This Democratic congressman just had the perfect response to Trump's responsibility-shucking over the GOP health-care bill

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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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.