They will cave because Mitch has said they will lose their expenses accounts .
They will cave because the Republicans are nothing but cavemen.
“The last three weeks of feverish negotiations have been less about moving the ball, and more about moving the dirt around the ball to give it the appearance of moving.” Whoohoo!
A hot cup of coffee and a fresh metaphor! My day is off to a good start. Congratulations, Tierney. Now if you could work in something about dung beetles moving that ball…
This vote is just shameful. McConnell should rightly be embarrassed by bringing this zombie bill to a vote.
That this may well pass is almost beyond belief.
Republican-controlled government at work - just the way the Founding Fathers intended. The great deliberative body called the Senate; the people’s House doing what is good for their constituents; a wise President for all Americans.
@darrtown “McConnell” and “embarrassed” in the same sentence! Oh, darr, you are such a card.
We may very well look back on this as the point where the oligarchs finally took complete control.
Pushing through a bill that only those with enough conspicuous wealth and not affected by it like and in turn punishing those who have nothing .
This is what we have come to.
I really think I’m loosing my mind
Kudos to Tierney Sneed for great reporting! This is why I am a TPM junkie.
Welp, somebody hasta be an old fart around here. Seriously tho, just being a politician kinda means one hasta have no problem being a liar and be willing to have no personal honor. Like yertle for example.
You aren’t losing your mind. It’s just that we are losing our country.
NYtimes will be all over this story—once they’ve stopped chasing the Pulitzer for reportage on Trump-Russia, around the time the 2018 election campaign begins.
“Nobody could have known” will be the go to headline.
McCain’s flying back for the vote, odds of this monstrosity passing just went up IMO
The worst thing that could happen to Republicans is the passage of this bill - my hope is that a few of them realize that.
Remember Josh Marshall’s first principle of Republican moderates: They fold.
I would only add the first principle of Democratic opposition: They fumble.
The Democrats can’t find a way to kill a Republican “healthcare” bill that the overwhelming majority of Americans, including Republican governors, despise.
So, now, we Americans have been given a choice between a Republican party whose policies are evil, and a Democratic party whose politics are incompetent.
Still just staggering that they mocked the ACA for being thrown together in the dead of night. This whole process has been so in the dark. And what is known people dislike. Even their own base. Being asked to vote on something blind because leadership wants you too is not good.
The Senate map is good for the GOP next year but there are a fair number of Senators that could feel pain for this.
I was just trying to imagine what the events will be after the bill is signed. The effect will creep in, but considering the nature of the bill, they would be relatively fast compared to other issues since it pretty much unties the hands of the greedy. A year out, the real effects will be visible. So why are the Republicans setting up their own demise.
It’s time for millions of Americans to march in the streets. Again. Just like on January 21, 2017.
A man who has first rate medical care, totally subsidized by American taxpayers, is flying back to Washington to rip away health care from those very same taxpayers who are paying for his. Unspeakable.