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Mikel Jollett ?@Mikel_Jollett 15m15 minutes ago
@davidkerr1970 @realDonaldTrump
The whole point is it explains his behavior towards Putin. He's been supporting Russia bc of blackmail.
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CraigyWhyteFanClub ?@davidkerr1970 14m14 minutes ago
@Mikel_Jollett @realDonaldTrump i hate Trump but wanting friendly relations with Russia isn't treason.
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Mikel Jollett ?@Mikel_Jollett 13m13 minutes ago
@davidkerr1970 @realDonaldTrump Didn't you read it? It expressly says the U.S. will not aid Ukraine in exchange for blackmail not released.
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Mikel Jollett ?@Mikel_Jollett 6m6 minutes ago
@davidkerr1970 @realDonaldTrump THIS is treason.
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Jonathan Maseng ?@JonMaseng 4m4 minutes ago
@Mikel_Jollett @davidkerr1970 @realDonaldTrump He actually went through with it too. His team weakened the Republican platform's position on Ukraine back at the convention.
On health care, Trump seems deeply confused about policy and process
Trump will be dealing with golden showers te he.
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On health care, Trump seems deeply confused about policy and process
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/health-care-trump-seems-deeply-confused-about-policy-and-process
01/10/17 04:22 PM—Updated 01/10/17 05:31 PM
By Steve Benen
When it comes to the health care debate, Republican unanimity has unraveled with surprising speed in recent weeks. GOP leaders in the House and Senate are committed to a “repeal and delay” strategy in which Republicans would repeal the Affordable Care Act quickly and work out the details in a few years, while a growing number of rank-and-file GOP lawmakers don’t want to vote on repeal until the party has an alternative reform plan to replace “Obamacare.”
To help work out the differences, Republicans could probably use some presidential leadership. Unfortunately for the GOP, however, the party is stuck with Donald Trump – who made clear in a New York Times interview this afternoon that he has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to the most rudimentary details of the debate.
President-elect Donald J. Trump pressed Republicans on Tuesday to move forward with the immediate repeal of the Affordable Care Act and to replace it very quickly thereafter, saying, “We have to get to business. Obamacare has been a catastrophic event.”
Mr. Trump’s position undercuts Republican leaders who want a quick vote to repeal President Obama’s signature domestic achievement but who also want to wait as long as two to three years to come up with an alternative. But he was also challenging the resolve of nervous Republicans in Congress who do not want any vote on a repeal until that replacement exists.
Hmm. There are two GOP factions on this: those who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act and then replace it with a more conservative alternative, and those who want to tackle both tasks simultaneously. Trump, in effect, said he kinda sorta disagrees with both approaches – and kinda sorta agrees with both, too.
The president-elect, completely clueless about his own party’s plans, went on to tell the Times he wants to see a repeal vote “probably some time next week.” Trump then wants the replacement bill to follow “very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”
That doesn’t make any sense.....................
The MaddowBlog: On the Russia scandal, Trumps lies start to pile up
Maybe trump will die of his weight (the accumulation of lies)
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On the Russia scandal, Trump’s lies start to pile up
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-russia-scandal-trumps-lies-start-pile?cid=sm_fb_maddow
01/09/17 08:00 AM—Updated 01/09/17 08:38 AM
By Steve Benen
Almost immediately after Donald Trump met with U.S. intelligence officials on the Russian hacking scandal, the president-elect issued a written statement that claimed, among other things, that he’d learned “there was absolutely no effect on the outcome of the election.”
The next morning, Trump was even more explicit about the point he wants to emphasize, arguing that the intelligence he received “stated very strongly there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results.”
The Rachel Maddow Show, 1/6/17, 9:22 PM ET
Trump lies about intelligence report on Russia easily spotted
As Rachel explained on the show, Donald Trump clearly lied.
“Here’s what’s actually in the report: ‘We did not make an assessment of the impact Russian activities had on the outcome of the election.’
“So, our president-elect is lying to us. He says this report concluded that Russian hacking had no impact on the election. This report did not conclude that – and now we know because we can read it ourselves.”
Note the series of events: Trump lied on Friday in his written statement, got called out for his public deception, and then repeated the identical lie on Saturday morning.
On Sunday, Kellyanne Conway, who’ll soon be a senior advisor in the Trump White House, elaborated on the same lie, telling CNN’s Jake Tapper, “If you read the full report, [U.S. intelligence officials] make very clear – Mr. Clapper in his testimony made very clear on Thursday under oath – that any attempt, any aspiration to influence our elections failed.”
