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Give her a call

by David Anderson|  July 18, 201710:42 am| 64 Comments

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For the West Virginians in the audience, give Senator Capito a call:

My latest statement on the Senate health care bill & planned vote to repeal Obamacare: pic.twitter.com/yAVIxgptCu

— Shelley Moore Capito (@SenCapito) July 18, 2017

And thank her.

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    July 18, 2017 at 10:46 am

    That’s a pretty straightforward statement without much wiggle room. So, I guess “repeal, and then we’ll figure something out, maybe” is dead as well?

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 18, 2017 at 10:47 am

    Woohoo! Glad the dam seems to be bursting on this.

    So we should just all pretend to be Cole when we call (‘cept you JR, you can be you)?

  3. 3.

    Ridnik Chrome

    July 18, 2017 at 10:47 am

    “…I did not come to Washington to hurt people…”

    I wish more Republicans would get this idea through their heads.

  4. 4.

    Chris

    July 18, 2017 at 10:49 am

    Good for her.

  5. 5.

    Villago Delenda Est

    July 18, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Yertle is getting his ass kicked…by members of his own caucus.

    Meanwhile, Donald is ranting and raving about the fillibuster. Which hasn’t had to be applied against this abortion of a health care bill.

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Do the right thing, Senator.
    Keep your people alive.
    It really shouldn’t be this difficult.

  7. 7.

    Jeffro

    July 18, 2017 at 10:50 am

    And take a moment to savor that these effing idiots in the GOP can’t even deliver when their party completely controls all three branches of government!

    Anyone want to print up “TRUMP CAN’T DELIVER JACK SHIT!” on a bumper sticker and make a gazillion bucks?

  8. 8.

    MomSense

    July 18, 2017 at 10:51 am

    Yes we can!

  9. 9.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 18, 2017 at 10:51 am

    Almost on topic. For a guy who’s, IIRC, north of 90 years old, John Dingell’s Twitter game is mighty fine.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    July 18, 2017 at 10:52 am

    Let’s again take a moment to admire what Pelosi, Reid, and Obama managed to accomplish. Yes, there were some ugly moments along the way, but they got it done.

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    July 18, 2017 at 10:53 am

    Btw David Fahrenthold is tweeting about failed restaurants in Trumpov hotels and huge numbers of available tee times at Trumpov golf courses (contrasted nicely with unavailable tee times at nearby local public courses)

    Even Shit Midas’ own businesses aren’t immune to his touch! LOVE IT

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2017 at 10:53 am

    Free Talenti gelato at Millennium Park today
    POSTED 7:23 AM, JUNE 27, 2017,
    BY ANABEL MENDOZA, UPDATED AT 07:35AM, JUNE 27, 2017

    CHICAGO – It wouldn’t be summertime without some free gelato. Talenti is giving away 15,000 free pints of delicious gelato in Millennium Park on Tuesday, June 27!

    You can find your free pint west of the Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E. Randolph St. starting at noon according to DNAInfo.

    The giveaway will happen before Millennium Park’s free showing of ‘Julie & Julia’ and feature some of Talenti’s popular flavors like cinnamon peach biscuit, vanilla chai, and double dark chocolate.

  13. 13.

    FlipYrWhig

    July 18, 2017 at 10:54 am

    @Jeffro: (SH)ART OF THE DEAL

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2017 at 10:55 am

    Capito is a “no” on repeal vote. With Portman talking it down, Collins unlikely to support, McCain still out, this should about do it pic.twitter.com/GzMr6yd87g
    — Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 18, 2017

  15. 15.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    July 18, 2017 at 10:56 am

    It still begs the question will she be bribed with some kind of modification that sends plenty of federal tax dollars to the opiate addicts in her state in order to support the bill? Or does McConnell have the votes so is letting her take the symbolic “no” vote in order to preserve herself politically?

    Yeah, this looks like a straight up statement of opposition but those bastards pull the football away every damned time so it’s hard for me to take what they say at face value anymore.

  16. 16.

    Yarrow

    July 18, 2017 at 10:57 am

    Awesome news! This has to have been planned. Lee and Moran take the fall last night and Capito goes out against Repeal this morning. No one person to blame for everything.

