22nd July 2017, 8:31 PM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:I just learned a new word.
Kakistocracy - a government run by the worst or least qualified candidates
That's not a word I have heard before either, but it sure does describe America today, doesn't it... :(
On that note, not willing to take "no, you have the worst plans and it would be terrible" for an answer, the Republicans are still pushing their Senators very, VERY hard on Trump"care". It may still fail, but they're putting a lot of effort into trying to get it to pass, no matter how atrocious the bill is. Or rather, probably is; Senators apparently still have no idea which health care bill McConnell wants to vote on next week, but there'll be a vote and he wants all the Republicans (except for Collins) to vote yes, first to bring it up for debate and after that... we'll see?
I really, really hope that McConnell holds that 'bring it up for debate' vote and then loses, but sadly because Trump and the Republican leadership wants a "win" on this issue no matter the cost, this health care bill still is hanging around despite repeatedly seemingly dying.
On that note, the latest blow is that the Senate parliamentarian decided that a whole bunch of key parts of the bill, including the anti-abortion stuff, don't fit with budget reconciliation rules, so they should need 60 votes. To solve that issue McConnell has two options: have Pence override the parliamentarian, which has never been done before and would take us one step further along the road of destroying the system (so they'll probably do it anyway), or cut those elements of the bill and then have it fail because without the anti-abortion sections the right will not vote for the thing. Is he so committed to this bill that he'll actually override this decision? I guess we'll know sometime in the next week, probably. Maybe we'll even see what bill they're going to vote on!