Maybe not.
Manchin to Trump: “I said, ‘Mr. President, 172,000 West Virginians got insurance for the first time,’” Manchin said. "They’ve got something they never had before. They don’t know how they got it, they don’t know who gave it to them, they don’t know the Democrats, nothing about, ‘It’s Obamacare.’ They don’t know any of that. All they know is they’ve got it.”
“And you know what? They voted for you, Mr. President,” he said. “They’re going to know who took it away from them.”
Absolutely true. This will turn back and bite them. 2010 may be entertaining.
It was. Very. So should 2018. And 2020. 
Perhaps he’s Living In The Past.
I’m in South Carolina. We’ve invited Tim Scott, Lindsay Graham and my very own Mark Sanford to participate in a Town Hall in Summerville. Curiously, none have accepted the invitation.
They’re *all *going to be hiking the Appalachian Trail?
Why shouldn’t the Republicans go home to celebrate? They just won the War on Health! We should throw them a parade so they get all the credit they deserve and everyone knows their names.
Several of the leftish sites I visit are also caught up in the enthusiastic bi-partisan love fest, publishing lists of the honored courageous. Itineraries, when available. A bit early yet, but some claims are made that the guests of honor are reluctant. Modesty, perhaps. Course, these things take planning: the transportation, accommodations, escape routes, that sort of thing.
Body doubles.
I’m rewatching The West Wing (again) because imagining living during that administration is so much more sane than what we are dealing with in reality. Give me an honorable President who lies about his MS any day over a buffoon with delusions of grandeur who lies about what he said yesterday.
Here’s an update on Iowa’s Honorable Rep. Young: his office has announced that not only will there be no town hall meetings during this week’s recess, the devoted public servant and man of the people does not plan to hold any town halls for the rest of the year. I imagine a campaign contribution might get you a meeting with the Representative, though, so it’s not like he’s hiding, per se.
That’s a profile in courage, right there.
One of my good friends from college has been very active in the Republican Party in central Iowa, and worked hard to help get out the vote for this guy last fall. Makes me sad. (That she’s working so hard for the GOP in general, not just this weaseling by Young.)
Busy, busy, people we have in our legislatures. Checks to cash, babies to kill. Babies to kiss! Damn auto-correct…
And what baskers they are.
Was this the town hall you were at, steatopygia?
GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’
I saw part of one town hall where there was a senior woman holding the hand of the politician, who went from condescending smile to grim as the woman, still holding his hand, told him what a lying, cheating asshole he was, and how she looked forward to his last day in office, all in a calm, reasonable voice. 
No, I was at his next appearance several hours later. As far as I know, no one there was aware that he had said that. Most of the questions were healthcare related, but nobody brought that quote up.
I hope it was his mother.
Hilarious! 
No.
It was his Grandmother.