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Sound Off for July 23, 2017

The Howard Baker Sweepstakes

Get your pick in now. Who will be the senator who becomes famous by asking "What did he know and when did he know it?"

Will Cowens be picking him up?

Never expected to hear/say this again: "The Juice is on the loose" ... come October 1st.

Don’t look too far

Trump's Voter Fraud Commission is off and looking for voter malfeasance! #WitchHunt

This race we concede

We liberals declare you Repugs the champions in the humor department. We couldn't come up with the biggest joke of a president the world has ever seen ... but you did.

Well, nobody’s perfect

It was touching listening to OJ talk about being a good father at his parole hearing. He did OK as a dad, except for stabbing and slicing his children’s mother to death.

Theirs and theirs alone

The Dems are celebrating their refusal to try to improve Obamacare. That’s OK — once again either success or failure belongs to them.

Scary medical math

Sen. McCain's craniotomy surgery cost an estimated $76,000. Do you trust a Republican Medicare voucher system to both save your life and keep you out of bankruptcy?

New member of the team

Donald Trump needs to fire Mike Pence and hire Frank Myers as his VP. Those two are so much alike that I wonder if they were separated at birth.

This story was originally published July 22, 2017 at 12:42 PM with the headline "Sound Off for July 23, 2017."

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