I sent this to you, hoping I captured the right screen shot (confused now 😦 ):
Agree completely. FEMA and other federal agencies are tweeting about search and rescue, but haven't addressed survivor ongoing support. 🙁
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) September 25, 2025
Also, I posted a (long) reply to Nena this morning on the previous thread re: the integrity of our voting system, mostly having to do with the fact that the “Help America Vote Act” (signed into law by GWB in Oct 2002) *requires* states to maintain a centralized digital voter registration file. https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/23/you-dont-own-black-people/#comment-1698260
@RubenKMajor decided this summer to challenge Alex Padilla for California Secretary of State after researching the hacking of voter registration files this summer (had never heard of him before, but he recently followed me, so I’ve taken a peek at some of his research).
I had no idea that California is completely changing the way we cast our ballots — a few counties will change next year, but the majority are scheduled to change in 2020. Because Los Angeles county is so huge, they have more time to comply with the California Voter’s Choice Act (SB 450), which was signed into law a year ago.
Alex Padilla was a huge supporter of SB 450 which was modeled on how Colorado handles voting. When I did a Google search, found this article from the LATimes, published in August 2016 (before the bill became law).
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-polling-place-replaced-vote-centers-20160823-snap-story.html
From the article:
“In most of those [58] counties, every registered voter would receive a ballot in the mail and polling places would be scrapped. Voters would be able to turn in ballots either at secure drop boxes placed around the county or at the new ‘vote center’ locations.
Some of those vote centers would be open at least 10 days before election day, and would allow last-minute registration, a check of existing registration status and the ability to cast a vote in person even if the voter lives in a different city inside county lines. The bill says counties should work together at transporting the ballot of a voter who lives in Ventura County, for example, and mistakenly casts a ballot in Kern County.”
IMHO, making these changes now, when the very integrity of the US voting process is in question, is asking for trouble. We are at the mercy of vendors, who are not accountable to US voters at all. I’ve look at CA’s Secretary of State site, but haven’t been able to identify which vendors are supporting what here. 😦 (I do know of one vendor, which I don’t think is mentioned on the California SOS site:
Article says https://t.co/Fbf5fdYi81 provides voter registration software/hardware to elections offices in 8 states CA FL IL IN NY NC VA WV https://t.co/JwTuymSXmI
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) June 21, 2025
Here’s a couple of tweets from @RubenKMajor — will continue to research as time (and my feeble brain — am about the least tech-savvy person on the planet) permits…
DHS confirms Russian intrusion of California election systems. Activists allege SOS Padilla influenced by vendors. https://t.co/67Hudq0RJu
— Ruben Major (@rubenkmajor) September 23, 2025
Closing precincts in minority neighborhoods so election management is easier isn’t a recipe for democracy. #MajorSOS https://t.co/Fh1FBbfUuK
A young legal resident from the Sudan walked into a small Church of Christ in Tenn., killed a 39 year old woman and wounded 7 more people, come critically, who are 63 to 84 years old. He was stopped after accidentally shooting himself when he was pistol-whipping a 22 year old usher. The usher then ran to his car, got his gun, and stood over the shooter until the cops came. The church members are white, the shooter black. Get ready for a firestorm. This shooter will not be fed burgers, excuses given for his behavior or his victims asked within 24 hours if they forgive him. Instead of words of grace and healing, when he finally says something about this terrible crime, you know it will stoke violence and no black or brown person will be safe. In a race war, the majority of the victims are the oppressed followed by generations of more of the harshest oppression.
Illegitimate AG, Jeff “White Supremacist” Sessions, and FUBAR are going to rally their base around this awful crime, ignoring the fact that the killer used a gun, which are far too easily available in the US. 😦
#BREAKING Feds open civil rights probe into Nashville church shooting https://t.co/LrZjkLVzds
I have so enjoyed your TAKEDOWNS these last weeks and months, Bob, and I know you’re throwing everything into them. They give the rest of us strength, hope, and give voice to what we’re all thinking.
Even your use of “trespassing” here says it all!
I’m sorry to be congratulating you for being close to your wit’s end, as the saying goes, but I thank you - because so are all of us. And I will add: #ThanksObama!
