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| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:09pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom Don't buy this baloney that the other Republicans are mad at @SenJohnMcCain. He did em a favor. They never wanted repeal. They're relieved. Hmmmm this may be true.. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:13pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
happney65:Yea they are as corrupt as their democratic counterpart. No wonder their rating is so low.. These senators some of them have been there for a long time they are now worn out and needs to be replaced |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by happney65: 4:27pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech: ..All that one na excuses..Democrats where able to pass a nice bill when they where in control..Your yeye people led by a yeye president and a yeye white house of chaos cant even do nada...So blame no one but yourself most especially your fraudster president that promised so much and has ended up duping you.. ![]() |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Abbeybailey(m): 4:36pm On Jul 28, 2017*. Modified: 5:10pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:You are spitting out the same junk your party of hypocrites are spouting. What coverage do you have in America to know that Obamacare is not good?. Simple question. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:40pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Abbeybailey:Mccain said after the vote that he will work with his colleagues to bring a better bill is that not him admitting that the bill was ocare was bad.. So the repeal failing today does not imply that ocare is great it is not.. Mccain was just being an idiot .@SenSchumer: "Nobody has said ObamaCare is perfect." |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:43pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
happney65:Truth is those senators both democrats and republicans want to see Trump fail. Their inability to pass a repeal which passed when Obama was president is a wake up call to Trump and a big sign that he has no friend in washington |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:45pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Obamacare is not perfect .@RandPaul: The failure to repeal Obamacare means premiums will continue to skyrocket |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:50pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
happney65:No I rather chose to blame mccain |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:54pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Bill O'Reilly @billoreilly I've known Sen. McCain for decades & respect him. But on a bill that would've diminished the failure of Obamacare, he let his country down. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:55pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
The Associated Press @AP BREAKING: US economy expanded at 2.6 percent rate in April-June period, more than doubling first quarter growth. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 4:56pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
"McCain on why he did it: didn't want "shell of a bill" to pass. What does that even mean? |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by happney65: 4:57pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:Ahahahahahahahahaa.There you go with the blame game..Obama passed it when democrats where in majority with no republican vote..Why una no fit pass yours when you where in majority?The replacement bill is not an option..Do you know the millions that would lose their healthcare if this replacement bill is in vogue? over 22Million according to the CBO report..But you wont believe,You will have someone else to blame.. Ohh,I guess republicans hated Trump when they passed he's surpreme court Judge abi?Keep on the blame game..You are not in any way different from Buhari and he's blockheads APC guys here.. Nonesense |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:01pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
happney65:Ok I just said that the GOP failed I gree they failed to repeal Ocare. I think I put the blame on Mccain and not Trump. Trump is holding a pen and waiting for the bill to pass. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:04pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Three GOP senators have been lying for 7 yrs on wanting to repeal ocare. They have disgraced themselves acted selfishly. Shameful. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Abbeybailey(m): 5:07pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:That is the problem with you and your ilks that are not in tune with the happenings in America. No one not even Obama said ACA was perfect. It needs fine tuning and that's what republicans ought to do instead of trying to dismantle everything. As for me I want the Single Payer like Australia and most of Western Europe and Canada. I guess with your kind of logic, every American having health care is bad for America while every American having a gun is good for America. I guess you love republicans for their wacky ideas. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:08pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
"Many Americans will feel betrayed by politicians who promised to repeal Obamacare but failed to deliver" Ted Cruz |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:09pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Abbeybailey:and why didnt the dems fine tune it when they had the chance to? |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by happney65: 5:11pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:Trump should come up with a better bill..He does not even know what is contained in the Bill..He just wants to declare victory.. If he comes with a Better bill,he's party would support.But since Mccain and co gets brain pass him they wont pass that nonesense bill that is worse than the current plan.. The current plan is far better than what they want to repeal it with..It is just like buhari and Jonathan..Mccain does not want Obamacare to be repealed with Buhari because buhari is far worst..Cant you see?When over 22million would lose their healthcare.. Habaaaaaaaa..Blame yourself..Blame that fraudster that has lied to you,Your fraudster president.. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:13pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Ryan disappointed on Senate healthcare vote, but 'we should not give up I don't think he is. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:15pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
