That isn’t bumperstickerism - that’s just trash talk. Bumperstickerism is when someone recently converts to an ism, thinks they have all the world’s problems figured out, and addresses complicated issues with banal slogans seen on a bumper sticker.
Yep. What McCain wants is a return to regular order in the Senate and a global fix to health care, which is in his view, isa repeal and replacement of Obamacare.
That’s a conservative position - or at least it used to be, till conservatism got defined down as “whatever pisses the Left off, regardless of policy or process”.
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Thats alot of stuff man seems like you coo coo for orange stuff…
By passed stuff I meant…Health care reform… Tax break… Which woulda been nice. For me anyhow
So far all hes done is poop tweet lies/insults & start pointless shit every week. His only real achievement so far is making it harder to find a decent landscaper.
He’s a warmongering interventionist abroad, and a meddler domestically. I said nothing about “deserve”-I said “fitting.”
Which makes the best political play for someone in their first term to drag it out. Give the appearance of progress, and let it crash after the 2020 election.
That assumes the admin actually has anyone remotely close to strategically minded.
But, as someone who things the only thing the wall is good for is jokes on the internet, I’m not sure how the “lack of progress” on it is a bad thing.
Waste in planning > actually passing a budget item for it.
Look if it’s “incompetence” in the admin that is preventing this wall, then GOOD, lol. Whatever it takes to prevent this enormous waste of resources.
The only way he wins in 2020 is the Dems give it away again. Possible, and even likely given their double down on crazy. But, there are early indicators that the continued attacks on “fake news” are starting to backfire. And the more people trust the legacy media, the worse it gets for the right in general.
I too would much rather they introduced a shitty bill (which the online would make, no question about it in my opinion given the known) in 6 months, passed it on partisan lines via reconciliation and have it signed within a year…
Why would anyone in the House not want to repeat that mistake? How on earth could floating out an outline, and gauging the reaction to certain major points, while also giving the Dem’s something to “win” within the bill to sell back to their people, be a good idea?
I’m amazing that not slamming through a massively significant fiscal bill (likely on partisan lines because #resist) is now considered lower standards after bitching about the Dems doing that very thing for 8 years…
I completely missed the mark in what I was trying to say.
The fuck do you people gamble where that is “all in”?
Oh right, words only matter around here depending on who says them.
Yeah, that’s it man.
I’m not interested in circle jerking how bad he is, so I must be a super fan.
The same left that spit on returning soldiers, called them baby killers and shit all over the sacrifices in that god forsaken jungle now using it to try and take the moral high ground?
lmao
Trump is a cock smoke, pretending the very party you support didn’t spit in McCain’s face when he came back, 40 years later is no better.
Shit dude can’t even spell his name right. Yeah, he respects him alright.
Is your maga hat camo or red? Im guessing red
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Strawman, and you know it, Beans.
You’re too smart for that. What people did or didn’t do to soldiers returning from Vietnam has little bearing (if any) on the clear and unambiguous statement (s) the current POTUS made about John McCain.
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(Apologies if I read what you said wrong. It just came off as way too much of a knee-jerk “what-about” ism).
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Shitty bill? It’s a bill cutting taxes - there’s not an issue Republicans care more about, there should have been a packaged up bill that only needed a signature. You act like Team GOP is starting from scratch on this issue.
The slowdown isn’t “let’s slow down and get this right” - it’s “we can’t get this done right away because the guy at the end of Pennsylvania is signaling mixed messages publicly and doesn’t understand tax policy.”
Incompetence is slowing this down, not thoughtful consideration.
That’s a non-sequitur - I’m talking about how “conservatives” try to characterize this train wreck of a presidency as competent.
That’s not all in? The man wants to repeal and replace Obama care but wants to stop the partisan cramdowns and return to regular order, especially and big, important bills - which a post ago you said was supposed to be a good thing, make up your mind - and he’s not “all in”?
What, in order to be “all in” he needs to be ready to pass a cramdown bill, no matter how bad or impractical or harmful to Americans currently relying on legislated benefits - with a giant middle finger on it and delivering a speech on the Senate floor, saying “eat it, snowflake libtards!”
Oh good. Reminds me why I am not a Republican.
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Nice how you lump everyone in the same boat.
Shit I misspell a lot of shit, means what? Not sure of your age but I lost a uncle in Vietnam and another one came back fucked up in the head and on heroin. I was 16 when we pulled out of Vietnam in ‘75. Spent my early teen years thinking I was next to go and die.