GE NerdyW, endless gratitude for your dedication and tenacity in keeping this blog humming along. Thank you!
I went directly to TheHill.com website for the article — couldn’t access from Microsoft Windows 10. 😦
Unable to access article, "401 Authorization Required" notice. pic.twitter.com/IFYlXa5PpL
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) September 25, 2025
Apparently the conversation between PBO and Zuckerberg took place at the APEC summit in Peru, on November 19-20, after the illegitimate FUBAR “election.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC_Peru_2016#Economic_Leaders.27_Meeting
From the article:
“Obama reportedly pulled Zuckerberg aside at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru in November and warned him that unless he cracked down on fake news, it would only get worse in the next election.
Zuckerberg told Obama that fake news wasn’t a major issue on Facebook and that there was no simple way to address it, sources told The (Washington) Post.”
If you like sockeye salmon most likely it comes from Bristol Bay. A copper mining company (known as the ‘Pebble Mine’) wants to mine copper there at one of the headwaters of the biggest Salmon Rivers we have. The slightest drop of copper messes up the salmon spawning signal. Allowing this to happen would be a disaster for the entire lower 48 who eat sockeye. Yes our PBO stopped this from happening.
Now we must block yet another attempt by this mining company — which is willing to destroy the economies of the Yupik communities (especially in Dillingham and King Salmon) who rely salmon for canning, industry and commercial fishing.
STOP the greedy ignorant Dotard. Ditto Pruitt. STOP copper mining.
My wife loves salmon, she loves it so much that she orders it when we go out to dinner. Me on the other hand, I wouldn’t think to order salmon or a salad for dinner. I mean if a person goes out to dinner why would they order salmon, or a salad for that matter. Order a pizza or a big juicy burger. Yes, you might have an upset stomach afterwards, but a person should enjoy themselves when they go out to dinner.
As far as I am concerned, salmon is the gods’ perfect food!!! I still dream about the delicious maple grilled salmon I ate last September in Nova Scotia. Took pictures of it and I’ve kept those pictures!
Now that’s what I’m talking about, I take pictures also, I mean I look at pictures of food. Sometime I’ll go online and look for the best pizza joints in the country just to see it they have pictures of their pizzas.
The attention to why Kap took a knee is being twisted and watered down. It’s not the flag, but that the flag does not protect and represent all Americans.
MSM & dolt are being purposely obtuse
Donald. You’re the biggest national security threat we have. And you haven’t permitted a vetting of your taxes.
Please leave poste haste so that we can Block your re-entry.
I survived Maria, the winds were ferocious even tho we got just a glancing blow, my shingles (some) flew off, which caused a bit of leaking otherwise i am great and still in disbelief at the twit in the White House, hope everyone is safe and thriving since i was last here, off to catch up
With the chaos that FUBAR inflicts on us daily, the suffering that Puerto Rico is enduring is unimaginable.
‘If anyone can hear us … help.’ Puerto Rico’s mayors describe widespread devastation from Hurricane Maria https://t.co/SMHtLI7yV2
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 24, 2025
Hot, isolated, and running out of supplies, parts of Puerto Rico near desperation - The Washington Post https://t.co/mdRwymrv1R
— Carl Zimmer (@carlzimmer) September 25, 2025
😦
#PuertoRico situation in wake of catastrophic hit by Hurricane #Maria turning into #Katrina-like emergency, except on much larger scale. https://t.co/MsEcDRiJB4
— Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 25, 2025
Oh, BTW, there’s no such thing as #ClimateChange (sarcasm):
Record highs tied or set today for much of the area! Highs in the lower 90s in NYC & NE NJ, upper 80s elsewhere except immediate coast. pic.twitter.com/nO6dUFA6Cf
— NWS New York NY (@NWSNewYorkNY) September 24, 2025
The hot weather is back for the west coast, including for the coastal areas which are usually spared the unrelenting heat:
Much warmer this wk across CA (but prob. no records). Typical fall pattern, w/most anomalous warmth near coast. May persist for 7-10d. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/A5iIYgF3Fn
Don't be fooled. Even with augmented funding Alaska, Maine and all other states will still experience overall cuts to Medicaid funding https://t.co/2GSm4IjKQ6
— Mario Molina, MD (@drjmariomolina) September 25, 2025
New Cassidy-Graham makes clear states could allow insurers to offer bare-bones plans: no required benefits & unlimited deductibles & copays.
