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Senate Republicans face their own divisions in push for health-care overhaul

from the Washington Post online. Find it here.

Amended by Tom Nashe. Illustrated by m ball.

Lamar Alexander

“We’re going to take the time we need to get it right,” Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who heads the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said this week when asked whether the White House was pressuring him and others to move swiftly. 

    “But I want to assure donors,” Alexander added, “that their tax cuts are not in jeopardy and part of taking time to get it right will include making sure those cuts are retroactive to the hour and minute the House of Representatives passed the bill.”

Arkansas legislature proposes new flag

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Sucking the sugar-coating off the midazolam-vecruonium bromide-potassium chloride pill

Alito: “We’ve put this thing off long enough.
          Man’s gotta go down.”

Roberts: “Agreed.”

Thomas: “Fry him.”

Kennedy: “It’s not frying, but . . . whatever.”

Gorsuch: “That’s what I’m here for.”

[Handshakes all ‘round.]

Effin' Mitch McConnell

Seventy-one days and I haven’t stopped puking – 18 pounds I've lost. But I’m down to morning,  noon, and night. I can write three paragraphs, if I pick the right time of day.

current approval rating - 19%

They’ll tell me I misheard. I hope so.

     I was listening to “Political Gabfest” this morning – David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and Jamelle Bouie (sitting in for John Dickerson) – and the panelists were praising – at least, they were not damning – Mitch McConnell. The great political strategist. But he isn’t a strategist at all. He’s an obstructionist, without politics. His only goal is not political, it’s to get his own way whatever the reasons or no reasons: eff anyone that may disagree, eff protocol, eff the institution of the Senate, eff what is right, eff the United States of America.  So,

     never give him any credit, even indirectly, for any thing. Eff him and the horse he rode in on, and the voters of Kentucky, who apparently care no more about what is right and proper or in the national interest than he does. Finally, eff the myth of Mitch McConnell, the political strategist. Look at the hard, crass, crooked, unprincipled man.