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Termin8tor » 27 Jan 2017 3:29 pm » wrote:It conceivably could be decades before Dems come back, because we're pulling the plug on your federal money and your base.

Behind closed doors, Republican lawmakers fret about how to repeal Obamacare

Republican lawmakers aired sharp concerns about their party’s quick push to repeal the Affordable Care Act inside a closed-door meeting Thursday, according to a recording of the session obtained by The Washington Post.

The recording reveals a GOP that appears to be filled with doubts about how to make good on a long-standing promise to get rid of Obamacare without explicit guidance from President Trump or his administration.

The thorny issues lawmakers grapple with on the tape — including who may end up either losing coverage or paying more under a revamped system — highlight the financial and political challenges that flow from upending the current law.

Senators and House members expressed a range of concerns about the task ahead: how to prepare a replacement plan that can be ready to launch at the time of repeal; how to avoid deep damage to the health insurance market; how to keep premiums affordable for middle-class families; even how to avoid the political consequences of defunding Planned Parenthood, the women’s health-care organization, as many Republicans hope to do with the repeal of the ACA.

Misty » 27 Jan 2017 5:04 pm » wrote:I could swear I heard Kellyanne Conway say that the people don't care if Trump releases his tax returns.

Petition demanding Donald Trump release his tax returns breaks White House record.

Misty » 27 Jan 2017 4:32 pm » wrote: Talking to yourself again Puss?

Termin8tor » 27 Jan 2017 3:29 pm » wrote: It's your side that's going bonkers.

Democrats are out of power and won't come back for many, many years.

By that time Trump's and Repubs' broad agenda will already be in place. It conceivably could be decades before Dems come back, because we're pulling the plug on your federal money and your base.

Misty » 27 Jan 2017 1:40 pm » wrote:Liz Cheney Wants to Make Torture Great Again

She's back in Washington, and she's eager to pick up where her dad left off.

In her first week on Capitol Hill, she has emerged as one of the most vocal defenders of President Trump's plan to bring back torture.
She may just be a bridge by which the neocon establishment returns from exile.

Misty » 26 Jan 2017 10:43 pm » wrote:It's the same old **** with this jackass.
He brings nothing to this forum.

He's like one of those crazy guys you see standing on a street corner screaming about the end of the world.

larryc12 » 28 Jan 2017 8:25 am » wrote: Well, that's just another of your incessant lies. Trump has no "plan to bring back torture".

DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, you told me during one of the debates that you would bring back waterboarding and a hell of a lot worse.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I would do -- I wanna keep our country safe. I wanna keep our country safe.

DAVID MUIR: What does that mean?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: When they're shooting -- when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they're chopping off the heads of people because they happen to be a Christian in the Middle East, when ISIS is doing things that nobody has ever heard of since Medieval times, would I feel strongly about waterboarding?

As far as I'm concerned we have to fight fire with fire. Now, with that being said I'm going with General Mattis. I'm going with my secretary because I think Pompeo's gonna be phenomenal. I'm gonna go with what they say.

But I have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the highest level of intelligence.

And I asked them the question, "Does it work? Does torture work?" And the answer was, "Yes, absolutely."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcri ... d=45047602

Termin8tor » 28 Jan 2017 9:08 am » wrote:You're like a bag lady screeching psychotic accusations at passersby. "****** grabbing! ****** grabbing!"

Termin8tor » 28 Jan 2017 9:08 am » wrote:But just to make you feel better about crowd size, that you're so obsessed with......

Misty » 27 Jan 2017 5:04 pm » wrote:I could swear I heard Kellyanne Conway say that the people don't care if Trump releases his tax returns.

Petition demanding Donald Trump release his tax returns breaks White House record.

The petition has received more signatures (385,845 so far) than any other petition in the White House's We the People petition system's history.
The previous record-holder (367,180) called for the United States government to legally recognize the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.

Wow.
More people think that Trump should release his tax returns than think that the Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group.

Misty » 28 Jan 2017 10:58 am » wrote: Mattis and Pompeo don't have the final say.
He does.

How America’s rejection of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany haunts our refugee policy today

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s important to remember why America welcomes refugees.

The US (and other countries in the Western Hemisphere) could have saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis. They didn't.

At one point, the US literally turned away a ship of 900 German Jews. Shortly afterward, it rejected a proposal to allow 20,000 Jewish children to come to the US for safety.

That is a moral stain on the nation's conscience, and it's what led the US and other countries, after the war, to create a way for persecuted people to seek and find refuge.

Modern refugee policy, in other words, is largely a response to the failures of the Holocaust era.

And if Donald Trump signs the refugee executive order Friday, he’ll be doing it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day itself.

TV Ratings: ABC Wins Wednesday With Modest Turnout for Trump Interview.

The first primetime interview with President Trump after his official ascension to the office — as opposed to the interviews conducted when he was President-Elect — didn’t set the Nielsen charts aflame.

In Nielsen’s preliminary ratings, President Trump’s interview with ABC News’ David Muir on Wednesday night drew a 1.7 rating in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and 7.5 million viewers on the whole, winning the night but well short of President Obama’s first primetime interview after taking office in 2009.

Obama’s first primetime interview — as opposed to a televised press conference or late-night talk show appearance — on March 22, 2009 notched a 3.9 rating in the 18-49 demo and drew a total audience of 17.04 million.

Misty » 28 Jan 2017 11:12 am » wrote: Nobody would be talking about ****** grabbing if we hadn't heard those words directly from 45's own filthy mouth.