— Edwin Park (@EdwinCBPP) September 25, 2025
New Cassidy-Graham bill confirms clear intent to make block grant temporary, eliminating it entirely in 2027 as #Medicaid cap cuts deepen.
2: Here's the ledger for Alaska. Even their own estimates show Alaska still losing $100 million. This is pretty simple and clear. But… pic.twitter.com/STvXtNXcSy
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 25, 2025
4: First, and most obvious, ANY numbers released by Graham/Cassidy should be treated with great skepticism. They've been misleading before.
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 25, 2025
6: Their table includes a column on "state savings" that flips many states from being in the red. Phony, a big magic asterisk. Here's why.
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) September 25, 2025
8: For total state funding under current law, they estimate only federal funding. Which is fine, but then…
As I suggested they would be, the most obvious changes are payoffs 4 @RandPaul , @SenJohnMcCain & @lisamurkowski.2/https://t.co/epJe6jCe3s pic.twitter.com/rie6LkVvtU
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 25, 2025
There appears to be some not very convincing window dressing on pre-ex. 4/https://t.co/3HAgW1Ztrz
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 25, 2025
And a really big deal, Grassidy now contains multiple risk pools. To please Lee, this will make things EVEN MORE expensive sick people. 6/
Heroes. Morning everyone. Keep making those calls! Called mine already this morning…
Rescue Dogs At Work After Mexico's Earthquakes - 16 Photos of these animals at work and those who care for them https://t.co/D800EBMcae pic.twitter.com/6OZ0xrtkC1
— The Atlantic Photo (@TheAtlPhoto) September 25, 2025
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy have revised their health-care bill, allowing states to loosen more of the Affordable Care Act’s regulations while diverting more money to the states whose senators hold the deciding votes on the legislation. They will formally release the revised measure tomorrow.
Why it matters: The deadline to pass a bill with just 50 votes is Saturday.
The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release preliminary estimates this week of the initial — and now outdated — version of the bill. With the clock ticking and little time for independent economic analyses, Graham and Cassidy are making a last-minute play for senators who have been critical not only of the bill’s contents, but of the rushed process, too.
What’s different: According to Graham and Cassidy’s analysis, the revised bill would direct more money to Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine, compared with earlier versions. But it would still reduce overall federal funding to those states — whose Republican senators are, for now, opposed to the bill or undecided.
What’s a trillion dollars among friends
by David Anderson
at 8:47 am on September 25, 2017.
Cassidy-Graham 2.0 came out last night. There are some major policy changes in it:
No need for states to submit waivers
States must submit a plan
Plan does not define “Affordable” or “Adequate” or “pre-exisiting condition”
No specification of consequences or recourse if the state plan that was submitted failed to meet its objectives
States define their own Essential Health Benefits, out of pocket maximums and community rating
Risk pools can be split
There are a bunch of political provisions. Several are aimed at shoveling money to Alaska, but those are not the important provisions. The policy matters more.
The bill sponsors also released their estimates of state effects. They use magical math.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/22/17
Protesters against Republican Obamacare repeal make it personal
Rachel Maddow reports on protests and activism around the United States against the latest Republican effort to kill Obamacare.
What can scar you in life so badly that you can look someone in the eye that sits in a wheelchair and tell them to their face that you are going to make their life harder for them on purpose?
They will keep supporting the lunatic because they wish they could talk to black people they way he talks but they better not try it with me https://t.co/BUoKOCRLgl
GOP lawmaker: Arizona should recall McCain over cancer
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 09/25/17 09:53 AM EDT
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Monday that Arizona should recall Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) while he undergoes cancer treatment, saying that McCain’s ouster would give Arizonans a senator who keeps his word.
Gohmert’s remarks come after McCain announced his opposition to the latest GOP attempt to repeal ObamaCare, putting the bill closer to failure and enraging Republicans.
“You know, nothing inhibits recovery from cancer like stress. I think that Arizona could help him and us. Recall him, let him, you know, fight successfully this terrible cancer. And let’s get somebody in here who will keep the word he gave last year,” Gohmert said on “Fox & Friends.”
