Ben Palmer
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senior columnist for @PitcherList | @FSWA member | health care writer for @daily_briefing | optimistic Orioles fan | vinyl collector
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Joined February 2009
RT @AlexFast8: The Boyd Boyz dream has come to fruition. Matthew Boyd is an all-star. @PitcherList.
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RT @PitcherList: Start your Reds and Marlins this week, as Ben Palmer (@benjpalmer) takes a look at the hitters you should start and avoid….
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Imagine being this obsequious all of the time, it must be exhausting.
Mike Johnson: "He's not only the most powerful president of our lifetimes and arguably maybe in all of US history, he's also the most engaged . this president is on his A game."
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Rep. Van Orden voted yes.
Rep. Van Orden on recon bill: . “The president of the United States didn't give us an assignment. We're not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I'm a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinnites.”.
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Which explains why republicans have been working so hard on this bill.
NOW: @SpeakerJohnson beginning his speech praising the OBBBA. He starts saying, "it takes a lot more to build a lie, than to tell the simple truth".
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Yes, Thomas Jefferson famously couldn’t stop talking about how excited he was about legislation being rammed through as fast as possible utilizing the budget reconciliation process.
JOHNSON: “It’s been a good day. We’re in a good place right now. This is the legislative process. This is exactly how the Framer’s intended for it to work.”.
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The *vast* majority of people on Medicaid are already working or face some kind of barrier to work. Work requirements just add another onerous layer of bureaucracy for these people to deal with
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Great reporting from @philgalewitz and @StephArmour1 has covered exactly this and how many vulnerable people will be hurt by work requirements:.
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Not sure why it has to be said a billion times but Medicaid isn’t like free money people get every month. People are *covered* by Medicaid, they don’t *receive* Medicaid. And that’s not even talking about the fact that Scalise’s hypothetical person isn’t really a thing.
Rep. Steve Scalise says of proposed Medicaid cuts: "35-year-olds sitting at home playing video games, they're gonna now have to go get a job." . "And by the way, that's a good thing for them — their mom doesn't want them sitting in the basement playing video games anyway."
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I’ll take things that didn’t happen for $500.
GOP Congressman just texted me: . “I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes.”.
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I’ve never been a Dodgers fan but I have always been a Clayton Kershaw fan. This is beautiful.
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RT @ChrisMurphyCT: This is the tweet. None of them know or care what’s in the bill. It’s just a game. If Dems are for something - like fe….
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Hunter Goodman is still like ~30% available in ESPN leagues for some reason.
Hunter Goodman at home:. 283/.335/.476, 5 HR, .308 xwOBA. Hunter Goodman on road:. 297/.338/.588, 11 HR, .372 xwOBA
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RT @CyrtHogg: Pencil in your calendars: Brandon Woodruff “looks like” he will pitch in Miami on Sunday, Pat Murphy said. 652 days since h….
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"Owner" responsibility. ?.
Trump: "We have a lot of cases where ICE will go into a farm. These are guys working there for 10-15 years, no problem. The farmers know them. It's called farmer responsibility, or owner responsibility, They will be responsible for these people. They know these people."
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One would think the administrator of CMS would be able to actually articulate the logic behind why the administration wants to do things related to hospital payments but Dr. Oz is just like "you doctors make too much money!" with like zero self awareness.
Members are livid at Dr. Oz this morning for things he said on the Main Street Caucus call: . When talking with mods who are concerned about Medicaid cuts he brought up hospital and told members to “pull their 990’s and shame them” referring to execs and doctors for making a high.
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RT @mattyglesias: “We are all going to die” — Joni Ernst . “They’ll get over it” — Mitch McConnell . “It’s immaterial” — JD Vance . This is….
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