Trump has to take out goodies to appease conservatives. And there aren’t many left. He’s down to the worst of the halloween candy in the bag.
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So many necks, and so few jackboots to go around.
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You know what also helps tremendously with mid-terms? A full-blown moron Trumpist as Speaker of the House, which could well happen. Or, even better, a prolonged power struggle over who will be Ryan’s replacement when he refuses to stop whipping this dead horse for the sake of (even more) tax cuts.
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I gotta say, TPM headline writers … that is not your typical use of the word “goodies.”
Inducements to radical conservatives to attract their votes, which would decimate the ACA even faster if they were enacted but which will probably decimate the bill instead for precisely that reason …
Where are the goodies?
I’m tempted to agree, but the thing is, the damage hits Mulvaney, Price, Mnuchin, and lots of others identified with Trump. Trump is not playing rope-a-dope. He’s not in on Bannon’s game. He’s just ignorant. So far, he’s not a very useful pawn: he picked Mulvaney et al because they said nice things about him in 2016, missing the fact that they were at odds with what he was spouting about health insurance. But when these guys are discredited, it now affects him too, leaving him and his presidency stuck, having failed on his first big legislative promise.
So, yes, it might be Bannon, but it’s all facilitated by Trump’s ignorance about health insurance policy. And Bannon’s endgame? What, Steve King as Speaker?
These guys screwed up on policy, which is screwing their politics. They failed to design their ACA repeal to hurt only brown people, so the white nationalist crowd is standing up to defend the rural folks getting shafted by their plan. But this does not mean that the white nationalists could form a working majority of the R party–especially in the Senate.
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Especially since “red meat” is experienced and available.
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Two things the DNC/activist/interested parties needs to do ASAP:
Run an add, with all of Trump’s tweets concerning his love for the CBO, when it said things while Obama was in office. He has praised the same CBO many times, run the ad. Let the America people know that the “emperor wears no clothes”!
Run and add showing all the times the GOP and it’s leaders went in front if the press and claimed that the Dems were shoving the ACA down their throat. When they claimed that there was no reaching out to Conservative groups (heritage, cato, etc). Of course, the ACA is similar to a policy the conservative think tank had come up back in the 90’s which then was put in practice by then GOP governor of MA, Mitt Romney.
Where is the GOP, reaching across the aisle? They are not reaching out to the AMA, Kaiser Health Group, or any other medical organizations. If they did, they would hear the same thing that the rest of us are saying, fix the law, don’t repeal it.
I am not a tech person that can create these ads, if anyone at TPM has some ideas on how to accomplish this, let me know and let us see if we can get this ball rolling. The GOP is an optics/advertising agency, that is what they are good at. They are not good at actually governing, just telling people how bad the Dem’s are and doing everything in their power to make good policies bad, and dismantle the state of our federal government.
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Yup, that would indeed help. I can see the Goopers getting paralyzed even in the process of the House trying to get through a petition to vacate the chair, let alone the chaos if they do succeed in booting him.
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Pfft! Has to be “white meat” when you’re talking about Republicans. Or, maybe pork, the “other white meat” works too.
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I think Caitlin knows how to do satire…
You may very well be right. Of course, since it is well-known that Drumpfie has been gunning for revenge on Obama for years, it may well be a combination of both.
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Made me think of goody bags at the end of a child’s birthday party, which is about the level of intellectual exertion happening in Trumpworld.
Oh goodie, more goodies. Move the date up a couple of years, have the CBO re-score the damn thing, and watch the number of people kicked off health insurance rise even faster and affect folks sooner. Makes sense. NOT. But let’s see him try. I need a good laugh.
So, yes, it might be Bannon, but it’s all facilitated by Trump’s ignorance about health insurance policy. And Bannon’s endgame? What, Steve King as Speaker?
Well, if the assumption is that the GOP can retain the House, then I think @coprophagoussmile may be right in that a prolonged power struggle would ensue. I say that because back in 2014(?) when Boner left Ryan was seen as the last, best choice they had. Now, they’re down to the ultimate feral trumpers (i.e. Steve King).
I totally agree that Rump is beyond a blank slate. He really is an empty vessel that only responds to flattery no matter how destructive it is in the long run. I made my statement in light of today’s “leak” from Paul ryan pre election of his non support of Rump. That’s pure Bannon.
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Yes! I think it was Bellarmine who burned so many people at the stake that the thrill was gone, henceforth victims wore a vest of pitch, to burn brighter.
The more republicans vote for the Trumpcare crappy bill the more republicans losing their seats, whether they are conservatives or not. Many conservatives forget that Trump supporters and also many conservative voters rely on Obamacare. Republicans go for it. Please do.
Republicans will add seats in 2018. The self-loathing masochist vote is not to be underestimated.
Janice Phelps, a 60-year-old disabled factory worker in Evansville, Indiana, knows how expensive healthcare is.
Each month, shots for her severe asthma cost $3,000. Quarterly injections for knee pain cost $3,200. Medication for depression costs $900. She has had seven back surgeries, two shoulder surgeries, and two knee surgeries since 1985. The largest public health programs in America – Medicaid and Medicare, which aid the poor and the elderly – paid for nearly all of it.
Yet those programs are now threatened by the men she voted for: Donald Trump and former Indiana governor Mike Pence.
***“I’m all in favor of repealing it,” she said about Republicans’ push to do away with the Affordable Care Act (ACA),*** popularly known as Obamacare. But, she said, when you talk about cutting Medicaid: “I don’t agree with that at all.”
Dramatic changes to Medicaid – the scheme to help poorer Americans get healthcare – are just part of the reforms in a Republican bill leaders are trying to force through Congress at lightning speed. However, since it was introduced last Monday, the American Health Care Act has met opposition from the left, significant sections of the Republican party, and a slate of doctor, hospital and patient associations. It’s been called a “legislative orphan appealing to no one”.
***Though Phelps said she would support Trump even if it passed***, she is upset by the idea of Medicaid cuts.
“For Medicaid to say, ‘We’re going to spend X amount of dollars on you, and that’s all we’re going to spend’ – ***we’re supposed to just roll over and die because we can’t pay it ourselves?”*** she said. “X-rays, and MRIs, and CT scans, surgeries and stuff – we have no control over how much that is ... ***I would not be able to pay that out of my pocket, and I have to pay that to live*** ... to put a cap on it is uncalled for.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/12/republican-healthcare-trump-pence-medicaid-indiana
Below is all you need to know when contemplating Dem prospects in the midterms. Giving a middle finger to the lazy niggers and dirty fucking hippies is worth dying for to these people.
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***Though Phelps said she would support Trump even if it passed***, she is upset by the idea of Medicaid cuts.
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In the immortal words of my hunting partner’s daughter in third grade,
“But… Bambi’s good to eat!”
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WHy is TRUMP offering an ‘amendment’? I’m confused.
The Trumpsters promised “flexibility.” Meaning, “hey, you know us, you know you can’t believe a damn thing we promised the voters. We’ll do whatever you want.”
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