The Republicans continue to block the Trump agenda. So called Republicans such as McCain, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and others have views that are not much different than the obstructionist progressive/socialist that are the majority force of the Democrats today. The GOPe is nothing more than an arm of the Soros globalist minions.
In the past as now, the globalists want to do away with private property and have our laws dictated to us by the executive orders of those that they wish to see in power. The leadership of the Republican party in both the Senate and the house are furthering the progressive/socialist agenda which lying to their constituents and pocketing all the cash they can. Why is it that politicians on both sides who are not millionaires when they join the club are millionaires when they leave?
During the campaigns, it has been revealed that the Super Pacs of John Kasich, Jeb Bush, and Carly Fiorina received monies from the Hillary campaign. Each was sent a substantial sum to remain silent during the primaries. One questions the loyalty of these politicians and others including Paul Ryan who dis-invited Trump from a rally in Wisconsin. John McCain also received a substantial payment after criticizing Trump, and Lindsay Graham was assured of a “soft” Democrat challenger when he runs for South Carolina Senate again. Graham and McCain have also been the main Republicans who have been pushing the Trump-Russia collusion lie to continue.
During the election we had such RINOS as Mitt Romney, John McCain and the National Review pontificating on how Never Trumpers would save the Republican party. The 22 Republicans that wrote in the special edition of National Review attempted to convince the American People that Trump was not intelligent enough, could not speak well enough to be handed the levers of power that the President are entitled to have at his disposal.
The American people are disillusioned with both political parties, knowing the only work they are prepared to do is to protect their political power. This Congress would sell it soul to continue to hold the power they crave and there are no political lines in the avarice that is shown to the detriment of the American people. The GOPe, does not work towards conservative values that Trump embodies, but only towards the perks they receive from being a member of Congress and retain the power they have taken upon themselves.
Republican Congressional leaders are turning against the Trump agenda on trade. Republican leaders along with the Freedom Caucus continue to follow the globalist agenda. This is being moved forward by the big corporate and globalist donors. Spearheaded by Paul Ryan it is attempting to flood the market with cheap foreign goods and labor increasing the stress on the job market of the country and products that would be made here if the pay of American workers were to be a determining factor. The Freed om caucus, working with the globalist agenda of Paul Ryan, and once ignoring the wishes of the American people.
Immigration is another forum where Trump is being required to fight against the Republicans. Where Trump was elected on the building of a border wall, the Republicans are now saying he didn’t mean it, but was just inferring that we need better border security. Paul Ryan has stated that immigration and the removal of illegal aliens will not be a focus of this Congress. This is the same Paul Ryan that has been very supportive of illegal amnesty and a long history of open borders support. The donors to the GOPe support immigration to allow more immigrants to take jobs here at a lower level than American citizens. Of course, American citizens oppose such steps as Paul Ryan is attempting in infiltrate into this administration’s policies. Almost 90% of Americans are against the proposals that Ryan has pushed forward. President Trump has stated from the first day of his campaign that he would put “America First”, it has been plainly shown that Paul Ryan, the Freedom Caucus and the rest of the GOPe do not agree. This is the same Paul Ryan that broke a promise to Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks and raised the H-2B guest program in the spending bill that hurt American workers.
There are Republicans that will not allow the reform of Obamacare to pass. Not because it is just Obamacare Lite and leaves the government in charge of healthcare, but because they agree with the raiding of your money, the legal IRS stealing of money from ordinary Americans to line their pockets. The American people were promised an open market for healthcare, not more of the same that is +destroying healthcare in this country. What will be forced on the American people is a Ryancare Rationed Death healthcare costing just as much as what is failing now.
Frustrating but also illuminating as the mask is now off the GOP establishment, what they stand for and believe in. One party rule suits Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell just fine. They have more power and perks in the majority, but will still be well taken care of regardless of who runs Congress or sits in the White House. They make the rules, and the rules always favor the authors of those rules. They will have a front row seat at the trough of government largess. They will never struggle to pay their bills, get a job, afford health insurance or survive in crime-ridden neighborhoods.
The GOP has sold its soul, not for principles, morals or conscience, but for their own empowerment as Bill and Hillary Clinton have done for decades. No wonder the two parties of today are such a good fit.
The basic standards of honesty and loyalty in this country have been ignored. Our country was based on the public morality and a knowledgeable citizenry based on the structure of laws, regulations and culture. Both parties have moved beyond to delegitimize the basic foundations that this country was built on. There is no road to compromise between the parties and both now agree that only a government, be it national or global can fix the problems we face. The American people are, in the opinion of both parties, too ignorant to discuss the problems amongst themselves and find the corrections needed.
