Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump still insists he’s going to Make America Great Again! Mind you, it won’t be a healthy or vigorous America — in fact, it will be coughing and wheezing to the grave, but boy, will it be great! If you ever needed further evidence that Trump doesn’t give a single good goddamn about the people who elected him, just look at his treacherous turnabout on health care. This Republican “repeal and replace” bill stinks on so many levels I’m tempted to say it should be taken far out to sea and dumped into the deepest depths of the Mariana Trench but I have too much regard for marine life, even the kind with the big googly eyes and the really scary teeth.
Category: Hillary Clinton
Roger Stone, Trump confidant, acknowledges ‘innocuous’ Twitter conversation with DNC hackers
But on Friday, during a brief conversation with conservative newspaper Washington Times , Stone admitted to exchanging complimentary direct messages – i.e. palling around with Guccifer 2.0. “It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it”, the political consultant told The Times on Friday with respect to a private Twitter exchange he had with “Guccifer 2.0”, a pseudonymous entity explicitly tied to the DNC hack. Stone told The Times in an email Thursday evening.
Trumpcare’s biggest losers: Trump voters
… by a margin of 59 percent to 36 percent. The plan is especially disastrous for groups who typically face the highest health care costs: older and rural Americans. That’s because the tax credits offered are flat across the board instead of varying …
GOP Obamacare – replacement’ is a 25-year-old straw man
… make to the nation’s governors on Monday: “I have to tell you, it’s an incredibly complex subject. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Of course, almost everyone knew that. After all, U.S. health care spending has reached $3.2 …
Free range egg labels explain ‘temporarily housed’ hens
Marks and Spencer has promised to continue paying the free range egg price to producers who are having to keep birds indoors after the end of February. In the United Kingdom, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued the housing order in anticipation, before cases were reported in Wales and Northern England.
Free range egg labels explain ‘temporarily housed’ hens
Marks and Spencer has promised to continue paying the free range egg price to producers who are having to keep birds indoors after the end of February. In the United Kingdom, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued the housing order in anticipation, before cases were reported in Wales and Northern England.
Barbara Pierce Bush To Headline Planned Parenthood Fundraiser
Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will deliver the keynote speech at a luncheon for Planned Parenthood in Texas on Wednesday, February 29. If that leaves you scratching your head because her father opposed abortion during his time as president and the governor of Texas, let us break it down for you. Barbara has been outspoken about her support of Planned Parenthood and women’s health.
Congressional Republicans brush aside Trump’s promise to keep Social Security, Medicare safe
… engineer a government shutdown to cut spending. As House Budget Committee chairman, Tom Price, the new secretary of health and human services , supported converting Medicaid to strictly capped block grants to the states and turning Medicare into a …
Thanking Justice Roberts
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case which held that the “penalty” for not buying health insurance was actually a “tax” and therefore constitutional.
Editorial voices from newspapers around the United States.
… keep what’s been clearly successful about this program. Don’t leave millions of Americans without adequate access to health care.
The CBO doesn’t deal in ‘alternative’ facts
President Trump during a reception with congressional leaders on Monday at the White House. Federal deficits are expected to rise for the first time in nearly a decade, driving up the federal debt to almost unprecedented levels, according to an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office .
Reddit’s CEO got laser eye surgery to prepare for the apocalypse
The chances of a full-blown apocalypse might be slim, but Reddit CEO and cofounder Steve Huffman is not taking any chances. As Evan Osnos details in a recent New Yorker piece , Huffman got laser eye surgery in November 2015 to improve his odds at surviving doomsday.
Hillary’s Mysterious Handler Still By Her Side on Inaugural Day
… many to suspect that he was some sort of medical doctor or aide present to assist with Hillary with some unknown health issues. in August. When some liberal protesters began to protest, Hillary Clinton suddenly froze. She looked dazed and lost. …
What Was Ivanka Telling Us With That White Pantsuit?