    I think the Senators don’t like McConnell very much.

  17. 17.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    July 18, 2017 at 10:59 am

    @dmsilev:

    Let’s again take a moment to admire what Pelosi, Reid, and Obama managed to accomplish. Yes, there were some ugly moments along the way, but they got it done.

    But neoliberalism, dronez, corporate cash, no single payer and all the other crap spewed out by Our Progressive Betters!

    Yeah, my guess is that history will be kind to the respective leaders during 2 years of Dem control of the gubmint. The three of them made a great legislative team.

  18. 18.

    Emerald

    July 18, 2017 at 11:00 am

    Well now. That’s very nice. If she didn’t come to Washington to hurt people, then she’ll also oppose Ryan’s plan to slash Medicare.

    Yeah, Medicare.

    Oh, and also Medicaid, the ACA, federal employee pensions (that will never happen—retired federal employees know the system too well to allow it), food stamps and the EITC.

    All done under budget reconciliation so the Democrats can’t fillibuster it.

    Here’s the relevant paragraph from TPM:

    The plan, in theory at least, promises to balance the budget through unprecedented and unworkable cuts across the budget. It calls for turning this year’s projected $700 billion or so deficit into a tiny $9 billion surplus by 2027. It would do so by slashing $5.4 trillion over the coming decade, including almost $500 billion from Medicare, $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and the Obama health law, along with enormous cuts to benefits such as federal employee pensions, food stamps, and tax credits for the working poor.

    OK, yeah, the TPM article also says “though GOP leaders have no intention of actually carrying out the cuts.”

    Uh huh.

    Looks like Indivisible has a bit more work to do (although I do believe that the senior population will be able to mobilize pretty well on its own).

  19. 19.

    debbie

    July 18, 2017 at 11:02 am

    @rikyrah: @rikyrah:

    Never count Portman out. He can waffle and collapse with the best of them.

  20. 20.

    Yarrow

    July 18, 2017 at 11:07 am

    Adam Jentelsen, Harry Reid’s former Deputy Chief of Staff, had an epic twitter thread about all this last night. On how the Senators feel about McConnell, I found this interesting.

    Adam Jentleson‏Verified account @AJentleson 13h13 hours ago

    First & foremost, what we’re witnessing is an unprecedented, full-blown rebellion by Republican senators against their leader, McConnell. 2/

    Adam Jentleson‏Verified account @AJentleson 13h13 hours ago

    I worked for Reid for years. Democratic senators criticized him occasionally, although they’d usually joke about it.

    Nothing like this. 3/

    Adam Jentleson‏Verified account @AJentleson 12h12 hours ago

    Reid’s status as leader was based on a mixture of love & respect from the caucus.

    McConnell’s, only on respect – very little love. 4/

  21. 21.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2017 at 11:08 am

    @Yarrow:

    I went and read the entire thread. very interesting.

  22. 22.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    July 18, 2017 at 11:08 am

    @Emerald:

    “…federal employee pensions (that will never happen—retired federal employees know the system too well to allow it)…”

    Even the most die-hard, anti-federal employee Repub looking to gut the workforce has never said a word about touching the retirement of *already retired* feds. They’re looking to gut the current workers (raises hand).

    And don’t believe for one minute that we active feds can do squat about it. We have two toothless unions (not their fault, they’re legislatively been made toothless) and no real legislative clout. Sure, we have Reps and Sens with sizeable fed constituencies but the numbers pale in comparison to just about anything else. And there just aren’t that many Reps and Sens in those places.

    The Popular Vote Loser’s budget was a wet dream for people like the departed Chaffetz who have gutted public sector workers at every level of their incompetence. If these clowns could ever get their shit together, they could pass anything and we feds could do zip about it.

    It would die in the Senate because I doubt McConnell could do any additional legislative hocus pocus to find a way past the 60 vote threshold.

    I remember all too well how a Democratic controlled House and Senate screwed us over in the mid-80s when they changed the retirement system in cooperation with St Ronnie. It could still happen again.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 18, 2017 at 11:11 am

    Apparnetly Trump isn’t amused by the crash and burn of his signature bill. Can’t imagine why, it’s distracted everyone from his son’s act of treason.

