“We’re going to press on. It’s OK to vote. It’s OK to fall short, if you do, for an idea that you believe in,” Graham said on CNN.
There’s a reason why Lindsey Graham ait the majority leader, but
‘press on’ Lindsey, show those mean ‘libruls’ who’s the real boss.
Bless his heart.
“Why, Fiddle-Dee-Dee. Tomorrow is another day!”
Oh FFS Ms Lindsay give it up
We must make a grand gesture of fealty to our donor overlords.
Once a Koch sucker always a Koch sucker
i think all the estrogen injections are making him/her??? a little cuckoo 
somewhat o/t
With their latest attempt to dismantle the health law on track to fail this week, GOP senators are already raising the prospect of going after it again with the same powerful tools that currently let them pass legislation with just 50 votes.
Alternatively, Republicans could reserve the fiscal 2018 budget for tax reform as planned, but then take up a budget for fiscal 2019 early next year and write reconciliation instructions that addresses Obamacare repeal in that resolution, according to GOP sources. Doing so would put the contentious issue of health care back in the spotlight during the 2018 midterm elections.
It´s no surprise he´s pressing on in spite of daunting odds and naysayers; nothing brings out the indomitable Republican spirit like the prospect of a massive transfer of wealth from the rest of us to the already obscenely rich.
Don’t look now Lindsey, but your esteemed colleagues,even many GOPers, are pressing “Eject”.
Every once in a while I ask people here if they’ve heard of a book, published maybe 10 or more years ago by a Southern red-state university press, where Ann historian laid out a number of the evergreen hot-button issues which the GOP ran on (and raised money on) again and again, since Lincoln, with little hope and according to him no intention of actually resolving them… The spotlight at that time was on Roe v Wade. Now they’ve got repeal Obamacare. I sure wish I knew the title of that book which I’m sure is in abebooks somewhere…
If the GOP pols make this the centerpiece of the '18 campaign it’ll be hard evidence that they have taken leave of their senses. But I’ve never seen then hand us dozens of House seats on a silver platter yet. “Hope I’m wrong” has become a cliche around this place, but it applies here.
In the meantime, Trump escalates with NK even more.
And the NFL…Maybe he senses major Poopie in the next few days. Rosenstein is supposed to give his bosses a heads-up, although it might be pretty vague.
ETA-Today’s the KKKoronation in Bammy.
Senator from South Carolina loves a lost cause. Shocker.
Not really related but funny as hell and a burn. The answer by Kumail Nanjiani to the last mean tweet is so good!
I wonder what the going rate is these days for one of Graham’s strongly held beliefs.
And here’s the very, very, incredibly, unbelievably, paramount most important thing they believe in:
WASHINGTON — As more than 40 subdued Republican senators lunched on Chick-fil-A at a closed-door session last week, Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado painted a dire picture for his colleagues. Campaign fund-raising was drying up, he said, because of widespread disappointment among donors over the inability of the Republican Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act or do much of anything else.
Mr. Gardner is in charge of his party’s midterm re-election push, and he warned that donors of all stripes were refusing to contribute another penny until the struggling majority produced some concrete results.
“Donors are furious,” one person knowledgeable about the private meeting quoted Mr. Gardner as saying. “We haven’t kept our promise.”
The backlash from big donors as well as the grass roots panicked Senate Republicans and was part of the motivation behind the sudden zeal to take one last crack at repealing the health care law before the end of the month. That effort faltered Friday with new opposition from Senator John McCain of Arizona, the perennial maverick who had scuttled the Senate’s first repeal effort. Now Republicans must confront the possibility that they will once again let down their backers with no big win in sight.
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Republicans say the fund-raising drop-off has been steep and across the board, from big donations to the small ones the party solicits online from the grass roots. They say the hostile views of both large and small donors are in unusual alignment and that the negative sentiment is crystallized in the fund-raising decline.
The talk about small donors dropping off is just eyewash for the Times, lest it be forced to acknowledge the Putinization of the GOP. This rush over the cliff is all about the almost purely ideological zeal of the oligarchs to crush out Obamacare before this idea of downward wealth redistribution working gets some real legs under it again.
He has to have a heart before it can be blessed. He has no heart or soul. He’s a lying sack of shit and he knows it.
The rich donors don’t give a fart about the health care act. They just want their tax deductions. When Trump goads Kim Jong Un into war, your tax deductions will be the least of your worries.
Wasting time and money because, hey, it’s only the taxpayers’ money.