I was not originally a Trump supporter, but I have come to the conclusion that President Trump is one of the few honest men left. President Trump is the only leader I see that understands the virtues of our country and has the vision needed to correct it. He understands the challenges we face, and is not part of either party and their principles of dynasty and imperial rule.
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Moron….McConnell stopped Obama’s SCOTUS pick and got Gorsuch confirmed and there is a consensus developing in the Senate to repeal Obamacare. By June 1981, Reagan had not passes his tax cuts.
I think they may have heard a persuasive argument as to their games this morning on a baseball field…
and the left is very happy about it…
meaning some other wackjob will try to be the hero of the people and do what to any one of them?
hey congress… for people who think they know history well, your sure dont know history well..
John Kasich like young men in their mid 20’s. has done jack for the state of ohio. Paul Ryan the douche was exposed by Palin in that he will seek the gop pres bid in 2020. All are loosers and have doomed this country. McCain and McConnell are useless. McCain was a quest r in the Hanoi Hilton for five years, Manchurian candidate.
If you paid attention you would have come to your concluding paragraph much sooner.
The GOPe is equally as globalist as any Soros-paid lefty organization.
The fix-is-in attitude of, say, Jeb! Bush was astounding.
It only took me a few of Donald Trump’s campaign speeches to see he was the real thing, warts and all.
But his warts are nothing compared to the cancer in those sold out to Hillary, to Soros to the UN who are the GOPe.
I sincerely hope many incumbent Republicans of the GOPe persuasion get put out of office in the midterms.
And the swamp of gov’t workers who do nothing all day needs to be drained more and more.
@Nanny G:
agree, they had to hide jeb’s girlfriend in GA. the second time he ran for gov.
“During the campaigns, it has been revealed that the Super Pacs of John Kasich, Jeb Bush, and Carly Fiorina received monies from the Hillary campaign. Each was sent a substantial sum to remain silent during the primaries. One questions the loyalty of these politicians and others including Paul Ryan who dis-invited Trump from a rally in Wisconsin. John McCain also received a substantial payment after criticizing Trump, and Lindsay Graham was assured of a “soft” Democrat challenger when he runs for South Carolina Senate again. Graham and McCain have also been the main Republicans who have been pushing the Trump-Russia collusion lie to continue.”
That entire paragraph is completely false!
http://www.snopes.com/podesta-emails-show-3-prominent-republicans-on-clinton-payroll/
You hit the nail on the head. Been thinking this since election.
@Dylan Glass:
And you quote Snopes as your source? You may as well have asked the DNC. I’m sure much of Snopes operating funds come from the DNC.
If it’s politcal and it’s said by Snopes, you can’t believe a word of it. They rank right along with FactCheck.org
The Republican mistake was to promise the repeal and replacement of Obamacare so quickly. Health care is infinitely complex and Obamacare has made it even more so. Like the Alien creature that attaches itself to the face of its victim and implants its demon seed deep in the body, Obamacare was intentionally infused throughout not only the health care industry but throughout the economy, making excising it difficult and risky… though leaving it alone is disastrous.
@Bill… Deplorable Me: The mistake is replace, government involved in health care starting with medicare has caused a majority of all problems with costs going crazy, add malpractice lawyers and insurance costs for that.
We’re not hearing much news about the House’s vote to kill Dodd-Frank, are we?
Yeah, right. “The primary driver for anemic economic growth” is either Obamacare or something else—depending upon what item of defective legislation republicans are trying to dump on the American public at the moment.
As if the pirates in the financial sector needed any additional aid in shaking down traditional savers, small investors, and taxpayers. Maybe we should cut tax rates on their profits? That would boost the economy. Excessive high-end taxes are, after all, “a primary driver of anemic economic growth.” Have no fear, that’s also in the works.
There’s a word describing what any day’s “top news stories” are good for in all of these various schemes: distraction. We’re all being played for fools.
@Greg: The primary cause for anemic economic growth was liberal policies. Yes, Frankendodd was one and Obamacare was one. Also were hundreds of thousands of new, oppressive and unnecessary regulations.
Explosive growth after such a devastating recession should have been automatic, but Obama managed to stifle it.
The phrase too big to fail is as stupid as stimulus money. O% on savings cause money is cheap, just print up more. They should have been slapped down when they said greedy investors, hey a$$hole my 401 K is invested.
