{"id":179885,"date":"2017-09-26T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/26\/wah-wah-wah-waaaaahhhhhh\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T00:13:00","slug":"wah-wah-wah-waaaaahhhhhh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/26\/wah-wah-wah-waaaaahhhhhh\/","title":{"rendered":"Wah \u2026\u2026\u2026 Wah \u2026\u2026\u2026 Wah \u2026\u2026\u2026 Waaaaahhhhhh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 266px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dwhOpmdtDuk\" width=\"256\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Cue Sad Trombone Music<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Mitch McConnell just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/powerpost\/senate-gop-effort-to-unwind-the-affordable-care-act-faces-critical-test-tuesday\/2017\/09\/26\/097b2dc2-a25f-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html\">threw in the towel in the last attempt to repeal Obamacare<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday abandoned their latest campaign to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, conceding that their plan lacked key support. But they showed little interest in moving swiftly to shore up the seven-year-old law with the crucial funding it needs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The official collapse of the Cassidy-Graham health-care bill once again leaves the party short of fulfilling a signature promise, which some Republicans worried could inspire a backlash among their base heading into the 2018 midterm elections.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And the failure of that alternative to the ACA, combined with the GOP\u2019s reluctance to fix weaknesses in the existing law, leaves states, insurers and millions of consumers who rely on its coverage with substantial uncertainty. Enrollment begins in barely a month for 2018 health plans in marketplaces created under the law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Senate leaders said they would turn their attention to their next major legislative undertaking. \u201cWhere we go from here is tax reform,\u201d Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters after holding a closed-door policy lunch with members of his caucus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republicans already are bracing for the political fallout from the measure proposed by Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (La.)., which McConnell had hoped to bring to a vote this week. They said the pressure to pass a tax overhaul bill was higher than ever and hoped the Republican base would give them a bit more time to take another shot at repealing the ACA.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sucks to be Mitch McConnell today, then again, it sucks to be Mitch McConnell <b>EVERY<\/b> day.<\/p>\n<p>About the only thing that sucks worse is being Elaine Chao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cue Sad Trombone Music Mitch McConnell just threw in the towel in the last attempt to repeal Obamacare: Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday abandoned their latest campaign to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, conceding that their plan lacked key support. But they showed little interest in moving swiftly to shore up the seven-year-old law with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,463,449,374,486],"class_list":["post-179885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-healthcare","tag-legislation","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}