross a busy highway.

...vote fail.

they don't want this vote, they don't want to be held responsible for policy,
not for repeal, not for TrumpCare, they are bankrupt and out of ideas.

if the Repubs had passed the bill, you and others would NO DOUBT have blamed Sanders.

So, thought it was time to throw him some love with the opposite outcome.

...and three republican Senators.

which happened before the debate. The bill has been called dead since that happened

BS did this. Never mind the Democratic Senators who stayed together. Never mind the three republicans who came out against it.

This thread was not about Sanders. Quit hijacking everything to make it about him.

That's a bold claim.

And as I said above, based on discussions here in the past few days, if they had managed to pass it, very vocal people would have blamed it on Sanders. No doubt.

I am grateful that our coalition is sticking together. ONE PERSON did not do any of this.

these fuckers will break rules and laws to deliver for their owners.

Some dancing after 2018 elections if we bust their lock on all 3 branches of government.

worry of losing coverage. There will be more fights ahead, so we can’t lose focus. The more we win, maybe the bipartisan fix of the ACA is more likely.

Unless they try again next year. Maybe a tiny bit of sanity will prevail.

We may win some more seats. We may get rid of 45. I am not counting on anything except a lot of hard work to GOTV, but anything could happen.

"Next year" begins on Monday. I just hope they'll move on.

Three time LOSER!! Sad.

& billing/payments through healthcare.gov

45 will demand another atrocious bill or another vote on this one. He's been blaming McCain for the rethug fail and we know he holds grudges. The Obama vendetta will continue, of course, but McCain is on the hit list, dead or alive.

I don't trust these slime balls at all.

they'll double down on doing NOTHING to improve the ACA, intent on undermining it.

they and their agents will double down on the false narrative that the ACA is a failure.

millions of low-information voters will believe them (if AJ, Rush, or Hannity said it, then it must be true).

the inept DNC will sit on its haunches and whistle in the dark while the RNC, RCCC, and RSC hone and coordinate a message that will increasingly resonate as their do-nothing tactic of ACA destruction continues to unfold and create crisis.

Where--and who--is the galvanizing national leadership for the populist left? Bernie, despite his age and god bless his soul, is remarkably tireless in his effort and effective to a great degree...but our moment demands that the principled, ideological fire and brimstone he represents be sustained by someone with even more energy and appeal.

Who will rise to the occasion? Or will the occasion to rise be lost?