Our statement to the Senate Finance Committee opposing #GrahamCassidy. This bill will devastate families with medically complex kids. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/pVEFPOdL4x
— Little Lobbyists (@LittleLobbyists) September 25, 2025
Watching Trump's demagoguery, the Hill's dysfunction, the level of debate in Alabama-you wonder: Can the GOP be saved? Is it worth saving?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 25, 2025
When your party elects a vile cretin who disrespects POC, women, Gold Star families, calls Black man "son of a bitch" while GOP applauds? https://t.co/wy4E88ClJi
— meta (@metaquest) September 25, 2025
No, no, it is not. It's a grotesque perversion of American principles & values. You can thank Citizens United & MSM consolidation for that. https://t.co/wy4E88TX7S
A little humor for the day, “you’re looking cute, Mr. President.” 😀
(Trevor Howard literally bumps into PBO last week at Bill and Melinda Gates’ Goalkeeper event — love how he refers to PBO as THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.)
Trevor bumps into President Obama. #BetweenTheScenes pic.twitter.com/09zXPoSsE5
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) September 25, 2025
After posting this (and running off to do something else) I thought to myself “Did I just type Trevor Howard?” — I have no idea what possessed me to make this error, I *know* the host of the Daily Show is Trevor Noah. My bad. 😦
Since I´ve not been really active here of late with some personal issues and being busy at work I am not sure if this has been discussed on here yet. If not so: here ya go, you´re welcome!
Yes, but you can see Bannon coming towards you from a mile down the road. FB is supposed to be the pinnacle of when technology meets commerce headed by so-called forward thinkers. And they couldn’t see this drunk, bloated, and racist opportunist coming their way?
MLK chose the most passive and non-violent way to protest, and at the end of the day he was murdered by a system that didn’t see his humanity. Their isn’t a way under the sun for black people to protest that will be acceptable to America.
Does anyone know what Caribbean island Prayer Warrior is from? Was her island devastated by any of the hurricanes? I live in Trinidad . Can i help her in any way?
LIVE: Former Pres. Clinton to deliver remarks at Little Rock desegregation ceremony - http://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-8?cid=share_twitter_widget
Many thanks, Nerdy:)
If you blink, you’ll miss me…… (I’m literally the 2nd one.)
Here’s the long one…. (sadly, I don’t seem to be in the 30 second version…..*cry* )
There may yet be another one where is more of my story… (oh please universe, make it so!)
I AM FAIL!
Here is the one I thought I was linking in the first tweet….
ARG!!!!!
WHY ISN”T IT WORKING?????
Is that you talking to the doctor, Tally?
OUI! C’est moi! 😀 😀 😀
It just needs to be on TV. I know the 30 second version ran today… I’m on the plane but I’m not visible.
I saw you! ❤
You saw me on TV - or online at the link?
Online at the link! (I think!) 🙂
I saw you, too! 🙂
On TV? Or online?
I saw you Tally! Fun!
online or on TV?
I see you Tally! 😘
GE Tally.
I sent this to you, hoping I captured the right screen shot (confused now 😦 ):
Also, I posted a (long) reply to Nena this morning on the previous thread re: the integrity of our voting system, mostly having to do with the fact that the “Help America Vote Act” (signed into law by GWB in Oct 2002) *requires* states to maintain a centralized digital voter registration file.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/23/you-dont-own-black-people/#comment-1698260
@RubenKMajor decided this summer to challenge Alex Padilla for California Secretary of State after researching the hacking of voter registration files this summer (had never heard of him before, but he recently followed me, so I’ve taken a peek at some of his research).
I had no idea that California is completely changing the way we cast our ballots — a few counties will change next year, but the majority are scheduled to change in 2020. Because Los Angeles county is so huge, they have more time to comply with the California Voter’s Choice Act (SB 450), which was signed into law a year ago.
Alex Padilla was a huge supporter of SB 450 which was modeled on how Colorado handles voting. When I did a Google search, found this article from the LATimes, published in August 2016 (before the bill became law).
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-polling-place-replaced-vote-centers-20160823-snap-story.html
From the article:
“In most of those [58] counties, every registered voter would receive a ballot in the mail and polling places would be scrapped. Voters would be able to turn in ballots either at secure drop boxes placed around the county or at the new ‘vote center’ locations.
