There are something like 130 days between today and September 1. The House will be in recess the entire month of August, as well as most of the months before that. There’s no time for anything but recess and earning their do nothing reputation
@outsidertrading618 Christie put Jared’s father in jail for tax evasion. Mnuchin’s too?
It’s a straw, but I’ll grasp. Thank you (from a desperate man)
That was Jared’s father. And why Jared nixed his appointment to anything and had him kicked off the transition team.
my mistake. B-b-but it fits the narrative…
And he did foreclose, and misinform about his net worth by 95 million in Real Estate.
Or even while legislating on one thing, Congress can get information on that thing. Which they can’t right now on literally everything.
So many thieves and scoundrels, so little time to keep them sorted out. But I do like this factoid about Christie. What’s the opposite of popular? Reviled? Hated? That’s him.
Don’t worry. They appointed a kid whose only qualification for reviewing government processes is that he’s currently sticking his cock in the President’s daughter.
Seriously, something like that means our country is safe. They’re too fucking stupid to even be able to dismantle the Government.
Ryan is about to discover that in a harsh lesson. I strongly suspect that Pelosi is going to give him that lesson in regards to passing a budget resolution/CR or raising the debt limit. On both counts, he is going to run into the same HFC problem that torpedoed the Obamacare repeal. Failing on these two pieces (which result in government shutdowns or worse) will cripple him much more severely.
Of course, having to work with Pelosi is going to cripple him with the HFC, too…but that’s going to be part of the lesson.
It takes some real work to steal that title away from Gov Brownback.
He borrowed against his and defaulted.
I think he knows that. Or at least the people around him know that. Which is fine, because Trump ran the most policy free campaign in my history, if not longer. He has no particular interest or mandate, even from his own voters, to get anything specific done.
What they are looking for is to hitch their wagon to something…anything…that the GOP can get passed. And then declare it was theirs all along. In a way, this statement is acknowledging that, and is in effect saying “We have no confidence that Congress can pass a tax bill, so we are distancing ourselves from it now”.
Going forward, Trump’s interviews/pressers/speeches are going to be even lighter on policy and much more reactive to whatever the issue de jour happens to be. Which I fear is going to increasingly being, where are American troops dying and dropping bombs. And even on that front, he has punted the ball to a shocking degree to the Pentagon. The WH has no actual policy goals on the international front, either.
“It started as [an] aggressive timeline,” Mnuchin said in an interview with the Financial Times published Monday, referring to the August deadline. “It is fair to say it is probably delayed a bit because of the health care.”
This is the line that bothered me and it took a minute or two for me to figure out why, it’s the the before health care. If you take out the the it sounds fine, but by placing it there it reminded me of the gays, the blacks, and those people.
I hope am not being overly sensitive.
Won’t argue against that at all
Insipid shill
So they’re stiffing their Tea Party supporters by failing to repeal Obamacare; now they’re failing their uber wealthy supporters by failing at tax reform (to benefit the wealthy, naturally). Who have they got left to screw over with a lot of vague promises that some time later…
August of which year? 2018? 2019? 2020? Or after a Democrat goes back to the Oval Office.
Trump is pretending to give a damn about health care again, so tax reform and infrastructure will have to wait.
Also:
“it’s very, very hard…when you have a strong dollar and other countries are devaluing their currency”
And
“it is probably delayed a bit because of the health care”
Not to mention we’re in a year ending with 7. And next year is an even-numbered year. These things also make it hard. Very very hard.
Munchkin is a veteran policy intellectual compared to Jared:
At one point during the campaign, when Trump wanted to speak more
substantively about China, he gave Kushner a summary of his views and
then asked him to do some research. Kushner simply went on Amazon, where
he was struck by the title of one book, “Death by China,” co-authored
by Peter Navarro. He cold-called Navarro, a well-known trade-deficit
hawk, who agreed to join the team as an economic adviser. (When he
joined, Navarro was in fact the campaign’s only economic adviser.)
Kushner operated in much the same way when it came to crafting
Trump’s tax plan—calling up someone for help out of the blue. Given the
initial absence of pros who could do the job properly, he also tried his
hand at writing speeches. Responding to criticism from the boss
(“Jared, this is terrible!”), Kushner said, according to a person
familiar with the episode, “I’m not a fucking speechwriter. I am a
real-estate guy.”
he knew other ways to raise 1 Trillion dollars.
Very simple. Re-start Trump University, give it a new logo, offer a PhD, and use Cambridge Analytica’s data to target Trumpers on FB and Twitter with a Trump® Money-Back Guarantee. They’ll have the trillion by the end of July. If they offer a free case of Trump Vodka and Trump Steaks, they’ll have the money by mid-June.
I have concerns. Get that sticky-fingered Cambridge crowd in the mix and --forget a trillion–you’ll need to raise real money.
Att Everett Dirksen,per Brainyquote