Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[LinekersLegs]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...xplain-that-hes-not-a-leaker-let-him-do-that/
White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday that he doesn't know if his relationship with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus can be repaired, and he urged Priebus to publicly prove that he has not leaked damaging information to the media.

“If you want to talk about the chief of staff, we have had odds, we have had differences. When I said we were brothers, from the podium, that's because we're rough on each other. Some brothers are like Cain and Abel, other brothers can fight with each other and then get along. I don't know if this is repairable or not — that will be up to the president,” Scaramucci said in a phone interview with CNN early Thursday morning, referencing the biblical brothers without mentioning that Cain murdered Abel.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[SteveSC]

Apparently after the failed healthcare vote, Trumps Secretary of the Interior called two senators from Alaska and told them 'the state’s future was now under consideration'.

What the absolute fu.....

I read that earlier and its such a dumb thing to say to them. Sure what does that even mean? I'm not sure Trump understands how the federal government operates or controls the country. One of the senators is not up for re-election until after his first term in 2022.

This is absolute nuts, the guy is simply insane. You can't just threaten people when you don't get your way. These senators are voted in by their constituents and he has no control over them. Not sure he gets that. Not sure he gets they are supposed to work for the people not him.

Someone needs to sit this fool down and teach him how government works.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Apparently after the failed healthcare vote, Trumps Secretary of the Interior called two senators from Alaska and told them 'the state’s future was now under consideration'.

What the absolute fu.....

The Sec of Interior Zinke may not have thought his plan all the way through...

 

[RAFUH]

This is the kind of screw-up that would have haunted Obama for months but with Trump, it barely gets noticed.

Great example of the bigotry Obama faced. Compare the standards he was held to versus Trump and even Bush2

 

[LinekersLegs]

I know this is a radical suggestion John but perhaps that means you should vote no on the bloody thing!

 

[SteveSC]

I know this is a radical suggestion John but perhaps that means you should vote no on the bloody thing!

Right, of all people who used to stick with his word i feel even he is slipping. He has become very inconsistent of late.

But it seems to a trend of theirs now. To give a sound bite on how concerned they are and then go on to vote yes.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Right, of all people who used to stick with his word i feel even he is slipping. He has become very inconsistent of late.

But it seems to a trend of theirs now. To give a sound bite on how concerned they are and then go on to vote yes.

It is utter madness, they are voting on a bill that they literally wrote over lunch a few hours ago!

 

[SteveSC]

It is utter madness, they are voting on a bill that they literally wrote over lunch a few hours ago!

I love how we are constantly reminded of how the right is full of business experts and the brightest minds yet they have handled this like a group of clueless kids in college who scrape by and who have a group project together due in an hour. One person doing all of the work and the others not caring what he or she comes up with once their name is on it.

Forgetting they had tons of time in the past to get it resolved.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Please be voting no, please...

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[abelard]

They don't want Skinny Repeal to become law, but they want it to pass the Senate (but not the House), so that they can stage a House-Senate conference.

This article is helpful, I think:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-...th-care-vote-o-rama-a-guide-for-the-perplexed
"The other, even bigger, problem with the skinny-repeal bill is that it likely won’t be designed to be the final version of the Republican legislation. Practically everybody on Capitol Hill believes that McConnell is putting it forward as a ruse to toss the ball to a House-Senate conference, which could then come back with a much broader bill that would torpedo the insurance exchanges, roll back the Medicaid expansion, and get rid of the taxes on the rich.

“GOP leaders would craft that version behind closed doors during Congress’ August recess and in early September,” Bob Greenstein, the president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, warned in a blog post on Wednesday. “They would then present it to the House and Senate for final votes later in September, with limited debate and no amendments allowed—and with GOP leaders applying maximum pressure on Republican senators and House members to fall in line. In short, the ‘skinny repeal’ bill is a Trojan horse designed to resuscitate the effort to repeal large parts of the ACA and impose big Medicaid cuts that would jeopardize coverage for millions of the nation’s neediest people.”

Based on McConnell’s record, there is every reason to suppose that he would very much like this scenario to play out as Greenstein described it. After the votes on Tuesday and Wednesday, however, many people on Capitol Hill are doubtful that even the Senate Majority Leader, with all his Machiavellian ways, will be able to pull it off. “Almost every GOP aide I’ve talked to—both House and Senate—are skeptical that a conference committee will come up with something that can pass the Senate,” Axios’s Caitlin Owens reported on Wednesday evening. “If the Senate couldn’t accomplish this feat itself, the reasoning goes, why would a conference committee that must bridge the gap between Senate moderates and the House Freedom Caucus?”

