He decided to quote Joe Paterno in that trainwreck because....maybe he doesn't know how that story ended? Mooch is basically Trump's Mini-Me. So take everything he says as the near literal word of Trump.
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"Think I'm gonna be the scapegoat for the whole damn machine? Sheeee......."
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8 AM: POTUS threatens to veto a veto-proof bill, staffer calls public document a leaked item and cab. official menaces US senator over vote
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More and more people I talk to -especially Rs - are asking: What the hell is going to happen when these guys get hit by a real crisis?
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More and more people I talk to -especially Rs - are asking: What the hell is going to happen when these guys get hit by a real crisis?
"it was Obama"
and then proceed to ignore it.
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Congressional Republicans move to dismantle the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office likely a move to be able to force crappy health care through. Screw facts and actually knowing about how much things will cost.
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Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said Monday that members would deploy an obscure rule that allows a House member to seek changes in an agency by offering an amendment during the budget process.
Called the Holman rule, it dates to the decade after the Civil War, hasn’t been used since President Ronald Reagan’s first term, and was revived by House Republicans when the new Congress convened in January.
Federal News Radio reported that the entire Budget Analysis Division of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, comprising 89 employees and about $15 million in salaries, would be “abolished” under the amendment offered by Meadows and three other Republicans—Reps. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
Meadows and the other three House members attached the amendment cutting the CBO to a so-called “minibus” of spending bills for fiscal year 2018 that includes defense, military construction, veterans affairs, energy, and water, according to Federal News Radio.
The Holman rule “gives us the tool to go in and cut the funding without cutting an entire agency,” Meadows said in an appearance at the National Press Club.
Cutting personnel at the Congressional Budget Office who “score” the cost and other effects of legislation such as the main House and Senate health care bills is where the caucus decided to begin, he said.
The Freedom Caucus chairman said that independent CBO process could be replaced by aggregate scores of budgetary impact from think tanks, and he named American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, and Urban Institute.
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More and more people I talk to -especially Rs - are asking: What the hell is going to happen when these guys get hit by a real crisis?
This is what I've been thinking about since about day 1 when Spicey spent 2 weeks trying to prove the inauguration was a s big as Obama's.
Like what are you idiots going to do if there's a real crisis? Look for ways to disparage Dems and make yourselves look good, all while not doing anything about said crisis.
It would be funny if it wasn't scary.
Montana has legit military targets should Putin decide to go full Trump.
What are "individual mandates" as it relates to Obamacare? Is it that those folks in that not-too-rich-not-too-poor category are required to purchase health insurance (which is then subsidized through tax credits)?
If so, wouldn't the "skinny repeal" of only those individual mandates totally screw up the entire system? So long as the law that insurers can't exclude pre-existing conditions is in effect, removing individual mandates would just incent people to only buy health insurance once they get sick. Insurance prices would skyrocket, in theory to the price of actual medical costs instead of the lower costs with distributed risk.
Congressional Republicans move to dismantle the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office likely a move to be able to force crappy health care through. Screw facts and actually knowing about how much things will cost.
Haha wow. We really are moving into a post fact era - who needs those when you've got the feelings in your tummy to make decisions.
It should be obvious, but when one party is attempting to remove sources of information, it's probably because they don't want people knowing the actual outcomes of their policies.
Maybe we should just bring back the oracle of Delphi to make policy choices. Roll some d and d dice. Anything except fact based decision making.
Congressional Republicans move to dismantle the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office likely a move to be able to force crappy health care through. Screw facts and actually knowing about how much things will cost.
