It was a nice honeymoon while it lasted.
Be careful,Jim. A lot of people on here are in hero worship mode and Trump is their hero. I’ve been “corrected” for stating the very same things you are. Unbelievable to me.
Well said and spot on. Jim, you’re why this site will never be for those who compromise about conservative values and freedom. God bless you.
I would like to see Trump to everything he can to sabotage 0-care via policy and executive action to hasten its demise.
Trump should make certain that the IRS doesn’t enforce any mandates. He should be able to do this; 0bama didn’t enforce immigration law. All he’d have to to is go on TV or tweet that he is so sad that Mrs Smith has two jobs and can’t afford a $5000 a year policy with a $10,000 deductible and he won’t force people like that to have to choose between paying an insurance company or paying her rent.
Trump should make every effort for individuals NOT to qualify for subsidies, that way, many more won’t buy the insurance.
He could also threaten states with cutting Federal money for Medicaid if they continue to pay for illegals in their health care systems. Most of 0-care is Medicaid expansion. He could insist that Medicaid money should be used for citizens instead of illegals and that would make more coverage available to working poor. Medicaid money is matched, so the more illegals that get on the more the Feds match.
I would like to see Trump call willing governors together for a conference and grant them waivers if it moves the country away from 0-care. This would be show that he is working for a solution instead of working with phonies like Ryno.
On Trump’s Twitter he calls out some by name on Freedom Caucus to get on board in repealing!
Ah Yes You are smarter Than him heh heh Quit it, he is a Billionare, and You are heh heh
Remember when YOU BLOCKED People who were AGAINST Bush II, Yes well... YOU WERE WRONG.
A very childish tweet by the man leading our nation in the AM and derision ensues all day long. This is hard to watch a nation implode.
I don’t honestly believe that Trump is getting bogged down in anything. It’s just that he’s using a different tactic than we want him to.
We would LOVE to have a complete repeal with no replace and no input from the RINOs. Honestly, I think that Trump wants about 80% of what we want too.
But we’re goal-oriented thinkers here on FR, and I believe that Trump is a systemic thinker. And patient. On purely executive actions, he is a wonderful President; I find it hard to believe he would so easily break a promise on this, just because Congress.
But whereas he can act independently in executive capacity, he has to play the proverbial game with Congress, and we’re barely past round 1 of potentially dozens of rounds before anything makes it to the President’s desk.
Give short-sited RINOs some of what they want and get some of what he wants in return. Repeat iteration 10-20 times, and in the end it turns out that Trump gets pretty much everything he wants in the long term
To take an overly-confrontational tone this early in the game when no one has been outwardly confrontational except for the HFC would be a bad move in order to build support.
(It’s textbook Tough-But-Fair strategy in game theory too, if you’ll forgive me for pimping a vanity: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3539529/)
Completely agree.
This post is right on target and I hope President Trump gets a copy!
Trump is filling the swamp his way. He said many, many times he believes government has a place in healthcare. Look at his personal record. We screamed at Dems for ignoring Obamas record, then many turned around, ignoring trumps record.
Illogical. But if he gets rid of the freedom Caucus he can pass his stimulus with ivankas free childcare.. and he can work something out with the dreamers.. Amnesty.
You can’t get mad at him for doing what he said he would. Look at his use of eminent domain.. doesn’t that say something about his belief in government is great for personal wealth creation?
It’s just who he is. A liberal. Now, principled Constitution lovers need to stand up and call him and others out when they violate our principles. Stand fast boys, we have wolves guarding the henhouse.
People wouldn’t even know what to do with an originalist approach anymore.
The People let the court trapdoor to the oubliette of the constitution as we knew it operate. They must walk through the consequences. Healthcare in general is small potatoes as heaven sees it. How about untrammeled abortion? “Gay” marriage?
Evangelists, not politicians, are our best allies now.
Welcome to a spiritually godless America, Jim.
America has cancer, and a few ugly pimples are as nothing here.
The Feds are the straw that a godless America seizes at. Don’t complain too bad about Trump only being able to filter the swamp water. Till we have Christ personally at a level dearer than anything else we know there is no drain.
In fact if we have nothing but Trump that we are reaching out to trust in, we court an even more vicious godlessness backlash.
Satan (present ruler of this world) can’t cast Satan out of our affairs! Only Christ can!
I do believe God gave Trump a hope, in fact a Hope. Which transcends religion as many of us knew it. However the Hope must be grasped by ourselves too to be effectual. When the work of Christ from the Cross is dearer than all else to us, only then will America wax great again.
I see how you miss the constitution as we knew it. You have my sympathies in the wake of its departure.
However how badly are you missing the God whose fear made that constitution tenable?
You want to know where your Grant is. Well don’t look horizontally. Look vertically.
And I really don’t know what else to say. God bless America. Not because she deserves it. But because she needs it!
You better watch it. The Trumpets will be calling you a Never Trumper and want you kicked off your own website.