  24. 24.

    Yarrow

    July 18, 2017 at 11:11 am

    @rikyrah: Yeah, it’s epic. He understands how the Senate works and if he says the Senators aren’t happy with McConnell, I believe him. A few more from that thread:

    Adam Jentleson‏Verified account @AJentleson 12h12 hours ago

    Lastly: the breadth of the rebellion is fascinating and suggests that this was coordinated. Lee/Moran jumped first to give others cover. 17/

    Adam Jentleson‏Verified account @AJentleson 12h12 hours ago

    That prospect is truly jaw-dropping: a COORDINATED rebellion against McConnell?

    Six months into unified Repubmican control??

    Yeesh. 18/

    I saw McConnell speak this morning for a few minutes. He started out looking rattled and afraid. When he pivoted to attacking Democrats he perked up, but him being afraid caught my eye. He has failed spectacularly. He knows it. He can’t deliver Obamacare repeal. Thus he can’t deliver the huge tax cuts he promised his owners. He’s compromised and those that own him can’t be happy. He knows it.

  25. 25.

    debbie

    July 18, 2017 at 11:12 am

    Huh. Glenn Beck just said out loud that he hopes the Dems remain fixated on Russia because it will make it much easier to repeal ACA.

  26. 26.

    khead

    July 18, 2017 at 11:13 am

    “Serious concerns”. About the “discussion drafts”. Yawn.

  27. 27.

    Frankensteinbeck

    July 18, 2017 at 11:16 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    I am told that McConnell’s approach as majority leader is draconian and unilateral. He makes decisions, other people follow. It irritates his caucus, the Wealthcare bill pissed them off, and the repeal bill is slapping his own senators in the face for daring to defy him. I generally have scoffed at ‘political capitol’, but here it definitely applies. McConnell is rapidly squandering the goodwill he has among his caucus to vote for any of his agenda.

    Maybe that’s why he’s sat around doing nothing. Anything he did would make them mad, and he only had two or three real votes worth of power. He’s wasting that.

  28. 28.

    Yarrow

    July 18, 2017 at 11:17 am

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

    Obama initiatives still in place 6 months into all-GOP govt:
    -DACA
    -Iran deal
    -relations w/Cuba
    -Paris accord (minus Trump admin)
    -Obamacare
    — John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 18, 2017

  29. 29.

    MattF

    July 18, 2017 at 11:17 am

    McConnell will now force Capito to deliberately refrain from harming her constituents. There’s something I don’t get about this. Maybe McConnell is much more of an ideologue than I’d realized.

  30. 30.

    Cermet

    July 18, 2017 at 11:19 am

    The kock sucker brothers must be furious; their one wet dream has turned out to be just their own soiled depends are leaking shit and piss down their legs! LOLOLOLOLOL

  31. 31.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Senate Republicans Are Back to Repeal and Delay
    by Nancy LeTourneau
    July 18, 2017 10:00 AM

    With announcements last night from Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) that they will not support the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was forced to concede that he doesn’t have the 50 votes to pass it.

    ……………………….

    What McConnell is saying is that they will instead revive a bill that Republicans passed in 2015 to repeal Obamacare, but was vetoed by President Obama. Since that bill delayed implementation of the repeal for two years, we’re back to the idea put forward by some Republicans at the beginning of this process to “repeal and delay.” The rationale was that the prospect of a collapse of Obamacare would force Democrats to work with Republicans on a replacement. In other words, it is a renewed form of the hostage-taking we saw from Republicans repeatedly during the Obama presidency.

    Most people are assuming that a repeal and delay vote will never pass the Senate. This revival of that strategy is merely a way for McConnell to give Republicans a way to tell their constituents that they voted “yes” on the bill to repeal Obamacare. But it also puts tremendous pressure on so-called “moderate Republicans” who would have to go on record voting “no” for a dangerous bluff from McConnell.

