Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Oh and new CBO report!

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/845020230791368705

New CBO report: less deficit reduction ($150b); uninsured # the same

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/costestimate/hr1628.pdf

Whomp whomp.

And...uh...

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/845006141167947778

Pro-AHCA Rep. Tom McClintock just compared the bill to the Titanic, with some weird “safety first” metaphor. Poor choice of words.

Also fun!

https://twitter.com/mfcannon/status/845020749991743490

Sources: House leadership threatens to pull bill to preserve #ObamaCare, and then blame House @freedomcaucus for ObamaCare still being law.

uh wasn't that Ryan's threat all along

what other leverage did he have

he could eat the Caucus

If that is Ryan's strategy, hoo boy, considering the Freedom Cock stance is that the new ACA doesn't repeal the old one enough.

Presumably said threat is now being spelled out. Not that I think, say, Amash is some great guy but I have a feeling he's laughing loudly in response as I type.

generally speaking it's best not to make a threat that easily leaks to FB so everybody knows your move in advance

err twitter

i'm tempted to celebrate but it's a little premature for that. they could still come to some sort of agreement on the amount of awfulness that they can all accept

Indeed so.

Freedom Cock don't seem like they'd take well to being threatened themselves, especially since, as a product of the Tea Party, they're the ones who got elected running against the same sort of party line people now supposedly threatening them toe.

More fun

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/845025064647045120

Oooooof.. Just spoke to "yes" vote Member who is on the edge of panic. "I'm all the way out there on this and..."

In his despair, Deace is actually getting funny. Thus this in response to Bannon arriving on the scene:

https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/845023566663946246

Because it's not already a mess enough, here comes Cousin Eddie to save the Griswold Family Christmas.

I'm cautiously optimistic that everyone involved are such colossally incompetent assholes that no deal will be struck. The Freedom Caucus basically can't be appeased because they will brook no compromise, ever, but Ryan is bound to them because he can't pass any bills w out them, since he won't go to the Dems for votes.

Such a dealmaker!

https://www.axios.com/the-new-reality-on-trump-and-the-freedom-caucus-2326976583.html

House leadership has been hoping that President Trump would turn the screws on the Freedom Caucus. They'd love nothing more than for Trump to threaten Freedom Caucus members like Mark Meadows with primary challenges. In fact, they were banking on Trump doing that. They thought he could break the Freedom Caucus.

The emerging reality: Trump is doing nothing of the sort. He was joking when he told Meadows in the GOP conference meeting earlier this week that he'd come after him. And in today's White House meeting Trump did not brow-beat the Freedom Caucus members or make a hard sell on a "final offer."

According to three sources in the room for the meeting, Trump didn't demand loyalty tests, and there was lots of laughing, jokes, and stories.

So what, is it supposed to be Bannon/Priebus as the bad cop to Trump's good cop?

Love the photo with this story. (Can't embed it, gotta click to see it.) "Sorry, guys, I've gotta get to the gym!"

https://www.axios.com/trumpcare-vote-not-happening-today-2326856286.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic

lol

He's overcompensating, because there is no way he needs a bag that big to hold his balls after they are handed to him.

i'd say the GOP couldn't sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst, but that may be federal policy next week ($500/drink).

TrumpWater

Hahah this clown:

https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/845027881067663360

wow: "Nunes does not know 'for sure' whether President Donald Trump or members of his transition team were even on" swept up comms.

Trump didn't demand loyalty tests, and there was lots of laughing, jokes, and stories.

he's good at going after people on twitter, but not face-to-face. personal meetings with him are useless

he's good at going after people on twitter, but not face-to-face. personal meetings with him are useless

Yeah, there are many reports of him being a coward one-on-one.

Aren't most bullies?

broadband providers can sell your browsing history to advertisers if this passes the House

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/23/the-senate-just-voted-to-sell-you-out-to-advertisers/

xposts Wait what? Isn't that what Nunes held a press conference about??

You'd think that, Tracer, you'd think that.

Also!

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/845029906392236034

SCOOP: RNC paid ex-CIA officer to dig up dirt on @HillaryClinton conflicts in Israel & Bulgaria.

Which isn't really surprising.

Guessing said dirt didn't amount to a whole fuck of a lot.

Hello, Schiff is upping the ante:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/23/politics/adam-schiff-trump-russia-grand-jury/index.html

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is claiming that he has been presented with new information on collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russia that would merit a grand jury investigation.

Rep. Adam Schiff told CNN Thursday that he had seen additional evidence, but would not specify what it was.

"We continue to get new information that, I think, paints a more complete picture of at least what we know at the outset of our investigation," Schiff said.

Asked to explain his comments earlier in the week when he said there was more than just "circumstantial evidence of collusion," Schiff said, "I do think that it's appropriate to say that it's the kind of evidence that you would submit to a grand jury at the beginning of an investigation.

That's cool but we've been hearing noises like that for months. Right?

So confused about what Nunes is doing here. He said Trump and/or team were incidentally recorded as part of investigation into foreign targets in Trump Tower (I think?) And he gave Trump the heads up on this, before he even told his colleagues. Holds a big ol' press conference. MAGA types crow that their man's been vindicated. Nunes himself in interviews says "So the President was kind of right!" But now he says maybe.... none of that happened?

Noises, yes, but I think you have to keep in mind that Comey's confirmation on Monday formally kicked the door open. There was plenty of speculation, that was on the record confirmation.

he's good at going after people on twitter, but not face-to-face. personal meetings with him are useless

Yeah, there are many reports of him being a coward one-on-one.

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:57 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aren't most bullies?

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, March 23, 2017

see: Nixon. Although he's gotten pretty good with Twitter lately.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intel-chair-devin-nunes-unsure-trump-associates-directly/story?id=46325928

backs up the tweet Ned posted

As for what Nunes was doing, looks like kinda stupid interference for no real gain.

I think he was just deliberately trying to be confusing just as long as the "trump vindicated" byline was the end result.

Trump specifically mentioned his sweet sweet vindication in that Times interview of lies and nonsense that came out today

Not much gain, though. Those inclined to believe him continue to, etc.

it was more of a hail mary than anything, in hindsight

Nunes basically threw himself under a bus. Even Trump's initial claim of vindication, brought on by prodding, seemed hedgy and unsure. "I somewhat do."

Light on the horizon! Folks like Sam Brownback, Paul Le Page and Butch Otter praise AHCA!

https://twitter.com/RepLarryBucshon/status/845017469072814080

Which means...not that much.

xpost the vagueness of his statement plus the number of contradictions ("we know for sure", "we're not sure yet", etc etc) kinda prove that the message itself was secondary to the byline. it was a "WITNESS!!!!" warboy moment

"intel-chair-devin-nunes-unsure" should be on a Nunes t-shirt

gotta love a "health care" act that doesn't actually give people access to health care

hearse care

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/325544-rand-paul-let-pence-preside-over-senate-obamacare-repeal-votes

Can't really see how this works, though, in that assumes that various moderate-as-such GOP senators already going "Ha, no" over AHCA would go along with it.

i like to imagine Trump's emphatic plea was something like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeRQD0tK8h0

lol....all that work today and according to CNN, the whip count is now 30...aka two Republican reps MORE in opposition than there were this morning.