Awesome Iran! So progressive! Would you like another cargo plane of cash, friend?
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fuzz said we had to b/c there was an agreement a few decades ago. And flying in cash as they demanded, in the middle of the night, was cool too.
Except most media outlets left out the "her own plane" part to actually try to make her look bad.
This. I kind of like the bill, at least what we know of it so far.
Getting rid of the mandates alone is the biggest thing that needs to happen, and I think letting the states decide on how to handle it is a fine approach. And I say this as a guy who hates Graham 99% of the time. But I think we could do far worse than this bill.
Man, wouldn't it be something if America had a President who sent them billions of dollars? Glad that never happened.
White House plan for tax cuts moves forward
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...482576-9eea-11e7-9c8d-cf053ff30921_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...482576-9eea-11e7-9c8d-cf053ff30921_story.html
Do you guys really think we went from "repeal and replace" being dead, to a Repbulican establishment favorite of the Democrats introducing a "repeal and replace" bill to revive it from the dead while everyone was content moving to tax reform, and that's going to be good for America?
Remember, the R establishment hates Trump more than the Ds. They know exactly what they're doing, and will happily sell out America to preserve the R to D to R to D power swing into perpetuity.
The media ignores the rate hikes now under Obamacare. The day the Rs pass the modification, the media will yell nonstop about rate hikes (that would have happened anyway) but blame it all on Trump and to a lesser extent the Rs. But Republicans know the two party system will prevail as long as they have the money and donors.
Remember, the R establishment hates Trump more than the Ds. They know exactly what they're doing, and will happily sell out America to preserve the R to D to R to D power swing into perpetuity.
The media ignores the rate hikes now under Obamacare. The day the Rs pass the modification, the media will yell nonstop about rate hikes (that would have happened anyway) but blame it all on Trump and to a lesser extent the Rs. But Republicans know the two party system will prevail as long as they have the money and donors.
From the "Winners and Losers" department.
Prosecutors say Texas lawmaker spent $51K on online psychic.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas lawmaker spent more than $51,000 on an online psychic, appeared for work at the Capitol apparently impaired by medication and hid a cellphone from investigators, prosecutors said in a court filing this week.
Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) is due to face misdemeanor corruption charges at an Oct. 16 trial. She is accused of giving a taxpayer-funded raise to a legislative aide to cover gas money for shuttling her daughter back and forth from school. ......
You can't make this stuff up.
Prosecutors say Texas lawmaker spent $51K on online psychic.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Texas lawmaker spent more than $51,000 on an online psychic, appeared for work at the Capitol apparently impaired by medication and hid a cellphone from investigators, prosecutors said in a court filing this week.
Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) is due to face misdemeanor corruption charges at an Oct. 16 trial. She is accused of giving a taxpayer-funded raise to a legislative aide to cover gas money for shuttling her daughter back and forth from school. ......
You can't make this stuff up.
I hate leftists so much. They lack reason. They're sheep who run on emotion and nothing more.
What headine did they decide to go with?
What headine did they decide to go with?
Can't wait to see the media call Trump's plan to cut taxes and help the middle class as a "a tax cut for the rich." That's what always comes from the group who loves to tax the shit out of you to give to the government and their lazy-ass base.
What a bunch of pussies some people in the US have become.
Let's be honest, if Japan, China and Russia combined forces against America and Kim Jung Un called us to help we would gladly accept his help.
Again with healthcare? Idiots..........Rand is the only person smart enough to leave it where it is because you can't f'n fix it.
Christ people!
Again with healthcare? Idiots..........Rand is the only person smart enough to leave it where it is because you can't f'n fix it.
Christ people!
Nothing in that hypothetical would ever happened. And if Japan, China and Russia joined forces against the US we sure as shit wouldn't be offered, and definitely wouldn't accept "help" from NK.
If Trump or any other republican were to propose a bill to remove a nickle a gallon from the federal gas tax. Democrats would call that a tax cut for the rich.
Yeah, you're probably right. If World War III starts, we'd accept help from the little fat boy who's been threatening to eliminate the United States as long as he's been able to talk, and who has a miniscule fraction of the military power of the US. Yeah, we'd definitely accept his help, and not just continue using his next door for help neighbor.
The left is filled with total pussies. Watching them side with North Korea and getting mad at Trump and not wanting to anger fatty just shows they're just cucks used to Obama's roll over and let tyrants and radicals become empowered.
They're only tough on the Internet and in mobs like antifa.
And if there's something that benefits this nation or is in this nation's best interest, you can bet the left will be against it.
They're only tough on the Internet and in mobs like antifa.
And if there's something that benefits this nation or is in this nation's best interest, you can bet the left will be against it.
I'd bet there's a silent majority of Europeans who love Donald Trump and hate the way the globalists and EU powers are ruining their countries. Same as the silent majority in the US.
Middle East probably hates us, but whatever, we hate them too.
Middle East probably hates us, but whatever, we hate them too.
You make good points. However, I think the fallout for the Republicans will be far greater from their base if NOTHING is done versus removing the mandate and implementing a less-than-perfect bill. Think about all of the Conservatives that stayed home in 2012 and costed Mitt Romney the election, it's almost a legitimate comparison.
If, as you say, Obamacare collapses (and it will), the move to single-payer may have greater momentum if the mandate is still intact as the left will feel emboldened. The propagandist media are going to side with the Democrats and insurance companies regardless of what the Republicans do or don't do, so whether they do nothing or attempt to do something, the whining, smears, and lies leading up to the '18 election will continue regardless. I don't give a shit about the establishment or the Republican Party, I give a shit about states's rights and saving the country from nationalized health care.
I want some of what you're smoking. Sounds like some strong shit.
Looks like he was against rushing the bill through without extensive debate.
Kudos to Rand Paul for opposing the bill, consistent with his principles.
John McCain can **** himself right in the head tumor. Ironically, I think his attempts to harm Trump are going to make people move further from the establishment.
John McCain can **** himself right in the head tumor. Ironically, I think his attempts to harm Trump are going to make people move further from the establishment.
McCain sounds like he is for fixing Obamacare with help from the Democrats. Not what the last election was about Senator.
Like most people with mental disabilities and scrambled brains, McCain is embracing democrat ideology. The Grim Reaper must be a democrat.
There is no FIXING Obamacare.
You don't fix thousands of pages of shitty legislation by modifying those thousands of pages.
You blow it up and start from square one.
Let. It. Fail.
You don't fix thousands of pages of shitty legislation by modifying those thousands of pages.
You blow it up and start from square one.
Let. It. Fail.
Remember, Obama Unconstitutionally modified Obamacare to delay the negative impacts and collapse past as many elections as possible.
That's the only reason its lasted this long. It needs to be fully enforced.
OR
Trump needs to repeal the entire thing by executive order, and let the Court explain to us in writing why that's unconstitutional. And how Obama's actions to modify Obamacare were also Unconstitutional. Then send everyone a bill for what they would have paid had the law been enforced as written.
That's the only reason its lasted this long. It needs to be fully enforced.
OR
Trump needs to repeal the entire thing by executive order, and let the Court explain to us in writing why that's unconstitutional. And how Obama's actions to modify Obamacare were also Unconstitutional. Then send everyone a bill for what they would have paid had the law been enforced as written.
