Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

The Democrats brought a lot of that on themselves with the way they rammed Obamacare through. They decided they didn't need the Republicans and did not try to work with them.

At our Washington event a few years ago, our lunch speaker was a longtime Republican congressman who was the ranking minority member of one of the committees involved with the health care bill. He said it was a longstanding custom that when major legislation was being readied for introduction, representatives from both parties would get together for what they called "brown bag" lunches -- off-the-record meetings where they debated the issues involved and worked together to try to find common ground to create a bill that could draw bipartisan support.

So when the health care issue was coming up, this congressman said he arranged with his committee's chairman to schedule a brown bag lunch. The day before it was to happen, the chairman called to postpone it because something came up. They re-scheduled for two weeks later. The chairman postponed that meeting, then postponed a third time.

The fourth meeting was scheduled for 11:30 a.m. -- two months after the original brown bag was supposed to have happened. At 10:30, according to this congressman, the chairman calls to say he'll have to postpone again. By now, the Republican congressman is pretty irritated, and asks why.

"Because," the chairman told him, "we have a press conference at 11 to introduce the bill."

The congressman said he couldn't believe it. He said, "What the hell? The whole point of the brown bag is to create a bipartisan bill." He said the chairman replied, "You can still co-sponsor the bill."

The congressman was livid. He told the chairman, "You have just turned me -- and probably every Republican in the House -- from an open undecided to not only a 'no,' but a 'hell no.' "

He told us, "From that day forward, the entire Republican contingent basically said if you're going to ran it down our throat and the American people's throat, we're not going to accept it."

Which is why Obamacare passed with, I believe, no Republican votes, and the GOP has fought it at every turn.

 

Atlantic City.

 

FIFY

 

I wonder, honestly, what Donald Trump really wants to do as President. What will he insist on, what will he let go to maintain the popularity he craves? You can say anything when running, but to govern is to choose. It's a real mystery. Will he be just another Republican? Will he be the populist some say? In between? What?

 

Again, comes with a cost. Film at 11 of people dying in front of hospitals. Not a good look.

 

Thank you for your service.

 

Bullshit. The GOP was never going to allow any of its members to support anything called "Obamacare" ... ever.

 

Yup. That's what Reid did.

 

They'll blame it on Obama first and then on the hapless victim, who should have gotten a better job with cadillac health coverage.

Plus in the new world of TrumpMedia, there are going to be limits on where and when video can be shot.

 

What problem is that when you have the benefit of a system where you never need the most votes to win?

 

OK, I was lying. Being an asshole banker might at least get me a few dates every once in a while.

 

It wasn't called that at the time.