No dems your moronic policies need to be undone. Not one person was held to account for the financial melt down or housing bubble bursting. While our 401s took a crap and our home values dumped the politicians became multimillionaires, they should be held to account for insider trading. The Obamas sure didn’t walk from the WhiteHouse flat broke, at least it wasnt robbed and vandalized.
I prefer the much-maligned dollar to a pile of plastic gambling chips, thank you very much. My thought is that the inflated value of stocks generally goes first, followed by currency if the situation remains unchecked. I drew that conclusion during the 2008-2009 crash. Say what you will about the dollar; it remained stable throughout the the entire episode.
Just caught this one on a conservative site :
June 15th, 2017
Trump Orders Bureaucratically Insane US Government To Stop Preparing For Y2k Bug: Expensive Non-Event Took Place 17 Years Ago
Are any of the governments computers running anything newer than Windows 98?
@kitt: IF THEY STOP THE PREPARATIONS, THE WORLD WILL END!!! TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED!!!
Here’s a little story that clearly demonstrates why you can’t trust unregulated free market forces with anything involving public health and safety:
Fire-safe panels WERE initially chosen to make Grenfell Tower more attractive – but contractors opted for a cheaper plastic version to save just £6,250
Pathetic, isn’t it?
Here, deluded voters have put our own country into the hands of profit-driven free-market cultists who measure everything in terms of money. They think something is seriously wrong because regulation too often gets in the way of maximizing profits.
Hey, that’s sometimes on purpose. Mandating seat belts and airbags in cars wasn’t about maximizing profits. Neither was preventing industry from contaminating the air and water, or forcing them to put warning labels on dangerous products. Government is supposed to protect the interests of the public. It isn’t supposed to be complicit in their endangerment, so that some privileged fat cat become fatter still.
@Greg: I wonder who mandated the energy efficient goals for the buildings? The free market?
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #18:
The building didn’t go up like a Roman candle because of efforts to improve energy efficiency. It resulted from greedy idiots pocketing a pitifully small sum of additional cash at the expense of other people’s safety and lives.
7 fast facts you need to know about the secret GOP healthcare bill
Facts? No one really knows any facts, because the bill is being written in complete secrecy by 13 male republican senators, who aren’t even allowing their fellow republicans to know what’s in it. They’ll get a chance to look at it just before it’s brought to the floor for a vote, which could take place before July 4th.
This definitely comes under the heading of a Zero Voice situation. The plan is to allow no time for extended debate and to give the public no time to react before the vote is taken.
That, of course, doesn’t mean there won’t be any reaction. Look for it at the ballot box in 2018.
@Greg:
Shall I remind you how Obamacare was passed, Gullible Greggie? You know, like being created behind closed doors with Botox Nancy telling us they had to pass it so we could find out what’s in it?
And how much time was given to the public to research Obamacare?
You’re an idiot and would make Gramsci proud.
@retire05, #21:
That’s one of those republican myths that’s now been repeated so many times that nobody bothers to question it. The fact is that passage of the Affordable Care Act involved months of discussion and public debate. The bill was introduced in March 2009. It didn’t pass in the House until November 2009, and didn’t pass in the Senate until March 21, 2010. So, the legislative process from the introduction of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, until it’s final passage and signing into law, took 9 months. Many amendments were proposed by both democrats and republicans along the way. Had republicans given some thought to assisting in the crafting of the legislation rather than to concocting a series of poison pill amendments, they could have had far more to say about the final results. The only thing that happened quickly was its signing by President Obama, which took place 2 days after the Senate version was approved in the House.
The bill was online to be read by anyone who wanted to do so. It wasn’t a classified document, locked away where no one could see it. I distinctly remember it having been printed out on paper in its entirety as a stage prop for republicans, who spent more time thumping on the stacked pile of pages and rolling their eyes at its thickness than they did discussing what was printed on them. That was a regular, recurring part of the GOP’s sideshow. People have been talking this crap about how the Affordable Care Act was shoved through in the blink of an eye, without anyone knowing what was in it, for over seven years now. It’s a story for idiots, because that simply wasn’t how it happened.
@Greg: This is where we agree, the GOP is not able to fix the obamacrap by magically turning it into RINOcare. They should do as they promised repeal the pile of crap in total and fix the VA.
@retire05, #21:
I found some specific details regarding the ACA legislative process compiled at the Democratic Policy and Communication Center website. The facts are quite different than the tale now being told by republicans and their media outlets. The DPCC put the list of talking points together back in 2014, which was about the time the right’s campaign to create an alternate version of the ACA’s history and passage really got underway:
You can believe whatever you want, but facts are simply what they are. I remember how long public discussion and debate about the Affordable Care Act and its specific provisions went on. It was a regular news topic for months before the bill was finally passed.
