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If Americans are again left without any comprehensive national health plan* at all (or an imploding one), Republicans say Democrats will own that. However, Democrats say the opposite. ("I'm rubber; you're glue.") Essay spoiler alert: "There's plenty of blame to go around." For just one thing, no comprehensive national health plan at all was operational until very recently, an oddity among industrialized nations.

A few weeks ago, John McCain seemed to be having a bit of word-finding problems (dysnomia) and was a bit confused as evidenced on some broadcast senate hearings. 3 days ago he underwent surgery for a blood clot (hematoma) in the left frontal lobe. At age 80, this isn't so surprising, as due to brain shrinkage (atrophy) blood clots can often form after minor trauma. Most clots are benign, in the sense that they are unassociated by other brain abnormalities.

Most people don't like Republicans or their policies.
However, Democrats still haven't given people reason to vote.

Air Force General Paul Selva was required to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday for his reappointment as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

He was asked about the delay in enlisting transgender troops.

The finger-pointing has begun, and naturally Trump is excelling at it.

Those who pay attention to what is going on – as opposed to passively consuming the obsessions of MSM – know that the Clinton-related material published by Wikileaks emerged from leaks, not hacks.

It's not a secret that NATO ally Turkey has been unhappy with our aiding and arming the Syrian Kurds.
Speaking of "not a secret", our troop locations are no longer secrets either.

US troops have been stationed in Ukraine since 2015 apparently. And now 200 NY Guard troops are scheduled to be deployed to Ukraine as "trainers" beginning in October.

I think it is important to tie together a number of threads joe shikspack included in his