proposals under consideration as they’re shopped around the GOP conference.
Also known as K Street or lobbyists or, simply, various vultures.
“It’s not like your wife’s birthday,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) told reporters. “If you miss your wife’s birthday, there’s hell to pay. On the other hand, if you don’t cut the grass on Friday, but you do it on Saturday, it’s not a big deal.”
1/6 of the US economy, and this is how we’re talking about it.
No matter what they do, there is no good outcome.
They can not take away the health care of so many people in such a cavalier manner and expect that not more than a few of these people are going to be “oh so very, very angry”.
Not sure a diabetic without health care and a gangrenous leg is going to be happy being given a rusty surgical saw, band-aids, and some Motrin to hack of their own limb.
Could we actually see barbarians at the gates with pitchforks and torches?
Thank G-d this life and death policy for millions of Americans isn’t being crafted by reprehensible sexist pigs.
Thank you Tierney Sneed for all your hard work reporting on this and to TPM for continuing to cover this issue and highlighting the process.
Yertle knows he has to provide the Emperor another one of those “wins” He so craves or wind up as “turtle soup” on the Mar uh Loco menu.
The only package he can get through the Senate will be DOA in conference committee. The Freedumb Caucus is done carrying water for a wounded Dear Leader and will wait for VP Dence to save the day 
Au contraire! Cassidy wasn’t sexist enough to make the Gang of 13!
Truly these GOPers are sociopaths. They devise in secret a bill to fund tax cuts for the rich by stripping away health insurance for 23 million, and are completely unconcerned about it.
McConnell is safer than either Trump or Ryan.
I think something like that happened seven (or eight) years ago
Took the words right out of my mouth. Healthcare is as unimportant as cutting my grass. Who knew? I just hope I don’t cut off my toes with the lawnmower.
They may only have a couple weeks before the indictments start rolling in. There is no time to shilly-shally with CBO scores. These guys are on the clock and they know it.
So what will the family whose son returned from North Korea in a coma possibly for the rest of his life going to do when it comes to healthcare?
Tell him to get a job?!
Ask a Republican about “that.”
Sick of the Republicans.
On the other hand, if you don’t deprive 23 million Americans of health care coverage on Friday, but you do it on Saturday, it’s not a big deal.”
See how easily that works?
These people have no soul!!!
No matter what they do, there is no good outcome.
They can not take away the health care of so many people in such a cavalier manner and expect that not more than a few of these people are going to be “oh so very, very angry”.
The Republicans are hoping that, by rushing this thing through so quickly and so secretively, voters won’t realize what hit them. All of Trump’s antics are also eating up TV airtime and newspaper column inches, thereby giving the House and Senate Republicans cover.
Republicans probably also hope that, with 16+ months still remaining before the midterm elections, enough voters will forget about this or be distracted by another shiny object.
One remorselessly depressing element in all of this is that men like Andy Lack and Les Moonves and James Goldston don’t seem to have seen fit to encourage their network news organizations to cover this story. There’s been–not quite a media blackout, but darn close, considering how important this mad legislation is, how many lives will be adversely impacted by it, how huge a chunk of our economy will be destabilized, all so that a handful of insanely rich men and women (many of them heirs to vast fortunes in fossil fuels, banking, and technology) can get an even bigger slice of the pie.
The role the corporate press has played in taking down our democracy is hateful, and surely not entirely accidental. These corporations all have business before committees of Congress, which, you’ll forgive the expression, trumps mere journalism–routine issues regarding mergers, acquisitions, taxes and regulations.
Evidently to make sure those proceedings all flow smoothly, they want to stay on Mitch McConnell’s good side, and so they’re insulating him and his dark money caucus from this story which is–to paraphrase the most truly odious remark a news executive has made in living memory, and a tip of the hat again to you, Mr. Moonves–devastatingly bad for America, perhaps a fatal blow against our democracy itself, but dang good for the corporate networks’ bottom lines.
Millions losing their health care and this is how we’re talking about it.
So the majority of the republicans are planning to vote on the bill and send it to conference even if (after they vote) it turns out to violate senate rules for reconciliation. They really are intent on that tax cut. (And really, I don’t see how they’re going to make it have the same or “better” fiscal effect as the house bill unless they either kill more people or reduce the tax cut – you can stop laughing at the second part now.)