Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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You could squeak in under the line. FWIW, I think he'll stay the course, god knows why tho.
In 2009
In 2017 - so much for drain the swamp
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/tom-price-chartered-planes-flights-242908
In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.
Price’s spokespeople declined to comment on why he considered commercial travel to be unfeasible. On one leg of the trip – a sprint from Dulles International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport, a distance of 135 miles – there was a commercial flight that departed at roughly the same time: Price’s charter left Dulles at 8:27 a.m., and a United Airlines flight departed for Philadelphia at 8:22 a.m., according to airport records.
Sample round-trip fares for the United flight ranged from $447 to $725 per person on United.com, though the price would have been lower if booked in advance or if Price’s party received government discounts. Similarly priced commercial flights also left from Reagan National Airport and Baltimore Washington International. By contrast, the cost of chartering the plane was roughly $25,000, according to Ultimate Jet Charters, which owns the Embraer 135LR twin jet which ferried Price and about 10 other people to the clinic event. In addition, Amtrak ran four trains starting at 7 a.m. that left Washington’s Union Station and arrived at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station no later than 9:58 a.m.
In 2017 - so much for drain the swamp
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/tom-price-chartered-planes-flights-242908
In a sharp departure from his predecessors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.
Price’s spokespeople declined to comment on why he considered commercial travel to be unfeasible. On one leg of the trip – a sprint from Dulles International Airport to Philadelphia International Airport, a distance of 135 miles – there was a commercial flight that departed at roughly the same time: Price’s charter left Dulles at 8:27 a.m., and a United Airlines flight departed for Philadelphia at 8:22 a.m., according to airport records.
Sample round-trip fares for the United flight ranged from $447 to $725 per person on United.com, though the price would have been lower if booked in advance or if Price’s party received government discounts. Similarly priced commercial flights also left from Reagan National Airport and Baltimore Washington International. By contrast, the cost of chartering the plane was roughly $25,000, according to Ultimate Jet Charters, which owns the Embraer 135LR twin jet which ferried Price and about 10 other people to the clinic event. In addition, Amtrak ran four trains starting at 7 a.m. that left Washington’s Union Station and arrived at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station no later than 9:58 a.m.
Manafort was wiretapped when campaign chairman. Thus, so was Trump, during the campaign
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41323172
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41323172
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Rand Paul looks like a no (but he did last time and then folded), still waiting for Collins/Murkowski/McCain to make clear where they stand.
Heller cosponsoring the bill despite his own governor saying the bill is awful
"Gov. Brian Sandoval has sharply split with fellow Republican Sen. Dean Heller Wednesday over a last-ditch proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act, joining a bipartisan group of nine other governors in asking Senate leadership not to consider the Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson proposal."
https://www.axios.com/repeal-first-ask-questions-later-2487304991.html
Senate Republicans are on the verge of passing a sweeping health care bill not only without knowing what's in it, but without particularly caring. The political abstraction of "Obamacare" — and the seven years of promises to "repeal Obamacare" — have almost totally overshadowed even the broad strokes of policy, much less the details.
The bottom line: The repeal-and-replace bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy is gaining steam because it has the appearance of gaining steam — not because of the changes it would make. "If there was an oral exam on the contents of the proposal, graded on a generous curve, only two Republicans could pass it. And one of them isn't Lindsey Graham," a senior GOP aide told Caitlin.
The Congressional Budget Office says it will release a "preliminary assessment" of the bill early next week, but it won't include critical details like how the bill would affect premiums and the number of people with health insurance. So if the Senate votes before Sept. 30 — the deadline for being able to repeal the ACA through budget “reconciliation" rules — it won't have any of that information. But you don't hear a lot of Republicans worrying about that. They think CBO is too slow and has overstated the negative impact of the previous bills. "I think we can pretty well decide based on the information we already have," Sen Ron Johnson said yesterday on CNN.
How we got here: Graham-Cassidy would be the fourth repeal bill to get a vote in three months — if it gets one. "This is like the Lazarus of health care bills. It's back, and I don't know exactly why that is," conservative policy analyst Douglas Holtz-Eakin — who's on board with many of the bill's policy goals — told Sam. "If it was just a policy argument, I don't think it would have come back." Those bills vary significantly. None of Graham-Cassidy's predecessors in the Senate included a similar system of state block grants. Only one would have eliminated the ACA's premium subsidies; a different one would have made similar changes to Medicaid. Yet they all got between 43 and 49 votes.
"You could do a post office renaming and call it 'repeal-replace' and 48 Republican senators would vote for it sight unseen," the GOP aide said.
Senate Republicans are on the verge of passing a sweeping health care bill not only without knowing what's in it, but without particularly caring. The political abstraction of "Obamacare" — and the seven years of promises to "repeal Obamacare" — have almost totally overshadowed even the broad strokes of policy, much less the details.
The bottom line: The repeal-and-replace bill sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy is gaining steam because it has the appearance of gaining steam — not because of the changes it would make. "If there was an oral exam on the contents of the proposal, graded on a generous curve, only two Republicans could pass it. And one of them isn't Lindsey Graham," a senior GOP aide told Caitlin.
The Congressional Budget Office says it will release a "preliminary assessment" of the bill early next week, but it won't include critical details like how the bill would affect premiums and the number of people with health insurance. So if the Senate votes before Sept. 30 — the deadline for being able to repeal the ACA through budget “reconciliation" rules — it won't have any of that information. But you don't hear a lot of Republicans worrying about that. They think CBO is too slow and has overstated the negative impact of the previous bills. "I think we can pretty well decide based on the information we already have," Sen Ron Johnson said yesterday on CNN.
How we got here: Graham-Cassidy would be the fourth repeal bill to get a vote in three months — if it gets one. "This is like the Lazarus of health care bills. It's back, and I don't know exactly why that is," conservative policy analyst Douglas Holtz-Eakin — who's on board with many of the bill's policy goals — told Sam. "If it was just a policy argument, I don't think it would have come back." Those bills vary significantly. None of Graham-Cassidy's predecessors in the Senate included a similar system of state block grants. Only one would have eliminated the ACA's premium subsidies; a different one would have made similar changes to Medicaid. Yet they all got between 43 and 49 votes.
"You could do a post office renaming and call it 'repeal-replace' and 48 Republican senators would vote for it sight unseen," the GOP aide said.
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So, then Iran,
"Rouhani denied that Iran had ever sought to obtain nuclear weapons and said the ballistic missiles it has been testing would be used only for defensive purposes.
“Iran does not seek to restore its ancient empire, impose its official religion on others or export its revolution through the force of arms,” he said."
So that pretty well confirms the exact opposite of what he said.......
"Rouhani denied that Iran had ever sought to obtain nuclear weapons and said the ballistic missiles it has been testing would be used only for defensive purposes.
“Iran does not seek to restore its ancient empire, impose its official religion on others or export its revolution through the force of arms,” he said."
So that pretty well confirms the exact opposite of what he said.......
This would be farcical if so many peoples healthcare didn't depend on what happens.
Kimmel has been superb throughout this discussion, I would confidently bet he knows more about this bill than at least two of its co-sponsors let alone the rest of the GOP senators that will vote for it.
Ffs, Trump retweeted this, the man is so pathetically insecure.
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gosh, not even a mention for #Trudeau? better start disrobing again!
astonishing how a government which employs an entire team of internet and media consultants to stage fake spontaneous photobombs can't manage the no-brainer optics of making it slightly more difficult for the rich to cheat on their taxes
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