I have always respected the sacrifice that any military family has made.
This…and there are GOP Senators and Congressman on the record saying as much.
NO one wants to put something out there as a proposal only to have the POTUS undercut all that they have done with a scathing TWEET of by being raked over the Coals at some rally.
They actually want the POTUS to “stay out of it” as they negotiate the terms of a Tax Bill. They can’t do that if they wake up every morning and Trump has either “taken something off the table” or belittled his “own” party because of something that was a part of negotiation.
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Great post, exactly right. Republicans could have passed a tax cut within the first month of Trump’s presidency - they’re having to sit and stew and stall while they figure out if Trump is going to wake up one morning and tweet that the whole tax plan is “mean” and undermine their efforts, or if he’s going to fight for it, but stupidly engage Democrats that criticise the plan on a social media flame war. Or do both of those in the same day.
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Oh cool, it’s fitting that he has cancer because you don’t like his policies, thanks for clearing that up… 
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One thing trump is great at is making enemies. Unfortunately he is making too many in his own party. Can’t see any dems voting with him. No matter what the people say in public about working with him they are still human. At this rate he won’t be able to pass gas.
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Not a single one of these people would be as embarrassing and childish as DJT. Not even close. None of them would make up silly names for public officials and tweet them incessantly. None of them would publicly attack their own attorney general. None of them would tweet fake news in capital letters countless times if they disagreed with something.
None of them would have spent numerous tweets attacking a morning talk show. The list can go on forever but I have to go to work. The fact of the matter is politicians attack other politicians and they respond when someone attacks them. The ways 98% of them do this are far more mature than anything he does. And far less often. Highly unlikely any of these people would have cost American taxpayers tons of extra money by not living in the White House right off the bat either. Hard to think those politicians would be the same as DJT in spending a lot of time attacking the Apprentice’s ratings.
We can talk policies all day long but the fact of the matter is Trump is an embarrassment as POTUS simply by his behavior in the office. I would not want my daughter to behave publicly as he does and you wouldn’t either. In fact he’s pretty much the opposite of how I’m sure you raise your kids.
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Given the level of debate around here lately… When in Rome.
A bill specific to that outline would be shitty, and I’m pretty sure anyone and everyone in the house knows that. (Well I suppose I should say could be super shitty, depending on a couple specifics, but there are some really shitty ideas in that outline.)
And everyone in the GOP is well aware selling tax cuts to moderates and the left is a very hard game these days, and recent history shows if you want something to pass in DC you need a few people from across the way to sign on to it.
Just because the GOP stump speeches on cutting taxes, and has a “R” next to there name doesn’t mean they actually have good tax policy ideas.
I’m not really sure the angle your taking here to be honest. Because I’m pretty sure there are likely multiple versions of a tax bill sitting on desks right now.
Let’s be fair here. You’re talking about a party that passed Obamacare repeals a million times while knowing it would go nowhere because POTUS wouldn’t sign it, and failed to get two versions of a similar bill through once they had a POTUS that would.
The incompetence isn’t exclusive to the executive here (or just the R’s) nor is there not a fair amount of politicking and grandstanding going on, and now that they can actually get something into law, people actually care a whole lot more about what is in the bill.
Yes, that would be “all-in”.
I didn’t say McCain was wrong here, I said saying he was “all-in” was a blatant lie. Because
Is not all in. The nuclear option is all in. Passing the ACA via reconciliation is all in. etc etc etc.
So do I. But people I “deeply respect” I tend to have enough respect to actually, you know, spell their name right.
While Sanders being this popular is a total embarrassment, I’m not now, nor was I ever arguing that trump wasn’t any of these things.
So great rant, but it has nothing to do with the point I was making.
Food for thought. You seem to be very keen on using phrases and giving them absolute definitions of your own thinking and anyone else is a blatant liar.
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lol, yes. I’m the only person who defines all in as you know, being all in.
Everyone else means “yeah so you’re for something to happen, but have reservations about it, concerns about the process, and want a fair hearing before you commit” when they say “all in”.
But right. I forgot, words only matter depending on who says them around here these days.
Edit: you know, maybe it’s you don’t understand my “retardspeak.”
That must be it.
What if I took it a step further. Anyone who actually READ the bill they voted on wasn’t all in. If they were all in, they wouldn’t have needed those pesky details with reservations and concerns about the process.
Well it was more of a general PSA. After all, iirc, you’re the guy I had to copy and paste a definition of “everyone” for.
Ah. Problem solved. Carry on.