The cynical soullessness of the Senate GOP

Shame on you, Republican senators. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Mitch McConnell
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On Tuesday, Senate Republicans voted narrowly to proceed with debate on their heartless, mindless effort to repeal and/or replace and/or blue sky some ideas about destroying ObamaCare, despite not knowing which care-gutting bill they would actually be debating. Nothing captures the essence of this Republican Party better than Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) grandstanding about bipartisanship and tradition just minutes after he voted to give the extortionists and ideologues and authoritarian zealots in his own caucus everything they wanted. Such courage. What a renegade. Clap clap clap.

A few hours later, the Senate handily rejected one version of the GOP's repeal-and-replace legislation. But make no mistake: They will keep trying to pass something in an attempt to rob millions of Americans of health coverage.

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David Faris

David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. He is a frequent contributor to Informed Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Indy Week.