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Conservatives Plan One More Obamacare Repeal Effort Before the Midterm Wave GOP congressional leaders have mostly packed it in for 2018. But conservatives, with White House support, may try one last time to repeal Obamacare.
Alexander and Murray’s Bipartisan Obamacare Alliance Disintegrates When Obamacare stabilization measures reached their moment of truth, bipartisanship ceased and the GOP agenda took over.
political sticks
Jan. 23, 2018
Susan Collins Brings Her African Talking Stick on CNN During which the Republican senator opens up about yesterday’s toss that “went slightly amiss.”
political sticks
Jan. 22, 2018
Senator’s ‘Talking Stick’ Idea Descends Into Chaos One senator threw the stick and broke a glass elephant.
Why a Government Shutdown Is Looming Again in January Another month of GOP rule, another month of stressful and arbitrary deadlines.
Delirious December Gives Way to Jittery January As Congress Passes Spending Bill Congress has kicked multiple cans down the road to January, but they won’t be able to stall any longer.
House GOP May Skip Town and Cause a Pre-Christmas Government Shutdown Paul Ryan and the House GOP are jumping off a cliff and hoping the Senate follows. If they don’t, the government will shut down.
Susan Collins Says She’s Not a Definitive ‘Yes’ on Taxes Her concerns about the bill are unlikely to be allayed, but she might vote for it anyway.
On Tax Bill, Collins Accepted Health-Care Promises Written in Vanishing Ink Turns out House Republicans don’t feel bound by the promises made to Susan Collins by Trump and McConnell to get her vote for the tax bill.
Will the Government Avoid a Shutdown? 5 Key Questions A government shutdown is unlikely. But if talks wander onto non-spending topics, and each side thinks the other will be blamed, it could happen.
the national interest
Dec. 4, 2017
The Republican War on Economics Even the most liberal Republican denies basic economics.
McConnell’s Making Promises That He Needs Democrats to Keep Some of the deals McConnell is cutting involve a bipartisan spending bill that’s designed to prevent a government shutdown. That’s dangerous.
GOP Donors in New York Not Enthusiastic About Their Christmas Gift There’s unhappiness in the Hamptons with a bill that kills deductions GOP donors love without much for them in exchange.
Susan Collins Is Sure This Will All End Great for Everyone McConnell promised Collins that the GOP won’t slash Medicare — and will shore up Obamacare — if she votes for tax cuts first.
Trump Deal to Repeal Obamacare Mandate Now for ‘Stabilization’ Later a Bad Idea GOP is wrongly suggesting that damage caused by repealing the Obamacare mandate would be offset by subsequent enactment of the Alexander-Murray bill.
Here’s How Republicans Plan to Get Their Tax Bill Out of the Senate Seven Senate Republicans have expressed concerns about the legislation. Mitch McConnell hopes to win them over with these last-minute changes.
Republicans Can’t Afford Their Tax-Cut Habit The GOP needs to slash the cost of its plan. But every time Republicans find a new revenue source, they decide to spend the money on another tax cut.
If These Senators Aren’t Lying, Then Trump’s Tax Plan Is Already Dead If John McCain, Susan Collins, and Bob Corker mean what they say, then the House bill will (almost certainly) die in the upper chamber.
Senator Susan Collins Won’t Run for Governor of Maine The four-term senator will remain in Washington, where she believes she can do the most good.
When Moderate Republican Senators Walked the Earth Conservatives love to complain about the moderate Republicans of the Senate. But they’ve been steadily declining in numbers, and are nearly extinct.
House Budget Vote Necessary, But Not Enough, in the GOP’s Tax Cut Plans The GOP dissenters in the House’s vote on a budget resolution setting up tax cuts indicate some potential problems ahead for the GOP.
House Passes 20-Week Abortion Ban on Near-Perfect Party Vote It doesn’t much matter what a particular abortion bill proposes: Democrats are the pro-choice party, Republicans aren’t.
The GOP’s Latest Attempt to Repeal Obamacare Won’t Even Get a Vote After a pretty depressing luncheon discussion, Senate Republicans decided they won’t humiliate themselves with a vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill.
