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Obamacare Repeal Flames Out In The Republican Senate
HP | Jeffrey Young , Matt Fuller | 07/28/17

... The Republican majority in Congress has voted dozens of times since 2011 to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act, and a central element of the GOP's pitch to voters during last year's election was that giving Donald Trump the keys to the White House and leaving Congress in the Republican Party's hands was all that was needed to bring an end to Obamacare.

But when presented with their first genuine opportunity to do so ? and to have to answer for the consequences ? enough Republican senators flinched that the effort failed, despite pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and President Trump. Voting to dramatically increase the number of uninsured Americans is easier when you know it can't happen than when you know it will.

The final vote for the Health Care Freedom Act, designed to eliminate core components of the Affordable Care Act, went down on a 49-51 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining with all 46 of the chamber's Democrats and both of its independents to defeat the measure. ... Read more

**Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
NewYorker.com | Ryan Lizza | 07/27/17

He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.

On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn't happy. Earlier in the night, I'd tweeted, citing a "senior White House official," that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question--for me.

"Who leaked that to you?" he asked. I said I couldn't give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. "What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he's inherited in his new job. "I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can't help themselves," he said. "You're an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I'm asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it." ... Read more
**Scaramucci Imploding Before Our Eyes | TYT | 07/27/17 | 10:00

Trump's hitman melts down: But is there method to Anthony Scaramucci's madness?
Salon | Heather Digby Parton | 04/28/17

I'm not sure how many more days like Thursday this country can take. The most important event was the defeat of the "skinny repeal" bill in the Senate -- which actually happened in the wee hours of Friday morning -- with Sen. John McCain casting a dramatic "no" vote to scuttle Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare one more time. Perhaps President Trump has learned that openly insulting people you need to support you isn't really such a great political tactic. (Nah.)

That brings us to the other big Trump administration story, revolving around new communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who imploded on CNN after having first exploded at New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza. The whole thing started with a tweet on Wednesday in which Scaramucci claimed he had gone to the FBI because someone had leaked his financial disclosure forms and strongly suggested that someone was White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. ... Read more

The Timeline In the Case Against Trump | Keith Obermann (#101) | 07/28/17 | 6:21