John Kerry, during his ill fated presidential run in 2004, defined himself as a flip-flopper through this comment: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."  Incumbent President George W. Bush used Kerry's flip-flop against him, eking out an electoral victory. Seems the flip-flop may be on another foot this week as the Senate voted down a last-ditch effort at repealing Obamacare, the so-called "skinny repeal."  Leaving aside the fat-shaming micro-aggression of calling the repeal "skinny," it really wasn't much of a repeal.  It was much like someone weighing 300 pounds starting a diet, losing 20 pounds, and calling himself skinny. Nonetheless, it was a reasonable start toward the long promised "repeal and replace" we have been hearing about for the past seven years.  It was only a Senate bill, not a final law, as it still needs to go to the House for conference, with a very different...(Read Full Post)