Why the Republican health-care bill keeps coming back from the dead

What foul magic is this?

Sen. Lindsey Graham.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Taking my usual morning walk yesterday I could not help but notice that something was wrong with the dogs across the street. For a full five minutes they stood in my neighbors' yard barking loudly as if gripped by some hideous fear. I think they must have just been reading the news.

No man-made device can identify the odor associated with putrefaction, but dogs can. The new Republican health-care bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) is not a living thing. It is an unholy monstrosity, a blasphemous abomination, a reeking corpse animated by the dark magicians of the GOP for unspeakable purposes.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.