7th July 2017, 11:55 PM
So, our political system has devolved so badly that Mitch McConnell's current big threat to his recalcitrant Republican Senate caucus is that if they don't behave and vote for his atrocious "health care" bill... he might be forced to actually do as the Founders intended and work with the other side when you can? How is this a threat exactly, in any sane world? It'd be very interesting if that actually happened though, if only in the Senate in something that didn't pass because the House refused it, because more and more Republican Senators are opposed to the current version of the bill, and how do you make it better when Cruz and Paul are demanding you make it even worse in order to get their support, while that would drive away others in the center-right even farther?
This could all just be a smokescreen and they pass something in the end despite all this, that wouldn't surprise me, but right now I'm cautiously optimistic that maybe the Republican health-care (tax cuts for the rich) bill might actually fail.
This could all just be a smokescreen and they pass something in the end despite all this, that wouldn't surprise me, but right now I'm cautiously optimistic that maybe the Republican health-care (tax cuts for the rich) bill might actually fail.