Posted on 08/04/2017 5:24:11 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump is firing pointed criticism at the GOP Congress, ripping lawmakers for sending him a Russian sanctions bill he hates while failing to negotiate an ObamaCare repeal bill.
While tensions between the president and GOP lawmakers have been simmering for months, the latest exchanges suggest a turn in the relationship.
Trump lamented Thursday that the U.S.-Russia relationship is “at an all-time and very dangerous low.”
“You can thank Congress, the same people that can’t even give us [health care]!” he tweeted.
It was the second day in a row that Trump ripped the Congress on both issues, and GOP lawmakers were happy to return fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
GOOD! Show ‘em who’s boss! GO PRESIDENT TRUMP!! MAGA!!
Id like to turn a lot more than tritter on congress.
If he hates it, he should have vetoed it. It's really that simple.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: The Senate unanimously agreed to block President Trump from making appointments during their August break amid concerns that he’ll replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the recess.Unanimously? Like in ALL 100 of them?
Despicable. I guess for even the most conservative of them, OUR VOTE FOR TRUMP MEANS NOTHING!
I'm in Alabama. I will vote against Shelby and Strange.
FOREVER.
I just called the NRSC.....and didnt hold back
Trump needs to be he wrecking ball they claim he is (he isn’t). Shut the government down, don’t fund anything. Work with obstructionist to obstruct any funding of the government. Put poison pills in every spending bill. Get rid of Paul Ryan so he has a speaker who only brings bills to the floor fully endorsed by Trump. Congress (GOP and DEMS) are in open war against the President and he’s trying to work with them. Get rid of McMaster and any other military “thinker” respected by both sides (a clear sign of incompetence). Tear it down!
They can’t do anything without leadership
Trump needs to form an outside org, NOW. Make Don Jr. president of it. The swampers think they can outlast him. But the threat of a seriously funded 3rd party might just get them to play ball in the short term and stop the outright obstruction.
I just called the NRSC.....and didnt hold back
There m/o is to prove that Trump isn’t a deal maker. They are working to ensure that no deals get done...the Foxconn deal is all Trump. It wouldn’t have been talked about if not for Trump let alone become a reality. Congress is a different story because they have no intention of doing anything that makes Trump look good. You can find 48-50 Senators to veto a cure for Cancer as long as Trump is President
Trump’s only “flaw” is that he is a DC outsider, that is there to disrupt the flow of corruption in both parties. Yes, you can blame him for that!!
Voting, as proven with Trump, isn’t a viable solution to change. Every policy Trump ran on and got a clear mandate for is being stalked and stymied. Elections don’t really have consequences for these people
I agree with you that it is probably better to try to make three new allies instead of 49 more determined opponents. Notice I did not say 49 more opponents because very few of the 49 seem to really be on his side.
As for negotiation, NOBODY seems to have a workable solution to health care. Not just obamacare but health care in general. Part of the solution is that they will not accept the most probable real solutions staring them in the face; abandon the commerce clause nonsense, tort reform, some regulation in price posting, simplification, get rid of the silly medical records stuff etc.
For seven years they have fumed and whined about obamacare and given the opportunity to do something profound they sit on their thumbs. I’d say they aren’t very smart but the truth is probably closer to they don’t intend to do anything. The highest bidder for their loyalty does not want anything done. Big medicine like things just the way they are.
Few people understand the problem or even what we really have. The politicians that do don’t want to do anything because they lose more votes by doing something than nothing.
Barky care gave us the following stripes of insurance. Everyone has been affected to some degree but none so much as the private payer who actually pays for his insurance. He is taking a beating financially, getting nothing in return and will probably soon run out of options.
1. Group insurance, corporations, unions, local to feral gubments and congress and staff by barky decree. This group is about 90% of the people that work.
Cost went up because of mandates to cover chit not needed
Some don’t like being mandated to provide abortions but they got over it or got exceptions
Any of their objections are mostly over and they aren’t very passionate about it anymore
Large voting block with not a very big dog in the fight
2. The “exchange” indigents, pre-conditions, poor, low income mostly, the dregs and unfortunate of society
These are getting better care than they ever had without “embarrassment” of using clinics and asking for charity
They pay little or nothing for better care and coverage than we who pay can get
Not a big voting block, they may not even vote but they are a valuable emotional card good for a lot of votes from the libs
These people have a lot of time to scream and get a lot of attention. They are the tear jerker sob stories.
They get their insurance, the very same private medical insurance some buy, through the “.gov exchange” and actually believe the .gov is their insurance company, a gift from the libs. In reality .gov is just a middle man that processes their application, collects data, doles out subsidies and is their sugar daddy.
3. Private medical insurance
What the self-insured buy whether we buy it through .gov or direct from Cigna, BCBS, United or whomever
It includes all the same risk pool as #2
We can’t get insurance anywhere else. We either buy here or we do without and pay a penalty
Some pay a penalty and opt out further increasing costs to those who do pay.
We are a voting block that do not matter much at all. We don’t have any clout, we don’t get any sympathy.
4. Enhanced Medicare
For those who can’t pay anything
It gives them access to the same health care as the mainstream of society without being embarrassed.
People argue these forms of insurance will lead to the dreaded single payer. NO Way unless by fakery because there are too many who are not affected enough to give a damn and ask for it.
For this mess to work though with all the things people want like universal coverage, unlimited coverage, unlimited access and all that either all must be in the same risk pool and all pay into the risk pool. Self-insured that pay in group 3 can’t afford group 3 with 2 on our backs. We will break one way or another. Group 1, 2 and 4 won’t give a damn.
First rule of Management, "Everything is your fault."
If he turns against congress he will not get anything else done. They have shown that they will go scorched earth and burn the place down rather than be pushed into anything.
What he really needs to do, I think, is to turn the people even harder against congress.
Problem is, like Rush said, they don’t care. They know our only choice is to keep them in power or to let the dims have it. They will ensure we have no choice but to vote for them or not vote at all.
I agree with you 100%. Congress hate the anti-establishment and that is Trump. They see him as the man who can mess in their playpen.
I can see the 2020 campaign slogan again if somehow the good things keep going.
“ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?”
That sounds familiar.
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