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

Also surfacing:

https://twitter.com/kelsey_snell/status/845307241968386048

CBO told Senate they can't vote on repeal w/out a score, that could take a week or more. That would push a vote to may, after Easter recess.

Whoops!

It totally hamstrings Ryan in the House - if they have all out internecine warfare, he won't be able to pass anything w out going to the Dems for votes.

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since when does the CBO have authority over when the Senate can schedule votes?

In non-health care news:

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/845319604238987268
New bill intro’d by Sen. Tom Udall has a helluva name

Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness (MAR-A-LAGO) Act

I mean seriously, cui bono is at work here, and if Trump aims to be a beneficiary no matter what, nobody else is getting anything else.

xxpost -- replies indicate a reference to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974

Snell also adds in a followup tweet:

If they amend senate side they will need to re score again and run through parliamentary process

So if the whole goal this entire time was to do something before the recess, THAT'S dead too.

replies indicate a reference to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974

ah, I assume this is related to the "cannot increase the deficit" thing in the reconciliation rules/Byrd rule

More on said act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Impoundment_Control_Act_of_1974

Also, about that Nunes/Manafort thing:

https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/845316712849428480

.@BradMossEsq, a natsec lawyer, parses the terminology: 'Interviewing' Manafort means that it will be private, and not under oath.

Convenient.

Hey, remember this guy!

http://dailyrushbo.com/limbaugh-it-could-well-be-that-ryan-wants-trump-to-fail/

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.@BradMossEsq continues: 18 USC 1001 will apply to Manafort. If he makes false statement in interview, he is subject to criminal liability

BTW, something in the vein of Tombot's notes. Consider how the events here happened during the Obama years. Now consider how much worse they'll be now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-alabama-s-auto-jobs-boom-cheap-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs

xpost -- Good to know.

yeah I thought all congressional testimony was subject to criminal liability, whether public or not

Trump is out of his element. He can negotiate his business dealings because they don't make headlines and he can use whatever unscrupulous means he wants and just figure he'll settle out of court when he gets in trouble.

He's not used to everything being out in the open where people can get ahead of him on things

Oh great Spicy press briefing

"Fake news - the bill passed already"

That Bloomberg piece is so fucking heartbreaking and enraging.

as noted somewhere else, too, months ago: he's never actually been a CEO of a publicly traded company. his business is entirely his own and has never been subject to any kind of oversight

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Does whatever a Spicy can.

as noted somewhere else, too, months ago: he's never actually been a CEO of a publicly traded company. his business is entirely his own and has never been subject to any kind of oversight

Was talking about just this with my wife last night. He's never even been responsible to shareholders! He must be losing his tiny mind.

Oh, and this is a truly joyous public pants-shitting. And after the travel ban fiasco, it's Strike Two. Really looking forward to his third power move, if this is how well 1 and 2 have gone.

Trump would strike out at T ball.

I would guess he'll revert to a flurry of Executive Orders that are mostly symbolic to let the stink out of the news a little

Roger Stone is feisty!

https://twitter.com/GloriaBorger/status/845318592644165632

Roger Stone tells me we wants to voluntarily testify before house intel. And in public. Letter from his lawyer will say that.

Thread https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/845313114618957824

“(Bannon) has told the president to keep a shit list on this,” one official told The Daily Beast. "He wants a running tally of (the Republicans) who want to sink this…Not sure if I'd call it an 'enemies list,' per se, but I wouldn't want to be on it."

this seems benign until you realize Bannon's payback comes in the form of Breitbart brownshirt trolls not so much conventional political means

heh - spicer just said "we had this opportunity to" change/strengthen obamacare

He said "Trump left everything on the field" re: health care.

He left something on the field alright.

And now Carter Page too:

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/845325091546320899

NEWS: Carter Page willing to testify before the House Intelligence Committee to "set the record straight" on Russia

Thinking Schindler has a point:

https://twitter.com/20committee/status/845325908491845632

Suddenly, Manafort, Stone & Page all say they want to talk to Congress about #TrumpRussia. Nothing from Flynn yet. Fill in the blanks.

and my paper profiles Stone: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article140454238.html

Xxxpost They were right that Trump is a closer. Just nobody realized they meant Mitch Williams

Yea this is a fall guy attempt that nobody's going to fall for

Even throwing Flynn under the bus still makes Trump look bad, he did fucking nominate the guy for a cabinet position.

Spicer claiming there's going to be a vote in two hours.

Hahahaha waht

https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/845324178765103104

Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY), a key Trump ally in Congress, said part of the problem predicting Friday's vote result is that communications have broken down among House Republicans. "I've never seen this. People are refusing to talk to each other. They're storming past each other. This is not good," he told reporters. "There is bitterness within our conference that's going to take time to heal."

loool

mmm schadenfreude

"There is bitterness within our conference that's going to take time to heal."

fantastic, hope it takes until, oh, December 2018.

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Fourth time Spicer has said "You can't force someone to do something." Aka, there aren't enough votes

Okkk i wasn't going to get any work done today was i

he'll revert to a flurry of Executive Orders that are mostly symbolic

seems like politicis 101, but this administration never attended class

Are they like going to hire paid actors to impersonate Congressmen and vote?

I guess a Mexican Charlie Dent would be a tip-off

"I yield my time to the distinguished Mr. Barron of New York."

Oh boy

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/845324881248112641

"We want the vote," senior administration official says. "If they want to go against the president, they should do it on live TV."

i agree with that

awesome - everybody gets to grandstand!

Trump is calling their bluff apparently unaware that these FC guys have built their *entire careers* on being grandstanding confrontational assholes

"There is bitterness within our conference that's going to take time to heal."

The Art of the Heal by Donald J. Trump