Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

"“I have people knocking down my door to talk to the presidential personnel office,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “There is a huge demand to join this administration.”"

That's actually called a protest- note their signs

I saw Chris Hayes refer to the idea of appending a substitute amendment to a bill which would be changed at the last minute in order to get the AHCA passed without being seen at all as a new strategy. I could swear I've heard this attempted somewhere before.
I watched a load of Colbert Reports and Daily Shows from the start of 2013 over the last couple of months, so wonderi9ng if it was there. Or was it tried somewhere else earlier this year?
Either way sounds like a revolting thing to try to do. Gosh do these people have no fellow feeling for those effected by the results of this bill?

I thought once they have their Mystery Bill, they plan to pass it in TWO days?

Gosh do these people have no fellow feeling for those affected by the results of this bill?

they sure do! they're excited to end the theft-by-taxes afflicting our blessed *job creators*

I thought once they have their Mystery Bill, they plan to pass it in TWO days?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), 19. juni 2017 13:53 (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But they still need a CBO review. Which takes at least a week. Which means... this Thursday to the CBO at the very very latest, in order to get it passed by June 30th.

This seems like exactly the sort of thing they should rush in secret.

Pushback was pretty significant and effective last time. How in the world does anybody defend their vote on anything assembled in secret with no public debate? Last time they boasted they hadn't read the bill. This time, dozens of people haven't even seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Q72qYWxKQ

"Either way sounds like a revolting thing to try to do. Gosh do these people have no fellow feeling for those effected by the results of this bill?"

If there are enough loopholes and procedural wonky BS then basically there are in effect no rules at all and they can do whatever they can scheme up in their Legion of Doom HQ

just saw a report that the Republicans are considering cancelling a chunk of their summer vacation to work on their agenda. Summer school!

a whole party of irmfried eberls

But they were supposed to have their agenda done by now... Things aren't going according to plan, not for McConnell either, is all I'm saying. He will still do a fuckton of damage, of course.

According to an article I read last week (VOX?), keeping the bill out of sight has also quashed domestic opposition – or so the GOP hopes.

How hard can it be to hammer out an agenda that was so neatly summarized by Axl in the chorus of 'Civil War'?

Well, even with all the secrecy, CBO guidance, and a House bill to work from, they've been working for a month and a half and it has to be done really really soon.

and it will be! never fear! the kochs, the mercers, the scaifes, the bradleys, the de voses -- all the real people, represented by ALEC -- want tax cuts, and tax cuts they shall get! if 20,000,000 people lose healthcare, if 1,000,000s are subject again to medical bankruptcy, oh well -- small price for freedom and progress!

Hahahah Jason Chaffetz suddenly feels bold all of a sudden as he preps the exit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-chaffetz-slams-trump_us_59475dc5e4b01eab7a2eacc0

"almost as bad as obama" lol fuck that asshole, can't even get a dig at donald trump without being a piece of shit about it

he needs to fire the IRS chief, see

Gotta keep that sweet gig at Fox News (I assume).

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files oooof

The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

In what is the largest known data exposure of its kind, UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that unsecured databases containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet by a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their efforts to elect Donald Trump. The data, which was stored in a publicly accessible cloud server owned by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics, included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trust. In total, the personal information of potentially near all of America’s 200 million registered voters was exposed, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as “modeled” voter ethnicities and religions.

Worth a read, to say the least.

LOCK THEM UP

If 198 million is accurate, that's probably every registered voter.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php

http://25.media.tumblr.com/7d74f51112d39f00a8a80f0e19422621/tumblr_mgq64xOv6b1rt8i4vo1_500.gif

that should be a maga cap rly, but it's the best i can do

tbf a lot of that data is already publicly available right?

if it wasn't before it sure is now

in the future, everyone will have all of the data, this is actually a natural step towards full communism and was predicted by marx

yet more evidence of this administration's commitment to being the most radically transparent in history (by mistake)

Meanwhile the health industry is resigned to the repeal of the ACA.

How in the world does anybody defend their vote on anything assembled in secret with no public debate?

they wrote behind closed doors w lobbyists for the original ACA bill 8 years ago so may as well do it again. is it past or is it future? between this and the "witch hunt" language and lawyer media circus ripped right from 1996 the past is repeating faster and faster. just like circling a drain.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/yes-of-course-the-senate-health-care-bill-is-as-mean-as-the-house-bill/

Lol Adam, it's not at all the same.

hey wrote behind closed doors w lobbyists for the original ACA bill 8 years ago so may as well do it again

and the bill was debated and pieced together in over hundreds of hours of public forums. You'd turn on CSPAN randomly in the afternoon and there would be yet another hearing.

the idea of appending a substitute amendment to a bill which would be changed at the last minute

I think this tactic even has a name: gut and stuff.

Well, here we are.

Here's how one conservative House staffer described waiting for the Senate health care bill. How others are feeling: https://t.co/3nFH4ZakxP pic.twitter.com/r8mz35iuCL

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 19, 2017

And also you know that going to see the new Star Wars movies is going to result in the preventable deaths of thousands of people but you go anyway because Star Wars!

was the house version of this the prequels then, i guess?

jfc

wait...so was the actual obamacare the original trilogy, then? what a weird metaphor. this conservative house staffer needs to rethink things

my brain hurts

If McConnell uses reconciliation, then the bill can't increase the deficit, therefore he'll HAVE to keep the House tax cuts.

welp

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/19/democrats-stop-senate-business-obamacare-239715

yes

idk if it will accomplish much tbh

but when you don't have many avenues of power open to you, whadayagonnado

Expose the bill, get protestors riled up.

If McConnell uses reconciliation, then the bill can't increase the deficit, therefore he'll HAVE to keep the House tax cuts.

Don't understand this argument; removing the House tax cut decreases the deficit. The tax cut is the goal, it's the benefit cuts that reconciliation forces him to keep.

genuinely glad to see some spine here