Month: August 2017

Senate Republicans quietly wave the white flag on Obamacare repeal

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Multiple Republican lawmakers seem to have dismissed Trump’s call to keep moving on health care.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., listens to a question while speaking with the media, June 27, 2017. CREDIT: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

After six months of Republican-led closed door meetings on health care, Senate leadership finally looks to be pivoting.

On Tuesday at the Senate committee on...

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Are their lips moving…

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CREDIT: AP Photo/Steve Helber

Yesterday, the Washington Post made a liar out of Jay Sekulow, one of Donald Trump’s personal lawyers. According to the Post, President Trump personally helped craft the misleading statement Junior released about last summer’s Russian rendezvous, which is the exact thing Sekulow unequivocally denied to Meet the Press two weeks ago.

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Luther Strange: Alabama ‘did the right thing’ by not expanding Medicaid

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The system, Strange said, is failing.In this July 11, 2017 file photo, Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala. responds to questions during a TV news interview on Capitol Hill in Washington. A super PAC supporting Strange launched another ad spotlighting U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks’ past criticisms of President Donald Trump in a bid to keep the conservative congressman out of a runoff in Alabama’s heated Senate primary. Th...

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Graham says GOP Senators are still taking orders from Trump on Obamacare repeal

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“We are going to listen to President Trump.”Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2017, as the Republican majority in Congress remains stymied by their inability to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” CREDIT: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Stop me if you’ve heard this one...

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Reproductive rights activists say the Democratic Party is throwing them under the bus

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The DCCC chairman said Monday there’s no litmus test for being a Democrat. Activists couldn’t disagree more.Seattle Storm fans and others cheer at a rally in support of Planned Parenthood before a WNBA basketball game between the Storm and the Chicago Sky on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, in Seattle. CREDIT: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said Monday that the Democratic Congressional Camp...

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