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[Ernest]

Pence openly targeted Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), a vociferous opponent of the Republican health-care proposal, with inaccurate facts about Medicaid waiting lists for the disabled in Ohio.

Mr. Holy Roller hates the gays because he thinks his book says he should, yet he flagrantly lies without a second thought, ignoring how lying is a far more explicit sin in his book.

 

[IggyChooChoo]

Brainwashing and racism is a hell of a thing.

Just look at Kentucky.

Hey, not that we aren't plenty brainwashed and racist, but at least one of our Republicans is voting against it. Sure, Rand is voting against it possibly for the right reasons that he won't acknowledge, wrapped in a layer of terrible reasons, but he *is* voting against it!

 

[royalan]

Mr. Holy Roller hates the gays because he thinks his book says he should, yet he flagrantly lies without a second thought, ignoring how lying is a far more explicit sin in his book.

One would almost believe that Pence's cartoonish hate for the gays comes a deeper place than his "belief" in a holy book...

🤔🤔🤔

 

[Deuce Deuce]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...2d00a47778f_story.html?utm_term=.eb2854038994

Sandoval still isn't biting, and that means Heller is likely still a No.

Christ I hope this bill just dies.

This will do wonders for my insomnia.

 

[Autodidact]

One would almost believe that Pence's cartoonish hate for the gays comes a deeper place than his "belief" in a holy book...

������

You can stop with those nasty implications right now.

Pence and Mother radiate unbridled heterosexual passion. You can tell those uglies get bumped on the regular - in the missionary position and with the lights off, as God intended.

Why do you liberals always try to smear good family men?

 

[kirblar]

One would almost believe that Pence's cartoonish hate for the gays comes a deeper place than his "belief" in a holy book...

🤔🤔🤔

Nah, no closeted man would need those stupid rules he has regarding meetings w women.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Pence is a negative number on the Kinsey scale.

 

[Diablos]

The bill is never going to die...

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Diablos, that's not what that word means!

 

[Gallbaro]

Pence is a negative number on the Kinsey scale.

Bullshit that mother fucker is off the charts.

 

[eBay Huckster]

new life goal: i'm gonna move to DC and trick pence into smoking weed

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

Bullshit that mother fucker is off the charts.

This

new life goal: i'm gonna move to DC and trick pence into smoking weed

Make sure it's gay-grown weed.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

new life goal: i'm gonna move to DC and trick pence into smoking weed

he already thinks smoking isn't unhealthy so you're like halfway there

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

new life goal: i'm gonna move to DC and trick pence into smoking weed

Psssh you can't trick him into smoking it. Get a job in the White House kitchen and slip him a magic brownie.

 

[FyreWulff]

Yeah I'd consider HW the last 'good' Republican president if I had to rank them, but the Republicans want to disown him because he was one-term because they kept gloating about one-terming Carter.

 

[Ogodei]

The House has indicated for a while that they'd rather just vote for anything that comes to them and get it over with.

 

[BlastProcessing]

@seungminkim
NEWS: @SenJohnMcCain had surgery yesterday to remove a blood clot above left eye. His office says he will be recovering in Arizona this week

 

[Poodlestrike]

@seungminkim
NEWS: @SenJohnMcCain had surgery yesterday to remove a blood clot above left eye. His office says he will be recovering in Arizona this week

Wait, really?

Dayuuuuuuum!

Collins, Paul, and the Dems make 50. McCain out of the office, that brings them down to 49. No vote 'til he's back yaaaaaaaaa

 

[Ernest]

The House has indicated for a while that they'd rather just vote for anything that comes to them and get it over with.

Yeah, like moving ahead with their vote without even waiting for a CBO score.

You don't like something? Ignore it.

Does that mean people can now graduate high school without tests and grades?

 

[Deuce Deuce]

Wait, really?

Dayuuuuuuum!

Collins, Paul, and the Dems make 50. McCain out of the office, that brings them down to 49. No vote 'til he's back yaaaaaaaaa

More time for Trump to seal that deal. Noooooooo!

 

[Autodidact]

Don't furrow your brows, kids. You get blood clots.

 

[Zolo]

@seungminkim
NEWS: @SenJohnMcCain had surgery yesterday to remove a blood clot above left eye. His office says he will be recovering in Arizona this week

So they have time for that CBO score to come back?

 

[Crocodile]

@seungminkim
NEWS: @SenJohnMcCain had surgery yesterday to remove a blood clot above left eye. His office says he will be recovering in Arizona this week

Are there any laws that stop them from voting via Skype?

Is there something stopping him from flying in with an eye-patch to vote? Chaffetz seemed fine wheeling himself into the House with a busted foot to vote for the House bill.

 

[kirblar]

Are there any laws that stop them from voting via Skype?

Is there something stopping him from flying in with an eye-patch to vote? Chaffetz seemed fine wheeling himself into the House with a busted foot to vote for the House bill.

You are not gonna want to fuck with a blood clot in the head.

 

[Aaron Strife]

So much for that.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

What a crazy situation. Who'd think a blood clot would possibly help save healthcare for millions

 

[Crocodile]

You are not gonna want to fuck with a blood clot in the head.

True point and fair enough. Seems like he will recover fine though.

What a crazy situation. Who'd think a blood clot would possibly help save healthcare for millions

Spoiler

It's a message from God

 

[Dan]

Are there any laws that stop them from voting via Skype?

Is there something stopping him from flying in with an eye-patch to vote? Chaffetz seemed fine wheeling himself into the House with a busted foot to vote for the House bill.

I believe senators cannot vote without being physically present except in the case of committee votes.

And the only thing stopping McCain from flying in is competent medical advice. For a man his age, you want him to rest and avoid complications.

