President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I'm way more concerned with their inability to disconnect temporary political expedience from the fact that the president-elect himself is a detestable and dangerous man.

 

You'll be able to look back on the night fondly when President Killer Mike and Vice President El-P take their oaths of office in 2024.

 

Paging Baron:

Every pro wrestler respects a good shtick. That’s why this one voted for Trump.

To sum up, we get 28 grafs about "economic anxiety" and "tax breaks" and "financial hardship" and "optics" before we get to the buried lede:

During a visit to DeNucci’s home, Douglas laughed as his salty mentor ranted about “freeloaders” and described President Obama with a racial slur. (“I hope that [expletive] dies in office,” DeNucci added.)

Also, do some fucking research:

Douglas has seen the heights and depths of the wrestling business over 30 years. He’s packed stadiums as a headliner in what was then the World Wrestling Federation and grappled in back yards for wadded-up ones and fives.

Nope. Wrong.

 

If you ever talk to my kid again like that, I'm knocking you out.

 

What a bunch of crap. Under rackets, drugs and prostitution are not options.

 

Looks kind of like a younger Ivanka.

 

Looked for compromise? When did that happen?

Pretty much the first thing he did in office was ram Obamacare through without even pretending to seek Republican input or debate. After that, compromise was out the window.

 

He'll be walking into her dressing room in 3, 2 ...

 

Obamacare didn't pass until he had been in office for 14 months.

Practically the first thing Obama did to start the legislative process was punt on the public option. That was a major concession.

Dozens of meetings in committee pieced the entire thing together using past proposals that had wide bipartisan support - including the mandate.

 

This is from the previous (now locked) 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.

 

I don't agree with this approach and think it's stupid of the Dems if true. Either the Dems are all idiots or they knew the Republicans would never go for it.