… In the beginning, she seemed like a guiding force for her father on issues that women care about – like women’s health. Recall one of the early primary debates when Trump spoke relatively kindly (for a Republican) about Planned Parenthood. “Millions …
Presidential election filled country with hate
I didn’t quite break into tears, but the election was a shock to me. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost three million and still lost! What an amazing thing this is in a country where democracy once rang the Liberty Bell.
Perry Stein
… a partner. “I have some very serious concerns about Trump,” said Swindell, who started Stanton Healthcare, a women’s health facility with multiple locations that does not offer contraception or abortions. “I am a feminist.” The Women’s March has a …
politicsThe Way to Save Democracy Attack Donald Trump on economics. Jonathan Chait
… if you think of the problem as though Trump has rigged firebombs to destroy the Constitution in one location and health insurance for 20 million people in another, and opponents face the diabolical question of choosing which one to save: But the …
Drug company exec: ‘We’re hated’ for a reason
… to advance that idea, with Republican majorities in Congress and conservative Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. But Trump, known for his populist appeal, may push for other measure putting downward pressure on …
Drug company exec: ‘We’re hated’ for a reason
… to advance that idea, with Republican majorities in Congress and conservative Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. But Trump, known for his populist appeal, may push for other measure putting downward pressure on …
Drug company exec: ‘We’re hated’ for a reason
… to advance that idea, with Republican majorities in Congress and conservative Tom Price as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. But Trump, known for his populist appeal, may push for other measure putting downward pressure on …
BWW Review: Richard Nelson’s the Gabriels Comes to Kennedy Center By Way of the Public Theater
… theatrical experience. We see people just like us experiencing life-altering experiences just as we do (the declining health of a parent, the loss of a spouse, economic downturn etc.) set against the backdrop of a changing – and often mystifying – …
Government by Faculty Lounge Subject to Repealby Michael…
… as his inferiors has not been his style. Nor has he ever seemed interested in the content of laws, even his trademark health-care legislation. His February 2010 decision to move forward on Obamacare despite the election of Republican senator Scott …
Obama, Democrats to Consider Ways to Save Affordable Care Act
President Barack Obama will meet with Democrats in Congress on Wednesday to discuss ways to protect his signature health care law, which Republicans have threatened to repeal. The president and Democratic lawmakers hope to devise a strategy to delay the Republican-controlled House and Senate from repealing much of the Affordable Care Act without providing a replacement plan.
Letters on Cal Thomas, liberals, Medicaid expansion, national debt
As usual, columnist Cal Thomas supported Donald Trump and made light of anything that has to do with either Barack or Michelle Obama . He rebutted a statement Michelle Obama made to Oprah Winfrey about how “we are feeling what not having hope feels like.”
The mainstream media lies about vaccines just like they lied about Donald Trump
One of the “mainstream” media’s narratives since President-elect Donald J. Trump “unexpectedly” defeated their chosen candidate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has been that the former was aided by “fake news” supplied to hundreds of legitimate news websites by the Russian government. That massive lie has since been exposed as fake news in and of itself , as Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, noted this week when he pointed out that the Washington Post , which originally published the story, has now backed away from the allegations.
Millennial View: Catherine Rampell – Why the white working class votes against itself
… I’ve interviewed, that the party’s actual ideas are the right ones. Democrats, they note, pushed for expansion of health-insurance subsidies for low- and middle-income Americans; investments in education and retraining; middle-class tax cuts; and a …
Obama helped bring back economy, restless voters chose Trump
… is 4.6 percent, a nine-year low. Stocks keep ascending to new highs. An additional 20.2 million Americans have health insurance coverage. The nation has shifted toward cleaner energy sources: natural gas, wind and solar. Polling after the November …
Suddenly, Conservatives Are No Longer Quite So Colorblind
Abolishing the Electoral College, that is the subject of tonight’s Talking Points Memo. After Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, the left in America is demanding that the Electoral College system put into place in 1787 be ….Talking Points believes this is all about race.
Democrats
… cuts. Schumer promised “some heck of a hearing” for Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), President-elect Trump’s nominee to be Health and Human Services secretary. Schumer and Sanders both pointed out that while Trump campaigned on a promise to not touch …