Some of those vote centers would be open at least 10 days before election day, and would allow last-minute registration, a check of existing registration status and the ability to cast a vote in person even if the voter lives in a different city inside county lines. The bill says counties should work together at transporting the ballot of a voter who lives in Ventura County, for example, and mistakenly casts a ballot in Kern County.”
IMHO, making these changes now, when the very integrity of the US voting process is in question, is asking for trouble. We are at the mercy of vendors, who are not accountable to US voters at all. I’ve look at CA’s Secretary of State site, but haven’t been able to identify which vendors are supporting what here. 😦 (I do know of one vendor, which I don’t think is mentioned on the California SOS site:
Here’s a couple of tweets from @RubenKMajor — will continue to research as time (and my feeble brain — am about the least tech-savvy person on the planet) permits…
I just provided proof of how inadequate my tech skills are… posted the wrong tweet for Tally and Southwest Air. 😦
❤️👁👁❤️🎶👋🏼
A young legal resident from the Sudan walked into a small Church of Christ in Tenn., killed a 39 year old woman and wounded 7 more people, come critically, who are 63 to 84 years old. He was stopped after accidentally shooting himself when he was pistol-whipping a 22 year old usher. The usher then ran to his car, got his gun, and stood over the shooter until the cops came. The church members are white, the shooter black. Get ready for a firestorm. This shooter will not be fed burgers, excuses given for his behavior or his victims asked within 24 hours if they forgive him. Instead of words of grace and healing, when he finally says something about this terrible crime, you know it will stoke violence and no black or brown person will be safe. In a race war, the majority of the victims are the oppressed followed by generations of more of the harshest oppression.
GE CEB.
It’s going to be horrible.
Illegitimate AG, Jeff “White Supremacist” Sessions, and FUBAR are going to rally their base around this awful crime, ignoring the fact that the killer used a gun, which are far too easily available in the US. 😦
Oh my, wasn’t that fast! But of course, it is a black man they’re after so let’s move quickly.
rich assholes gonna be rich assholes
Goodnight TOD ….
As with all things Obama, if you try to fuck with his legacy YOU LOSE, BIGLY …….
I have so enjoyed your TAKEDOWNS these last weeks and months, Bob, and I know you’re throwing everything into them. They give the rest of us strength, hope, and give voice to what we’re all thinking.
Even your use of “trespassing” here says it all!
I’m sorry to be congratulating you for being close to your wit’s end, as the saying goes, but I thank you - because so are all of us. And I will add: #ThanksObama!
You are such a dear friend {{{{{{{{{{Jacqueline}}}}}}}}}} and I can’t thank you enough for your supportive comment.
IN_DEED #ThanksObama
And FOREVER, #TrustObama!!!!!
Yes, sir!
Thanks Bobfr for all your work. Great photo of this sweet man above.
And, by the way, Bob - so glad to see the pic of this 97-year-old WWII veteran … FINALLY a man I’m “too young” for!
Ha! Goodnight to y’all - and to all the ships at sea.
GE NerdyW, endless gratitude for your dedication and tenacity in keeping this blog humming along. Thank you!
I went directly to TheHill.com website for the article — couldn’t access from Microsoft Windows 10. 😦
Apparently the conversation between PBO and Zuckerberg took place at the APEC summit in Peru, on November 19-20, after the illegitimate FUBAR “election.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEC_Peru_2016#Economic_Leaders.27_Meeting
From the article:
“Obama reportedly pulled Zuckerberg aside at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru in November and warned him that unless he cracked down on fake news, it would only get worse in the next election.
Zuckerberg told Obama that fake news wasn’t a major issue on Facebook and that there was no simple way to address it, sources told The (Washington) Post.”
You can access the article here: http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/technology/352182-obama-warned-zuckerberg-about-fake-news-on-facebook-report
If you like sockeye salmon most likely it comes from Bristol Bay. A copper mining company (known as the ‘Pebble Mine’) wants to mine copper there at one of the headwaters of the biggest Salmon Rivers we have. The slightest drop of copper messes up the salmon spawning signal. Allowing this to happen would be a disaster for the entire lower 48 who eat sockeye. Yes our PBO stopped this from happening.