happney65:The current plan sucks and the GOP sucks too, It proves that they do not represent the American people. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:22pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Sen. John McCain was for a full repeal and replace on Obamacare in 2010. Amazing how quickly these politicians change. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:23pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
The U.S. economy grew TWICE as fast between April and June than in the first quarter. #MAGA |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Abbeybailey(m): 5:25pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:Like I said, there's a difference between fine tuning and dismantling. Trumpsky has got no cred with a lot of republicans because they know he's only good at barking like a Circus Clown. Even with Pence and trump trying to convince Senators McCain, Collins and Murkoskwi, they failed and Pence left the Capitol Building with his head down. Worst administration so far in American history. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:28pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Abbeybailey:why didnt the dems finetune it when they had the chance to.. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Abbeybailey(m): 5:29pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:You will blame everyone except the head of the rotten fish. President Harry Truman put a sign on top of his desk at the Oval Office. The Buck stops here. Only the fake president passes the bucks blaming everyone except himself. He's a big failure and his days are numbered. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:30pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Breaking: Sen. Brooks of KENTUCKY:First Senator Calls For McConnell To Step Down… |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:35pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Abbeybailey:And how is this Trumps fault? |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by TheShopKeeper(m): 5:37pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director. He wasn’t happy. Earlier in the night, I’d tweeted, citing a “senior White House official,” that Scaramucci was having dinner at the White House with President Trump, the First Lady, Sean Hannity, and the former Fox News executive Bill Shine. It was an interesting group, and raised some questions. Was Trump getting strategic advice from Hannity? Was he considering hiring Shine? But Scaramucci had his own question—for me. “Who leaked that to you?” he asked. I said I couldn’t give him that information. He responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. “What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,” he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he’s inherited in his new job. “I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can’t help themselves,” he said. “You’re an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I’m asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it.” In Scaramucci’s view, the fact that word of the dinner had reached a reporter was evidence that his rivals in the West Wing, particularly Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, were plotting against him. While they have publicly maintained that there is no bad blood between them, Scaramucci and Priebus have been feuding for months. After the election, Trump asked Scaramucci to join his Administration, and Scaramucci sold his company, SkyBridge Capital, in anticipation of taking on a senior role. But Priebus didn’t want him in the White House, and successfully blocked him for being appointed to a job until last week, when Trump offered him the communications job over Priebus’s vehement objections. In response to Scaramucci’s appointment, Sean Spicer, an ally of Priebus’s, resigned his position as press secretary. And in an additional slight to Priebus, the White House’s official announcement of Scaramucci’s hiring noted that he would report directly to the President, rather than to the chief of staff. Scaramucci’s first public appearance as communications director was a slick and conciliatory performance at the lectern in the White House briefing room last Friday. He suggested it was time for the White House to turn a page. But since then, he has become obsessed with leaks and threatened to fire staffers if he discovers that they have given unauthorized information to reporters. Michael Short, a White House press aide considered close to Priebus, resigned on Tuesday after Scaramucci publicly spoke about firing him. Meanwhile, several damaging stories about Scaramucci have appeared in the press, and he blamed Priebus for most of them. Now, he wanted to know whom I had been talking to about his dinner with the President. Scaramucci, who initiated the call, did not ask for the conversation to be off the record or on background. “Is it an assistant to the President?” he asked. I again told him I couldn’t say. “O.K., I’m going to fire every one of them, and then you haven’t protected anybody, so the entire place will be fired over the next two weeks.” I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public at some point. “I’ve asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period,” he said. “They won’t do it.” He was getting more and more worked up, and he eventually convinced himself that Priebus was my source. “They’ll all be fired by me,” he said. “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly.” The issue, he said, was that he believed Priebus had been worried about the dinner because he hadn’t been invited. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci said. He channelled Priebus as he spoke: “ ‘Oh, Bill Shine is coming in. Let me leak the fucking thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.’ ” (Priebus did not respond to a request for comment.) Scaramucci was particularly incensed by a Politico report about his financial-disclosure form, which he viewed as an illegal act of retaliation by Priebus. The reporter said Thursday morning that the document was publicly available and she had obtained it from the Export-Import Bank. Scaramucci didn’t know this at the time, and he insisted to me that Priebus had leaked the document, and that the act was “a felony.” “I’ve called the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice,” he told me. “Are you serious?” I asked. “The swamp will not defeat him,” he said, breaking into the third person. “They’re trying to resist me, but it’s not going to work. I’ve done nothing wrong on my financial disclosures, so they’re going to have to go Bleep themselves.” Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention. “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own cock,” he said, speaking of Trump’s chief strategist. “I’m not trying to build my own brand off the fucking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.” (Bannon declined to comment.) He reiterated that Priebus would resign soon, and he noted that he told Trump that he expected Priebus to launch a campaign against him. “He didn’t get the hint that I was reporting directly to the President,” he said. “And I said to the President here are the four or five things that he will do to me.” His list of allegations included leaking the Hannity dinner and the details from his financial-disclosure form. I got the sense that Scaramucci’s campaign against leakers flows from his intense loyalty to Trump. Unlike other Trump advisers, I’ve never heard him say a bad word about the President. “What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President’s agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people,” he told me. He cryptically suggested that he had more information about White House aides. “O.K., the Mooch showed up a week ago,” he said. “This is going to get cleaned up very shortly, O.K.? Because I nailed these guys. I’ve got digital fingerprints on everything they’ve done through the F.B.I. and the fucking Department of Justice.” “What?” I interjected. “Well, the felony, they’re gonna get prosecuted, probably, for the felony.” He added, “The lie detector starts—” but then he changed the subject and returned to what he thought was the illegal leak of his financial-disclosure forms. I asked if the President knew all of this. “Well, he doesn’t know the extent of all that, he knows about some of that, but he’ll know about the rest of it first thing tomorrow morning when I see him.” Scaramucci said he had to get going. “Yeah, let me go, though, because I’ve gotta start tweeting some shit to make this guy crazy.” Minutes later, he tweeted, “In light of the leak of my financial info which is a felony. I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept #swamp @Reince45.” With the addition of Priebus’s Twitter handle, he was making public what he had just told me: that he believed Priebus was leaking information about him. The tweet quickly went viral. Scaramucci seemed to have second thoughts. Within two hours he deleted the original tweet and posted a new one denying that he was targeting the chief of staff. “Wrong!” he said, adding a screenshot of an Axios article that said, “Scaramucci appears to want Priebus investigated by FBI.” Scaramucci continued, “Tweet was public notice to leakers that all Sr Adm officials are helping to end illegal leaks. @Reince45.” A few hours later, I appeared on CNN to discuss the overnight drama. As I was talking about Scaramucci, he called into the show himself and referenced our conversation. He changed his story about Priebus. Instead of saying that he was trying to expose Priebus as a leaker, he said that the reason he mentioned Priebus in his deleted tweet was because he wanted to work together with Priebus to discover the leakers. “He’s the chief of staff, he’s responsible for understanding and uncovering and helping me do that inside the White House, which is why I put that tweet out last night,” Scaramucci said, after noting that he had talked to me Wednesday night. He then made an argument that journalists were assuming that he was accusing Priebus because they know Priebus leaks to the press. “When I put out a tweet, and I put Reince’s name in the tweet,” he said, “they’re all making the assumption that it’s him because journalists know who the leakers are. So, if Reince wants to explain that he’s not a leaker, let him do that.” Scaramucci then made a plea to viewers. “Let me tell you something about myself,” he said. “I am a straight shooter.” Latest gig from Anthony 'the Mooch' Scaramucci |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Abbeybailey(m): 5:38pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
stanech:Trump has got no clout with the republicans and he's got no gravitas. He's just a useful idiot to the republican agenda. They will toss him aboard when they are done with him. You wouldn't know that. I laugh at your ignorance. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by Abbeybailey(m): 5:42pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
TheShopKeeper:Imagine bunch of loonies running America ?. I hope this clueless bunch won't run a beautiful country down. |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:43pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Abbeybailey:I asked again in case you missed the question. How was the health care vote failure on the senates floor Trump's fault? |
| Re: American Politics Lounge - Donald Trump Is US President-Elect ! by stanech: 5:44pm On Jul 28, 2017 |
Of course, it wasn’t that long ago that liberals were telling us that the traditional benchmark of 3% growth was not even possible. However, Trump remained unpersuaded, implementing conservative reforms that have led to real results. If the rest of the GOP could only get on board, reforms to healthcare and taxes could unleash the full might of the American economy. While a good start, 2.6 percent still isn’t enough, and there’s only so much Trump can do on his own. MAGA |
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