Discussion: Under Trump, Hill GOPers Struggle To Stay Focused On Their Own Goals

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They couldn’t get anything done with the previous administration.

They can’t get anything done with the current administration.

Maybe they’re just assholes.

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Lay down with a Cheeto-stained ShitGibbon, wake up smelling like … Who am I kidding. These are assholes we’re talking about. They already stunk.

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"Hill GOPers Struggle To Stay Focused On Their Own Goals " Well if there is a silver lining to Trump (and its a BIG IF) this may be it.

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They look like buzzards waiting for the gut truck.

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“Our priorities are in complete alignment: border security, cyber security, combating Islamic terror,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). “Our priorities are in complete alignment with the administration so it’s pretty simple.”


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The GOP is a threat to our democracy, period. Trump is their leader. They put him in office. This idea that they’re somehow to be distinguished from their sociopathic president is just giving them a pass that doesn’t accord with reality.

The media/resistance has to do a better job of making GOP politicians accountable for what the GOP guy in the White House is doing. Focusing simply on Spence, Spicer, etc, is fine, but limited. These GOP congressional guys must be made to feel the heat too, and reminded that they own this racist lunatic.

This will also have the effect of motivating them to get rid of him.

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Anybody else see this as magical thinking???

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They’re suddenly realizing you can’t actually reel in a bull unless through drastic measures. Too bad those measures ensure serious damage for the party and if they don’t implement them there will be damage anyway. I’m starting to think the GOP didn’t want to win and regret that they were robbed of a 24-7 scapegoat in the form of Hillary.

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“I got the impression that the people who were briefing us know there needs to be more caution, I’m not sure the President knows that,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)

hahahahha, and I thought Sen. Franken was the only comedian in the senate!

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Pottery Barn Rule applies here:

You broke it, you own it.

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I’ve read in quite a few places that the majority of GOP house members have ONLY ever served under President Obama and thus the majority of their experience is with opposing legislation OR endlessly working to symbolically dismantle legislation they knew would later be vetoed.

Does anyone remember what this estimate is? I feel like I have read either 1. 2/3 of the House have only served for about six years OR 2. 2/3 of the GOPers in the House have only served for about that length of time.

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At one point, Trump hinted he wanted health insurance for all.

Hinted, Lauren? No, he said it outright:

President-elect Donald Trump revealed in an interview with The Washington Post that he’s almost finished with a plan to replace ObamaCare and vowed to have “insurance for everybody.”

And this comes from a January 16, 2017 FoxNews article entitled Trump insists health care replacement will have ‘insurance for everybody’

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lol Under Trump about covers it.
Hope the sheets are satin, less burn that way.

This is why it is so important that we continue to call our representatives CONSTANTLY. Not only does it let them know what we are thinking–but constant calling changes the atmosphere of congressional offices and affects the extent to which staffers can work on their new legislation (such as privatizing Medicaid, etc.)

They have to feel pressure from all sides–because their proposals are actually UNPOPULAR.

They have a historically unpopular, volatile president. Then they have legislation that is extremely unpopular–even with their own constituents.

And then they have US–calling them, showing up at the their town halls, etc.

We have to keep the pressure on.

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Good morning TPM.

How about covering some real news? Please?

H.R.861 - To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.

@TPM

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Spot on, aiddon - the GOPeePee congress critters only know obstruction and they had their plans all lined up to block every single thing Hillary would try to do.

Now they have to govern and they have a madman in the WH. What’s a 'bagger to do? :imp:

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Brilliant blog post. An excerpt:
Cohn deftly sidesteps the fact that our “most highly capitalized banks” have gotten that way thanks to the very regulations and increased capital requirements that are now on the menu to be carved up. To which we say, good riddance. It’s about time that America’s deposit-taking institutions got back to the business of leveraged speculation, empire building and unchecked expansion that made this country what it is today – a culturally divided paradise of extreme wealth disparity and populist rage.

The tens of millions of Americans who came out to vote for Donald Trump and the subsequent hundreds who attended his inauguration have grown sick and tired of the burdensome protections and safeguards that have been put in place for them. All across the nation, working class people yearn for a world in which Citigroup and Bank of America can borrow unlimited sums of money for concentrated bets, trade in exotic securities that are barely understood and sell whatever products they want to whomever they choose.

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How is it that no one seems to remember that Trump and pals were working on the last strokes of their healthcare plan. What happened to it? Did it burn in the dumpster fire that is this administration?

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