Now we must block yet another attempt by this mining company — which is willing to destroy the economies of the Yupik communities (especially in Dillingham and King Salmon) who rely salmon for canning, industry and commercial fishing.
STOP the greedy ignorant Dotard. Ditto Pruitt. STOP copper mining.
My wife loves salmon, she loves it so much that she orders it when we go out to dinner. Me on the other hand, I wouldn’t think to order salmon or a salad for dinner. I mean if a person goes out to dinner why would they order salmon, or a salad for that matter. Order a pizza or a big juicy burger. Yes, you might have an upset stomach afterwards, but a person should enjoy themselves when they go out to dinner.
LMAO!
-Dangerfield: “That wife of mine what a wife!! We went to the Opera and she forgot the sandwiches.”
As far as I am concerned, salmon is the gods’ perfect food!!! I still dream about the delicious maple grilled salmon I ate last September in Nova Scotia. Took pictures of it and I’ve kept those pictures!
Now that’s what I’m talking about, I take pictures also, I mean I look at pictures of food. Sometime I’ll go online and look for the best pizza joints in the country just to see it they have pictures of their pizzas.
lololololol….
DON 🙂 🙂
The attention to why Kap took a knee is being twisted and watered down. It’s not the flag, but that the flag does not protect and represent all Americans.
MSM & dolt are being purposely obtuse
AMEN!
Yup. Still a fraud. Thread
Donald. You’re the biggest national security threat we have. And you haven’t permitted a vetting of your taxes.
Please leave poste haste so that we can Block your re-entry.
It’s to dam bad we can’t kick Trump crazy butt out of this country. He is the biggest threat to this country.
I survived Maria, the winds were ferocious even tho we got just a glancing blow, my shingles (some) flew off, which caused a bit of leaking otherwise i am great and still in disbelief at the twit in the White House, hope everyone is safe and thriving since i was last here, off to catch up
Anjo - thanks for letting us know you’re okay.
Anjo, happy to hear you survived. Where do you live?
Nevis
Yes!!!! Glad to hear it.
Good to hear Anjo.
🙏🏻👏🏼❤️
With the chaos that FUBAR inflicts on us daily, the suffering that Puerto Rico is enduring is unimaginable.
😦
Oh, BTW, there’s no such thing as #ClimateChange (sarcasm):
The hot weather is back for the west coast, including for the coastal areas which are usually spared the unrelenting heat:
Good night, everyone.
GM SWBG.
Good to see you this morning — although I try to keep up, I know I’ve missed some posts here, but was thinking you haven’t been here for awhile. 😀
Good Morning, arapaho415.
You’re correct. While I have not been posting, I have been lurking. Sometimes have to step back for a minute for my peace of mind. 🙂
KEY: Grassidy 2.0 is health insurance for healthy ppl, boondoggle 4 red states, robs Medicaid, and won’t be properly scored. A disgrace. 15/
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 25, 2025
The un-seriousness of these people is breathtaking.
Good Monday morning, TODville.
❤️
Good, Good Morning, TODbots.
Not all NASCAR people are Dotards or wicked crude racists as Trump Thinks.
Heroes. Morning everyone. Keep making those calls! Called mine already this morning…
I’m certain that we’ll hear “Lock him up!” any moment now…….any moment……(he started doing this the very moment he entered the WH)
Here’s the new Graham-Cassidy bill
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy have revised their health-care bill, allowing states to loosen more of the Affordable Care Act’s regulations while diverting more money to the states whose senators hold the deciding votes on the legislation. They will formally release the revised measure tomorrow.
Why it matters: The deadline to pass a bill with just 50 votes is Saturday.
The Congressional Budget Office is expected to release preliminary estimates this week of the initial — and now outdated — version of the bill. With the clock ticking and little time for independent economic analyses, Graham and Cassidy are making a last-minute play for senators who have been critical not only of the bill’s contents, but of the rushed process, too.
What’s different: According to Graham and Cassidy’s analysis, the revised bill would direct more money to Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine, compared with earlier versions. But it would still reduce overall federal funding to those states — whose Republican senators are, for now, opposed to the bill or undecided.
