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Of course.

https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/rep-who-gutted-ethics-office-was-sued-for-sexual-harassment.html

 

Opinion | Senate Republicans take cynicism to a horrifying new level

"I’ve often argued that Republicans in Congress aren’t serious about policy, but this is taking their unseriousness to the level of farce. After complaining for years that the ACA was “rammed through” Congress — in a process that involved a full year of debate, dozens of hearings in both houses and 188 Republican amendments to the bill debated and accepted — they’re going to vote on a sweeping bill that had zero hearings and that they saw only hours before, because who cares what’s in it? It’s only the fate of the country at stake. If taking away health-care coverage from 20 million or 30 million Americans is what it takes to stave off a primary challenge from some nutball tea partier, then that’s what they’ll do.

No one would argue that keeping promises isn’t important. But Republicans have elevated the idea of keeping their promise to repeal the ACA to the point where it’s drained of all substance. You can see it in the way they talk about the various iterations of their bill. You seldom hear a Republican defend it on the terms of the bill itself. They don’t say, “Here’s how this bill will bring down deductibles” or “Here’s how the bill will take care of those who lose their insurance” or “Here’s how the bill will lower costs.” That’s partly because their bills won’t do any of those things, but mostly because they just don’t care."

 

Can someone reassure me of the whereabouts of recently paroled Christian conservative hero Denny Hastert this week of the Boy Scout Jamboree?

 

Dennis Scott doesn't see the problem.

 

"Obama didn't visit the Boy Scout Jamboree so anything Trump does there is justified."

How sadly predictable

 

Who said that?

 

Like this guy:

 

"Tomorrow, the Senate is set to vote on a Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. What Republican bill? The senators themselves don’t even know. Here’s how Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) described it yesterday on “Face the Nation“:

"It appears that we will have a vote on Tuesday. But we don’t whether we’re going to be voting on the House bill, the first version of the Senate bill, the second version of the Senate bill, a new version of the Senate bill, or a 2015 bill that would have repealed the Affordable Care Act now, and then said that somehow we will figure out a replacement over the next two years."

 

Honestly, what did you expect Trump to say to Boy Scouts? A talk about the virtues of the outdoors? Being prepared? Self-reliance?

 

He's probably camped out as much as Obama.

 

I don't know, but I didn't expect him to turn them into Hitlerjugend.