If I was a Democratic senator, I’d introduce an amendment to simply rename the Affordable Care Act as “The President Donald Trump Makes America Great Again Act” and otherwise leave its provisions intact. I feel like that would pass easily.

I don’t recall Bush Sr. catching a lot of flak during the ‘90s. Certainly not to the degree that Carter did for his own 4-year stint. Where I grew up, if you wanted to insult someone you’d call ‘em Jimmy Carter, and that would be guaranteed to piss people off.

This isn’t nearly as simple as Kobach makes it out to be. It might be onerous to a given state to extract the publicly releasable data from the data that needs to be withheld. They might have to dedicate thousands of man-hours to collating the data that legally can be shared. Also, in some states the public records…

I think if you were to see it behind bars it wouldn’t bother you much at all.

Or even if it does get built, there’s no guarantee it stays open. In 1997, Motorola built a massive plant in Harvard, Illinois. By 2003 it was empty and it has been ever since.

I spent my childhood in the ‘80s hearing how everything wrong was Jimmy Carter’s fault. Then from ‘92 to ‘08 everything was the Clintons’ fault. Did they spend the ‘70s blaming everything on JFK and LBJ? How long has this been the script?

Another route they might take: If they just can’t get it done now, pivot to focusing on “voter fraud” so they can disenfranchise as many voters as possible ahead of 2018, then try again to destroy the social safety net early in 2019.

He’s so, so good at making deals.

Congress has spent the past 100 years gradually ceding power to the presidency, I don’t see why they would stop now.

And he’s bad a wielding what power he does possess. But he’s also fantastically frustrated that he can’t rule by fiat, so I expect him at some point to make a play for expanded powers.

I remember the slow, grinding march toward the passage of Obamacare. There were advances and setbacks, speculation about whether it could even get out of committee, speeches, debates, public forums, and all along it continued to inch forward, inexorably moving toward passage through the hard, dedicated work of…

Yet.

Right??? Alaskans are U.S. citizens! If you punish Alaska for a senator’s vote, you are punishing your own people. This won’t even hurt Murkowski directly.

3-4 days until he announces that he’s found the leaker, then goes on TV and reveals that he overheard a Secret Service agent giving away the president’s movements on a secret microphone.

ETA on the number of days until Scoochymoochy punches someone in the face in the White House? I’m going with 20 days max. This guy seems to be constantly on the verge of losing his shit.

Step 1: Take the biggest bite possible. Half of the remaining innards and chunks of taco shell fall to a plate strategically positioned below.

I’d like to see NPR tweet that out and watch the deplorables lose their minds. “What left-wing snowflake wrote this garbage??? Faek news!!!”

My girlfriend was raised to believe that it’s unacceptable for her to ever be unprepared for any situation. She’s made great progress in fighting that programming, but she still overpacks a little. I don’t think guys get that kind of indoctrination as kids.

Trump’s the kind of king that would expect his serfs to throw themselves into a volcano’s mouth to appease the gods, and then criticize their form as they die in agony because the volcano is still erupting.

But Mr. Swarzak had just been installed as the White Sox’ new closer after Mr. Clippard bombed mightily. Who, oh who, will inherit this coveted role now?