Today’s coherent commentary from Corker & Alexander on Obamacare stuff

A quote from Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker made it into a New York Times headline today. The headline: In a cruel summer for the G.O.P., ‘Things are starting to feel incoherent’

Relevant excerpt from the article:

“Things are starting to feel incoherent,” said Senator Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee, reflecting on the health care efforts, which have turned many Republican senators against one another as efforts to negotiate the future of the Medicaid program have caused large rifts.

With no small measure of understatement, Mr. Corker conceded, “There’s just not a lot of progress happening.”

Meanwhile, the Times-Free Press has this from Sen. Lamar Alexander, who is differing with Corker’s announced support of a plan to repeal Obamacare now with the effective date postponed two years, giving Congress more time to decide upon a replacement:

“I don’t think Tennesseans would be comfortable with repealing first and then trusting Congress to figure out a replacement later,” he said. “Most pilots like to know where they’re going to land before they take off, and we should too.”

Headline on the TFP story: Democrats attack Corker over health care ‘flip-flop’

Note: So Alexander didn’t make the TFP headline. And, of course, he did not refer to his fellow Tennessee senator directly. But  it might be an indication that the issue has turned one Volunteer State senator against the other? Related previous post HERE. (For a left-leaning view of the two Tennessean senators’ positioning on the issue, see Bruce Barry’s Nashville Scene piece, bearing the headline, “The Bob-and-Lamar Reasonable Human Delusion.”)