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

Something something at least it doesnt require birth control something

There's some sort of blowjob joke to be made but I can't figure out how to tie it into healthcare

― Karl Malone, Monday, March 27, 2017

taking health care from the poor and helpless is gonna blow

I can't stop reading that Dan Rather post in a Ronald Reagan caricature voice.

Would Ryan be liable for obstructing the course of justice by not replacing a suspect investigator? Or is suspect purely subjective, just on a wide scale.
Would be nice if this was something that got both of them removed from their positions. Only would anybody better take their places?

I can't stop reading that Dan Rather post in a Ronald Reagan caricature voice.

lol when i was four or five i thought they were the same person

The catch with Ryan is that he's such an ideologue that he naturally gravitates towards sweeping unpopular positions which can't get the support - but if he ever gets one to work it will be terrible.

But he'll probably be another John Boehner, for reasons which would also apply to his replacement?

Nunes has cancelled all remaining committee meetings for the week.

Actual wow

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/44/7e/57/447e5789bce85ec1164bcefd6f12f210.jpg

let's keep it casual

Best comment I saw re Nunes:

https://twitter.com/PGourevitch/status/846701885000220672

he’s recusing the committee from his chairmanship

Via CNN, more on what happened/what this means:

The decision to scrap this week's meetings shows that the panel is facing serious turmoil and questions about whether it can proceed. Nunes scrapped a Tuesday public hearing on Russia to hold a private briefing with FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, prompting outcry from Democrats who wanted the issue of the Trump campaign's alleged ties to the Kremlin to remain in public view.

But Comey and Rogers opted not to brief the panel amid the furor within the committee over how to proceed with its investigation.

The full committee typically meets at least twice a week and it's uncertain if those meetings will be rescheduled.

let us all pause to remember "conservative" rule #1: it's okay if you're a republican!

http://i.imgur.com/8UU2uAi.jpg

in simpler times...

dunno why he doesn't beef with random folks on twitter now, it's not like he has any interest in doing anything more constructive

Hm hm hm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-sought-to-block-sally-yates-from-testifying-to-congress-on-russia/2017/03/28/82b73e18-13b4-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a0a4a3d8602f

The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying to Congress in the House investigation of links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Washington Post has learned, a position that is likely to further anger Democrats who have accused Republicans of trying to damage the inquiry.

According to letters The Post reviewed, the Justice Department notified Yates earlier this month that the administration considers a great deal of her possible testimony to be barred from discussion in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by the presidential communication privilege.

Yates and other former intelligence officials had been asked to testify before the House Intelligence Committee this week, a hearing that was abruptly canceled by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Yates was the deputy attorney general in the final years of the Obama administration, and served as the acting attorney general in the first days of the Trump administration.

And further hm

https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/846729748977987586

staffers had to leave today's GOP conference meeting & Ryan is 25 min late to this presser. everything is fine this is normal I'm sure

today is the day Yates was supposed to testify, right? have we heard why Nunes cancelled the meeting yet?

apparently Yates was gonna testify despite wh requests (no surprise)

https://mobile.twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/846734142884732928

nunes is desperately trying to make sure russia becomes a bigger story

Roffle:

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/846730155250728966

In gaggle, Nunes would NOT say if the WH asked him to scrap the hearing to prevent Sally Yates from testifying

I'm not sure how this could look like any more of a cover-up

give nunes a couple more days, i believe he's working on another level out here and still time to surprise us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55ArHjeR1c

interesting that all this news about Sally Yates has come out today. Last night Jeremy Bash was on The 11th Hour saying that this entire recent run of inexplicable Nunes behavior was an elaborately choreographed gag order on Yates, an excuse to cancel her appearance before the house intelligence committee this week, to prevent her from testifying about something she knows about Flynn/Trump/Russia

nyt visual zing
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/28/opinion/28tue1/28tue1-blog427.jpg

psycho killer

a WH official is saying "the white house has taken no action to prevent Sally Yates from testifying and the department of justice specifically told her that it would not stop her and to suggest otherwise is completely irresponsible"

Clear as mud!

Seriously, what happens when Nunes has to respond to that?

Nunes doesn't seem to be v good at this stonewalling stuff

last four words are redundant there

it really does seem like Nunes is seriously spooked right now

probably realising his chances of suffering a mysterious future defenestration are closing in on 100%

The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying to Congress in the House investigation of links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Washington Post has learned, a position that is likely to further anger Democrats who have accused Republicans of trying to damage the inquiry.

A White House spokesperson called the Post article “entirely false” and said, “The White House has taken no action to prevent Sally Yates from testifying and the Department of Justice specifically told her that it would not stop her and to suggest otherwise is completely irresponsible.”

FAKE NEWS

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7_G8sAU8AA4mUY.jpg:large

so she doesn't need permission from the department of justice but does need permission from the white house:

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/846751317355872257

"the white house has taken no action to prevent.." doesn't really sound like she's been given permission

Meanwhile this is all amusing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/us/politics/health-care-obamacare-freedom-caucus.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1&mtrref=t.co

House Republican leaders and the White House, under extreme pressure from conservative activists, have restarted negotiations on legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, with House leaders declaring that Democrats were celebrating the law’s survival prematurely.

Just days after President Trump said he was moving on to other issues, senior White House officials are now saying they have hope that they can still score the kind of big legislative victory that has so far eluded Mr. Trump. Vice President Mike Pence was dispatched to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for lunchtime talks.

“We’re not going to retrench into our corners or put up dividing lines,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said after a meeting of House Republicans that was dominated by a discussion of how to restart the health negotiations. “There’s too much at stake to get bogged down in all of that.”

This all feels very Groundhog Day.

GOP:Health Care Solution::OJ:"catching the real killer"

Ryan seriously believes he can lead the Republicans in the House to a health care debacle solution.

Ryan seriously believes he can lead the Republicans in the House to a health care debacle solution.

Ryan Seriously, the actual sequel to Love Actually

hasn't gerrymandering backfired a little bit on a national scale for the GOP by enabling these hard-line ideologues accountable to nobody to sink legislation

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of etc.

you're not the first to suggest that

xp

Anyway the article indicates they're trying to get all the groups who were originally fighting each other in the caucus to start talking again, presumably on the same points, leading to the same fights.

Which given it'll be even MORE driven by optics now -- 'we gotta win/do SOMETHING' -- will be even more ridiculous.

same with citizen's united keeping all these unviable candidates in the primary race way too long and letting trump soak up the remaining plurality and grabbing the nomination. it's almost as if these schemes... aren't thought out super well/have many unintended consequences

they're trying to get all the groups who were originally fighting each other in the caucus to start talking again, presumably on the same points, leading to the same fights.

Isn't that sorta how the Reagan Revolution declared that government isn't the solution, but rather the problem, and its signature achievement in reducing government was... eliminating the Civil Aeronautics Board.

I'm looking forward to the next landmark Republican health care bill, which slightly tweaks reimbursements for three orthopedic procedures, because that was all everyone could agree on.

the bill will be whittled down to

"We hereby proclaim everybody can buy health care
You are no longer required to. ergo, your premiums will now start at $900/month for individual coverage.
Also don't I have a nice butt?"