@Greg:
And we’re quite certain that this Democratic site is putting out a totally neutral assessment of the procedure. I wonder if that same report had been compiled by the Republican Policy and Communication Center website that it would have been identical to the Dumbocraps report? I’m sure they probably would be. After all we wouldn’t expect anything the Dimocraps put out to be biased to favor Dimocraps.
@Redteam, #25:
There’s nothing neutral about the DPCC. They aren’t pretending to be neutral. They’re pushing back against the GOP’s alternate history. The push back involves a presentation of facts, however, that are totally incompatible with the tale the right is now telling. These are facts that can be verified by anyone who wants to take the time. No one has to take the DPCC’s word for it.
The legislative process that led to the ACA’s passage was very lengthy. There really were 79 bipartisan hearings and markups and over 100 hours of hearings in the House. 239 amendments, both republican and democratic, really were discussed and considered. The Senate really did spend 25 consecutive days in session, entirely on the health reform package.
The Affordable Care Act legislative process was neither short nor all done in secret. Nor did it somehow escape notice by the media. Public discussion went on throughout the entire period.
The Republican Party’s Contempt for Truth—Senate Republicans claim their secretive health care process is no different than the Democrats’ Obamacare passage. It’s a lie, and they know it.
@Redteam:
“The Affordable Health Care for America Act (or HR 3962)[1] was a bill that was crafted by the United States House of Representatives in October 29th of 2009. It never became law as originally drafted. At the encouragement of the Obama administration, the 111th Congress devoted much of its time to enacting reform of the United States’ health care system. Known as the “House bill”, HR 3962 was the House of Representatives’ chief legislative proposal during the health reform debate.
On December 24, 2009, the Senate passed an alternative health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590).[2] In 2010, the House abandoned its reform bill in favor of amending the Senate bill (via the reconciliation process) in the form of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.”
Read the whole thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Health_Care_for_America_Act
Gullible Greggie needs to get a job as Putin’s propaganda minister.
@retire05, #28:
I assume you know that’s pretty much how the House and Senate interact legislatively. There are frequently multiple versions of bills put forward until something finally emerges, followed by compromises during the reconciliation process that eventually produce some sort of politically viable hybrid. In the past, this has generally been a matter of republicans and democrats ironing out their differences; now that we’re in Donald Trump’s bizarro world, however, where republicans are in control of the House, the Senate, and the White House, it has become a matter of a severely schizoaffective GOP trying to iron out its own wrinkles.
Consider H.R.1628 – the American Health Care Act of 2017—that fine and universally acclaimed piece of legislation that the republican leadership recently shoved through the House. It’s such a potentially monumental political disaster that the Super-Secret Senate version will almost certainly be very different—and in all probability irreconcilable.
The entire point of this exercise is for both republican-controlled chambers to be able to tell their constituents that they really tried to do something, or better yet, are right on the verge of doing something, during the run up to the 2018 elections. They most certainly don’t want to have the public considering the full implications of something that’s a done deal at that point.
@Greg:
I specifically addressed this comment of yours:
You continue to spin (lie) while using Democrap talking points. In your case, stupid can’t be fixed.
@retire05:
H.R. 3962 was the initial legislative step in the continuous healthcare reform effort following Obama’s election that ultimately culminated in the Affordable Care Act.
It that better?
Today:
Poll finds growing opposition to GOP healthcare bill
That would be the H.R. 1628—the bill that would allow insurance companies to charge older Americans 5 times as much for the same insurance coverage as younger Americans; that is projected to increase the number of uninsured Americans by 14 million, the total rising to 52 million by 2026; and that would save only $337 billion over a decade, for all the trouble that would come of it. Of course, if you’re someone who would reap the benefits of the $1 trillion tax cut that’s involved, maybe you won’t mind.
Only 35 percent of those polled approve of H.R. 1628.
After weeks of secrecy, Senate to unveil healthcare bill
The unveiling will be this coming Thursday.
@retire05:
Especially Greg’s level of stupid. I think the bill that was submitted this year is/was not the right bill. It only changed a few things from Obozocare, We need a wholesale change such as will be coming down the pike soon.
@Redteam, #33:
So, which do you think will be done first? Draining the swamp, building the beautiful wall, or prosecuting Hillary Clinton for her many, many crimes?
@Greg: Hillary won’t be prosecuted. Anyone that might would be afraid she or Slick would have them knocked off. First will be the wall. I don’t know how long it’ll take to build it. About 3 years, I’d guess. The swamp draining has been started but will never end. There are too many such as yourself that like swamp critters.
