Claire McCaskill Uses Facts To Slam Senate Republicans' Authoritarian Healthcare Process

Claire McCaskill Uses Facts To Slam Senate Republicans' Authoritarian Healthcare Process

While America was glued to the former FBI Director James Comey hearings on Thursday, HHS Secretary Tom Price testified about a bill to repeal and replace the ACA (Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare) before the Senate healthcare panel. 

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked the committee’s chairman, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), whether the panel would hold any hearings on the GOP’s proposal, catching Hatch by surprise. After conferring with an aide about how to respond, Hatch answered McCaskill, saying that he didn't know if there would be hearings on the still-secret legislation, being drafted by a committee of only white men. Suggesting that Democrats should have no quarrel with the process, the chair said that Democrats had been invited to "give your ideas" about the topic of healthcare reform. 

McCaskill was livid:

Agata Pospieszynska Flashes Katlin Aas & Valerija Kelava For Harper's Bazaar UK July 2017

Agata Pospieszynska Flashes Katlin Aas & Valerija Kelava For Harper's Bazaar UK July 2017

Models Katlin Aas & Valerija Kelava enjoy a 'Girl's Weekend', styled in romantic patterns and soft colors by Charlie Harrington. Photographer Agata Pospieszynska is behind the lens for Harper's Bazaar UK July 2017./ Hair by Mirka Mysicka; makeup by Marie Thomsen

Easton & Roso Lens Pool Beauty Amilna Estevao In The Swim For W Magazine June 2017

Easton & Roso Lens Pool Beauty Amilna Estevao In The Swim For W Magazine June 2017

Model Amilna Estevao is styled in the season's best swimsuits by Caroline Grosso. Photographers Easton & Roso flash the Angolan-born water beauty for W Magazine's June 2017 issue./ Hair by Michael Thomas Lollo; makeup by Misha Shahzada

Adwoa Aboah Is Lensed By Josh Olins For Dior Magazine #19 Summer 2017

Adwoa Aboah Is Lensed By Josh Olins For Dior Magazine #19 Summer 2017

Adwoa Aboah is a Ghanaian-British fashion model, feminist activist, and Gurl Talk founder --just the kind of woman who define's Dior's 'new look' under Maria Grazia Chiuri. Adwoa is styled by Ludivine Poiblanc in rich looks lensed by Josh Olins for Dior Magazine #19 Summer 2017./ Hair by Rudi Lewis; makeup by Maki Ryoke

Boys Club Lectures Sen. Kamala Harris As Intelligence Heads Refuse To Answer Questions

On Wednesday the leaders of America's intelligence agencies appeared before members of the Senate Intelligence Committee for a hearing about Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election and any possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. 

It didn't go well, with the nation's top national intelligence leaders refusing to talk. They were not bound by any executive privilege claim by President Trump. Nor were they discussing classified information, which is not permitted in an open hearing. 

Several senators were visibly and audibly upset with the immobile faces refusing to even utter 'yes' or 'no' to the senate panel that oversees them.  New Mexico's Dem. Sen. Martin Heinrich was aggressive with all the silent men who refused to speak, making a notable criticism of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with the words "At this point, you filibuster better than most of my colleagues."

Anna Ewers Soars In 'Lights-Sea' Lensed By Giampaolo Sgura For Vogue Germany July 2017

Anna Ewers Soars In 'Lights-Sea' Lensed By Giampaolo Sgura For Vogue Germany July 2017

Top model Anna Ewers is styled by Christiane Arp in 'Lights-Sea', gorgeous and sophisticated images by Giampaolo Sgura for Vogue Germany July 2017./ Hair by Franco Gobbi; makeup by Jessica Nedza

David Cohen de Lara Captures Frida Gustavsson In Classic Swimsuits For Elle France June 2, 2017

David Cohen de Lara Captures Frida Gustavsson In Classic Swimsuits For Elle France June 2, 2017

Model Frida Gustavsson poses in classic swimsuits styled by Jeanne Le Bault for images by David Cohen de Lara for Elle France's June 2 cover story./ Makeup by Tatsu Yamanaka; hair by Christoph Hasenbein

Liz Collins Captures Sara Sampaio In Beach Looks For Vogue Turkey June 2017

Liz Collins Captures Sara Sampaio In Beach Looks For Vogue Turkey June 2017

Top model and Victoria's Secret Angel Sara Sampaio takes a dip in the pool, styled by Konca Aykan in colorful one and two-piece swimsuits. Photographer Liz Collins flashes the water baby for Vogue Turkey June 2017./ Hair by Laurent Philippon; makeup by Sharon Dowsett

Biden-Backed, Ex Goldman Banker Democrat Phil Murphy Headed To November New Jersey Governor Win

Biden-Backed, Ex Goldman Banker Democrat Phil Murphy Headed To November New Jersey Governor Win

Vice President Joe Biden called the upcoming NJ governor's race “the single most important” election of the next three years.

Biden-backed Phil Murphy won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, delivering a Hillary Clinton populist message grounded in his career as a Goldman Sachs banker. Bernie Sanders did not endorse Murphy, although his son did campaign for the candidate.

As Sanders progressives rip into NJ Sen. Corey Booker's ethical credentials in any future presidential race -- having accepted money from big pharma companies in his state -- the Murphy win shows that at a state level, the Sanders wing of the Democratic party is not running the show in New Jersey.

The Murphy primary win -- and expected future win as NJ governor -- also demonstrates that Democrats can run on a platform that shares 95% of Sanders' priorities -- as the 2016 Presidential campaign platform did -- without throwing every person with ties to wealth and big business out of the party as the Sanders camp is demanding.

Allison Janney & 'Mom' Co-creator Gemma Baker Deliver $250,000 Contribution To Cecile Richards Of Planned Parenthood

Allison Janney & 'Mom' Co-creator Gemma Baker Deliver $250,000 Contribution To Cecile Richards Of Planned Parenthood

Vanity Fair writer Richard Lawson described Allison Janney as the "queen of television" with her seven Primetime Emmys, tying with Ed Asner for the second-most Emmys awarded to a single actor. Cloris Leachman holds the record with eight. 

Janney's hit CBS comedy 'Mom' was just renewed for a fifth season, as the actor completes her filming while appearing on Broadway in the first-ever Broadway revival of John Guare's iconic 'Six Degrees of Separation'. 

Lawson's Tuesday piece got bested, though, with a great feminist act that caused Janney and 'Mom' co-creator Gemma Baker to take the $250,000 Emmy promo budget for 'Mom' -- and her securing an eighth Emmy to tie Leachman -- and donate it to Planned Parenthood. 

“We don’t NOT want to be considered for Emmys,” Janney hastened to explain. “But we decided to use the money instead to support Planned Parenthood.”