Mr. Trump Goes to Washington

[ironbite]

Yeah the Trumpcare bill is dead in the Senate after 4 GOP senators defected.  So McTurtle tried another approach.  Just repeal the damn thing but give a 2 year deadline to the Senate in order to craft a replacement.

Less than a day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the Senate will vote to repeal Obamacare without providing a replacement, his plan is dead.

Three Republicans announced Tuesday that they won’t vote for a procedural step to take up the bill ― and that’s all it takes to kill it. Those senators are Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.). Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio) also raised concerns about a repeal-only plan increasing uncertainty in the marketplace and leading to higher premiums and deductibles.

McConnell has now failed three times in the last month to pass a bill to gut Obamacare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, something Republicans have vowed to do for seven years. The crux of the problem: Moderate Republicans want to keep key pieces of the law in place and aren’t comfortable throwing millions of people off health care, while conservative Republicans want to throw out the whole law. There’s not a lot of middle ground. Democrats have been cut out of negotiations entirely.

That's one, two, three strikes you're out with this bullshit.  ACA remains law of the land until the GOP can figure out a bill cruel enough to appease 3 of those monsters.

Ironbite-yeah, three of the four Senators opposing the bill think it's not cruel enough.

[dpareja]

Lee and Moran announced their opposition simultaneously so that neither could be accused of being the Senator who killed the bill. Cowards.

[Tolpuddle Martyr]

And Trump says he'll "let Obamacare fail".

That would be electoral suicide even with all the gerrymandering and voter suppression the Rethugs are putting in place.

[dpareja]

On another note, given how Trump's been treating the wives of foreign leaders (see: Brigitte Macron, Agata Kornhauser), I can't wait to see how he reacts to meeting Kathleen Wynne and her partner:

[The_Queen]

On another note, given how Trump's been treating the wives of foreign leaders (see: Brigitte Macron, Agata Kornhauser), I can't wait to see how he reacts to meeting Kathleen Wynne and her partner:

Smart money's on him grabbing both of them by the pussy.

He thinks it's the equivalent to shaking hands with the boys.

[dpareja]

Apparently Steve Bannon called Paul Ryan "a limp-dicked motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation."

[The_Queen]

Apparently Steve Bannon called Paul Ryan "a limp-dicked motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation."

Didn't he also call Jared a "cuck" at one point.

The guy's a real piece of shit.

[ironbite]

But he amuses the Orange Piss Pot so he's alright.

Ironbite-or should I say Alt-Right.

[dpareja]

Apparently Steve Bannon called Paul Ryan "a limp-dicked motherfucker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation."

Didn't he also call Jared a "cuck" at one point.

The guy's a real piece of shit.

In fairness, that's a pretty spot-on assessment of Paul Ryan.

[Id82]

I love how the GOP is trying to blame their ineptitude on the Democrats. You're the idiots with all of the power. You don't need the democrats to pass your dumb legislation, yet you somehow fail.

[The_Queen]

I love how the GOP is trying to blame their ineptitude on the Democrats. You're the idiots with all of the power. You don't need the democrats to pass your dumb legislation, yet you somehow fail.

Not even that, they tried to pass their stuff without democratic involvement, haphazardously believing they could just pass whatever they wanted and spin it as a win. At one point, McConnell was trying to rope his party to vote yes by saying that a no vote meant the GOP would have to negotiate with the democrats.

[dpareja]

I love how the GOP is trying to blame their ineptitude on the Democrats. You're the idiots with all of the power. You don't need the democrats to pass your dumb legislation, yet you somehow fail.

Not even that, they tried to pass their stuff without democratic involvement, haphazardously believing they could just pass whatever they wanted and spin it as a win. At one point, McConnell was trying to rope his party to vote yes by saying that a no vote meant the GOP would have to negotiate with the democrats.

And Trump was trying to scare them into voting yes by saying that voting no would eventually lead to the implementation of single-payer.

EDIT: And he's been threatening Heller, which has McConnell incensed, because McConnell cares more about preserving his Senate majority than any particular legislative item, and Heller is his most vulnerable incumbent in 2018.

[ironbite]

Ain't it amazing how the monster is now threatening to tear them down?

Ironbite-WELCOME TO HELL!

[The_Queen]

Breaking, McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. I disagree with him politically, but him telling the woman at the rally that Obama was not a muslim terrorist, but a decent family man was one of the most noble things that a Republican has done in the last 10 years. I wish him a speedy recovery.

[dpareja]

Breaking, McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. I disagree with him politically, but him telling the woman at the rally that Obama was not a muslim terrorist, but a decent family man was one of the most noble things that a Republican has done in the last 10 years. I wish him a speedy recovery.

I wish him a speedy and full recovery because I want to see him lose at the ballot box in 2022.