every other day. everybody knows that and i predicted it, too, weeks ago. i said there would be more shoes to drop from this centipede and more shoes to drop. if you re observered senator mccain over the years, when he likes a line he sticks with it and likes his own sense of humor, but i don t want to over elevate and don t want it to sound like an obituary. he ll be back soon enough but has a unique role in the senate because of his history. he likes the term maverick. leadership uses a different name. probably not family-friendly at all times. critical on the russia meddling and has a unique role in the senate. a giant of the senate. he is someone when he speaks people listen. he can drive conversation. he forces people to respond. chairman of the chairman armed senate committee, a very influrpt committee and not central in the health care negotiations but has in a lot of ways been driving the conversation about the pessimism about the debate saying he
announcing opposition or publicly listing concerns could be problematic for leaders going forward. now with that in mind, what i m told, those individuals are being told now by senate leaders. keep your powder dry. come to them behind the scenes with your concerns. if nothing else, this kind of delay will give them a period of time to try and address those concerns. that might me changes to the bill. don t come out publicly in opposition, one aide told me. every day without that third no vote is a good day. so low bar, but that s what they re working with now. every day without that third no vote is a good day. bumper stickers printed right now. phil mattingly on capitol hill. thanks. and again to that reporting, to that get to that level of detail, if you re mcconnell and everyone says, if anyone can pull the rabbit out of the hat it s mcconnell. this mess, it s a it s not a mess i often refer to congress sometimes as a day-care center. sometimes it is, but this is in part
to 1994. defeated clinton care. harry louise. and who paid for those? insurance industry. they re behind obamacare just need it fixed. a lot of republicans don t like the bill. made difficult promises. repeal and replace. not just replace, replace with something better and a group of republicans philosophically don t believe in getting that involved with the insurance group to begin with. and a former colleague, julie rodner has for many years points out, there are republicans who just do not want repeal at all, of course, something they haven t actually publicly said or been able to say for years. because it s been republican bible for seven years now we will repeal. to your point about fixes going to break. the poll number. which do you prefer? abc washington post poll just out. current law, obamacare 50%. republican plan 24%. neither, 13%. obamacare, controversial since the day it was passed. even dooring the debate about
collusion. we ve heard smoke, talk, meetings. jeff sessions met with the ambassador. jared kushner met with the ambassador is that collusion? to democrats who may have been over think xeer over think xeer s over think xeerkis, we ll find . could be a knucklehead meeting. but democrats see an opening. there seems to be a convenient pattern where all of the senior officials of the trump campaign forget about their meetings with russians. don t put it on their forms. and until evidence comes out and then they have to amend. they can call it a fishing expedition, a witch-hunt, all in a lined message with the white house, nonetheless, real evidence is coming forward that just can t be ignored. this investigation, his, you know, the continuum of saying, no russia no collusion, to where we are today saying, essentially, so what? this is opposition research. the distraction affected our ability to work for those people and especially his ability to deliver on the promises he made.