    Because the 2015 bill’s revival would once again be subject to the rules of the budget reconciliation process in the Senate, it wouldn’t necessarily repeal all of Obamacare. Instead it would:

    eliminate the exchanges,
    phase out subsidies,
    phase out Medicaid expansion
    eliminate taxes that funded Obamacare
    defund Planned Parenthood immediately

    What wouldn’t be included are all of the regulations on health insurers that are part of Obamacare. They would stay in place. That includes things like the protections for people with pre-existing conditions, coverage for the list of essential benefits and what is known as “community rating,” which prevents health insurers from varying premiums within a geographic area based on age, gender, health status or other factors.

    Kevin Drum points out that eliminating the funding mechanism while keeping the regulations in place would destroy not just Obamacare, but the entire individual insurance market. I suspect it would even go beyond that. The regulations that would stay in place affect all health insurance—even what is provided by employers. So the damage could extend beyond the individual market.

    The brutality and cynicism of this play by McConnell is two-fold: (1) he’s counting on the probability that this repeal and delay bill won’t pass, and (2) even if it does, the prospect of this kind of havoc in health care would force Democrats to concede.

    To recap, here are the steps McConnell has taken in this effort to repeal Obamacare:

    Set up the process via reconciliation so that it would only need 51 votes,
    Crafted the bill behind closed doors,
    Refused to allow committee hearings or public debate,
    Refused any input from Democrats,
    When that failed to secure 51 votes, switched to repeal and delay, in an attempt to hold health care hostage and blame Democrats for their failure to concede.

  32. 32.

    Frankensteinbeck

    July 18, 2017 at 11:25 am

    @MattF:
    I haven’t understood what McConnell is doing since day one of this Republican government. Current best guess is ‘He hates Obama and wants to make damn sure the voter suppression Republicans rely on isn’t overturned, but otherwise doesn’t care and is happy to twiddle his thumbs and do nothing.’

    EDIT – @khead:
    The important part is “I cannot vote to repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan.” A replacement plan isn’t happening. That’s why they’re discussing this bill in the first place. This is a ‘no’ vote.

  33. 33.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    July 18, 2017 at 11:37 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    It would be awesome if another big collusion shoe thumped down atop Trump now that he is already foaming at the mouth in rage and incompetence.

  34. 34.

    Amir Khalid

    July 18, 2017 at 11:38 am

    How TPM sees it.

    Could someone explain to me how Obamacare repeal without Trumpcare in its place is supposed to fly in the Senate? From what I’ve read, the former is by itself plenty toxic with the public.

  35. 35.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 18, 2017 at 11:43 am

    A republican who says they didn’t come to Washington to hurt people is lying.

  36. 36.

    eric

    July 18, 2017 at 11:44 am

    @Major Major Major Major: that is too harsh and mean spirited. they did not come to hurt rich white people! ass!

  37. 37.

    Emerald

    July 18, 2017 at 11:44 am

    @comrade scotts agenda of rage:
    Well then, Indivisible will have to be!

    I used to know a former head of the CBO, Martha Phillips. She said that federal employees were so savvy they knew how to block virtually any changes to their benefits.

    Of course, that was in the 90s. Times have changed. And plus, your own direct experience probably is a more reliable guide than Martha’s from way back then.

  38. 38.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 18, 2017 at 11:46 am

    @Amir Khalid: some have suggested that Mitch just wants a dead bill he can trot out as an excuse to move on.

    @eric: argh, I also forgot about corporate people!

  39. 39.

    hovercraft

    July 18, 2017 at 11:58 am

    Good for Capito.

    @Jeffro:

    Even Shit Midas’ own businesses aren’t immune to his touch!

    Well duh! Anyone with a brain would know that the multiple bankruptcies weren’t just bad luck. The only reason the DC hotel is making money is because of the people openly bribing Twitler.
    Many of his rubes can’t afford to patronize his enterprises, hence the effort to launch their new SCION chain where they can separate them from their money.

  40. 40.

    Hungry Joe

    July 18, 2017 at 12:00 pm

    We would be so, so totally screwed if these guys were even in the neighborhood of competent. And the bozos running the Trump House are even worse. They keep breaking what I think of as The Molly Ivins Law, that goes something like “Everybody steps on their own dick sometimes, but you’re not supposed to just STAND there.”

  41. 41.

