Breathtaking

Even a cursory scratching of the surface of the American Shit Sandwich Bill 5.0 shows a callous disregard for the lives and health of American citizens.  What is incredible - when you read the linked article - is how craven the supposed GOP moderates are when it comes to their "red lines."  They routinely said that "If the bill doesn't have X, it won't win my vote."  Well, Graham-Cassidy doesn't have all those Xs and it's still getting votes.

The most un/believable quote comes from Chuck Grassley.

“You know, I could maybe give you 10 reasons why this bill shouldn’t be considered,” he told local reporters this week. “But Republicans campaigned on this so often that you have a responsibility to carry out what you said in the campaign. That’s pretty much as much of a reason as the substance of the bill.”

How do you justify stripping millions of Americans of their health care coverage in order to validate your content-free splenetic whinging about Obamacare?  At what point do you grow the fuck up and admit it was a lot more complicated than you implied on "Fox and Friends" during your inevitable anti-Democratic circle jerks?

In our system of government - as opposed to a parliamentary system - the legislature has to actually share in the responsibilities of governing.  In a parliamentary system, the government - the prime minister and her cabinet - write the legislation and the majority passes it, because in order to become prime minister, you have to have a majority.  In our system - as we saw for the last six years - we can have divided government that makes it possible for the majority in Congress to avoid their governing responsibilities.  The GOP has gone so far down the opposition party path that they literally cannot be bothered to understand THEIR OWN LEGISLATION.

This is professional and civic malpractice on a colossal scale.  At the moment, I would say the best hope of saving the Republicans from themselves rests on the same three Senators who saved us the last time - Collins, McCain and Murkowski.  We could see Portman and maybe Capito join them, if it looks like a lost cause.

But McCain isn't voting against the bill, he's voting against the process - the lack of "regular order.

The important thing will be to wrest control of Congress away from these buffoons as soon as humanly possible.