Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Sending Senators home for the July 4th recess with a stalled plan to cut 22 million Americans' healthcare in their hands. Credit: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: Sending Senators home for the July 4th recess with a stalled plan to cut 22 million Americans healthcare in their hands.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell: sending Senators home for the July 4th recess holding a stalled plan to cut 22 million Americans’ healthcare. CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES

Turns out the Senate Republicans’ healthcare plan is super unpopular among Senate Republicans, too:

Facing intransigent Republican opposition, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, has told senators he will delay a vote on his legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, dealing President Trump an embarrassing setback on a key part of his agenda.

Who could ever have known healthcare would be so complicated? How could anyone have though it would be so difficult and politically damaging to try to take health coverage away from 22 million Americans? And who could possibly have predicted that, while trying to undo yet another Obama achievement, President Donald Trump would employ bullying tactics that even his Republican allies would call “beyond stupid” and “so dumb it’s amazing“?

Eli Sanders was The Stranger's associate editor. His book, "While the City Slept," was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He once did this and once won...