Thursday, 4 May 2017

Opinions P.M.: Betrayal, carelessness, hypocrisy: The GOP health-care bill has it all

Did Republicans just score a win on health care — or lose?
 
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Betrayal, carelessness, hypocrisy: The GOP health-care bill has it all
House Republicans narrowly pass an incoherent bill that reneges on the party's promises.
Did Republicans just score a win on health care — or lose?
It may come back to haunt them in 2018.
 
Every Republican who voted for this abomination must be held accountable
This is one of the most important moments in recent political history.
 
Both sides distrust Comey. Can Yates get them to agree on the facts?
The public and lawmakers would benefit from a firsthand account of the Flynn scandal.
 
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How Jeff Sessions will enable more Michael Slagers
The Justice Department is taking credit for Michael Slager's guilty plea. But Sessions's rhetoric and the policies he advocates will enable bad cops to do more harm.
 
Get government out of the Internet's business
Net-neutrality regulations are actually a cover for federal bureaucracy.
 
What do we owe the people who protect us from the worst parts of the Internet?
Most of us want to be protected from the worst parts of the Internet. We're ignoring the people who save us from it.
 
'Tell me what you would do'? Challenge accepted, James Comey.
His justifications fell short again — and Comey needs only to look at his own testimony to know why.
 
 
Yeah, that James Comey nausea thing is definitely going around
The question is whether it's treatable.
 
Did Fox News just reach peak stupidity on Obamacare?
If a network comedian said something that rallies support for Obamacare, and if the former president tweeted in support, there's gotta be a Fox News counter-angle.
 
A few lessons from France’s nasty presidential debate
How to take down an angry populist.
 
Tillerson shows why he was a rotten choice to head the State Department
On human rights, he just doesn't get it.
 
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Voters didn’t think they were electing a supply-sider
The big downside to tax reform.
 
The GOP’s strange, ugly strategy of rushing today’s vote will backfire. Here’s how.
Republicans are hoping to rush the vote before a nonpartisan analysis hits. Guess what: It's coming anyway.
 
The Republican health-care plan makes no sense at all, except the perfect kind
It's getting better, for some.
 
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