Fair enough. I didn’t realize it was 70 miles away.

They don’t like it for the opposite reason as most of us: they want essentially a full repeal. In its current form, the ACHA preserves certain provisions of the ACA which the Kochs find unacceptable.

The problem they face is there are already some GoP reps who won’t vote for it because it’s too far to the right, and moving it further will lose them even more. I have no illusions about what the Kochs’ motivations are, but there’s really no motivation to acquiesce to the WH’s bullying if you’ll lose the bulk of…

Well, there goes the last of my free time.

Back in probably 2002, I read this article about how we should thank Al-Qaeda for the WTC because it restored patriotic symbols like flying the flag an American thing rather than a blind nationalism thing. How quickly we’ve reverted.

Protesting already polluted city water and a corrupt government in a mostly black Detroit suburb just isn’t as sexy as trying to stop a pipeline from crossing a river. That’s why you don’t see wypipo* “water protectors” there.

Every damn thing the man said was so fucking prescient. He should’ve been VP/President instead of Truman.

Maybe if we’re really lucky...

Not really that long when you think about it. I mean... they haven’t actually done anything of substance until now. The very first thing they try to do and it’s tearing them apart.

Lost the popular vote by a historic margin, is currently “enjoying” record low approval ratings for a president at this point in his term, and today the Kochs said they were funding reps who vote against it.

That’s the holdup with the current version, but the reason they can’t fix that is because there are moderates at the other end who won’t vote for it if they capitulate to the Freedom Caucus.

He is nothing if not vindictive and grudge-holding. I doubt he’ll sign anything he doesn’t want to (unless Bannon tells him to).

I read a story a couple weeks ago claiming that part of the problem the GoP is having is that they’ve been the party of opposition rather than progression for so long that they don’t have many policy wonks on staff any more. Add on that most of those sorts of people want to work on complex solutions that require…

The problem is that the ACA is essentially the plan their party came up with 20 years ago. It’s already sorta the bare minimum.

The ACHA is essentially a tax cut, which is what they really want. The problem is that there’s one thing they want more, and that’s job security.

Negotiations between the House and Senate often take longer and are more complicated than anything that happens within either chamber. Saying “this is it” at such an early stage just shows how little he knows about how government functions.

I’m hoping to glow in the dark by the time I leave.

What does she do now? Or is teaching self defense classes a full time job for her?

I work at a small nuclear reactor. Radiation is a fact of life here, and it really ain’t that bad.

On that note, I read this delightful store this morning.