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

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?"

will lobotomies be covered?

They can't be because Ryan is still speaker

most of the GOP already hit their lifetime maximum for that procedure iirc

what about the guys they lobotomized? will they get a refund?

ok so in all seriousness now...

how are they possibly going to get the Freedom Caucus and the moderates to agree. Freedom Caucus basically wants things restored to how they were pre-ACA (which would death spiral the industry) and the moderates will never go for. Moderates actually want coverage that is affordable to their constituents and doesn't cause millions of them to lose coverage and somehow magically haven't figured out that the number of non-sick people enrolled is directly correlated to premiums.

Feel like a lot of 'gift baskets' will be going out behind hte scenes. everybody make sure to see what kinda car Charlie Dent is driving today vs in three weeks.

did the last bill have 51 senate votes? will anything the freedom caucus agrees to have 51 senate votes?

clearly they will work with democrats do u see. these moderate dems want to be able to work with the most unpopular president in american history whose only achievements of note have been pissing and shitting all over everything dems believe in.

did the last bill have 51 senate votes?

ACA had to get 60 votes to pass, thx to GOP filibuster.

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White House has announced due to scheduling conflict, President Donald Trump will not be throwing out 1st pitch at Nats opener on Monday.

Check the tweet for First Response HOF: https://twitter.com/ABC7John/status/846757360702013442

Haha

the "scheduling conflict" is presumably he doesn't want to get stuff thrown at him

The widespread pissing on Trump re: Nats opener is making my day.

Hi, this is the city you tell people you hate, hatin you back, thxbye.

Trump coulda been the first person to get ejected from a baseball game while throwing out an honorary pitch

meanwhile Kansas is getting Medicaid dough!

I think he is going to sponsor a plan for single payer. It's his best move to cause more chaos and position himself, again, as a champion of the people vs the establishment.

if he does, he loses every Republican in the House and Senate and he'll be Poppy Bush

If he was smart that's what he'd do. Republicans -- and centrist dems -- would defeat it, but at enormous political cost to themselves. If he was actively pursuing populist positions it would be much harder for left wing critics to paint him as a "fake" champion of the working class. By adopting a position that should have been theirs he'd sxramble Washington even more, and this time not at his own expense. He's got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

https://twitter.com/barrysvrluga/status/846757008195960834

Barry Svrluga‏ @barrysvrluga

Nats say the White House has declined invitation for President Trump to throw out ceremonial first pitch Opening Day.

9:12 AM · Mar 28, 2017

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gtfo trump is not going to support single payer

Oops, didn't see the post upthread

If he was smart that's what he'd do.

glad we're using our imaginations

How Trump likely thinks of it:

"You're all paying me for your healthcare? I'm the single one you pay? Great! I'll take your money!"

That would be his best move. If he tried to appease the Republicans and their unpopular policy priorities, he'll just sink with Paul Ryan. He won on a message of protectionism, isolationism, and "America First," single payer fits into that

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/28/california-chief-justice-blasts-immigration-crackdown-says-rule-of-law-is-being-challenged/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.9112eb0841af

Treeship, of all the speculation you've posted on these threads, Trump supporting single payer is the nuttiest. Congratulations.

It's nutty but a whole lot of RW movement conservative etc. types on Twitter keep talking about Trump going that route as part of their grim predictions that everyone in the GOP is ultimately a sellout, nobody can be trusted, etc. It's part gallows humor, part suspicion.

I feel I've aggressively taken down this idea before but no, Trump is not going to back single payer, come on. The idea of him backing *any* plan that boils down to raising his own taxes is laughable, regardless of whatever fantasy political game-change you want to write into it.

He'd put the congressional Republicans he hates in the position of explaining to their voters why they're not backing him. He'd be able to say he tried to replace Obamacare with "something incredible" and be telling the truth, bolstering his outsider cred which bouyed him to the presidency. Plus it would never pass so his taxes wouldn't be raised.

If I were Trump I would do that and I would get a better hairstylist and wardrobe.

there's definitely an argument to be made that it would be a savvy move but I can't see the Zero-Dimensional Chess Master going for that

I could only see him supporting single payer because the name sounds simple, like the flat tax

Bannon might. He wants the Republicans to be a nationalist party and he despises Paul Ryan et al. Pushing domestic policies with wide support among the population could give them the political capital to pursue the fucked up, racist policies they also like to talk about.

Xp to frogbs

the notion that he thinks he can work with dems after salting that earth for the past two years is some o_O shit

He doesn't feel he needs to do anything to justifying saying he did something so I'm not sure about that as an incentive

justify*

xxxpost a nationalist party, not a socialist party.

he wants people to unite behind Trump being awesome, and well frankly Trump voters having insurance to finally get their brain trauma looked at will work against that