President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Sure. He wanted to bullshit the LGBT kids with happy talk straight to their face, then turn around and go full Westboro for the screeching teabaggers.

It's the same gaslight template Fucko is using at 1600.

Nothing anybody says matters, because in two days or two hours or 10 minutes, they'll flip-flop and tell somebody else exactly the opposite -- never mind what they already said on camera.

 

That pretty much sums up the Trump administration. They're fantasy football league players who have suddenly found themselves GM of an NFL franchise.

 

"MA, MEATLOAF!"

 

Save any babies yet, big boy? Nah, still just sitting on your ass. Sad.

 

All this obscures an uncomfortable question for Republicans as they ponder how it is that they control both houses of Congress and the presidency, and yet were unable to get rid of a hated law they spent seven years attempting to destroy.

Inside the GOP’s Health Care Debacle

That's the beauty of this: they bitched and moaned and threatened for 7 years and then, when they get full control of D.C., they fall flat on their faces.

 

That was a good assessment article.

The real problem now, though, for the whole country, is this:

"But by and large, Trump's first attempt to corral the Republican-controlled Congress—and particularly the Freedom Caucus, a rambunctious, ideologically charged collection of GOP legislators who have long refused to fall in line behind the party's leadership—failed miserably. That failure played a major role in the collapse of the American Health Care Act almost exactly 24 hours after their meeting at the White House, and now, as Trump warned, threatens to paralyze the president's first-year policy agenda and send Republicans into a damaging cycle of intra-party recrimination."

Despite any snickering or celebration or "told-you-so" type of thinking on the part of Democrats, or anybody, for that matter, this bodes poorly for the country as a whole, for a long time to come.

It gets back to that haunting and prescient quote -- I forget by whom at the moment-- that wishing/hoping and enjoying Trump failing is like not caring if a pilot fails when you're on the plane.

 

LOL.

 

It's OK because at least hateful, ignorant people get to act like assholes in public again.

 

You mean Exhibit Eh?

 

Personally, I'm ok with the president's "first-year policy agenda" being paralyzed while the clusterfuck of interest groups that make up the GOP fight among themselves.

 

That's an insult to one-liners. QWERTY's posts should come in a brown paper bag.

 

This assumes that the failure to repeal the ACA is bad for the country. Given that the alternative being offered was a mess, it is not a bad thing. Hopefully, this failure will lead to a more constructive approach to reforming healthcare rather than a continuation of President Trump's post-victory touchdown dance. Hopefully, he will learn something from this failure and do a better job.

I'm not celebrating. I'm more concerned than ever that our current president doesn't know what he is doing. That is particularly troublesome given his comments, his insistence on blaming Democrats even though he and his fellow Republicans are the ones who failed miserably on this one.