memeorandum: House Republicans Go Off the Cliff (Ross Douthat/New York Times)

12:45 AM ET, May 7, 2017

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:

House Republicans Go Off the Cliff — OVER the last seven years, the Republican Party has engaged in increasingly elaborate political suicide attempts. The G.O.P. has nominated cranks and erstwhile witches and Todd Akin in winnable Senate races. It has engaged in Somme-esque trench warfare within …

New York Times:

‘No District Is Off the Table’: Health Vote Could Put House in Play — WASHINGTON — In a suburban Chicago district, Kelly Mazeski, a breast cancer survivor, used the day of the vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act to announce her House candidacy, vowing to make Representative Peter Roskam pay for his vote …

Discussion: The Atlantic

Morgan Winsor / ABC News:

House Republicans face voters in home districts angry over health care bill — Rep. Tom Reed of New York, who was among the Republican members of Congress to vote for a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, held a string of hometown forums on Saturday where he was lambasted by crowds …

Discussion: Axios

Peter Suderman / New York Times:

The House Health Care Disaster Is Really About Taxes — I have been a critic of Obamacare since it became law, but the Republican alternative is worse in nearly every way. — The American Health Care Act, which was narrowly passed in the House last week, would worsen Obamacare's problems rather than fix them.

Discussion: Washington Post and Refinery29

Marc K. Siegel / New York Times:

What the Republican Health Plan Gets Right — Now that the Obamacare replacement bill has passed the House and is moving on to the more centrist Senate, the real debate begins. What is the true purpose of health insurance, and what is our government's goal in ensuring we have it?

Discussion: Unfogged

Max Greenwood / The Hill:

Cruz: ‘Catastrophic’ if Senate fails to pass ObamaCare repeal — (R-Texas) acknowledged on Saturday that Senate Republicans face an uphill battle to pass an ObamaCare repeal bill, warning that a failure to do so would be “catastrophic.” — “For seven years the Republicans have been promising …

Discussion: RedState

Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Fact Check: It's a Lie That the GOP Healthcare Bill Abandons People With Pre-Existing Conditions

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, RedState and BizPac Review

Ruth Brown / Idaho Statesman:
Labrador: 'Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care'

Discussion: AOL, Boing Boing, CBS Denver, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God. and Political Wire

WBAY-TV:
WATCH: Governor, Outagamie Co. Executive get into spat over health care

Discussion: Raw Story

Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
House Republicans face voters in home districts angry over health care bill

Discussion: Associated Press

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
WATCH: Idaho town hall erupts after GOP lawmaker says ‘no one dies’ from lack of health care

Discussion: theGrio

Elliot Smilowitz / The Hill:
GOP rep: 'Nobody dies because they don't have access to healthcare'

Discussion: Shareblue, Refinery29 and Talking Points Memo

Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Despite critics' claims, the GOP health bill doesn't classify rape or sexual assault as a preexisting condition

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Zeynep Tufekci / BuzzFeed:

Dear France: You Just Got Hacked. Don't Make The Same Mistakes We Did. — A brief guide to the information wars. — Ooh, la la. So, it happened to you too. The frontrunning presidential candidate got hacked, and all his emails are dumped online in one giant cache. WikiLeaks is tweeting about it.

Discussion: Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »

Robert Mackey / The Intercept:

There Are No “Macron Leaks” in France. Politically Motivated Hacking Is Not Whistleblowing. — Here's some news for the alt-right activists in the United States behind a disinformation campaign aimed at getting Marine Le Pen elected president of France by spreading rumors about her opponent …

Discussion: Sputnik International, The Atlantic, DFRLab - Medium, ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo, RT, Occupy Democrats, Mother Jones, Politico, Raw Story, Joe.My.God. and Geller Report, more at Techmeme »

BBC:
French election: Hollande vows ‘response’ to Macron hack attack

Discussion: Observer

Reuters:
France fights to keep Macron email hack from distorting election

Discussion: ITV, The Gateway Pundit, Defense One and New York Times

Mark Scott / New York Times:
U.S. Far-Right Activists Promote Hacking Attack Against Macron

Discussion: DFRLab - Medium, Joe.My.God., NPR, Althouse, New York Magazine, The Week, The Independent and Washington Post

Emily Rauhala / Washington Post:

In a Beijing ballroom, Kushner family flogs $500,000 ‘investor visa’ to wealthy Chinese — BEIJING — The Kushner family came to the United States as refugees, worked hard and made it big — and if you invest in Kushner properties, so can you. — That was the message delivered Saturday …

Discussion: CNNMoney, Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Occupy Democrats, Common Dreams, Business Insider, Axios, RedState and Joe.My.God.

New York Times:

Jared Kushner's Sister Highlights Family Ties in Pitch to Chinese Investors — BEIJING — Jared Kushner has said that he has stepped away from the day-to-day business of his family's real estate company while he serves as a senior adviser to his father-in-law, President Trump.

Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:

TRUMP Act would put Trump's New York tax returns online — How New York State could release Trump's taxes — Some Democratic state senators in New York are trying an end run to get Donald Trump's taxes into the public view by introducing legislation that would reveal his state tax returns for the last five years.

Discussion: The Hill, AOL and New York Magazine

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:

The Inquisitor's Heirs — Progressives claim to love science, but what they truly love is power. — Progressives claim to love science, but what they truly love is power.To be a good progressive is to adhere simultaneously to two incompatible notions: one, that science provides the final word …

Fox News Insider:

University California Santa Cruz Protesters Sit-In Meet Demands Black Liberation Rosa Parks House — The University of California-Santa Cruz caved to the demands of liberal student protesters who staged a sit-in at the administration building, Abby Huntsman reported.

Discussion: TheBlaze