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PoliGAF 2017 |OT2| Well, maybe McMaster isn't a traitor.
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ShadowSwordmaster
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Damn.
Atomic Playboy
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Shouldn't that be "too dim to realize he's complimenting me"? You don't need that "not" there. Making fun of someone's grammatical error with your own grammatical error?
Shouldn't that be "too dim to realize he's complimenting me"? You don't need that "not" there. Making fun of someone's grammatical error with your own grammatical error?
The first one is not a grammatical error. There's a difference between not structuring sentences correctly and using words you don't understand.
More_Badass
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Poodlestrike
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At this point I'd put pretty good odds on it not existing.
Okay, THAT'S not a great look.
wtf
Pandora012
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wtf
I wonder if he knows what he's talking about. If he does.....I have no words.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
They are supposed to have a meeting tomorrow so I guess he thinks he can wait till then.
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"I asked Rep. Cheney what she thought of Essential Health Benefita. 'I wouldn't want to lose access to mg prostate exams" she snarked.
These people are just heartless. They have all of the health insurance coverage they need paid for by US citizens and the old ones have Medicare, and yet they are perfectly content gutting health insurance for the rest of us because a bunch racist temporarily embarrased millionaries.
I thought I heard one of the committee members say on CNN this morning they were meeting today. Maybe he showed up and said "I ain't got it."
called my local congresscritter (will Hurd - tx 23) and they are fence sitting harrrrrd. talked to his staff and urged him to vote no and asked what theyre stance is on the FC proposal to strip out EHB's from the AHCA - they indicated pretty strongly that such a move would be bad, that they and the FC dont get along and dont believe in that type of governance.
I've thought its been happening all along.
Carpe Libertatem
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Especially tweets from Trump's Director of Message Strategy! Of course they're going to be positive - that's literally his job!
Veritigo_X
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The fact that if they don't, its a huge political L for the party and Trump, and tax reform gets harder.
Thanks to you and everyone else who's calling. I'm fortunate to have representation that would die before voting yes on this thing but I email him regularly anyway.
balladofwindfishes
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Came out of the meeting with no deal reached apparently
RastaMentality
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seriously. the HFC is gonna have so much clout these two years (if anything gets done at all).the fart of the deal
the fart of the deal
Funny that none of his supporters ever bothered to ponder whether a win for Trump equated to a win for them.
He'll make the deal like they hoped. It just won't be a deal that does anything for THEM.
benicillin
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ShironRedshift
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*Shrugs.* Trump clearly wants to own it, despite it being Ryan's baby. If that's his choice, I ain't going to stand in his way. The House itself will deal with Ryan over this; let the media deal with Trump for attaching himself so firmly to it.
This is happ- oh.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Hopefully it happens now.
Chief Depty Whip McHenry says Freedom Caucus now has "final offer" + "We are cooking if they simply says yes."
https://twitter.com/deirdrewalshcnn/status/844962569366519810
I stand by my prediction.
We will follow the drama ALL DAY and into the night, only for Ryan to "delay" the vote. There is speculation Ryan will allow a vote so that Members are put on the record, but that would be an admittance of failure on the Speaker's part, and frankly I don't see that happening.
We will follow the drama ALL DAY and into the night, only for Ryan to "delay" the vote. There is speculation Ryan will allow a vote so that Members are put on the record, but that would be an admittance of failure on the Speaker's part, and frankly I don't see that happening.
I think he'll lose even more votes if he puts something up everyone knows isn't going to pass. At that point your meaninglessly putting your name on record as having voted for this shit. The campaign ads write themselves.
Dubbedinenglish
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Wouldn't be surprised if this ends with a HFC speaker. If it fails Ryan wouldn't be able to live it down.
balladofwindfishes
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Vote cancelled for tonight, will be tomorrow
If this fails, Ryan is done as speaker. Not sure if they'd put in a HFC speaker though, certainly no Democrats will vote for that.
If this fails, Ryan is done as speaker. Not sure if they'd put in a HFC speaker though, certainly no Democrats will vote for that.
More_Badass
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Was this their hail mary?
I am still having a hard time understanding the arbitrary deadline the GOP has imposed on itself. There is the benefit of pressuring members to vote and using strongman methods to get them to yes, but what is the point if you lose all your credibility and jeopardize your entire legislative agenda in the process?
As a Democrat concerned about preserving President Obama's agenda, I am thrilled they are so disorganized, but it is perplexing from a political perspective.
As a Democrat concerned about preserving President Obama's agenda, I am thrilled they are so disorganized, but it is perplexing from a political perspective.
Poodlestrike
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What I see happening is Ryan staying on as speaker but being effectively neutered; HFC would be running the show.
Failing that, Ryan steps down and we just straight up don't get a Speaker for the next year and a half because literally nobody is going to be that sacrificial lamb.
balladofwindfishes
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They have to pass all reconciliation measures by April 15th, and they still have an entire tax overhaul (that also relies on this law being passed apparently), so their time is extremely tight.
Is there a source? Lol pathetic if true.
balladofwindfishes
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https://twitter.com/LisaMascaro/status/844958167377330177
If the FC isn't going to budge, there's nothing they can do. The bill wouldn't have enough votes.
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There's also this tweet claiming enough moderates to defeat the bill as well
https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/844935879940620290
https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/844935879940620290
Poodlestrike
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It's the Byrd rule. They can't do their tax cuts without creating savings somewhere else in the budget, which the AHCA does by kicking everyone off Medicaid through attrition.
Edit:loooooool. It's dead, Jim. And with it their entire agenda. These motherfuckers are USELESS
This is true, and it's still too early to tell, but I wonder if "deal maker Trump", who we know is ideologically fluid, will still feel like his best strategy was using the budget reconciliation process to enact his biggest legislative priorities.
Suikoguy
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That would make sense, those changes made to appease the "freedom" caucus probably turned off more moderates.
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