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[ivajz]

God bless that man for standing up to it. I wish more of the media had that kind of balls.

Acosta has been pretty good at doing that. Calling Sean out about turning on the cameras.

 

[Plinko]

Jerry Moran‏Verified account @JerryMoran

The Senate healthcare bill missed the mark for Kansans and therefore did not have my support.

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

 

[Ludovico]

Sorry, I was in a rush

No worries!
Just want people to know the context.

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

and then she runs away

 

[BoosterDuck]

What is the okeefe video? I'm not giving that guy any views?

I can't find the video that's not on conservative news outlets so you'll have to watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE

it's so fucking fake, how the hell can O'Keefe keep a phone camera pointed under the guy's head without him noticing

and that audio is clear as fuck, it's like they're not even trying to seem legitimate

A hevily edited video of a cnn offical
I believe

that guy's not a CNN official, O'Keefe is known for fabricating videos and stories before

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

It will be interesting to see what the new bill is.

 

[Mac_Lane]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

This is amazing. This version of the bill is clearly dead in the water.

 

[Roland_Gunner]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

Moran is just pilling on. He'll never hold the bill up.

 

[Stinkles]

God bless that man for standing up to it. I wish more of the media had that kind of balls.

That entire exchange, including her CRAZY response and the O'Keefe fake news about fake news, was one of the most surreal things I've ever heard.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

The factors that caused the House to pass the bill aren't there for the Senate

- The margin is a lot smaller. 3 nos is enough to kill it, and they look to already have 2 solid nos that won't change without redoing the entire bill (which they aren't doing)
- Actual moderates that are actually worried about their jobs aren't playing along, unlike the house, where they could skirt by because of the numbers
- There's no "well, this other group will make a better bill, just play along for now" since this is the final bill
- The list of demands from the far right would require huge changes to the bill that would just make the CBO report even worse. Or literally tank the economy near instantly. And they'd only serve to push the moderates even more firmly into no.

 

[Zolo]

Moran is just pilling on. He'll never hold the bill up.

Yeah. If this version of the bill's already confirmed dead, you'll see more people okay with digging on it, so whatever concessions are better.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

I can't find the video that's not on conservative news outlets so you'll have to watch it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE

it's so fucking fake, how the hell can O'Keefe keep a phone camera pointed under the guy's head without him noticing

and that audio is clear as fuck, it's like they're not even trying to seem legitimate



that guy's not a CNN official, O'Keefe is known for fabricating videos and stories before

He is a CNN producer and O'Keefe is known for doctoring videos, not fabricating them. The audio is clear because technology is gud.

 

[Box of Kittens]

Nothing says bravery like announcing your retroactive opposition to a bill.

 

[Deuce Deuce]

It will be interesting to see what the new bill is.

More money for quarantining people into preexisting condition insurance pools and maybe some bullshit ass programs that aren't actually health insurance.

 

[VendettaRed07]

If it doesn't pass well probably have 52 senators claiming credit as the reason why it didn't

 

[Aaron Strife]

If it doesn't pass well probably have 52 senators claiming credit as the reason why it didn't

Try 100.

 

[JWiLL]

I don't think the O'Keefe video is "fake". It's definitely John Bonifield, which CNN has acknowledged on Twitter (saying they stand by him or something along those lines).

I just don't see how it's any sort of mind blowing revelation. Of course CNN is focused on Russia all the time...because ratings. Why wouldn't they? It's working, and they're a business.

People don't tune in to CNN for hard hitting journalism. That typically comes from print journalists.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I don't think the O'Keefe video is "fake". It's definitely John Bonifield, which CNN has acknowledged on Twitter (saying they stand by him or something along those lines).

I just don't see how it's any sort of mind blowing revelation. Of course CNN is focused on Russia all the time...because ratings. Why wouldn't they? It's working, and they're a business.

People don't tune in to CNN for hard hitting journalism.

I'm still blown away that someone from Breitbart stood up to Sanders and said "We're not supposed to report on Russia??"

 

[Blader]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

M A S T E R N E G O T I A T O R

 

[daedalius]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

I'm glad he isn't supporting the current bill, but still sucks he is set on repealing ACA.

Moran is just pilling on. He'll never hold the bill up.

Yea, this too

 

[VendettaRed07]

Going after Cruz is idiotic for Trump.

He was lucky the party reigned him in the way he did. Cruz unleashed is the last thing Trump would want.

