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

You are @dick_nixon Morbs and I claim my five quid.

10 to 15 on a party line vote isn't really "close" imo

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 24, 2017 4:55 PM

That's my point! Twenty minutes ago it was "five to nine."

25 or 6 to 4

fucking liar just said he never talked about repeal and replace in the first 60days !!

lol waht

Scott Adams draws the bullseye after shooting his arrow.

Steve Kornacki is remarkably sanguine, praising Trump's calm.

video from cloakroom (I think?) of Dem caucus on hearing bill was pulled:
https://twitter.com/RepLawrence/status/845367578444881921

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/845345578326409218

"Trump has done everything possible to repeal Obamacare including 5 visits to Mar-a-lago, 9 trips to the golf course & sitting in a big truck"

Scott Adams draws the bullseye after shooting his arrow.

gotta admit I'm looking forward to see how he frames this as a major wizard victory for grandmaster Trump

fucking liar just said he never talked about repeal and replace in the first 60days !!

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, March 24, 2017 4:58 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol waht

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 24, 2017 4:58 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://twitter.com/hollybdc/status/845378140704837632

Part of why it was defeated, though:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/kochs-reserve-fund-health-care/

"Trump has done everything possible to repeal Obamacare including 5 visits to Mar-a-lago, 9 trips to the golf course & sitting in a big truck"

That was his Isis plan. Keeping Melania in NYC is the Obamacare repeal plan.

Part of why it was defeated, though:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/kochs-reserve-fund-health-care/

― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Friday, March 24, 2017 5:10 PM

well they never got to vote so how do they get their money ?

through the Lord

@mitchellvii
Those who understand strategy are sitting in awe of Trump the Master right now.

he's up to the sixth dimension in his chess game after today, cower in fear at ur emperor liberals!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7tquN1VQAAJPgM.jpg:small

lolol

lmbo

perfect

hell yeah

glad someone on hand was savvy enough to name that tune

so . . . carter page and roger stone are testifying next week now, too?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/politics/roger-stone-carter-page-testify-house-intelligence-committee/

i hope they exonerate captain combover, and we can finally start charging soetero for spying on the trump campaign

omg lol
xp

Papa Roach, man u can't make this shit up

mookie that is amazing, I'm stealing it for fb

haha i already posted it on mine

man u can't make this shit up

well, obviously u can

afaict it's fake but still v funny

I just can't tell anymore, been a long day

now i'm sad

it's totally fake, but perfect (except for the line spacing and the noun-verb disagreement)

perusing Fox's headlines, came across this: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/24/make-america-great-again-marches-planned-saturday-anti-trump-groups-vow-to-stop-them.html lolworthiness. Looking forward to these marches being the BIGGEST EVER

friend on FB:

"Just remember: ACA repeal didn't fail because so many held the line for taking care of people. It failed because there were enough who thought it was not sufficiently vicious."

http://www.salon.com/2017/03/24/rnc-tried-to-hide-payments-for-intel-gathering-on-hillary-clinton-report/

It failed because our "elected" "leaders" are fucking petty morons who have no fraction of any form of a clue how to do any part of their goddamn jobs except to bloviate and dissemble in front of cameras

that too!

Been on a plane, what did I miss? Trump still president?

Sen. Schumer:

"Ultimately, the TrumpCare bill failed because of two traits that have plagued the Trump presidency since he took office: incompetence and broken promises. In my life, I have never seen an administration as incompetent as the one occupying the White House today.

“They can’t write policy that actually makes sense, they can’t implement the policies they do manage to write, they can’t get their stories straight, and today we’ve learned that they can’t close a deal, and they can’t count votes," he said.

“So much for the Art of the Deal."

damn

"Just remember: ACA repeal didn't fail because so many held the line for taking care of people. It failed because there were enough who thought it was not sufficiently vicious."

Sort of true. OTOH, not to crown the ""moderate"" GOP reps with laurels, the whole thing would have looked very different without them, or the awareness of their counterparts in the Senate. Not that any of these were making a principled stand about taking care of people, but Trump and Ryan got into trouble because they were getting hit from two flanks, the Freedom Caucus bunch and the "Jesus, Paul, you're going to make me vote for killing the pre-existing condition thing, my constituents will eat me alive" wing. For whatever reason they then swung harder to the right, but nothing is ever enough for the FC and in the process they lost even more of those others. ACA repeal failed because the GOP congressional delegation is a seriously shaky coalition that struggled to look unified even when they were the opposition.

Could be that RYAN IS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. THEY CAN'T BREAK HIS CODE OF ENERGY. THAT IS WHAT HE'S TALKIN'ABOUT

there's a long BBC doc (1 hr) on how obama assembled the votes for ACA.

https://youtu.be/Ej5sxUxDid4

look how persistent, how thoughtful they were. i find it makes for very interesting viewing in light of all this. trigger warning: lots of boehner content

the intransigence of the freedom caucus continues to blow my mind. put aside what the senate would have done had the bill passed, for just a moment. the FC had a bill that was unbelievably cruel, gutted obamacare, AND gutted medicaid. it was 99% of everything they ever wanted. and they refused to vote for it. it's like watching someone successfully double-down on a $2 bet in video poker, over and over, until they were up $524,288. but they wouldn't take the half-million. they wanted $1 million, so they doubled down again. fucking assholes, and so stupid

i'm sure the message going out to the insanity wing of the united states (28% of voters, give or take, apparently) is that obamacare repeal would be headed to the senate right now if only a dozen house democrats would have had the courage to vote their conscience

but isn't the insanity wing the FC, more or less? they never expected/wanted Dem votes

btw some NPR correspondent this morning quoted The Art of the Deal to the effect of "You can't close the deal if you look desperate for it." Or if you look indifferent, seemingly.

Yam dgaf aside from being able to sit in a truck and honk in the WH driveway.

but isn't the insanity wing the FC, more or less? they never expected/wanted Dem votes

yeah, you're right - i forgot that the FC is somehow to the right of the insanity wing. god, what are they even thinking right now? like the hardcore mark meadows supporter sitting down to dinner right now and talking politics, how are they justifying voting against repeal? it's seriously baffling to me

the intransigence of the freedom caucus continues to blow my mind. put aside what the senate would have done had the bill passed, for just a moment. the FC had a bill that was unbelievably cruel, gutted obamacare, AND gutted medicaid. it was 99% of everything they ever wanted. and they refused to vote for it. it's like watching someone successfully double-down on a $2 bet in video poker, over and over, until they were up $524,288. but they wouldn't take the half-million. they wanted $1 million, so they doubled down again. fucking assholes, and so stupid

getting to not associate yourself with a toxic bill because well, unfortunately you're just too darn conservative seems like having cake and eating too. hard to know how many of these guys are showmen vs true believers though.

it doesn't matter how they spin this, america loves a winner.

say half the trump base loves ACA and half hates it. BOTH sides of that base have reason to scorn trump and congressional republicans after this