Stone Cold John McCain saves the day

Bernie Sanders will foil Senate Republicans' single-payer trolling

Source: Vox

The Washington Examiner reported Wednesday night that Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) is planning to propose an amendment during debate this week to create a single-payer health care system.

Daines doesn’t himself support single-payer. But his amendment is an attempt to splinter the Democratic caucus and expose the minority party’s divisions on how to reform the health care system. Republicans are struggling mightily to find 50 votes to pass their bill, and the Examiner suggests that Daines is interested in calling attention to Democrats’ internal discord. In essence, the hope would be to force the many Democrats who are in-cycle in 2018 to choose between going on the record as favoring a pretty hefty tax increase by voting for a Daines-written single-payer bill and attracting the ire of Sanders supporters by voting against it.

....

The tactic of turning Sanders fans’ often dyspeptic attitude about the Democratic Party establishment to their advantage has worked for Republicans in the past, but Sanders has no intention of letting them run that playbook this week. Rather than seize the opportunity from Daines to talk about Medicare-for-All — which would in turn highlight Democrats’ internal divisions — Sanders will reject Daines’ amendment, a spokesperson for the Senator told Vox.

"The Democratic caucus will not participate in the Republicans' sham process. No amendment will get a vote until we see the final legislation and know what bill we are amending,” Josh Miller-Lewis, a spokesperson for Sanders, said in a text.


Read more: https://www.vox.com/2017/7/26/16048136/bernie-sanders-daines-single-payer

Okay, this story about DWS's IT guy is major league weird, to the point of suspicious.

From FEBRUARY of this year:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staff-criminal-investigation-234714

Reminder that Pat McCrory was the only Republican to lose in North Carolina

in major statewide races in 2016. Because of his transbaiting.

North Carolina.

The purported ban on trans people serving in the military is a desperate flail by the dumb, cruel animal occupying the Oval Office to ignite a culture war to distract from his many failing.

Bernie Sanders and his staff are doing heroic work on fighting Trumpcare.

This has flown under the radar, but Bernie is the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee. That means it's he and his staffers arguing before the Senate Parliamentarian over which provisions of Trumpcare should be ruled ineligible for reconciliation rules. It's an unglamorous, detail-oriented grind involving charts, analysis and number-crunching.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/343737-senate-parliamentarian-more-parts-of-obamacare-repeal-will-need-60-votes

The vote tonight on Trumpcare faced a 60 vote hurdle because Bernie and his team successfully argued for many of its provisions to require 60 votes instead of 51.

Bernie is acting very much like a team player, and a leader, and is doing it away from the cameras and isn't hogging any credit or the spotlight.

Thank you, Bernie!

Boy Scouts of America REFUSES to distance themselves from Trump's vile speech

Trump's speech represents the values of the BSA in 2017.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/343545-obama-booed-at-trump-boy-scout-rally

Very simple explanation for why Schumer and other Dems are distancing themselves from Hillary

She's unpopular, especially for former candidates and presidents.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-18/finally-a-poll-trump-will-like-clinton-even-more-unpopular



From the same poll:

So, this Louise Mensch/Claude Taylor etc anti-Trump fake news thing ...

Sadly, the site has not come to a consensus as to whether the people who gave us "secret impeachment proceedings overseen by the Marshal of the Supreme Court" and "Rudy Giuliani begged for a deal at his secret sentencing" claims qualify for per se verboten members of the kookosphere.

So, half the people see fake news headlines and believe them and the other half get annoyed when we click on a plausible headline only to have it be one of the aforementioned b.s. artists. Fights start, etc etc.

For whatever reason, this seems to be a bigger problem when the bad guys hold the White House and leads to some real creepy crawlies gaining traction amongst DU's readership (during the Bush years mods had to delete a ton of links to white nationalist sites who struck an anti-Bush pose).

The jury system is working much better these days than it ever has, but it may be worth your while to weigh in on the obvious fraudsters since the jury system still has blind spots.