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Which makes perfect sense because taxes make up the bulk of ObamaCare It really ticked me off at the time, but the more I think about it, the more I think the talk about just moving on to tax reform after initial AHCA failure was probably a gambit by Trump and Ryan to make the Freedom Caucus understand: Look fellas, if we’re just going to let ObamaCare stay as is, then the tax reform you want isn’t going to be the tax reform you’ll get.

Republicans continued their electoral winning streak on Tuesday night in the first congressional election of the Trump administration. [Snip] Now that the election is over, Democrats are trying to figure out who is to blame for the loss, and Twitter exploded with finger pointing. Some believe that the Democratic national party abandoned the race, while others argue that if the national party got involved, it would have hurt Thompson. Former President Barack Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) shouldn't ignore races like the one in Kansas. [Snip] Star Trek actor Wil Wheaton suggested that people...

Democratic activists are claiming a moral victory in Kansas despite narrowly losing a special congressional election there Tuesday night. Democrat James Thompson came within 10 points of Republican Kansas State Treasurer Ron Estes in the state's safely GOP 4th congressional district. President Trump carried the district by 27 points in November. Rep. Mike Pompeo, who resigned earlier this year to serve as director of the CIA, won it by 31 points. [Snip] Estes, however, is set to prevail by less than 7 points, a warning sign for the House Republican majority less than 100 days into the Trump administration.

I was not aware of all of this. While I have searched and monitored FR, Drudge, Fox, and other Conservative media and social media outlets, no one is discussing this. What is going on is that Trey Goudy and other members or Congress are getting into the Hillary Clinton corruption, the outrageous spending of the GSA, the corruption at the Secret Service, and so many issues related to just crazy crime and corruption in Washington DC. I just started to look over the videos and it is amazing. Just amazing. Start here: "Americans eat generic cereal while you eat a...

Just when you thought U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark was secure in her chairmanship of the imaginary Congressional Idiots Caucus, along comes two other Massachusetts Democrats seeking to knock her off. Clark, 54, of Melrose was appointed to lead the Democrat Congressional Idiots Caucus by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last June after Clark co-led the Democrat-staged sit-in of the House of Representatives. The Democrats shut down the House in protest over GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan's alleged delay in bringing up anti-gun legislation that the Democrats favored. They sat on the floor of the chamber and sent out for pizza.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) on Monday suggested that House Speaker Paul Ryan may need to be replaced to deal with the dysfunction in Washington. "We need either a change in direction from this speaker, or we need a new speaker," Amash said during a town hall on Monday in response to a question about gridlock in Washington, according to CNN.

Donald Trump puts Australia on North Korean rocket alert SHARRI MARKSON, National Political Editor, The Daily Telegraph April 10, 2017 11:00pm AUSTRALIA and its allies have been put on standby for the possibility of the United States shooting down test rockets launched by North Korea. Intelligence sources told The Daily Telegraph that North Korea may launch ballistic missile test flights around the birthday of Kim II-sung, the founder of the rogue nation, on April 15 or even sooner. The United States, which has a fleet headed to the Korean Peninsula, is understood to have notified Australia that it is fully...

President can, legally, use the military in combat operations (including sending Tomahawk missiles into an airfield in Syria) without congressional approval, or even letting them know he's going to do so in the first place There has been a lot of discussion about whether or not the attack on an airfield by American Tomahawk missiles in early April of 2017 was a constitutional action by President Donald J. Trump, despite the fact that the military action occurred prior to the President receiving some kind of congressional approval for it.

President Donald Trump has scrapped the tax plan he campaigned on and is going back to the drawing board in a search for Republican consensus behind legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax system. The administration's first attempt to write legislation is in its early stages and the White House has kept much of it under wraps. snip Administration officials say it's now unlikely that a tax overhaul will meet the August deadline set by Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. But the ambitious pace to figure out a plan reflects Trump's haste to move quickly past a bruising failure to broker a...

Published on Apr 4, 2017 · 4 days ago ATF Agent Accuses Jason Chaffetz Of Wanting Youtube Fame, Instantly Regrets It trey gowdy was in the other room and jason chaffetz literally goes so hard on this guy they get into it more than i have ever seen in congress, this is a great example of congress getting very pissed at the fact that agents like atf wont give information or show up to congress to testify, chaffetz new clip 4/4/2017

Even though only months into the Trump administration, it is clear that an election has been hijacked and a political sociopath is now in the most important job in the world. The Russian connection will drive this man from office, I believe, within three years. Our Constitution gives us three chances to live on before four dreadful years allow us to be rid of this catastrophe. They are the impeachment clause, the 25th Amendment, and the clause providing for a trial for treason. In 1787 when the Constitution was struck in Philadelphia, our English forebears' were debating in Parliament the...