@Greg:
No. You’re simply trying to CYA.
Tell us, do you get paid for clicks to the left wing sites you link to?
@Redteam:
How much do you think it will cost to build that wall down the middle of the Rio Grand?
@Redteam: The Wall–a joke–who is gonna pay for it? 3 years? Chinese workers?
The swamp Trump’s filling it with his reptiles.
HRC won’t be prosecuted–she should disappear.
@retire05:
a lot, but much less than all the welfare and benefits we are having to give to illegal aliens. Probably about 3 years worth of those benefits.
@-Rich Wheeler:
Does your house have walls? Why? Does your house have doors? Why? Does your house have locks? Why?
Hmmm….so you think American workers are inferior? I don’t. I’d go with American workers.
for example?
Slick could probably get that arranged fairly quickly. Nothing like experience.
Hey Rich, you got CK a job yet? See where that former GM said that for him to get a contract, he’ll have to agree to stand for the anthem, keep his mouth shut about controversial issues such as BLM and agree to be totally non controversial. Then he said since CK is likely to not agree to that, he probably won’t be playing. No franchise wants the poor publicity.
@Redteam: He’ll be playing before that worthless wall get’s started.
Ttump’s reptiles? all of em except The Marines oh rah–
3 Goldman Sackers for starters some reptiles like Flynn and Manafort ALREADY gone
@Redteam:
I realize, of course, that I’m talking to cult members. No doubt you’ll appreciate this article from The Hill:
Trump’s tax plan is a bold step toward draining the swamp
Huh? What did I just miss? How, exactly, are tax cuts the equivalent of swamp draining? Maybe the theory is that the alligators will go away once you’ve given them everything they want. Or maybe you just invite them to come inside and join you for dinner, so there’s no need for a swamp on the front lawn.
Now there’s a theory. Oddly, the Trump cabinet is full up with millionaires and billionaires, financial sector shake-down artists, and corporate insiders; he had to knock the stuffing out of Obama’s lobbyist restrictions with an executive order, so people who worked as special interest lobbyists last year could jump in to fill jobs in his swamp-draining administration this year.
It’s like a joke with a punchline that republicans aren’t able to get.
@-Rich Wheeler:
Convenient memory Richie, I can remember when Flynn was appointed you came out as he was a great choice. But I bet you don’t remember that.
So you don’;t have a wall on your house, or locks?
@Redteam: Agree bill passed by House Repubs was worthless. Why will Repub. Senators do any better?
@Greg:
Everything. it’s way over your head, it would be a waste of time trying to educate you.
give us a total count on how many cabinet members there are and a count on how many of those are ‘billionaires’, and that will give us a clear demonstration of why trying to educate Dimocraps are a total waste of time. Want to bet on whether ‘full up’ is over 50% ?
@-Rich Wheeler:
How did you build your house without walls? I’m sure you don’t use any locks tho, right?
@Redteam, #46:
Meet the Billionaires Who Run Trump’s Government
Trump’s first 17 cabinet-level picks have more money than a third of American households combined
I realize, of course, that some of them are mere multi-millionaires, falling well short of Billion Dollar Club membership. They will, however, do very well for themselves, if the tax proposals go through. For the record, I don’t hate greedy bastards so much as I hate the idea of a panel of them being assembled at the center of our government to rewrite the rules of the game.
@Greg: So you googled and picked the one with the highest estimate. the lowest estimate of total is that 2 or less are worth a billion. In your article, for example, it states that DeVos is worth 5 billion. That’s her father in law. She is, in fact, worth about 150 million. It’s interesting, but expected, that you would not be ethical in your claim.
You do know that the exact same claim could have been made about Obozo’s cabinet? It’s right there on that same page with the lead in to the article you quote. this is the claim I’m referring to:
as I said, that’s true for Obozo’s cabinet. Were you protesting his naming of a ‘billionaire’ cabinet. It has only been verified that 1 member of Trumps cabinet is truly a billionaire. Would you prefer successful people on the cabinet? or failures?
I don’t expect you to be honest. Why should you start now?
@Redteam: Focus RT I was referencing the botched Repub. healthcare bill. Not the nonexistent wall.
I never said “lock her up” Flynn was a good choice I certainly did praise Mattis and Kelly choices–pls concentrate when responding to my posts. Thanks
BTW I didn’t build my house–it has no walls around it and it’s unlocked most of the time—As o5 intimates a wall down the Rio Grande–foolish idea.