Obamacare Repeal's Mulligan: Today's News for May 19th

Bloomberg:

House May Need to Vote Again on GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill

House Speaker Paul Ryan hasn’t yet sent the [Obamacare repeal] bill to the Senate because there’s a chance that parts of it may need to be redone, depending on how the Congressional Budget Office estimates its effects. House leaders want to make sure the bill conforms with Senate rules for reconciliation, a mechanism that allows Senate Republicans to pass the bill with a simple majority.

Republicans had rushed to vote on the health bill so the Senate could get a quick start on it, even before the CBO had finished analyzing a series of last-minute changes. The CBO is expected to release an updated estimate next week.

House Republicans get the bear:

Seriously, if you need a sign that government has gotten too big for humans to try and run it, this is it. Humans cannot even figure out the legislative process.

By the way, these are the same people overseeing your health care. If that isn't enough to make you sick...

Fox News:

Joe Lieberman emerges as Trump's top choice for FBI director

President Trump said Thursday he is “very close” to naming a new FBI director to replace James Comey, and his leading contender is former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Lieberman, 75, who served in the Senate from 1989-2013, first as a Democrat and then as an independent, met with Trump at the White House on Wednesday afternoon to discuss leading the law enforcement agency. A late and somewhat unlikely addition to Trump's short list, Lieberman is nonetheless the sudden frontrunner.

When asked point-blank by a reporter in the Oval Office Thursday if Lieberman was the leading contender, Trump replied, "Yes."

...Lieberman’s law enforcement experience stems from his two-term tenure as Connecticut’s attorney general, spanning from 1983 until his resignation in 1989 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.

The best we can do is a 75 year old politician whose only law enforcement experience was as an attorney general? Even then, his Wikipedia entry states, "As Attorney General, Lieberman emphasized consumer protection and environmental enforcement." That isn't criminal law investigation/enforcement. This is being a politician in an attorney general's role.

Lieberman has no experience to qualify him for being FBI director. But if being a good politician is all we need from an FBI director, couldn't we find somebody a lot younger than Lieberman?

Regardless, when political rumors are the lede stories for both the Right and Left, you know it is a slow news day.

The rumor lede from the Left:

CNN:

Pence is a loyal soldier, but news cycle is wearing on him

After a fast and furious news cycle at the White House this week, the last few days may have worn on Vice President Mike Pence.

Though Pence will continue to be a "loyal soldier" because he is a "relentlessly positive guy, he "looks tired," a senior administration adviser observed on Thursday, outlining the vice president's schedule and trying to explain his relative absence from the public eye.

In summary, the vice president is tired.

Apparently, the editor for CNN is also tired.