I couldn’t help noticing this tweet this evening from Vice President Pence, highlighting his and the President’s talk today with ‘victims’ of Obamacare.
In Ohio, I met Greg Knox—a small biz owner hurting under Obamacare. Now, he’s at the @WhiteHouse to share his story. https://t.co/TDUN36A9zB pic.twitter.com/dfp4RHty2Y
— Vice President Pence (@VP) March 13, 2017
As I noted earlier, while there were definitely trade offs with Obamacare and it was far from a panacea the idea that the law created a class of ‘victims’ is at best overstated and largely BS.
It got better when a guy on Twitter pointed out to me that Knox actually has his own write-up on Snopes.com.
The CBO’s scoring of the Trumpcare, House GOP ‘repeal and replace’ plan is out. And it’s even worse – for people who need health insurance and the GOP – than most were expecting. The CBO estimates that the plan would leave 14 million more people uninsured in 2018, 21 million more in 2020 and 24 million more in 2026.
24 million people. That’s a lot of people.
Today people are apparently finding out and being terribly surprised that Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is a white nationalist and racist and has been that more or less openly for years. Before yesterday’s paean to “culture and demographics“, Steve King was saying that for every Dreamer who’s a valedictorian there are a hundred running drugs. The list of similar statements is all but endless.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) says he’s “not prepared” to support the GOP’s repeal and replace bill.
This is a prominent, sitting member of Congress commenting on a major European white nationalist politician.
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017
Trump toady Devin Nunes (R-CA), who currently serves as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says America should be thanking disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn for his secret conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak during the 2016 campaign and the presidential transition.
A bit of this site’s history and reputation is bound up with its role reporting on the US Attorney Firing Scandal in 2006 and 2007. So with that in mind I wanted to share a few thoughts on the news reported yesterday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had requested the resignation of the remaining 46 US Attorneys who had not already resigned.
Please don’t share this image far and wide because then people would know all of President Trump’s broken promises about health insurance for millions of people.
Want to know the surreal backstory of the organized crime and post-Soviet blackmarket weapons trade background of one of President Trump’s top business associates? Listen to Episode #14 of The Josh Marshall Show. Listen right here.
A recently retired FBI agent, Brian McCauley, was the fact witness at the center of yet another Clinton email ‘scandal’ which broke about three weeks before the November 2016 election. This was the ‘quid pro quo’ story about email classification which broke in mid-October. It turns out that about two weeks before that story came out, McCauley had been placed on retainer by Trump advisor Michael Flynn, a retainer/consultancy agreement which eventually totaled $28,000.