Let's see if this does the trick. House Republican leaders, looking to jump-start their floundering effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, on Thursday said they were proposing creating a $15 billion federal high-risk pool that would provide insurance coverage to Americans with pre-existing and often serious health issues. Speaker Paul Ryan said the provision would "lower premiums" for other, healthier people who buy individual health plans by shifting the risk of covering higher health-care users to the federal risk pool. Ryan, R-Wis., also said it "gets us closer together, closer to that consensus" needed to pass the GOP replacement bill....

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has asked Speaker Paul Ryan to call the House back in session immediately to begin debate on an Authorization of the Use of Military Force for any further action in Syria. She sent him the following letter on Friday urging him to disrupt the two-week recess.

It was past time to “go nuclear” and have a real party. With Democrats filibustering President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, the stage was set for the U.S. Senate to change the rules and allow only a simple majority to approve justices and other nominees, which is just what Republicans did. When I wrote my first book, “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation,” I was trying to explain how liberals act and why we must try to contain and control them. How can dry and wet find common ground? America needs to make a choice because liberals have made a choice....

The Obama Administration's surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition teams, if true, is an egregious criminal act. It makes Watergate look like child's play. Watergate happened over 40 years ago. It was a GOP Administration at the time that was under investigation. Congressional Republicans cooperated admirably and fully in the nationally televised Senate Watergate Committee hearings which captivated a nation, and fully supported the appointment and work of Special Prosecutors Archibald Cox, then Leon Jaworski. It was Republican Senator Howard Baker who famously posed the question on national television, "What did the president know, and when did he know...

The U.S. government’s foreign surveillance sweeps up American lawmakers and their staffers so routinely now that Congress is alerted as often as once a month that its employees involved in intercepted conversations have been unmasked and their identities shared with intelligence or law enforcement agencies, Circa has learned. The so-called Gates notifications -- named for former CIA Director Robert Gates -- go to the Gang of Eight leadership team in Congress. 2 of 29 The Gang of Eight includes the House speaker and minority leader, the Senate Republican and Democratic leaders and the bipartisan heads of both chambers' intelligence committees....

Check the polls for the last 10 years (at least): no single profession, nor any other group of people in America, is more universally despised than the US Congress and its members (although, thanks largely to their control over reelection variables, their constituents usually reelect almost all of them.) Their “approval” rating as a group is often in the teens and, today, is actually at one of its high-water marks – up to the low 20’s in some polls!

The wagon-circling campaign to protect Obama administration and intelligence community officials who surveilled Donald Trump and his transition team during his presidential campaign and post-victory transition is moving into hyperdrive. On Monday, CNN's Don Lemon proclaimed that "there is no evidence whatsoever" supporting Donald Trump's claim about having been "spied on illegally" (note the inclusion of the word "illegally," which is crucial), and declared that he would not "aid and abet the people who are trying to misinform you." Lemon's stridency as he delivered his rant on CNN Tonight appeared to betray "he protests too much" behavior, while subsequent events...

Vice President Mike Pence has offered to broker a peace accord with the White House and the House Freedom Caucus, a move that could lead the small but powerful faction of Congress to eventually support President Trump’s health-care overhaul, the FOX Business Network has learned. The president’s health care initiative failed two weeks ago amid criticism from the Freedom Caucus—a fiscally conservative faction inside the House GOP – that it didn’t include enough free-market initiatives to effectively reverse ObamaCare’s vast array of insurance mandates that form the current health care system. Without the support of the 36-member Freedom Caucus, Speaker...

If former National Security Advisor Susan Rice though she could get away from the current furore over the Trump "unmasking" scandal with just one MSNBC interview in which Andrea Mitchell did not even ask her why she lied two weeks ago to PBS, she will be disappointed as moments ago Dow Jones reported that the House Intelligence Panel has asked Susan Rice to testify, supposedly under oath. HOUSE INTELLIGENCE PANEL ASKS SUSAN RICE TO TESTIFY, DJ SAYS The next question on everyone's lips: will she plead the Fifth? As a reminder, earlier in the day, the MSNBC anchor asked Susan...