Turtling
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Let me tell you a story, ladies and gentlemen. Some decades ago, a mad scientist living off of Versailles Road was able to use the profits from a longshot exacta at Keeneland to conduct an experiment. He would take pure, undistilled cynicism and mold it into a human/turtle hybrid. The product of this experiment was Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr.:
Senate Republicans, after holding closed-door meetings with President Donald Trump and senior administration officials on their still-secret health care bill, declared Tuesday that actually, they are being transparent.
“Nobody’s hiding the ball here. You’re free to ask anybody anything,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters, when asked about the charge from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Republicans are “ashamed” of the Obamacare repeal bill they are writing.
Although Republicans later backed down, just two hours before McConnell spoke they had tried to bar reporters from asking questions in public hallways outside of hearing rooms.
Republican healthcare transparency, a play in one act:
McConnell: “I’m not hiding the ball here. You can ask me anything you want.”
Reporter: “Will you answer?”
McConnell: “Christ, no, you think I’m an idiot?”
[exeunt]
Republicans are hiding the ball here for obvious reasons. Good ideas don’t need to be hidden from the public. Bills that are opposed by majorities in all 50 states do.