Eh…I'm willing to give a 9-year-old some slack. After all, when I was 9, I thought Ronald Reagan was awesome and I Dream of Jeannie was the height of human achievement.

Mine was too. I'm still not sure why I went to see it, because I had only seen a couple of Bond movies up to that point. I'm glad I did.

But it allowed the movie to end with the line "I always wanted to have Christmas in Turkey."! Huh? Huh?

Especially since he seems to think we're all living in a conspiracy thriller from the 70s.

So explain it to me like I am as dumb as a fucking bag of rocks. What do these shadowy puppetmasters want? To pass Trumpcare? If that is their goal, and they're able to pull the GOP's strings at will, how does it advantage them to spend 7 months on this, only to go down in defeat for now, as opposed to getting this…

I have relatives with that name. You don't live in Oak Cliff, do you?

Coastal communities better pray for four years of no hurricanes, because Comrade President will probably tweet "I like cities that aren't destroyed" and the GOP Congress will vote down any money for recovery.

Even if the Dems don't take back the House, they should narrow the GOP margin considerably. That will make Trumpcare 2019 that much harder to pass. Remember, the ACHA barely made it out of the House to begin with.

The ironic thing is that Trumpcare going down probably substantially improved the GOP's already high odds of retaining the Senate. If all hell had been breaking out in the insurance market next year, that could have led to a blue wave that might have surprisingly swamped some "safe" Republicans (Ted Cruz, I'm looking…

The system didn't work, but as it turns out, completely trying to fuck over the system doesn't work, either.

Maybe, but polls and history have shown that people blame the current president when things go wrong. Comrade President can try to blame Obama all he wants, but if Obamacare collapses, it will be on his watch and he'll suffer the consequences (particularly after all the Democratic ads that will air highlighting the…

So you think all of this is kabuki theater? I agree that zombie Trumpcare may rise from the grave yet again at some point, and that McCain may one day do a 180, but there's no way I believe that the GOP, which was talking openly after the election of having Obamacare repealed by the end of January, would devote 7…

I probably should. Meanwhile, my junior senator was grandstanding on CNN last night after the vote. Yes, Ted, we know you want to be president.

In a case of there's no silver lining that doesn't have a cloud, I suspect this makes it much more likely that Cruz gets re-elected next year. O'Rourke would have an uphill climb no matter what, but the health care system not exploding next year will help more Republicans keep their seats. Oh well. We need to…

Ugh…my junior senator is on CNN right now grandstanding, talking about how angry the American people are going to be that Obamacare is still the law of the land. I'm guessing he hasn't looked at too many polls lately.

So, McConnell is giving a bitter speech where he's blaming the Democrats for their obstruction and for refusing to work with the GOP. Wow. He honestly looks like he's about to cry.

McCain, Collins, and Murkowski all no. If I'm not mistaken, it fails 49-51. It's over. Trumpcare—at least the one they've been working toward for the last six months—is dead. The GOP has utterly failed.

As of this moment (12:08 am, CDT), the vote has yet to start, because the GOP is stuck at 49 votes. If McCain votes no…Wow.

All three movies were huge letdowns, especially as I was dying to see all of them. That's why I'm not all that excited about this one, even though "dark crime comedy written by the Coens" would normally have me counting down the days until it opened.

Oh George…not the livestock.