Donald Trump in Triage Mode After Shocking Conservatives With Health Care Comments

The New York Times ^ | February 19, 2016 | Alan Rappeport

[2ndDivisionVet]

He has broken with many Republicans on taxing the rich, threatening trade wars and keeping Planned Parenthood alive. On Friday, Donald J. Trump faced criticism for an even bolder act of conservative heresy: embracing the core tenet of the Affordable Care Act.

Mr. Trump has to date offered only bits and pieces of his health agenda, generally presenting a vow to repeal "Obamacare" and replace it with "something great."

In a town-hall meeting hosted by CNN on Thursday night, he shared some more expansive views on the subject, and unlike most Republicans he did not call for removing the individual mandate that requires Americans to have health insurance.

Asked how people with pre-existing medical conditions would purchase insurance if the health law and the mandate were eliminated, Mr. Trump said, "I like the mandate."

"So here's where I'm a little bit different," he continued. "I don't want people dying on the streets."

Less than 24 hours later, Mr. Trump backed away from his remarks, proclaiming himself to be the fiercest opponent of the health law. It was the latest example of a candidate who has been impervious to inconsistencies again emerging unscathed from a misstep that would probably be damaging to anyone else....

[Just mythoughts]

I thought George Washington fought a war to give me the right to judge, he called it a "vote."

What is it with you pious, upturned nosed, snobs. You ridicule with the best of them and then come back with some lame excuse about your right to vote....

[abigkahuna]

Exactly—I watched the town hall last night and that was the impression and understanding I had with his comment.

[moehoward]

Headline that say amore about opposition desperation.

#PUHLEEZE

[cdcdawg]

The SCOTUS is obviously a huge question mark. I do know that Cruz would make great choices there. 20 years ago, that would have been a huge plus, because the Left has used the Court to impose on us what it cannot do electorally. They are getting close to being able to do it electorally by importing a new electorate. We might reach a point where a POTUS has to tell the SCOTUS to try to enforce their rulings.

[nathanbedford]

remember that FR is NOT the world. Each time it thinks it is the world, the actual world teaches it a lesson that it is not.

Observation with which I fully agree. We learned, or should have learned, such a lesson in 2012, for example.

But there is another fella by the name of James Madison who was instrumental in giving me the right to judge and to preach about it and he helped enshrine that right in the First Amendment. So I take the right to judge seriously, even when the odds are daunting as they are now concerning the probable nomination of Donald Trump, and I take it as a duty to soldier on because right and wrong matters, sometimes even more than poll numbers.

[pilgrim]

Thank you,

A honest is appreciated!

No name calling, no accusations, no diversion just a good honest answer. An reply directly to the posted article.

Thanks again!

[nathanbedford]

from my reply # 86:

But there is another fella by the name of James Madison who was instrumental in giving me the right to judge and to preach about it and he helped enshrine that right in the First Amendment.

So I take the right to judge seriously, even when the odds are daunting as they are now concerning the probable nomination of Donald Trump, and I take it as a duty to soldier on because right and wrong matters, sometimes even more than poll numbers.

[arista]

You might be right. Trump might build the wall, he might not; the others most certainly will not. He’s a chance. Otherwise, it’s all over, unless the “natural conservative” blacks and hispanics suddenly start voting for limited government. I see that as less likely than Trump building a wall.

Even if he does build the wall, pay close attention to what Trump keeps saying. He says the illegals will go home, but then will come back legally. In order words, they'll still get amnesty, just in a more roundabout fashion.

[Kit cat]

We don’t like your guy it is as simple as that!!! And NO I do not have a POD next to my bed!!!! Cruz supporters really need to stick a sock in it, we have the right just as you do to support who WE LIKE!!!!

[cdcdawg]

It’s not exactly heartening to admit to being what amounts to a single-issue voter, but I guess I am. I look at the very honest way the Left is trying to change the population of this country, and I wonder why there isn’t any opposition to it. They are very upfront about it.

[House Atreides]

DONALD TRUMP = GRIFTER & TROJAN HORSE

Some FReepers are incredibly gullible and are swayed by the slightest “promise”. We’re destroying ourselves.

[dragnet2]

For 8 months Trumps turned this insider political big top on it’s head. He’s attacked from every direction, from the top down, all the right enemies. Do you really think they forgot to dig under his fingernails? But you’re free to examine it further. Trumps not top secret. He’s been a very public guy for decades. If ya have something earth shattering, you best get it out there.

[P-Marlowe]

And NO I do not have a POD next to my bed!!!

Not anymore.

[cdcdawg]

Yes, that’s very discouraging, but his position is the strongest by far. My hope is that he will drag the range of what is possible in a better direction. The Left is importing a new population for the country, and aren’t really hiding their intentions. The things that conservatives claim to hold dear only exist in certain populations. The Left knows this quite well.

[Swirl]

No more world-order loving necons (Bush, Cruz, the Mailman, and Rubby-Oh. Time for a nationalist! Lets bring back the USA!

[rwoodward]

Nobody cares about your Trump propaganda. Havent you noticed? His poll numbers are growing even though he is taking incoming from all directions. Keep it coming!

[nathanbedford]

here it is:

How I Came To My Opinion On Donald Trump
2/20/2016, 5:34:01 AM · 23 of 53
nathanbedford to WENDLE
Trump and Felix Sater:

Though he touts his outstanding memory, when Donald Trump was asked under oath about his dealings with a twice-convicted Russian émigré who served prison time and had documented mafia connections, the real estate mogul was at a loss.

Even though the man, Felix Sater, had played a role in a number of high-profile Trump-branded projects across the country.

[...]

... Donald Trump has also been seeking to minimize his past business ties with Sater, the Russian émigré who appeared in photos with Trump, and carried a Trump Organization business card with the title “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump.”

More:

After Sater’s criminal history and past ties to organized crime came to light in 2007, Trump distanced himself from Sater.

Less than three years later, however, Trump tapped Sater for a business development role that came with the title of senior adviser to Donald Trump. Sater received Trump Organization business cards and was given an office within the Trump Organization’s headquarters, on the same floor as Trump’s own.

[Just mythoughts]

This is my favorite part of our founding fathers....

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.............

The found fathers never intended the people to become slaves of the political class. Time has come to tear down the donor owned political establishment walls.

[Techjock]

I agree. It scares the crap out of me, because that is the definition of a constitutional crisis. I know its been done before and the Republic survived, but I’m not so sure this time around there will be enough Patriots left in Congress to back the President in your scenario. Despite the Republican’s recent refusals to use their own leverage, Congress does control the purse strings. If a President finds him or herself on the other side of both SCOTUS and Congress I fail to see how he or she can successfully proceed enforcing the border. The best answer is to make sure we elect someone that will protect and expand the conservative majority in the SCOTUS and Congress.

[Williams]

Why have we met? I listened very carefully.