{"id":28753,"date":"2017-07-28T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=28753"},"modified":"2017-07-28T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:26:07","slug":"personal-update-7282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/28\/personal-update-7282017\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update – 7\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m about to leave for my annual Medicare Wellness exam, and I’ll complete this section when I return.<\/font><\/p>\n

I’m back late, because the TriMet Lift Bus misses my window and had several stops along the way.  However, thew appointment went well, and I’m an A1 Certified Prime Puddy Tat!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today’s took me 4:38 (average 5:26).  To do it, click here<\/a>. How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Seven years of Republican promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act withered away to almost nothing on the Senate floor early Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The Republican majority in Congress has voted dozens of times since 2011 to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act, and a central element of the GOP\u2019s pitch to voters during last year\u2019s election was that giving Donald Trump the keys to the White House and leaving Congress in the Republican Party\u2019s hands was all that was needed to bring an end to Obamacare.<\/p>\n

But when presented with their first genuine opportunity to do so \u2015 and to have to answer for the consequences \u2015 enough Republican senators flinched that the effort failed, despite pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and President Trump. Voting to dramatically increase the number of uninsured Americans is easier when you know it can\u2019t happen than when you know it will.<\/p>\n

The final vote for the Health Care Freedom Act<\/a>, designed to eliminate core components of the Affordable Care Act, went down on a 49-51 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, John McCain of Arizona and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining with all 46 of the chamber\u2019s Democrats and both of its independents to defeat the measure.<\/p>\n

Woooo Hoooo Phew!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0719Cartoon\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Finally? RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0728Cartoon\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m about to leave for my annual Medicare Wellness exam, and I’ll complete this section when I return. I’m back late, because the TriMet Lift Bus misses my window and had several stops along the way.  However, thew appointment went well, and I’m an A1 Certified Prime Puddy Tat! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today’s took me […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}