[It pained me to read that legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano was suspended by Fox News, and I hope that he will soon be reinstated. But I take heart that FN is an outlet that allows its senior correspondents to air items they consider important and true, and then hold them responsible for any subsequent mistakes. To me this makes FN a more credible, comprehensive, and, yes, more balanced broadcaster when its reporters (consider Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith) and talking heads don’t have to get an OK from some lockstep editorial board in the head shed before going on the air. gjr]
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235 responses to “Sandbox – 21mar17”
This headline alone should guarantee Gorsuch a seat on the court……..
They need somebody in Quality Control at the factories where they stamp out democrat senators!
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Sen-Kamala-Harris-Why-I-cannot-support-Judge-11024088.php?t=50fac57550
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Todd @ 7:24am, Obamacare.
Well, the indivual insurance market is going under and now we are on schedule to have the group market (employer and company sponsored) be more expensive, unaffordable, and less options when the bad stuff kicks in 2018 and 2020. Pay much more for less. Whatever happened to the 85% of the workers who liked their plans, their options, and their doctor? They will be pentalized greatly to cover the 5-15% of uninsured.
So much money will be flying out of the household budget it will impoversive millions….to pay for the uninsured. That is what happens when you front load all the goodies and back load all the pay the piper stuff after Obama leaves office…..by design.
Not sure it is fixable. At least single women will not be forced to buy coverage for prostrate exams under the new proposals. A family of four will have to burn through 20k in deductibles (out of pocket) and pay $1,200-$2,000/month to add insult to extreme injury. Better off being uninsured or finding a private plan off the exchanges. No doctor fix, no hospital fix, no flexibility, no nothing….in the name of fairness? Fairness to whom? Not the 85% of the workers who liked their plans.
Oh yeah, Obamacare will save the average family $2,500 a year. Right. I can go to Disneyland with all the savings!
What a mess. Fixable? No so sure.
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It looks to me like the process will be incremental. That is how the liberals get their crap over time. So we better learn that sometimes you have to start with half a loaf.
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fish 829am – Thanks for the link which explains Sen Harris’ (and other progressives’) MO in Congress. Ideology prescribes justice, justice trumps law, ergo ideology trumps law. Kinda explains how the Left views the operation of our judicial system and Constitution.
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For your reading pleasure:
Trump drops 30 points in Rasmussen Poll from Jan high . Currently down 17 after being up by 13 Jan 26. How low can he go? He started with historic lows for an incoming president in all polls. The Trumpcare fiasco has yet to register in polling.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 24 March 2017 at 11:44 AM
Paul…..did you know that the Affordable Care Act consistently polls higher than Obamacare. True story Bro!
Oh and Paul……..still president!
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Now that’s a good little ol’ pollhead PE @ 1144. 😉
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Can you send a link on that Fish? Here’s a Tweet from News that cites a poll with a dramatically different number.
“Why would you schedule a vote on a bill that is at 17% approval? Have we forgotten everything Reagan taught us?
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) March 24, 2017”
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Paul just might keep his Ocare. Be careful of what you wish for.
Since “CoveredCa.” is mandated to be SUBSIDIZED by the FEDS for only about two more years,(a lifetime in Paul years) then the state will have to make up the diff for it to stay half assed viable. Where will the money come from to fill that Oroville Dam spillway void sized monetary gap?
Trump is done with the game. He will let Ocare collapse under it’s own weight. Then who will the Pauls and Stevies blame? Who will they demand pick up the tab?
LIBS never think that far ahead. It’s “what can I have today?”
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Fox News reports:
“Today is a win for Barack Obama”
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Cheer on Paul, It’s still a big lose for America. Those that actually pay into it, can’t use it.(tooo expensive) But those that get FREE healthcare at the expense of others, of course like the news.
But like I said. Here in Ca., those days are numbered.
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Our Liar in Chief strikes again. “First order of business is to repeal and replace Obamacare.”
Year right. Liar in Chief.
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Nope that title belongs and is OWNED by “O”. Nice try.
The blame is on the RINOS and “establishment” Right. You know, all those that wanted to retain the tax end of obummercare. “We gotta keep this! That has to stay.”
Trump hasn’t tried to play emperor like “O” did.
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Walt once again from our “Liar and Chief”
“First order of business is to repeal and replace Obamacare.”
First order of leadership is “Don’t make promises you can’t keep”
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Walt, check out these young ladies’ backsides. Nice accessories. 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/UncleSamsMisguidedChildren.Net/photos/a.169953786533962.1073741830.169676909894983/652916224904380/?type=3&theater
Harsh but true:
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/23/coulter-to-trump-get-back-to-immigration-trade-infrastructure-building-a-wall-not-paul-ryans-standard-gop-corporatist-stuff/
Truer yet, and that is why we stand on Hillary’s neck and put and end to that hair raising screech and cackle of hers.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/819460928204131/?type=3&theater
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No wonder PE could not vote for the Liar in Chief in 2013.
