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When the GOP stumbled on its biggest priority of the year, most people thought they'd handed the Left a huge political opportunity. Unfortunately for Democrats, they're too busy fighting over abortion to seize it. While the Republicans walk a rocky road after the health care collapse, it's not exactly a picnic at the DNC, where a civil war is brewing over the party's decision to back 2018 pro-lifers.
Liberals have spent the last week insisting that Donald Trump's military policy is wrong — but they certainly haven't come up with any compelling reasons why.
There may be some drama with the president's own staff, but Republicans have plenty of good things to say about his other hires: a popular slate of judges to the federal bench. As the health care debate unfolded on Capitol Hill, President Trump was simultaneously working to fulfill another promise — restoring order to the activist courts.
The media and Democratic Party share a lot of things — and their miscalculation of voters seems to be one of them. In the days since Donald Trump wrestled the military back from the radical transgender policy of the Obama years, liberal commentators are desperate to show that it will hurt the president politically. But good luck proving it.
While most Americans slept, the GOP was living its own nightmare. The party's seven-year push to rescue the country from the clutches of Obamacare came crumbling down at the last moment, sending Republicans to a shocking defeat that seemed unlikely just hours before.
The American people knew what they were getting when they elected Donald Trump: a brassy, politically incorrect outsider. Tired of Republicans that ran from the fight, they elected a man who wasn't afraid of anyone. And he's not disappointed them. Like most conservatives, I don't agree with everything the president has done or said. But no one can deny the gutsy leadership he's offered on issues the rest of his political class tries to avoid.
Our troops have waited eight years for a leader who puts America's mission first. Yesterday, they got one. In what may end up being the single most important military decision of his presidency, Donald Trump announced that the days of politically correct warfighting are over.
When Majority Leader Mitch McConnell woke up Tuesday morning, he knew yesterday was about one thing: moving on. Whether that meant moving on to the much-awaited health care debate or moving on to another strategy, no one knew. Halfway through the GOP's weekly lunch, even the senators themselves had no idea how the rest of the day would unfold. But one thing was certain — the afternoon would be a defining moment for the repeal effort that put Republicans in power.
The Senate health care debate already had more plot twists than a Hollywood blockbuster. But on Friday, the real-life drama took another turn, sentencing Republicans to more late-night problem-solving.
If liberals thought the debate over military sex changes was over, they underestimated the American people!
The temperature is sizzling in DC — but it's nothing compared to the heat on Congress. As if there weren't enough incentive to repeal Obamacare, the conservative movement just gave the Republicans more: next year's election. Voters have been a patient bunch as Republicans fumble their way through the health care debate, but their tolerance is wearing thin. And Wednesday's movement conference call proved it.
Liberals may not care how their agenda cripples the military, but some leaders in the Pentagon sure do. Behind closed doors, the idea of enlisting people who are confused about their own gender is hugely unpopular with most top defense officials, the media are reporting.
It wasn't the announcement Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had hoped to make. After weeks of grueling back and forth, the Senate's top Republican admitted Monday that the wheels had finally come off the gurney of the GOP's latest health care plan.
When Republicans won control of Congress, the last thing voters thought they'd get was a continuation of Obama's social agenda. So imagine their surprise on Friday when that's exactly what 23 GOP members voted to give them as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) never served in the military — but she's one of the strongest warriors you'll ever meet. And during Thursday's debate over the National Defense Authorization Act, that's exactly what America needed. While other Republicans ran and hid, she stood in the fire, fiercely determined to stop what Barack Obama started: the decimation of the world's greatest fighting force.
Senate Republicans rolled out the latest rewrite of their Better Care Reconciliation Act yesterday with the hopes that it won't be long until America is looking at Obamacare in the rearview mirror.
The busiest people on Capitol Hill today may be travel agents. Most senators are probably scrambling to change their vacation plans after the GOP's announcement that the chamber was cutting its August recess short. Instead of adjourning on July 28th for the usual summer break, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks there's too much unfinished business to leave town. If members are upset about working overtime, McConnell says, take it up with Democrats.
The best argument against Obamacare may be lying quietly in a London hospital. Not even a year old, tiny Charlie Gard rests peacefully, completely unaware of the global crusade to keep him alive. The hum of the room's machines is nothing compared to the commotion outside, where doctors, lawyers, judges, and world leaders all fight for the right to decide Charlie's fate.
Is it a vote on health care — or a vote to stay in power? It's both, according to a lot of Republicans. Keeping their promise to America may be the only way to keep their control of Congress.
While Republicans hammer out their health care plan in DC, Oregon officials already decided what they'll include in theirs: "free" abortions. To the dismay of pro-lifers, Gov. Kate Brown (D) announced Thursday that she plans to ink her name on one of the most radical bills in the country — a measure forcing health insurers to offer no-cost abortions not just to legal immigrants but to illegal ones too! The move, which comes as U.S. Senate leaders put the finishing touches on a federal plan that would end a mandate like Brown's, incensed local conservatives who are already living under the most extreme abortion policies in America.
