The Senate couldn’t pass the “skinny repeal” bill tonight. It failed on a 49 Aye – 51 Nay vote at 1:30 AM. Senator John McCain provided the 51st vote against it.

There will be pages of analysis and post-mortems in tomorrow’s papers and probably a bunch of surly Trump Tweets too. I just hope the repeal effort is now dead and maybe, just maybe, these so-called legislators can bite the bullet and work together to try to improve the law where it’s needed.