Promises, promises.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qpa-5JdCnmo
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re: BT@1:53
A more full featured version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDbTaWpwoc
But it’s a waste of time. Green Libertarians never vote for anyone in office and don’t actually argue for anything.
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Now that’s a great one Paul,”Don’t make promises you can’t keep”. How bout all those that “O” made? Do I need to burn a whole page here of those “promises”? And most on the destruction of health care alone. ” You can keep your plan, Dr., the price will go down,” etc. etc. etc….
” I will go around Congress,,I have a pen and a phone,” writing law from the oval office,
Yup, playing dictator. Things Trump isn’t doing.
Trumps hasn’t lied about anything. Now you say a campaign promise is a lie? Trump has followed through more times than all LIB campaign promises combined. That goes for Repubs as well.
But again.. Try again.
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My favorite promise made to me was from a mentally disabled local news director.
“While I appreciate your enthusiasm Bill, Trump will never win the election. Never.”
Trump will never become President he said. Never. No wiggle room there. Guess that is the best anyone can expect from the Punchy Pothead of Poduck. Stupid and ugly. Man, some people have a great burden to bear in this life. It’s not fair.
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Hmm. Let’s see what the White House has to say.
http://www.lifezette.com/referral/spicer-theres-evidence-collusion-clinton-cnn-trump-russia/?utm_content=buffer65706&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=laura_ingraham_buffer
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Important to know the value systems in play here – ‘liar’ is appended to both those who attempt/intend to deceive, and also to those who attempt to fulfill their stated objective and cannot for reasons beyond their control. Hard to have a reasoned discourse with people who misuse the language in such ways.
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Didn’t vote for Obama second time around Walt I actually agree with you
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Yeah Trump is president bill That makes you a winner Congratulations
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Posted by: Paul emery | 24 March 2017 at 02:17 PM
Compared to The Menopausal Avenger? He’s absolutely a winner Paul!
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Paul. Once was bad enough. Now you own it. “O”and Co. manipulated #2 for the win.(friends in the IRS..Remember?) More of the same vermin at work today making life rough for Trump through subversion.
FED gov. is infested with Leftists that put party above country. I guess your fine with that.
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You can always tell when po’ ol’ PE has a TURDS eruption, no punctuation and random capitols are symptoms. Watching the dems 0care completely crash in flames is not such a bad thing in the near term. From a strategic negotiating standpoint Trump and Bannon may have just set up a bigger health care win down the road. TAX REFORM, capitol repatriation and deregulation get to the front of the line now! 😉
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Hay Paul. Remember when your friendly neighbourhood Progressive “promised” it “wasn’t a tax”? Looks like you took the bait.
Since it IS a tax, Trump should use that pen and a phone and make it gone. Leave Ocare in place,, just defund it.
Would take issue if Trump played by “O”‘s rules?
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Our po’ ol’ green, libertarian, registered democrat, who is in the grips of a TURDS eruption may have missed a big news item; The State Department signed the final, final OK for the Keystone pipeline. Drill baby, drill. 😉
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what a bunch of sorry ass right wing sadsacks we see whining here today. Boo hoo. Losers.
20 months until the House turns blue, but even less time until the indictments of the Trump Campaign and Administration cronies come down!
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Oh ScottM, hopes springs eternal. We whipped your butts at all levels and you have no power now. Makes me feel good.
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 24 March 2017 at 02:41 PM
Yeah….that’s pretty much how I see it…..Schadentacular!
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Posted by: ScottM | 24 March 2017 at 02:55 PM
Hey everybody…..Maxine Waters checkin in………!
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Todd, “we” have no power now? That must be one of the dumbest comments of all time. Perhaps you didn’t get the memo today about healthcare, or see the news about the town halls and phone calls to Congress (48-1 against). But your ignorance is understandable as Fox was pretty much ignoring these topics.
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LOL! scotty is trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Good luck with that. Funny how the Left think their getting somewhere.
But not a peep on my question on where the money will come from to keep Ocare afloat.
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Yeah Don. Trump won that’s makes you a winner.
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From Boardman’s fave leftwing news service: “Gender refers to a person’s social identity…”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/24/ap-stylebook-issues-new-guidance-sex-gender-langua/
Who’s the science denier now?
If you can’t talk straight, you can’t think straight. And so on.
Newspeak is on the rise and the left are its champions. Love to hear what the big time college grads have to say about this.
I know what I learned in school. And I know what medical science says.
Apparently all of this only applies to certain realities.
Please check yours at the door.
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How come you’re dodging my questions Paul?
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ScottM 333. Your views are truly laughable. We have the President and Congress. We are going to have a 5-4 SCOTUS. We gained 1200 state seats at your expense. And we have 32 Governors. So my views are mainstream and you ar the outlier. You truly have no power. And the Ocare loss was all R’s, not a D crossed over even thought your ilks cries about “partisanship” all the time. And so ScottM, head off to your safe space and cry, we whip[ped you good.
