Some of them appear to be obsessed with marijuana.
Smoking dope will not Make America Great Again.
Posted on 03/30/2017 6:57:15 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist
"The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team, & fast. We must fight them, & Dems, in 2018!" - Donald Trump
Not a song he likes to hear.
“When you embarrass the boss publicly and contribute to his defeat in his first major initiative, there is a price to pay.”
Donald Trump isn’t “the boss”. This is the cult of personality.
Every President has successes and failures, Trump could be pushing one of his failures right now.
I’m hoping not.
Socialism sucks.
The actual effect of Federal intrusions into health care decisions, has a cost escalating attribute from the get go. Just consider the sea change in physicians offices since 1965. Before LBJ, most of those you saw in Doctor's office, were there to help the Doctor or Doctors in treatment or diagnosis. Now it is to handle billing, etc. Now I can attest--physicians made good money prior to 1965, but they simply accepted the attributes of the Hippocratic oath, and that fact alone was deflationary with respect to costs, and also avoided the cost--passed on--of claims for services to the poor.
Smoking dope will not Make America Great Again.
Trump is a Republican and the titular head of the GOP. Trump and the Vice President are the only Reps who ran and were elected nationally. Obama may have represented a "cult of personality," but Trump enjoys no such status among his Congressional colleagues, a number of whom are openly critical of him. Some of them refused to endorse his candidacy.
The GOP must unify around Trump or they will cease to retain control of government.
Did anyone save a screen cap of the info?
Alberta’s Child wrote:
“Trump’s seven-point plan has been removed from his website.”
I have no problem with that. So tell us, what has the freedom caucus done to do that? All I’ve seen is their prohibiting what Trump found to be acceptable from even getting a vote. So because of them we have Obamacare.
Conservatives, independents, libertarians voted for Trump because we believed it was the last chance to save the country from slipping into a Socialist/Progressive state. Our universities and news media are solidly left. Heck many “mainstream” religious leaders and the Pope are left!
Now I see that Republicans have voted for a bill to sell our internet searches. Leftists are using the courts to stymie anything that enforces border security. And being here in NY, I hear the hard core left talking about “these times we’re living in” “since January” to suggest we are living in some fascist state. These are the people the President thinks he can work with?
The Tea Party gave the Republicans the House, then the Senate and now the Presidency. I think a lot of people will stay home next time.
The Rinos could have passed a bill worthy of the Freedom Caucus. They decided not to.
Yeah, I'm seeing that garbage, too.
Do your own research. I've watched the members for years, before they even formed the Freedom Caucus.
I trust them to fight for the American people............NOT Rinos or Dems...or even Trump, as long as he continues to attack them in his tweets.
So you just do what ever the President tells you to do then? Or be politically ostracized and punished?
Sounds a little...dictator-y.
Trump tripled down on this new-found hate for the only real conservatives left in Washington. Going to need a little more convincing that I’m not being ripped off than “The GOP must unify around Trump or they will cease to retain control of government.”
“News Flash: Trump is a populist, not a conservative.”
Absolutely correct.
If there’s one thing that populist voters like, it’s a politician’s promises of free stuff. And, obviously, there are a lot of voters, real voters, who respond to a populist politician. That’s why we got “free” compulsory government schooling, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, the NEA, the NEH, PBS, crop subsidies, politically engineered defense spending, etc., etc. It’s also why we got a national debt that cannot be repaid and a population of people who utterly depend upon government handouts.
Such programs never die, but continually expand. ObamaCare is no exception. Unless the swamp gets drained, the next step will be single payer.
What’s wrong is that today and as far as the eyes can see we have O-care, Planned Parenthood, the taxes, the regulations and a now knee capped President. Pretend all you like that the Ryan bill isn’t better. Wish all you like that O-care never passed but it did and zillions of people are living under its useless provisions and massive deductibles. You can be with Meadows, I’m with Trump. There’s no chance this is a good outcome. Did you see the markets when Ryan gave a glimmer of hope that sanity might prevail? FR is becoming a faction of a faction of a faction.
“Ryan’s socialized crap”
Limbaugh said today that everyone knew it was crap, therefore it was “phase 1” with phases 2 and 3 to make it good. And everyone knew that phases 2 and 3 would never happen.
I think your ideas are good.
An additional idea is to recognize that probably a lot of medical expense is not for life or death situations. For instance, the news the night before last had a story about a lady with a skin condition that made it uncomfortable to put on stage makeup (she’s an entertainer). There’s a new drug that helps her a lot. Cost: $67,000 per year or somewhere in that neighborhood). How fully should all the rest of us pay her bill?
I also imagine there are a lot of expensive drugs that do only marginally better than the older, cheaper ones. The lower-premium plans would stay away from those expensive ones.
A hospital administrator told me how, in their hospital, they have expensive higher resolution cat scanners and also less expensive, lower resolution ones. Medicare makes them use the expensive machines even when not necessary.
So many ways to save. But the medical industry doesn’t want to make less money.
“He’s goading them back to the negotiating table.”
bullcrap. he’s burying himself. Those that try to cover for trump by insinuating he’s smarter than everyone else because of weird, nefarious tactics, are delusional and are trying to delude the rest of us.
this is a VERY BAD idea on Trump’s behalf and it is complete evidence that he is NOT conservative and never has been.
totally agree Judy. she’s a far left liberal just like her husband (and her dad for that matter). He just blew with the wind but he had no conviction to be conservative. You saw it at every turn.
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