If the skinny-repeal bill got through the Senate, but the effort to put together a more comprehensive piece of legislation then failed, the Republican leaders from both houses could conceivably settle for making the Senate bill law—and Donald Trump could conceivably declare victory on health care and move on. But I am getting ahead of the story. Right now, it isn’t entirely clear if McConnell will get anything passed at all, and the most effective way to insure that the G.O.P.’s effort to wreck Obamacare is permanently frustrated would be to prevent the skinny-repeal bill from getting fifty-one votes. If that is what you would like to see happen, and especially if you live in a red state, this is a good day to call your senator."

What a ridiculously arcane and confusing and dysfunctional system!

 

[LinekersLegs]

They don't want Skinny Repeal to become law, but they want it to pass the Senate (but not the House), so that they can stage a House-Senate conference.

This article is helpful, I think:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-...th-care-vote-o-rama-a-guide-for-the-perplexed
"The other, even bigger, problem with the skinny-repeal bill is that it likely won’t be designed to be the final version of the Republican legislation. Practically everybody on Capitol Hill believes that McConnell is putting it forward as a ruse to toss the ball to a House-Senate conference, which could then come back with a much broader bill that would torpedo the insurance exchanges, roll back the Medicaid expansion, and get rid of the taxes on the rich.

“GOP leaders would craft that version behind closed doors during Congress’ August recess and in early September,” Bob Greenstein, the president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, warned in a blog post on Wednesday. “They would then present it to the House and Senate for final votes later in September, with limited debate and no amendments allowed—and with GOP leaders applying maximum pressure on Republican senators and House members to fall in line. In short, the ‘skinny repeal’ bill is a Trojan horse designed to resuscitate the effort to repeal large parts of the ACA and impose big Medicaid cuts that would jeopardize coverage for millions of the nation’s neediest people.”

Based on McConnell’s record, there is every reason to suppose that he would very much like this scenario to play out as Greenstein described it. After the votes on Tuesday and Wednesday, however, many people on Capitol Hill are doubtful that even the Senate Majority Leader, with all his Machiavellian ways, will be able to pull it off. “Almost every GOP aide I’ve talked to—both House and Senate—are skeptical that a conference committee will come up with something that can pass the Senate,” Axios’s Caitlin Owens reported on Wednesday evening. “If the Senate couldn’t accomplish this feat itself, the reasoning goes, why would a conference committee that must bridge the gap between Senate moderates and the House Freedom Caucus?”

If the skinny-repeal bill got through the Senate, but the effort to put together a more comprehensive piece of legislation then failed, the Republican leaders from both houses could conceivably settle for making the Senate bill law—and Donald Trump could conceivably declare victory on health care and move on. But I am getting ahead of the story. Right now, it isn’t entirely clear if McConnell will get anything passed at all, and the most effective way to insure that the G.O.P.’s effort to wreck Obamacare is permanently frustrated would be to prevent the skinny-repeal bill from getting fifty-one votes. If that is what you would like to see happen, and especially if you live in a red state, this is a good day to call your senator."

What a ridiculously arcane and confusing and dysfunctional system!

There is ample evidence that neither the House nor Senate Republicans can agree on a bill among themselves that suits both their wings, the House barely scrambling something together with the hope they could get it passed and it would be fixed in the Senate, and now the Senate is desperately deluding itself that they will manage it in conference.

Basically this with the nation's healthcare and expecting it to work out OK

 

[abelard]

There is ample evidence that neither the House nor Senate Republicans can agree on a bill among themselves that suits both their wings, the House barely scrambling something together with the hope they could get it passed and it would be fixed in the Senate, and now the Senate is desperately deluding itself that they will manage it in conference.

Basically this with the nation's healthcare and expecting it to work out OK

Even in dictatorships it's still difficult to just impose things that are overwhelmingly unpopular

 

[LinekersLegs]

Even in dictatorships it's still difficult to just impose things that are overwhelmingly unpopular

I honestly have no idea why Republicans are driving themselves over this cliff.

When Obamacare was passed Democrats were at least thinking that this would work out in the end to improve healthcare outcomes whereas with this I can't see any broad policy goal for Republicans - the skinny bill as written doesn't even deliver the savings for a tax cut as far as I can tell.