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Walt 409. Because he never does. He just baits people here and moves on. So I don’t take his bait anymore. Better to watch March Madness.
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Todd. On a day like this, it pure entertainment to rattle Paul’s chain. Yup Mr. question man suddenly goes dark. Simple questions,, yet nuttn’.
I don’t watch B-ball. Politics is the real sport to watch.
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Haven’t seen any lately Walt. Didn’t vote for O second time around, Did you vote for Bush 2nd time? Both proved to be incompetent and I changed my vote. What did you do?
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You didn’t “see” any, because you, as usual refuse to look.(let alone comprehend)
SOP for you.
Now your back in yesteryear mode? Really?? Man… What a copout. BDS setting in again?
It’s renta buddy time for ya’. I hear there are plenty in N.C. Pick one. I’m sure your Ocare will pick up the tab. Use it before you lose it.
Now go back and look through the posts. You can’t miss mine. Look for this(?) after a sentence. Then get back to me.
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No time for that Walt. Try something new. I’ll answer it if I feel like it.
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Nothing sadder than a pouting po’ ol’ pollhead PE on a rainy day. 😉
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right Todd, god you are a fucking moron. The GOP has the House, Senate and WH and cannot pass the most important GOP priority! Its so great to watch the House GOP in total civil war. The tea baggers destroyed the very bill they’ve been waiting to pass for 7 years! You guys have really hitched yourselves to a real winner there in Trump, at an alltime low approval for a first year President, and with a full throttle FBI investigation looking at his entire crew of cronies Yup Todd, you and the Trumpets are a real winner! ha ha.
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The other piece of good news today is the move toward Medicare For All, and when the House goes blue in 2018, we’ll get that introduced.
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If this was a Batman sequel, I would swear Paul was a victim of the The Riddler. Got rudely assaulted with a question mark, and all he can only say things in question form. Then gets sore when a question is asked to him.
No time? Got it. You got the 6:00 renta bud app. Now don’t miss it. Let us know if you feel better after that gut spill’n.
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In the week we saw the London jihadi strike, then it was Belgium and Italy back to back we end with a Federal Judge in the 4th circuit giving a full throated endorsement of the new version of the jihadi travel ban. Goresuch will be on the court next month and that will be that for the judicial activist rulings that had no basis in the law. 😉
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I, for one, am glad the bad bill failed today. It did not address market based solutions, costs, competition, of even receiving good health care. It did not address selling policies over state lines or reforms. No tort reform. Obamacare is in the death spiral. Maybe Nancy and Chuckie can suggest needed changes so the boondoggle will not implode sooner than expected.
Obamacare needs to be replaced with a decent, if not a good bill. This was not it. This was not what is needed or wanted. Even if Congress today decided to repeal Obamacare, Medicaid would not be affected and all the po folk would still get their freebies….at a growing costs to the 24 states that expanded (lowered) the qualifications for receiving Medicaid.
A better bill is needed. For 7 years RINOs wanted to repeal Obamacare, and jumped on the conservative bandwagon. Then, when elected, they changed it from repeal to “repeal and replace.” They will be gone just like John Boehner and his sidekick Eric Cantor. This proposed bill sucked.
We still have time to get it right. The Cadillac tax kicks in 2018. Oh, the libs loved the Cadillac tax. Sounds like making the filthy rich pay their fair share, right? Gold plated is bad, unfair. Well, they never indexed the “Cadillac tax” for inflation, so as the years go by, more and more workers will be reamed with paying the Cadillac tax, even as they receive less benefits at a higher cost. In time, without indexing for inflation, even 2nd and 3rd rate employer/union sponsored plans will hit the workers hard with the Cadillac plans. The costs for the employee will skyrocket as Obamacare was written.
The whole idea was to make those who have adequate health insurance pay for those who do not. When those taxed for receiving health insurance from their employers hits along with the employer mandate, all will realize Obamacare destroyed a sizable portion of the economy. If Obamacare is so good, why did members of Congress like Nancy and Maxine fight to get them and their staff exempted from Obamacare???
Now, on to the real stuff….like tax reform. It took two years for Reagen to get tax reform passed. Judging by that, we are ahead of schedule. A very good thing and a very good thing happened today. One could argue, albeit weakly, that vets have a ‘right’ to healthcare. Government healthcare. The vets have Health insurance! Unfortunately, they receive very poor health care delivery. Good healthcare was not addressed today.
On to taxes and the Wall. Oil will be flowing through the Keystone pipeline any time now.
Good things happened today.
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ScottM 526. You libs always go profane when losing the argument. We won you lost. And you lost huge. You are a nothing party. Just a bunch of whiny losers who project their failures. I know things will work out but unlike the fascist left in Congress, we have people with their own minds. Your lock steppers are Stepfords. Ours are individuals. So we will take some time as many have requested while you libs pick at your defeated scabs. What a hoot!
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