 

[BlastProcessing]

Don't furrow your brows, kids. You get blood clots.

Furrowed brows only cause clots if you have thick maverick blood.

 

[Autodidact]

Next week will be awkward in perhaps the best way possible.

 

[barber]

Maverick McCain!

Spoiler

In the most awkward way possible! Hope it is nothing, blood clots can be very dangerous

 

[Diablos]

Delaying the potentially inevitable isn't worth cheering over eh?

 

[Autodidact]

Delaying the potentially inevitable isn't worth cheering over eh?

We should celebrate the fact that the public will now have time to digest the new bill and the CBO score.

 

[Plinko]

I leave for 24 hours and all of a sudden the health care bill is passing according to GAF?

 

[Poodlestrike]

We should celebrate the fact that the public will now have time to digest the new bill and the CBO score.

This. Literally the only time this thing's made real progress is the one time they managed to blitz it through before a CBO score and before the general public noticed it might actually pass. A week long delay is basically a death sentence for this draft.

They'll keep trying, for sure, but we've gotten another stay.

I leave for 24 hours and all of a sudden the health care bill is passing according to GAF?

No it's done again.

 

[faisal233]

Fox news was on at this place I went to eat...

Opening monologue was about all the countries the US meddled in throughout it's history to justify Russian interference. Then claimed it was Obama that colluded with Russia and is buddy buddy with Putin...

 

[Diablos]

Fox news was on at this place I went to eat...

Opening monologue was about all the countries the US meddled in throughout it's history to justify Russian interference. Then claimed it was Obama that colluded with Russia and is buddy buddy with Putin...

But Fox has a liberal bias

 

[Poodlestrike]

But Fox has a liberal bias

Real talk, I overheard a conversation at work a few months ago where this guy said something like "He was criticizing Trump so much, I just said to him 'you've been watching too much Fox.'"

These people.

 

[Diablos]

Real talk, I overheard a conversation at work a few months ago where this guy said something like "He was criticizing Trump so much, I just said to him 'you've been watching too much Fox.'"

These people.

I really think we're done as a country. The writing is on the wall every damn day and the wall is getting bigger (no pun intended)

 

[BlastProcessing]

Delaying the potentially inevitable isn't worth cheering over eh?

Look, the entire universe will eventually succumb to heat death. Everything is a stall.

 

[Aaron Strife]

I leave for 24 hours and all of a sudden the health care bill is passing according to GAF?

Sandoval was being wishy-washy on it earlier but seems to still be against it and he probably takes Heller with him. Still don't have the votes.

But more recently McCain announced he had eye surgery and will be out of the Senate next week, so they can't vote on it. We just need to run out the clock.

 

[Autodidact]

Sandoval was being wishy-washy on it earlier but seems to still be against it and he probably takes Heller with him. Still don't have the votes.

But more recently McCain announced he had eye surgery and will be out of the Senate next week, so they can't vote on it. We just need to run out the clock.

An external filibuster, so to speak.

 

[Plinko]

Sandoval was being wishy-washy on it earlier but seems to still be against it and he probably takes Heller with him. Still don't have the votes.

But more recently McCain announced he had eye surgery and will be out of the Senate next week, so they can't vote on it. We just need to run out the clock.

An external filibuster, so to speak.

Interesting. I'm curious--why is there a deadline? Can't they just continue to push this thing after the next recess if they wish?

 

[Diablos]

Interesting. I'm curious--why is there a deadline? Can't they just continue to push this thing after the next recess if they wish?

Probably. They will never give up on it. Collins-Cassidy is our best hope. The future sucks!

They could just shelve it till 2018 like Newt suggested as well

 

[AntraxSuicide]

Interesting. I'm curious--why is there a deadline? Can't they just continue to push this thing after the next recess if they wish?

They wanted to beat the CBO score and use Price's instead.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Interesting. I'm curious--why is there a deadline? Can't they just continue to push this thing after the next recess if they wish?

This gives time for a proper CBO report to be released

 

[Poodlestrike]

Interesting. I'm curious--why is there a deadline? Can't they just continue to push this thing after the next recess if they wish?

They absolutely could, but fundamentally the pattern thus far has been:

1. Bill is written, mostly in secret
2. Bill is shown to the public; pressure mounts against it, a non-critical number of lawmakers come out against it
3. CBO score is shown to the public; resistance reaches fever pitch, lawmakers start fleeing
4. Bill is forced to go through revisions, further delaying the entire Republican agenda

The only time that this pattern has failed is with the second House attempt where they dodged step 3 and just passed the thing. If this vote gets delayed until after the CBO score they basically have to go back to step 1, AGAIN. They don't even have enough votes to nuke the filibuster and force it through right now.

 

[Drkirby]

They wanted to beat the CBO score and use Price's instead.

I thought they needed a CBO score due to Senate Rules, did Turtle boy nix those?

 

[Aaron Strife]

Interesting. I'm curious--why is there a deadline? Can't they just continue to push this thing after the next recess if they wish?

More time for the CBO score to sink in.

The CBO score is probably what killed the House bill initially.

My greatest fear is that Democrats win the House and the GOP passes something in the lame duck session out of spite.

 

[Poodlestrike]

I thought they needed a CBO score due to Senate Rules, did Turtle boy nix those?

There's a lot of confusion over this.

Functionally, the CBO still has to score the bill. The Cruz Amendment, though, is in this really weird place where the CBO may not even want to score it with the rest of the bill, since it lives in this really weird policy area for them. They've never really defined whether the plans it allows count as insurance.

So in the circumstance that the CBO issues a score on the bill w/o the Cruz amendment and the Senate takes the HHS score, they could maybe go forward. But that might not happen.