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Steve King’s Tweet Was So Bad Even Republicans Are Going After Him

Steve King’s hole is just getting deeper.

After the Congressman tweeted Sunday that, “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” he came under immediate fire from liberal media and commentators online.

An attempt to explain the tweet during a Monday appearance on CNNs New Day failed to stop the bleeding.



Now, it seems, even GOP elected officials and pundits are racing to put distance between themselves and King.

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 2:26 pm » wrote: One year, many hearings, and lots of debate.

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 3:02 pm » wrote:
LMAO....They just discovered that he's a racist?

Congressman Steve King stands by racist tweet: ‘I meant exactly what I said’
Iowa Republican Congressman suggests “Western” Americans contribute more than others.
https://thinkprogress.org/steve-king-st ... .sil8b5edi

Trump tweeted about being wiretapped, but he didn't mean wiretapped.

President Donald Trump tweeted about being wiretapped. But he didn't mean wiretapped.

That was the explanation White House press secretary Sean Spicer gave as the White House stepped back on the unsubstantiated claim that former US president Barack Obama bugged Trump Tower during the election run-up.

Spicer said Trump wasn't referring to wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping, CNN reported.

"I think there's no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election," Spicer said.

Spicer: Trump 'doesn't really think' Obama wiretapped him personally.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that President Donald Trump “doesn’t really think” that Barack Obama “tapped his phone personally,” seeming to walk back Trump’s explosive and unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor ordered an illegal wiretap of Trump Tower.

“He doesn't really think that President Obama went up and tapped his phone personally,” Spicer told reporters at the afternoon press briefing.

Spicer tried to argue that Trump had accused the Obama administration of general “surveillance” activities, and not a literal wiretap, even though Trump himself had use the term “wire tapping” in one of several tweets making the claim without evidence on March 4.

Spicer claimed that the fact that Trump put quotation marks around the words “wire tapping” in one tweet was proof that he was not speaking literally.

House Intelligence Panel Wants Wiretapping Evidence by Monday

The top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee have asked the Justice Department to turn over by Monday any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped during the 2016 presidential race — an explosive accusation President Trump leveled at former President Obama without providing proof.

The request came in a letter sent last week to the acting deputy attorney general by the committee chairman, Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and its ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), congressional aides told NBC News.

FBI chief James Comey, who reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly reject Trump's claim, was also sent a copy of the letter.

Termin8tor » 13 Mar 2017 4:20 pm » wrote:Oh gosh, the Race Card has never dishonestly been played before. Western culture is better than say, Middle Eastern culture?
Well duuuh!

But former KKK leader, white supremacist, and former GOP Louisiana gubernatorial nominee David Duke praised the tweet as proof that “sanity reigns supreme” in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District (which King represents).

King also drew praise from white nationalist leader Richard Spencer.

Huey » 13 Mar 2017 5:44 am » wrote: Plagiarism? That qualifies her to be VP!

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 4:58 pm » wrote: I knew someone would bring up Joe Biden.
He apologized for his plagiarism which was not nearly as extensive as Crowley's and dropped out of the presidential race.
And he never whined about being the 'victim of a political hit job.'

Huey » 13 Mar 2017 5:44 am » wrote: Plagiarism? That qualifies her to be VP!

Huey » 13 Mar 2017 5:00 pm » wrote:
Justify, justify, justify...,,,,

Ps. She didn't run for president either.

Sean Spicer gets into heated exchange with reporter about Trump's credibility: 'When he says something, can we trust that it's real?'

White House press secretary Sean Spicer and NBC's Peter Alexander had an intense back-and-forth during Monday's press briefing.

Alexander's line of questioning homed in on President Donald Trump's credibility, after Spicer relayed a quote from Trump about the positive February jobs report at Friday's press briefing.

Trump had told Spicer that the reports "may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now."

Trump said on the campaign trail and after his election that jobs reports were "phony" and "totally fiction."

"You spoke on behalf of the president, quoting him on the jobs report on Friday," Alexander said. "You said, 'They may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now.'"

"They are very real now," Spicer cut in.

"The question is: When should Americans trust the president?" Alexander said.

"Is it phony or real when he says that President Obama was wiretapping?"

Trump set the political world ablaze when he tweeted earlier this month, without evidence, that Obama had illegally ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower phones during the election.

Neither Trump nor the White House has provided evidence to back up his claims.

"He doesn't really think that President Obama went up and tapped his phone personally," Spicer said.

"He suggested that," Alexander shot back.

"But I think there's no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election," Spicer said.

"That is a widely reported activity that occurred back then.

The president used the word 'wiretap' in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities."

Spicer claimed that "many news outlets" reported this during the election and that the same outlets were now asking for proof from Trump.

However, no outlets had reported that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's or his campaign aides' phones.

Alexander moved on to the Congressional Budget Office's score for the American Health Care Act — the House Republicans' plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare.

The NBC reporter asked if Trump viewed past CBO reports as real but now thought they were phony as they related to the healthcare plan he hopes to pass through Congress.