 

[Aaron Strife]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

Trump

is

an

idiot

 

[Greigor The Fellhand]

I'm still blown away that someone from Breitbart stood up to Sanders and said "We're not supposed to report on Russia??"

wait, he was from breitbart? what in the hell

I'm agreeing with Stinkles, that entire conversation was surreal. then she played the victim cared at the end.

 

[tuxfool]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

The House bill came back practically the same.

 

[Beer Monkey]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

Double Down ain't just a chicken sandwich.

 

[nature boy]

Lol @foxnews.com (Obama's vacation)

State media folks

 

[Lo-Volt]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

ohnobabywhatisyoudoing.jpg

(Keep going, shitface.)

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

CLUSTERFUCK

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Going after Cruz is idiotic for Trump.

He was lucky the party reigned him in the way he did. Cruz unleashed is the last thing Trump would want.

Cruz continued sucking Donald's dick after Trump called his wife ugly and implied that his dad helped kill JFK. He has no spine.

 

[Tranqueris]

OUT OF NOWHERE (After the delay announcement)

This feels like the House bill all over again. They'll come back with a new bill.

If that's the pattern then it'll be a new bill that's much worse than the old one. They'll probably include something about extra funding so doctors are forced to buy guns as a solution for preexisting conditions.

 

[Autodidact]

*Cackle* at Trump hurting Lyin' Ted's reelection chances after insulting his wife, calling his father an assassin, and having Ted endorse him anyway.

 

[Siegcram]

America First Policies, the Trump super PAC that started attacking Heller over the weekend, is now expanding its attack ads to include Cruz, Lee, Paul, and Johnson.

This is the same group that McConnell aides and other Senate R staffers said were only complicating matters and potentially even hardening opposition to the bill.

Trump is giving Nero a run for his money at this point.

 

[Kusagari]

Regardless of the timing, I'm shocked to see Moran of all people see speak out against the bill.

Really might show how all dead it was.

 

[whyamihere]

Press conference going on right now on the ACA. Really striking stuff. I think almost all of the Senate Dems are there.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

lol whose the guy who was late for the photo-op

Also something interesting to Franken's right apparently

 

[BoogieWoogie]

These GOP senators jumping on the opposition band wagon AFTER the vote was delayed can go take a flying fuck.

 

[Plinko]

The factors that caused the House to pass the bill aren't there for the Senate

- The margin is a lot smaller. 3 nos is enough to kill it, and they look to already have 2 solid nos that won't change without redoing the entire bill (which they aren't doing)
- Actual moderates that are actually worried about their jobs aren't playing along, unlike the house, where they could skirt by because of the numbers
- There's no "well, this other group will make a better bill, just play along for now" since this is the final bill
- The list of demands from the far right would require huge changes to the bill that would just make the CBO report even worse. Or literally tank the economy near instantly. And they'd only serve to push the moderates even more firmly into no.

And there is this:

Please proceed, GOP.

 

[Blader]

Press conference going on right now on the ACA. Really striking stuff. I think almost all of the Senate Dems are there.

That guy in back was late to the meeting

 

[Zolo]

And there is this:

Please proceed, GOP.

Oh wow. And those are taken from their states? That means a majority of republicans make up those polls too.

 

[BobTheFork]

These GOP senators jumping on the opposition band wagon AFTER the vote was delayed can go take a flying fuck.

Fuck themselves with a railroad spike.

 

[The Technomancer]

- There's no "well, this other group will make a better bill, just play along for now" since this is the final bill

This is the big one. The House bill was a huge punt. It wouldn't have passed if they were forced to actually commit.

 

[Chris R]

Oh wow. And those are taken from their states? That means a majority of republicans make up those polls too.

It isn't like they would all be replaced by Ds, just that they would rather primary them out for a different R :\

 

[VendettaRed07]

Draft a bill chuck

 

[Zolo]

It isn't like they would all be replaced by Ds, just that they would rather primary them out for a different R :\

Sure, but that's still bad for this bill.

 

[nature boy]

WHERES MY OPPOIUM

 

[BobTheFork]

It isn't like they would all be replaced by Ds, just that they would rather primary them out for a different R :\

This is true and doesn't help nationally but those R's still want to keep their spot and aren't willing to be replaced so easily.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

WHERES MY OPPOIUM

Now would be a good time for it with the bill delayed that's for sure.

 

[ratcliffja]

What exactly is an oppo?

 

[Fenderputty]

Now would be a good time for it with the bill delayed that's for sure.

This is what I'm thinking. Hoping for something today