Posted on 03/26/2017 4:47:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Mar 26th, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi; Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.; Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ariz.; George Shultz, former secretary of state.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.; Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency; Roger Stone, former Trump campaign adviser.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y.
Trump will celebrate a great victory when Gorsuch is confirmed. Obamacare is not working. Will the people who voted against fixing it suffer at the polls? Dems refuse to fix it, when they created the mess. Dems could suffer losses too in midterm elections.
Don’t fix it, kill it. Go Free market
That’s why I brought up small businesses. They are free market and need help with these mandates now.
Well, maybe.
They have one goal--to get back in power.
If they destroy the country getting that goal accomplished then I do believe they'd be willing to do so.
Working with their media wing you can see that they're doing whatever it takes to lessen Trump's popularity and get low information voters thinking things that simply aren't true but make nice 20 second sound bites or tweetable points.
You have noted the key to it all. When you subtract those insured at work and those on medicare, the balance is not really that great.
However, since the beginning way back there, Republicans have stated that there were problems with the market that needed to be addressed. Those include pre existing conditions and the very poor that were clogging emergency rooms. There were also those uninsured but not on medicare such as the large numbers of those 55+ that lost their work supplied insurance and women younger than husbands on medicare.
Compared to the insured population the number is not all that great. However no insurance meant obtaining care was difficult or impossible.
Setting the House aside, the real problem is in the Senate. It doesn’t matter what the House does because there are likely intractable problems in the Senate.
The President acting through HHS must act to hurry up the withering on the vine
what Trump said was NOT what he said in his rallies before
election. Freedom Caucus and Heritage are RIGHT!!
Free MARKET.. Freedom!
Thanks for avoiding the question as it exposed your rejection for a Free Market system.
KaSICK coming out of hiding, I see.
bkmk
“So, conservatives do their job, rinos refuse to do theirs, and its the conservatives who are to blame?”
Puleeze. Go read Trump’s tweet. Everything he says in that tweet is FACTUALLY CORRECT!
IMO, Trump rightly points out how FUBAR’d Republicans in the House actually are & that includes the conservatives. No one is working for the country. NONE OF THEM are. They only work for THEMSELVES. Where’s the Freedom Caucus bill to repeal & replace OcrapCare? Why hasn’t it been introduced? Since we’ve known Ryan only works for his elite masters why hasn’t the Freedom Caucus worked to remove Lyin’ Ryan?
When was the last time the GOP controlled HOR actually did something FOR America?
You can put lipstick on this pig, but it is still a pig. Trump suffered a major defeat that augurs poorly for the rest of his agenda. The GOP had 7 years to come up with an alternative to Obamacare and failed to do. Trump made a major effort to get the bill passed including holding public rallies and meeting personnel with over 100 Congressmen. This defeat was no victory for Trump.
The reality is that the GOP does not want to repeal Obamacare. They have helped the Dems make hundreds of fixes to Obamacare since 2010 and they have funded it every year including thru 2017.
The GOP is incapable of governing. The failure to repeal and replace Obamacare is a symptom of a more serious problem, i.e., the inability to reach a basic consensus on policy in support of the President. We will see this play out in raising the debt limit, tax reform, immigration reform, building the wall, trade policy, infrastructure repair, etc. There are elements within the GOP that will fight harder against a Rep President than they did against Obama. Every issue will trigger internecine warfare within the GOP.
Trump is not a conservative and never pretended to be one. However, his SCOTUS and Cabinet appointments, his desire to rebuild the military, his immigration policies, tax reform, etc. are conservative.
Trump is going to get frustrated by his inability to move his agenda using the GOP "majority" in Congress. He will reach out to the Dems and do some horse trading. I see Trump working with the Dems to mend Obamacare rather than end it once the current implosion hits a critical mass with the public call for immediate relief. The same will happen with infrastructure as the GOP tries to prevent the bill because of its impact on deficit and debt. Trump is a pragmatist and will not allow GOP dysfunction prevent him from achieving his objectives one way or another.
The Judge said she did not talk to the President before her comments. Someone at Fox probably contacted the W.H. telling them about Piro’s rant. Ryan is now taking the heat too in the media. The Republican Party cannot work together and their leaders cannot properly orchestrate votes. The Democrat Party follows their leaders in perfect step. The media obediently follows Schummer and Pelosi with orchestrated talking points of support. They cannot seem to challenge the Dem. leadership because of their liberal ties. The advertisers in the media must support this nonsense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHZN0QsT0Uc
Truth is in the background and here is what is going on:
The NYPD has always maintained that they have the goods on thousands of bad actors from Hillary Clinton on down. Much of it having to do with the pay for play activities at the Clinton Foundation which has been closed down.
The FBI has been sitting on the 600k emails that the NYPD also has and the NYPD is beginning to leak what is going on since Comey is basically covering his ass and little more.
First just about how they covered for Carlos Danger and his petty crimes.
The big crimes are yet to be revealed.