Spicer said the CBO projection for the ACA was wildly off in terms of how many additional people it said would be insured under the landmark healthcare law.

"So the only point, Peter, is to make sure that people understand if you're looking to get a bull's-eye, accurate prediction as to where it's going, the CBO was off by more than half last time," he said.

"This is not about what my understanding or my belief of the CBO is.

The last time they did this, they were wildly off, and the number keeps declining."

"I guess the question is: When can we trust the president when he says something is phony and when he says it's real?" Alexander responded, and the exchange started to become somewhat testy.

"Hold on, hold on. You asked a question about the CBO, and now you're conflating it with a question about the president?" Spicer said.

"When he says something, can we trust that it's real?" Alexander asked.

"Yes!" Spicer cut in.

"—or should we assume that it's phony?" Alexander said over Spicer. "Well ... "

"But you just said it's real?" Spicer said.

"How can we believe that it's real when you told us it was phony then but now it's real?" Alexander said.

"The president said the numbers were phony then but they are very real now.

So how can we trust anything he says that he won't later say, 'Actually, it was the opposite'?"

Spicer said the statement about the jobs report centered on the unemployment rate, which fluctuates based on which calculation is used to determine it.

Going back to the CBO report, Spicer said, "That's not a question of our credibility; it's a question of theirs."

Alexander then tried to ask his question in the shortest form he could.

"Can you say affirmatively that whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real?" he said.

"If he's not joking, of course!" Spicer shot back, to which Alexander asked, "How do we know he's joking?"

Spicer's response: When Trump "speaks authoritatively," he's speaking "as the president of the United States."

The exchange wrapped up with Alexander asking whether Trump believes that 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election, as Trump has claimed, or if he was just joking.

"He does believe it!" Spicer said.

Federal inquiry of FOX News moves to a grand jury, but without Preet Bharara.



Read more at link in title.

The problem with GOP plan to sell health insurance across state lines.

The idea of developing a more national market for health insurance has become a major part of Republican health reform orthodoxy.

A bill to allow interstate insurance sales was introduced in Congress in 2005 and since then has been a part of the platform of every Republican presidential nominee.
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The idea is that by eliminating the red tape associated with state insurance regulation, insurers will be able to offer national plans with lower administrative costs.

That would expand consumers’ choices and reduce the price of insurance.

The proposals also all assume that, in place of expensive regulations in some states, insurers would have the option of choosing to base their companies in a state with fewer rules.

In some versions of the plan, they would have to comply only with basic federal requirements that would apply everywhere.
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The trouble is that varying or numerous state regulations aren’t the main reason insurance markets tend to be uncompetitive.

Selling insurance in a new region or state takes more than just getting a license and including all the locally required benefits.

It also involves setting up favorable contracts with doctors and hospitals so that customers will be able to get access to health care.

Establishing those networks of health care providers can be hard for new market entrants.

“The barriers to entry are not truly regulatory, they are financial and they are network,” said Sabrina Corlette, the director of the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.

In 2012, Ms. Corlette and co-authors completed a study of a number of states that passed laws to allow out-of-state insurance sales.

Not a single out-of-state insurer had taken them up on the offer.

As Ms. Corlette’s paper highlighted, there is no federal impediment to across-state-lines arrangements.

The main difficulty is that most states want to regulate local products themselves.

The Affordable Care Act actually has a few provisions to encourage more regional and national sales of insurance, but they have not proved popular.

Insurers have been muted in their enthusiasm for G.O.P. across-state-lines plans.

Neither America’s Health Insurance Plans, the lobbying group for most private insurers, nor the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association have endorsed such a plan when it has come before Congress.

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 4:40 pm » wrote: So you side with David Duke and White Supremacist Richard Spencer on this then.
You sure that's the position you want to stake out?

From your source:

To Steve King the word 'Western' is synonymous with 'white.'

bigsky » 13 Mar 2017 9:50 pm » wrote: I side with them

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 4:40 pm » wrote:'

So you side with David Duke and White Supremacist Richard Spencer on this then.
You sure that's the position you want to stake out?

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 9:12 pm » wrote:Republicans are always saying that we should allow health insurance companies to sell across state lines.

I heard a few people say lately that health insurance companies don't really want to sell insurance across state lines, so I looked it up.

#ShePersisted » 13 Mar 2017 4:58 pm » wrote: I knew someone would bring up Joe Biden.
He apologized for his plagiarism which was not nearly as extensive as Crowley's and dropped out of the presidential race.
And he never whined about being the 'victim of a political hit job.'

Termin8tor » 13 Mar 2017 11:01 pm » wrote: Yes. yes, that's your lie, and you're sticking to it.

#ShePersisted » 12 Mar 2017 11:47 pm » wrote: What document would that be Dildo?
Her book, her PhD dissertation or the Op-Ed she plagiarized in the 1999?

There are no FOOTNOTES in an Op-Ed piece jackass.

Why do you think her publisher did this?
Are they part of the biased MSM?