Virginia Rep. Don Beyer (D) cleverly mocked President Trump's latest excuse (or rather, excuses) about why the GOP health-care bill failed in a GOP-controlled Senate:
As George Orwell once wrote in a little book called 1984, "Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines." Read more about 1984 in the age of Trump here at The Week.
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