Health Repeal, Trump and Tyrants, Lincoln Really Blew It
At Stinque, nojo gets granular on the Senate, where conservatives are working on the next step of Republican efforts to attack health care.
Michael John Scott, at MadMikesAmerica, notes that House Republicans have voted for a health change for which they do not know the cost, and from which they do not know how many millions will lose their coverage. Politically, however, Michael believes those millions and their friends will generate a cost for Republicans.
It seems the Republican public victory celebration did it. At long last, Andrew Sullivan has given up on contemporary conservatism. Well, that’s news! driftglass, largely immunized by Andrew’s years of blame-both-sides writings, is unimpressed.
Iron Knee at Political Irony considers the contrast of our President’s difficulty in getting along with leaders who are chosen through free and fair elections with his comfortable ease in relating to tyrants.
This one is unproven, but the fact that the report from Last Of The Millenniums is plausible, all by itself, says something significant. Did an administration noted for pettiness pressure Argentina out of awarding an honor to Jimmy Carter?
In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor and current atheist Bruce reacts after Franklin Graham slut-shames Duchess Kate Middleton for bearing her breasts on a private French beach. Why, wonders Bruce, do so many evangelicals obsess over their fear of women’s breasts.
In California, The Fresno Bee is killing off its local arts and sports coverage. At Whatever, John Scalzi really doesn’t like it.
This Week In Trumpian ‘Alternative Facts’, our own St. Louis Post Dispatch reviews my President’s latest historical fantasy about the Civil War. Gosh, if only big-hearted Andrew Jackson, or deal-maker Donald Trump, had been President instead of that incompetent Lincoln fellow.