    MattF

    July 18, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    @Amir Khalid: There’s a significant number of Republican voters who will be exceedingly pissed off if/when Ocare repeal fails. If this bloc decides that the current Republican party is ‘no better than the Democrats’ then the Republican Party becomes the ex-Republican Party. Just consider– all those polls on issues showing Republicans in a 60 to 40 minority– if the majority of that minority gives up on the Republican Party, there’s no more Republican Party. So, I think we’re immersed right now in wingnut politics, and it ain’t pretty.

    Given that this is the situation on the right, one possibility is that McConnell has shifted to damage-control mode. Another possibility is that McConnell is actually a true believer. From my point of view, it’s a somewhat academic question, but the politics is quite serious for anyone on the right.

  42. 42.

    zhena gogolia

    July 18, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    I’m reading Al Franken’s book, and I’m surprised by his account of how the Obama campaign refused to help him in his first senatorial race. He’s big on Hillary, though.

  43. 43.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    July 18, 2017 at 12:08 pm

    @Emerald:

    A huge difference between now and then if the gutting of staffers in the House and Senate. This was deliberate policy enacted in the 90s by Gingrich after he took over. The professional cadre on the Hill were downsized to nothing. When they were there, you bet they worked over their bosses on cuts to federal benefits, that’s why nothing changed.

    But with few of them around now, those asshats don’t see first hand the havoc their actions bring.

    That’s the big difference between now and 20+ years ago.

  44. 44.

    GregB

    July 18, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    @Yarrow:

    Harwood used to be at the far right of the media spectrum back when he was at the Wall Street Journal.

    He is now a pretty honest arbiter of the news and almost sounds, gasp, a bit left of center.

  45. 45.

    Frankensteinbeck

    July 18, 2017 at 12:14 pm

    @MattF:

    If this bloc decides that the current Republican party is ‘no better than the Democrats’ then the Republican Party becomes the ex-Republican Party.

    This also happens if Democrats stay as angry and energized as they are now, or if they lose the Republican voters who have fallen in love with their healthcare. I’m guessing the less insane senators are thinking their best bet is to rely on Teabaggers being as easy to lie to as they always have been before. I’m betting they also blame McConnell for putting them in this position. They have to be pretty pissed at Ryan as well, who sold the House version as ‘let the Senate take the blame.’ (Pretty much how that worked out, too.)

  46. 46.

    Hafabee

    July 18, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    I faxed her Friday, yesterday, and today. I started with

    I have been your constituent for your entire Federal political career, first as District 2 House Representative and now as Senator. I sincerely thank you for your continuing position against the Republican health care bill.

    I see she used the word hurt in her statement this morning. Friday I said

    The ACA is not perfect, and I encourage you to work with your Democratic colleagues to bring about incremental improvements – a good example is this week’s bipartisan bill would pay seniors $75 to write a living will; this will save Medicare millions of dollars over the next several years, and, you know, HELPS people rather than HURTING them!

    Then this morning I concluded with

    BUT THE HOUSE BILL WAS A NON-STARTER IN THE SENATE AFTER IT PASSED THE HOUSE – THE PRESIDENT EVEN CALLED IT “MEAN”(I SAY IT’S “CRUEL”) – AND IT
    SHOULD BE A NON-STARTER NOW. HELP, DON’T HURT, WE THE PEOPLE!

    PLEASE VOTE NO ON BRINGING IT TO THE FLOOR.
    IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO – AND I BELIEVE YOU KNOW THAT.

    Maybe her staff actually read the faxes they get?

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    July 18, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    In January, this what Republicans were talking about: straight repeal but abandoned it because it became clear Americans wouldn’t allow it 1
    — Angel Padilla (@AngelRafPadilla) July 18, 2017
    It’s desperate. But it’s also dangerous, especially when it’s McConnell. Let’s recap what straight repeal would mean for Americans: 3
    Straight repeal means an end to the subsidies that make health care coverage affordable for millions of hard working American families 4
    Straight repeal ends Medicaid expansion, ripping healthcare from millions of Americans, some who got health insurance for the first time 5
    It means eliminating the individual mandate (you know, that thing that makes it possible to protect people with pre-existing conditions) 6
    Consequences would be devastating. According to CBO, it would take healthcare away from 18M people in the FIRST YEAR, and 32M by 2026 7
    Premiums would spike by 25% in the first year, and DOUBLE by 2026. If Republicans care about reducing premiums, this isn’t the way 8

  48. 48.

    eric

    July 18, 2017 at 12:25 pm

    God speaks….

