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Even as wild rumors of corn borching swirl and distract, Dan Rather stays focused on the clown show ...

Mr. Putin is not the head of a democracy. But Mr. Trump certainly is. Somebody better remind him of that and fast, and the rest of his family as well.

Secret meetings with the Russians? Forgotten meetings with the Russians? What the heck is going on?

The cloud of suspicion is thicker than my late-grandmother's Texas chili. We grant a presumption of innocence in our court system, but a prosecutor with a case is allowed to pursue it. And we have a case here. We have a special council looking into it, but we also have a press, the Congress and all the others who need to be keeping this in check.

Presidents should be able to have backchannel communications. It is not the public's right to know everything. But this is a direct communication with an adversary who has tried to undermine our democracy. This is a foreign power that has many suspicious ties to the President, his family and his closest aides.

What is President Trump talking to Mr. Putin about? What secret deals or promises were made? What are he and his closest confidents trying to hide?

It's high time we started getting some satisfactory answers. This is not about politics. It's about the sanctity of our democratic institutions.

The Presidency of the United States is a great responsibility. But in that responsibility is a need for accountability. Putin does not have a transparent government. We do, or at least are supposed to have one.

 

How long until Trump calls the CBO a purveyor of FAKE NEWS?

H.R. 1628, Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017

 

Every time Trump yells "Fake News", someone should respond "Fake Tan"

 

Obamacare performed a great public service by giving more Americans access to health care. But by not addressing costs, it preordained the problem that McConnell and the Republicans have said they are trying to fix this year: rising insurance premiums and some insurers fleeing the market because their costs are too high.

However, the Republicans’ answer would fix nothing related to health-care costs, while eliminating access to care for millions of poor people in order to cut taxes for the wealthy. They have proposed lowering premiums not by reining in costs, but by allowing insurers to sell shoddy insurance that pays for less health care. That will not work in any event, because the healthiest people would buy the cheaper products, leaving those who need full protection in a less healthy insurance pool facing sky-high prices. (“Consumer choice” may sound like an unassailable virtue, but in insurance it can be self-defeating.)

So, here are nine ways that Democrats and Republicans could come together — if they really wanted to — to fix Obamacare by truly tackling the problem of high premiums caused by high costs.

Opinion | Nine ways to really fix Obamacare

 

There's a lot of good sense in that article.

 

Trump can’t make a health care deal because he doesn’t understand health care - Vox

He is not only incompetent and ignorant. He is lazy. Nice combo.

 

Well, I said that, what, last night, minutes after the news broke? Not exactly a profound observation.

 

Newest Senate health bill would cause 32 million to lose coverage

JFC, what next, 50 million? 100 million?

 

Look at that document list. Yeah, baby.

 

The White House has announced that next week is Perjury Week.