{"id":12236,"date":"2017-07-28T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T00:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12236"},"modified":"2017-07-28T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T00:50:00","slug":"the-long-obamacare-repeal-con-comes-to-a-dramatic-end-for-now-bradcast-7282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12236","title":{"rendered":"The Long ObamaCare Repeal Con Comes to a Dramatic End (For Now): ‘BradCast’ 7\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, an insane week in D.C. ends with a dramatic flourish (or two). [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]<\/p>\n

Unprecedented chaos besetting U.S. Senate Republicans over the past week, amidst their 7-year quest to kill the Affordable Care Act, came to a suspenseful<\/a> and dramatic<\/a> close late on Thursday night and early Friday morning — as the ailing Sen. John McCain joined<\/a> Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins to defeat the last of the GOP proposals drafted in haste in hopes of repealing ObamaCare. At least for now. If there’s one thing you can count on, Republicans will continue<\/a> to treat their voters like suckers and morons<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, an insane, profanity-filled tirade of a phone call<\/a> to a reporter by Donald Trump’s new White House Communications Director results not in the firing of Anthony Scaramucci, but with the firing<\/a> of Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, while Democrats, to their credit, were successful in their efforts to save health care coverage for tens of millions of Americans, their efforts to prevent<\/a> the use of vaping devices, which might otherwise help save the lives of half a million Americans each year<\/i>, suffers a setback as the FDA delays<\/a> restrictions on e-cigarettes and yet another new scientific study finds vaping is one of the most effective ways<\/a> to help smokers quit.<\/p>\n

Finally, speaking of science deniers, our latest Green News Report<\/a> with Desi Doyen details U.S. Coast Guard plans to prepare for six feet of sea level rise and the GOP chair of the U.S. House Science Committee argues that climate change will actually be “beneficial”. But, never fear, we’ve got quite a bit of good news<\/i> in today’s GNR<\/i> as well!…<\/p>\n

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