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

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

please do the vote

Roffle

https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/845330528647741441

Swap out the bill for a one-pager that lowers Medicare’s eligibility age to 18, hold the vote. Boom, Trump declares victory.

have to say, I have never seen a US political party meltdown like this, just unbelievable.

wonder how long pravda has been waiting to hit publish on this? http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/24/ryancare-shifts-voters-against-gop-poll/

Hahah was just about to link that. Fun fact of course is that it's a Democratic poll they're citing.

Ned are you licking your chops for Darrel Issa's 2018 house campaign? Not sure if you're closer to OC than LA but I want this fucker to squirm.

Issa's toast, he barely held on last time and this time there'll be a shit-ton of anti-Trump animus

Oh he was already squirming last year. Next time around will be ridiculous. (Currently in SF and Issa was never my rep, but I'll happily watch him twist in the wind.)

Another no vote from Dave Joyce, meaning:

https://twitter.com/stevenportnoy/status/845331426065219586

With @RepDaveJoyce's announcement, CBS News counts 38 GOP "no" votes for repeal/replace

h8 to indulge in 5th-dimensional chess about these dingbats but i'm nervous

is there any possibility that the republicans are, essentially, faking the 'no' votes and that there will be a sea change at the last minute -- a move designed to demoralize the left / shore up trump's image as a last-minute dealmaker?

or am i just giving everyone way too much credit

so does Ryan lose the speakership over this?

is there any possibility that the republicans are, essentially, faking the 'no' votes and that there will be a sea change at the last minute -- a move designed to demoralize the left / shore up trump's image as a last-minute dealmaker?

generally speaking, a Rep that publicly commits to vote one way and then actually votes another on the floor will get pilloried/laughed out of office

like Trump admin actually thinks no Congressmen will be brazen enough to vote "no" when that's, like, a thing they do, and often.

Ryan getting carted out and screaming WAIT, WAIT, I'M WITH YOU ON RUSSIA NOW!

The light dawns!

https://twitter.com/Alex_Roarty/status/845327186227810304

GOP aide on CapHill: "I'm starting to think that while we're pretty good at winning elections, we're not great at the whole governing thing"

man the wheels are really coming off now

According to [new Quinnipiac] poll, which surveyed 1,056 voters nationwide from March 16-21, 66 percent of respondents said they wanted an independent commission to investigate the links between Trump campaign advisers and the Russian government, compared to 29 percent who did not think so. Sixty-five percent of respondents think alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is either “very important” or “somewhat important,” and 63 percent said they were “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about Trump’s relationship with Russia.

xpost to gbx

i think this thing is going down. i share your hesitance to celebrate early, though.

my real fear is that they'll just turn around and push tons of tax cuts in a few weeks, it'll pass easily, and the amnesiac americans will push trump's favorability back to where it was 2 weeks ago

What happens to the party if bill fails? "It's a big black eye, oh my goodness," Collins said.
What happens to the party if bill fails? "It's a big black eye, oh my goodness," Collins said.
What happens to the party if bill fails? "It's a big black eye, oh my goodness," Collins said.
What happens to the party if bill fails? "It's a big black eye, oh my goodness," Collins said.
What happens to the party if bill fails? "It's a big black eye, oh my goodness," Collins said.
What happens to the party if bill fails? "It's a big black eye, oh my goodness," Collins said.

Imagine what Paul Ryan must think. First, Trump goads him into rushing a bill into existence, then pledges 100% support for a couple of days, then he cuts him off at the knees in the most public way possible. If Ryan holds the vote and the bill goes down in flames, he's humiliated. If Ryan defies Trump and asserts his power as Speaker to delay the vote, he and Trump will be locked in a death match and the party explodes. Interesting times.

my real fear is that they'll just turn around and push tons of tax cuts in a few weeks

Party unity is fucked after this, is the problem. FC will be emboldened to push for totally insane shit, moderates will balk, Speaker will have no credibility, Trump will be awol.

my real fear is that they'll just turn around and push tons of tax cuts in a few weeks, it'll pass easily, and the amnesiac americans will push trump's favorability back to where it was 2 weeks ago

Relax on that point -- pretty much everyone says things like AHCA are nowhere near as complicated as tax reform.

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

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wWIbCtz_Xwk/hqdefault.jpg

its almost as if getting into bed with an idiot with the temperament of a 6 year old was a bad idea!!

xp

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