Obamacare Is Still The Law Of The Land?

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A few days ago Lisa Murkowski,Susan Collins and John McCain demurred from the soulless travesty of Republican “repeal and replace” posturing and helped Democrats sink McConnell’s”skinny repeal”.The path forward is clearly bipartisan and to fix the ACA.I doubt that Republicans will be content with that unless Republican Governors join with Democratic governors in insisting that the health needs of the States are met.We can’t forget about Presidential leadership. In this scenario it is to feed red meat to an inchoate and non comprehending base and to break the law by refusing mandated subsidies to participating insurance companies and thus undermine the law.
To expect Gen.Kelly to establish order in the menagerie is too much. Da Mooch rages and blasphemes and he isn’t an employee yet.Priebus and his sycophancy is gone so too is Spicer.Bannon will sulk, skulk and survive.Viable threats are arising internationally and Russia is finally retaliating tit for…

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The Trumpeter Rages On.

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POTUS has decreed by Twitter that Transgender folk can no longer serve in the U.S. armed forces.This reverses a DOD long standing order and of course an Obama executive order.Taking just enough surcease from attacking Lisa Murkowski(Alaska) for leaving party solidarity in going against the latest ACA repeal efforts in the Senate,and his relentless humiliating assault on his sycophant Attorney General,Jeff Sessions,whose resignation would open the way,after sequential dismissals,to the firing of Robert Mueller,the F.B.I. Special Investigator whose strategy of following the money is driving Trump up the wall.It is obvious,even to the ideological faithful,that something is rotten in Trumpland.Only the conscience blind can believe that the special relationship with Russia is not based on huge indebtedness related to real estate/ bank borrowing and manipulation.The salacious/ scatological stuff is really quite unnecessary although I personally believe it to be valid as well.The alternative for Trump are few.Everyting rests on the…

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Pardon Me Boy…This is not the Chatanooga Choo Choo!

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The head of the Red Headed League gave a gratuitous interview to the New York Times in which he attacked his Attorney General for having recused himself from the collusion inquiry.It is clear that he wishes to derail the Mueller investigation and can only do so through the Department of Justice.His set seems to be that the DOJ should prOtect him.He is according to the Washington Post exploring his capacity to pardon family and self.Jeff Sessions is an unlikely hero and a sycophantic type but in the face of the cruel and uncalled for attack may have to stand fast.Robert Mueller isn’t going away and the pursuit of Trump and family’s financial deals is cracking the crafted walls thrown up to conceal the laundering and profiteering.So the Trumpeter is going to the “Fake News purveyors”for help in obfuscation.Exploration of “unitary executive” power is thus in order.Can he pardon self and…

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Replace and Let’s See:Clarion call for Republicans!

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“CBO projections be damned !23 to 33 million Americans kicked out of safety net health support be damned! It is too important to wipe out this black man’s signal achievement and reinvigorate party loyalty.No one will notice that we are ensuring that Obamacare can not work. We the important people demand a wealth transfer to the wealthy from the shaky health surety of the poor!
Never fear our health care is preserved and I think that even if impeached me and my family will still get the care.If not I’ll still be able to fly me and my family to Uncle Vlad for Kremlin-Kare.”

At this point the orator is taken away by the men with the butterfly nets…

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The FunHouse Mirror Shatters

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The startling revelation that Donald Trump Jr. agreed to a meeting with a woman lawyer acting on behalf of the Russian government with the incentive of getting inside information of a tarnishing nature on Hillary Clinton is dominating the news.That the 2016 meeting involving Manafort.Kushner and an invited but possibly never attending Bannon never got to campaign dirt really doesn’t matter.Donald Jr. was guilty of poor judgment,malicious intent etc. but did not commit a crime since he held no office.Kushner is a different matter;he is guilty of criminal collusion.It is also difficult to believe that Big Daddy was completely uninformed about matters taking place one floor below his penthouse apartment in Trump Tower.The acknowledged original Russian contacts were circa 2013 around the Miss Universe event but financial manipulations antedated that by at least four years.So many key operatives in the Trump administration are lawyered up and communicating only through lawyers…

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G20 And The U.S.

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Angela Merkel made a mistake when she picked Hamburg as a trouble free site for the G 20 meeting.The meeting of the top industrial nations of the world attracted more than the usual collection of dissenters from the left and antagonists from the right.The violence nearly overwhelmed the Hamburg police and kept the participants restricted in venue and mobility.It is possible that the withdrawal of the U.S from the Paris pact and the insistence of POTUS on making deals after the fact with trading blocs in Europe,Asia,South America&Canada has produced a new set of leaders who are untested and who lack superpower credentials.
The meeting between Trump and Putin went on for 2 1/2 hours and has no transcription.The why of that is ominous.Trump spent this time away from the G 20 with a second rate power in need of lifting of sanctions,positive trade agreements and relief from the support…

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A Compendium of Conspiracy Theories

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We have been flooded with news,fake news,conspiracy theories and a general rise in antagonistic behavior between citizens of the U.S.We are told that GSO estimates of the cost in dollars and loss of protection for Americans is wrong,promises to repeal and replace Obama care are now replaced by ” let’s repeal and take a year or so to replace”.Walter Shaub the head of the Congressional Ethics Office is resigning early in protest over the Trump administration’s, conduct.Almost all of Trump’s inner circle and many members of m “periphery” are seeking protective counsel.( including the V.P) The attacks on the media are incessant and mean spirited with foreign press given precedence over our fourth estate.
New salacious statemelnts corroborating MI 6 agent Hill this time by an operative named Chandler have surfaced according to a wall street journal independent contributor.Even if true there is little relevance to the current probe into…

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Seeing Red

See Daedal2207’s earlier De Sade comparison.

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The “Morning Joe” tweeting is another example of how demeaned the office of President has become. We have spoken, before, about the Trumpeter-in-Chief’s eerie attraction/aversion to female bodily functions, particularly those that may involve blood.

This brings to mind the history of the Marquis de Sade, who was attracted to beautiful women, but sought their destruction, when their natural functions destroyed his fantasy. This is the dynamic behind serial rapists.

Non-linearly but also apropos, this also brings to mind Rappaccini’s gardens and the poisoned blood of his daughter, remediation of which caused death.

Trump’s garden does not contain beautiful flowers, just a lot of stinkweed.

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