  49. 49.

    Brachiator

    July 18, 2017 at 12:30 pm

    @Ridnik Chrome: RE: “…I did not come to Washington to hurt people…”

    I wish more Republicans would get this idea through their heads.

    Yep.

  50. 50.

    patrick II

    July 18, 2017 at 12:37 pm

    Utah, Kansas, West Virginia are all republican states where medicaid was expanded. Those senators from states without expanded medicaid are not feeling the same pressure — it is much tougher to take something away from people who already have it. Justice Roberts attempt to subtly gut the ACA just barely fails.

  51. 51.

    MattF

    July 18, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    Uh… according to the WaPo, the number of people attending that meeting is now up to eight.

    An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged as a key focus of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian.

    Ike Kaveladze’s presence was confirmed by Scott Balber, an attorney for Emin and Aras Agalarov, the Russian developers who hosted the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant in 2013. Balber said Kaveladze works for the Agalarovs’ company and attended as their representative.

  52. 52.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    July 18, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    Hey, anybody see Humboldt Blue check in lately? Maybe I have just missed him.

  53. 53.

    bystander

    July 18, 2017 at 12:51 pm

    Sounds like Murkowski is a nein.

    Motion to proceed fails, too, I think. Three repub women finished it off.

    Maggie Hassan was just on. Don’t know much about her, but she seems like a good person to have out front…of Joe Manchin, hopefully.

  54. 54.

    randy khan

    July 18, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    @Jeffro:

    I said this recently somewhere, but I regularly walk past the outdoor cafe at the Trump hotel in D.C. I’ve never seen anyone there. Not one person.

  55. 55.

    low-tech cyclist

    July 18, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    I did not come to Washington to hurt people

    RINO!!!

    Only half kidding.

    Sens. Collins and Murkowski have also said they would vote against the MtP on repeal-and-delay. So three strikes and it’s dead.

    I’ll be calling my (Dem) Senators this afternoon to say Thanks.

  56. 56.

    low-tech cyclist

    July 18, 2017 at 1:01 pm

    @patrick II:

    Utah, Kansas, West Virginia are all republican states where medicaid was expanded.

    WV yes, but not Kansas or Utah.

  57. 57.

    Steve LaBonne

    July 18, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    @debbie: That’s my Senator! What a useless shithead.

  58. 58.

    Miss Bianca

    July 18, 2017 at 1:08 pm

    @eric: OK, I’m gonna have to follow God online, looks like…

  59. 59.

    Barbara

    July 18, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    @randy khan: I have seen people there, and although I have not actually gone inside, I have spoken with a few who have, who have told me that the prices for food and drinks are basically unconscionable. As I understand it, fees at all Trump properties are much higher than at equivalent non-Trump venues. I am sure that has at least some bearing on their level of business.

  60. 60.

    Barbara

    July 18, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: Arkansas, Kentucky, Arizona, North Dakota, and Montana . . . Here is a complete look:

    http://familiesusa.org/product/50-state-look-medicaid-expansion

  61. 61.

    Dennis

    July 18, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Yet she refused to go on the record until it was clear the bill would fail. Don’t give her too much credit.

  62. 62.

    John Fremont

    July 18, 2017 at 1:26 pm

    @Yarrow:Also too, as of right now, states with legalized marijuana sales.

  63. 63.

    eric

    July 18, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    @Dennis: it only became clear to us now. I think McConnell has known he has a losing hand all along and hoped for a miracle and did not get it. It was the smart play for the ‘nos’ to wait as long as possible. I think still they were nos.

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    randy khan

    July 18, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    @Barbara:

    There was a semi-review of the bar at the D.C. hotel soon after it opened and the prices were pretty high by D.C. standards (which means they would be shocking to people who don’t live in a big city).

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