1) They entirely ignore the cap to non-ACA Medicaid – which grows over time – a cut estimated at $1 trillion from ’20-’36 for prior draft
— Jacob Leibenluft (@jleibenluft) September 25, 2025
What’s a trillion dollars among friends
by David Anderson
at 8:47 am on September 25, 2017.
Cassidy-Graham 2.0 came out last night. There are some major policy changes in it:
No need for states to submit waivers
States must submit a plan
Plan does not define “Affordable” or “Adequate” or “pre-exisiting condition”
No specification of consequences or recourse if the state plan that was submitted failed to meet its objectives
States define their own Essential Health Benefits, out of pocket maximums and community rating
Risk pools can be split
There are a bunch of political provisions. Several are aimed at shoveling money to Alaska, but those are not the important provisions. The policy matters more.
The bill sponsors also released their estimates of state effects. They use magical math.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/22/17
Protesters against Republican Obamacare repeal make it personal
Rachel Maddow reports on protests and activism around the United States against the latest Republican effort to kill Obamacare.
Mornin’.
Charles Gaba on the new incarnation of Shitcare
http://acasignups.net/17/09/25/update-graham-cassidy-20-bullsht-piles-so-fast-you-need-wings-stay-above-it
Share this. As usual, the math doesn’t add up.
What can scar you in life so badly that you can look someone in the eye that sits in a wheelchair and tell them to their face that you are going to make their life harder for them on purpose?
THIS creep show is about RACISM.
NOT BACKING DOWN
THIS MUTHAPHUCKA HERE!!
GOP lawmaker: Arizona should recall McCain over cancer
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 09/25/17 09:53 AM EDT
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Monday that Arizona should recall Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) while he undergoes cancer treatment, saying that McCain’s ouster would give Arizonans a senator who keeps his word.
Gohmert’s remarks come after McCain announced his opposition to the latest GOP attempt to repeal ObamaCare, putting the bill closer to failure and enraging Republicans.
“You know, nothing inhibits recovery from cancer like stress. I think that Arizona could help him and us. Recall him, let him, you know, fight successfully this terrible cancer. And let’s get somebody in here who will keep the word he gave last year,” Gohmert said on “Fox & Friends.”
Stupid question!!
GM TODville.
A little humor for the day, “you’re looking cute, Mr. President.” 😀
(Trevor Howard literally bumps into PBO last week at Bill and Melinda Gates’ Goalkeeper event — love how he refers to PBO as THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.)
Hahaha, this is awesome 😀
After posting this (and running off to do something else) I thought to myself “Did I just type Trevor Howard?” — I have no idea what possessed me to make this error, I *know* the host of the Daily Show is Trevor Noah. My bad. 😦
For more than 3 million people? WTF!
Since I´ve not been really active here of late with some personal issues and being busy at work I am not sure if this has been discussed on here yet. If not so: here ya go, you´re welcome!
https://www.facebook.com/pg/BarryandJoeTAS/videos/?ref=page_internal
Love it. Thanks for sharing.
GM NCLB.
JHS, FUBAR is literally out to kill us all.
Thousands of people will literally die of starvation, dyhydration, heat stroke or other preventable calamities if there is no action until then.
A couple of tweets from a long Twitter thread:
GM Arapaho,
This is what happens when citizens elect a man-child to power.
It’s not weird, it’s the rethugs sop. freedumb for me, none for thee.
Yesssss! This is the mother’s milk that has nourished the Republican Party for decades.
BAnnon plotted yo put a mole inside inside FB per Buzzfeed
To put
Yes, but you can see Bannon coming towards you from a mile down the road. FB is supposed to be the pinnacle of when technology meets commerce headed by so-called forward thinkers. And they couldn’t see this drunk, bloated, and racist opportunist coming their way?
MLK chose the most passive and non-violent way to protest, and at the end of the day he was murdered by a system that didn’t see his humanity. Their isn’t a way under the sun for black people to protest that will be acceptable to America.
Does anyone know what Caribbean island Prayer Warrior is from? Was her island devastated by any of the hurricanes? I live in Trinidad . Can i help her in any way?
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/09/25/millions-of-lives-are-on-the-line/
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