The video above states what they are:
1. Money Laundering.
2. Child Exploitation.
3. Sex crimes with minors.
4. Perjury.
5. Pay to play through the Clinton Foundation.
6. Obstruction of Justice
7. Many other crimes.
Once these crimes become public knowledge and it looks like it may not be too long the proverbial crap will hit the fan.
We owe a debt of gratitude to those brave people at the NYPD for saying what they will do and then doing what they said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3538174/posts
A thread on 4chan with an FBI insider confirms everyone’s worst suspicions. The Hillary Clinton email server was merely a distraction from the Clinton Foundation and most of DC is in up to their necks in what could be the biggest scandal of all times. It certainly is the biggest presidential scandal since Watergate.,Truth Uncensored reported.
” Freedom Caucus and Heritage are RIGHT!!
Free MARKET”
Awesome. Where is the Freedom Caucus bill to repeal Obamacare? Why is the Freedom Caucus not working to remove Lyin Ryan as speaker? Where is Heritage’s bill to repeal Obamacare?
These groups talk the talk...but what are they actually doing besides just talking?
“I agree. Trump tweeted out a huge dig which those groups he mentioned deserved.”
As Trump said repeatedly during the campaign they all talk a lot but never accomplish anything for the country.
If, under a Republican plan, premiums/deductibles continue to rise, people will believe that Obamacare’s replacement made things worse. They will blame Republicans and the GOP will pay a heavy price.
No Republican should support replacement legislation unless he or she is confident it will result in better outcomes with regard to premiums/deductibles. If Democrats won’t support legislation that’s likely to produce that result, Republicans should either push such legislation through without Democratic support (overruling the Senate parliamentarian) if necessary or let such legislation be voted down.
Republicans have no obligation to pass replacement legislation they don’t like in order to patch up Obamacare. The Democrats created the current mess. If they won’t cooperate with the GOP in fixing it properly, Republicans shouldn’t take the political hit that would come with pretending to fix it on their own.
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I tend to agree with this. The Freedom Caucus is taking heat, but my rep is Dave Brat (holds the only Ph. D. in economics in the House so he has a clue how these things work) & I'm happy with him this morning - he wants a Trump "win" & it wasn't going to be with Ryancare which would have been a millstone around Trump's neck. Obamacare is breaking the budget for people & then they can't afford to use it so when Ryancare doesn't affect the costs of premiums/deductibles which continue to rise until the next presidential election, this would have been devastating ... shows what Ryan cares about and it's not "we the people" and it's not keeping the Dems from getting back in office (he did enable Obama to pretty much do whatever he wanted, too). Ryan needs to go - he's proved disloyal to ME, a fellow American ... not withstanding his lack of support for Trump (campaign to the present). I have no idea who would replace him - might have to go 'outside the box/House' because no one in the House appears to want the job.
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Brat, Friday morning on Jimmy Barret radio show:
DAVE BRAT: It maintains all three legs of the stool and starts up another mini-entitlement system, and keeps all of the insurance regulations in place. The Secretary [HHS Secretary Tom Price] has huge power to get rid of a lot of those, but that's not good, because the next secretary will be a democrat sometime down the line. And they can change it all back and you are playing bumper cars with 1/6th of the economy.
We want to get to 'yes'. We've been in with President Trump, trying to get some fundamental reforms that will get the price down. But as of right now in the bill, the price still goes up 15-20% until 2020... And on the politics, our phone calls into the office yesterday were 700 against the bill and only 100 for. The new polling out there is that only 17% of the country is in favor of the bill...
There's so much pressure up here in the DC bubble, there's just huge money pressure from special interests that just comes heaping down on your head. But I represent the people, and the people are overwhelmingly saying we want a full repeal of this thing because they want to go shop for their own healthcare again. [They are saying] We just want a normal life back like it was ten years ago when premiums were under half of what they are today.
You raise an interesting question. As obamcare blows up and its already started with crazy premiums,incredibly high deductable making the policy little more than major medical policy which historically where the cheapest available and these are the most expensive,doctors refusing to take it and some states with no one to even administer it,just for starters.
the question is blame. Who will get it.Can the drivebys pull another rabbit out of their pointed hats? Or can our side finally show what a sham it always was. Remains to be seen.
What percentage of the House membership is part of the HFC? 15%? How achievable is it to get to that objective given the current state of affairs?
Could not stand the gloatfest this morning. Speaking of gloating, my Ducks made it to the Final Four in March Madness for the first time in 79 years.
Souter was glib and gave all the right answers at his hearings. I recall watching him and thinking he is not what he seems. He did not strike me as a conservative thinker.
I had the same impression with Gorsuch. Bland answers, several repetitive statements re “no-one knows how I will rule on this”.
This might just be intuition on my part, but he makes me uneasy. I hope I am wrong.
Jim Jordan is doing a great job explaining why it failed. He is asking why they didn’t submit the bill 15 months ago. Makes far too much sense.
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