Collins Puts Graham-Cassidy Bill Out of Reach for GOP The third GOP senator to come out definitively against the latest Obamacare repeal bill is her party’s most consistent voice on health care.
McCain May Have Killed Zombie GOP Health-Care Bill — Again With his rejection of a GOP health-care bill due to its partisanship and the absence of a CBO score, McCain probably thwarted his party a second time.
15 Governors — Republicans All — Offer Cheers for Graham-Cassidy Countering an earlier bipartisan governors’ letter opposing Graham-Cassidy, 15 GOP governors put on the party yoke.
Anti-Abortion Lobby Helping Push Quick Approval of Graham-Cassidy The powerful right-to-life movement is threatening to hold tax cuts hostage if GOP doesn’t pass Graham-Cassidy with abortion restrictions intact.
The GOP Is Throwing a Hail Mary on Obamacare Repeal It will require speed and stealth, cooperation from CBO, and a rubber-stamp House vote, but the Graham-Cassidy bill has a slim chance of becoming law.
Trump Needs to Stop Whining About the Filibuster For all his complaining about the Senate’s 60-vote requirement, Trump passed up the chance to take the issue to GOP voters in Alabama.
The GOP’s Latest Health-Care Gambit This last-gasp effort at a GOP-only bill mostly gives states the flexibility to cut health-care services, while threatening insurance-market chaos.
Susan Collins Applauded in the Airport After Voting ‘No’ on Health-Care Bill Collins, who was just one of three Republicans to vote down the bill, called the experience “affirming.”
What If McCain Had Said ‘Yes’ to the ‘Skinny Repeal’? If the climactic vote on the “skinny repeal” had gone the other way, the result would have probably been the same: GOP failure, with much time lost.
GOP Health-Care Drive Ends Not With a Bang But a Whimper Republicans couldn’t come up with a workable health-care plan, so they kept kicking the can down the road. The road finally ended in the Senate today.
7 Senate Republicans Help Kill GOP’s Obamacare Repeal Bill A second major GOP Obamacare repeal bill, the one Congress passed in 2015, was handily defeated by the Senate.
McConnell Schedules Leap-Into-the-Unknown Health-Care Vote for Tuesday It could be a bluff, or McConnell may have something up his sleeve, but at this point, it seems he’s planning a vote he’ll probably lose.
McConnell’s Two-Faced Approach to Health-Care Reform By giving conservatives long-term Medicaid cuts and then telling moderates they won’t be implemented, McConnell may be too clever for his own good.
Voters Encourage Trumpcare’s Republican Opponents to ‘Stay Strong’ On July Fourth weekend, Senate Republicans either hid from their constituents — or were showered in praise for not passing their health-care bill.
GOP ‘Moderates’ Seem to Be Winning the Negotiations Over Trumpcare McConnell is reportedly giving moderates more opioid funding, larger subsidies, and fewer tax cuts while giving far-right dissidents little.
GOP Senators Begin to Question Health-Care Bill’s Tax Cuts for the Rich The repeal of the taxes on the wealthy that were enacted with Obamacare is under attack by Senate Republicans. That is a bad sign for Mitch McConnell.
Senate Delays Trumpcare Vote Due to Lack of Support Mitch McConnell had planned to pass Obamacare repeal before the July 4 recess. Now, he doesn’t even have the votes to proceed to debate.
Right-to-Life Lobby Has Trumpcare Demands — and Isn’t in Mood for Compromise If Mitch McConnell wants to pass a health-care bill, he must absolutely placate the anti-abortion movement.
CBO Score of Senate Health Bill Is Grim — But Gives McConnell Wiggle Room On one hand: 22 million people losing coverage. On the other: extra deficit savings to fund sweeteners.
Another GOP Senator Comes Out As ‘No’ on Health-Care Bill, Imperiling Prospects Dean Heller of Nevada said he could not support legislation as written. Now things get dicey for Mitch McConnell.
GOP ‘Moderates’ Worry Gutting Medicaid During Opioid Crisis Might Have Downsides Some Senate Republicans are realizing that there’s a tension between solving the opioid epidemic and throwing millions of people off health insurance.
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