Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

even more than usual

Well I mean over the course of about two days POTUS has publicly backed voting for the senate bill, full repeal with delayed replacement, abandoning the bill altogether, nationalizing the insurance companies, and the elimination of the word 'insurance' from the English language. You get the feeling there's maybe a void of leadership in DC at the mo.

lol yeah I was just going to post "Repeal and replace simultaneously! Repeal now, replace later! Let Obamacare die! Now is the time to act!"

I might almost feel sorry for these senators, if they weren't pretty much all beneath contempt.

Here's Kris Kobach telling @KatyTurNBC "we may never know" if Hillary actually won the popular vote by 3-5 million votes: pic.twitter.com/y7GLBRqB4b

— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) July 19, 2017

@SenAlexander, in a scrum aired live by CNN, says "I don't think there are 40 votes" for a repeal-only bill.

Maybe it's my vantage point in Canada, but I'm often amazed when somebody's name turns up--most often a Senator--who I just assumed faded out of the picture a decade or so ago.

https://imgur.com/a/B3KOg

https://i.imgur.com/DeO0v5j.jpg

the orange skull

Trump: ‘You’ll have forms of insurance that you don’t even know about right now’

OBAMACARE DIES SCREAMING
WHILE I LAY DREAMING

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

Insurance : "This Isn't Even My Final Form"

Like sex insurance?

You want to get coverage in the event that three of the toes on your left foot get mashed in an escalator? Done.

But keep it under your hat. You're not supposed to know about that right now.

How are there any functioning adults who've interacted with Donald Trump throughout his life who didn't walk away thinking they'd just encountered maybe the dumbest human being walking the planet?

Like, how is it that ANYONE has EVER taken him seriously about ANYTHING?

(And, yes, I know that the answer is '$$$'. But still. I don't know how there's enough $$$ in the world to deal with such a complete void.)

How are there any functioning adults who've interacted with Donald Trump throughout his life who didn't walk away thinking they'd just encountered maybe the dumbest human being walking the planet?

i challenge u to name one person in his orbit who seems like a functioning adult

Spicer ???

I'm glad Moodles was around to make that joke while I was in a meeting

Haha, I knew it would catnip for DJPs.

cover my face as the polar caps melt

hehe https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52928

Later today, CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) will release estimates of the effects of the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017, which was just made public on the website of the Senate Budget Committee. The estimate of the overall budgetary effects will be published on CBO’s website.

There it is: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/19/cbo-score-senate-obamacare-repeal-240730?lo=ap_a1

even worse than the House bill

This is all just the strangest thing, this back-and-forth struggle to keep a promise that nobody wants them to keep because these plans are so poor and hated.

and then they keep making the bill even shittier and more hated! it's really p incredible

Let's say they successfully pass it, what is their campaign strategy? Sorry, constituents, I know you hate this bill, but we had to keep our promise to you?

Obama made us do it!

^^^^

I don't like that "Senate holdouts" are reportedly meeting this afternoon to attempt to salvage the bill

yeah me neither

i don't see anything that changes, but they're persistent and they're hypocrites so anything's possible

and at all costs they have to keep the Clintons out of the White House.

Paul, Collins and Murkowski aren't attending that meeting, so...

I guess the nagging fear I have is that none of the moderates besides Collins came out against it - if they make it shitty enough that Paul, Mason and Lee all get back on board who among the moderates is going to resist the pressure from all corners to bite the bullet and "be legends man"

Murkowski never came out as a "no" against McConnell's bill.

Or is next week's vote just on straight repeal? It isn't clear to me at all anymore what next week's vote is actually on.

i worry that heller goes chris christie suicide by ballot box

i think next week's token vote is on straight repeal. but the difference is obscure enough to nerds like us that the story will be "gop make mean bill more mean".

"We’re discussing that," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said when asked whether some version of the Better Care Reconciliation Act was coming back. "I’m more optimistic that that would be the case. But if there’s no agreement, then we’ll still vote on the motion to proceed but it’ll be to the 2015 just-repeal bill."

The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, and supporters of the repeal bill hope that key holdouts and skeptics attend, including Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Rob Portman of Ohio, Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. But Collins is skipping it, and it wasn’t clear who would show up.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Seeing Cornyn twist in the wind has been kinda great.

Oh right, Russia

This should generate some news: Manafort, Don Jr., Glenn Simpson and others scheduled to testify next week: https://t.co/Y5Td0QELZ2

— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) July 19, 2017

Plus...

SCOOP: @ABC News has learned Jared Kushner will testify Monday before Senate Intel – private session. More to come from me & @benyc

— John Santucci (@JTSantucci) July 19, 2017

So does all of this mean it is harder to buy the government and get it to do what your really want than you would think? You got to think some of these billionaires are looking at the GOP like a homeowner looks at a contractor coming back for more money to finish off the kitchen the way you wanted.

Minor details!

NYT: Paul Manafort was in debt to pro-Russia interests by as much as 7 million before he joined the Trump campaign https://t.co/wm5WY9Hn63

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 19, 2017

It doesn't seem to add much to the information on his legal dispute with Deripaska that was already in the public domain.

Perhaps merely a timely refocusing re next week.

makes you wonder too doesn't it how much comrade combover owes pro-russia interests, and just what's exactly in those tax returns he refuses to make public

lmao https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision “very unfair to the president.”

“Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself, which frankly I think is very unfair to the president,” he added. “How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, ‘Thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you.’ It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”

and that is a mild word