That’s spectacularly untrue. ................
The key points from Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing
Source: The Guardian
Highlights from Jeff Sessions’ hearing for attorney general
Jon Swaine
Tuesday 10 January 2017 12.27 EST
(We will be updating this section throughout the hearing. Please refresh the page for latest news.)
......Citing President-elect Trump’s campaign threat to use the Department of Justice to go after his opponent, Hillary Clinton, Feinstein told Sessions his loyalty must be “to the people and the law, not the president”. She said Sessions must assure senators that he can “dispatch himself from the president and from his record” and enforce the law “fairly, evenly, without personal bias”. “Will he be independent of the White House? Will he tell the president no when necessary?” Feinstein asked.
Feinstein said that Sessions’ “extremely conservative agenda” had seen him vote against – and speak enthusiastically against – the notion that the US must not block people’s entry to the country on the basis of their religion. He voted against immigration reform and against giving some legal status to the children of undocumented immigrants, which he called a “reckless proposal for mass amnesty”. He voted against banning illegal torture, said Feinstein. He voted against a law against hate crimes, saying in 2009: “Today I’m not sure women or people with different sexual orientations face that kind of discrimination. I just don’t see it.”
In a sharply critical closing section, Feinstein said: “We cannot ignore that there are deep concerns and anxieties throughout America. There is a deep fear about what a Trump administration will bring in many places and this is the context in which we should consider Senator Sessions’s record.
“Communities across this country are concerned about whether they will be able to rely on the Department of Justice to protect their rights and freedoms. These freedoms are so cherished. They are what make us unique among nations.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/jeff-sessions-attorney-general-confirmation-hearing-news
Lots of comments from panel plus Sessions responses.
AP FACT CHECK: Despite woes Obamacare not in 'death spiral'
http://chippewa.com/ap/business/ap-fact-check-despite-woes-obamacare-not-in-death-spiral/article_7bdb3cc0-3e3a-5fd4-8cd0-1120ad6e0abd.html
AP FACT CHECK: Despite woes Obamacare not in 'death spiral'
ERICA WERNER AP Congressional Correspondent 17 hrs ago 0
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump says that President Barack Obama’s health care law “will fall of its own weight.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan says the law is “in what the actuaries call a death spiral.”
And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that “by nearly any measure, Obamacare has failed.”
The problem with all these claims: They are exaggerated, if not downright false.
As congressional Republicans prepare to repeal the health law, they are working to portray it as a mess of Democrats’ making, and themselves as the ones who will clean up that mess..........................
People will die and @RepSeanDuffy will have blood on his hands!! Duffy: Obamacare will die
Duffy is an original teabagger. He got elected by gerrymandered his district! --in Redneck Walker's WI
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People will die and @RepSeanDuffy will have blood on his hands!! Duffy: Obamacare will die, but not for now http://chippewa.com/news/local/duffy-obamacare-will-die-but-not-for-now/article_90ffc657-7608-5bbe-a162-3c68e344d114.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share #wiunion
Duffy: Obamacare will die, but not for now
ROD STETZER rod.stetzer@lee.net 15 hrs ago 7
The Affordable Care Act — the national health insurance plan sometimes called Obamacare — will be repealed, Seventh District U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy said Monday morning. But Duffy told about 30 people at a town hall meeting at Rooney Farms in the town of Tilden that the ACA will not disappear for awhile.
“We’ll have a repeal, but an effective date in the future,” he said.
One reason for the delay: Duffy said insurance companies are already working on premiums they want to charge in 2018.
Duffy, whose district includes the northern two-thirds of Chippewa County, said an expiration date would be attached to the repeal. That would give Congress time to come up with a replacement plan and time for people to decide what they want to do under a new insurance plan.
He said the House thinks it can lower insurance costs with competition between insurance companies....................
Kellyanne Conway to speak at anti-abortion march
Women and their families are screwed.. 
Kellyanne Conway to speak at anti-abortion march
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/313459-kellyanne-conway-to-speak-at-anti-abortion-march
By Jessie Hellmann - 01/10/17 08:23 AM EST
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Top Donald Trump aide Kellyanne Conway will speak at the annual March for Life event in Washington, D.C.
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“We are thrilled to have Kellyanne Conway speak at this year’s March for Life. As the first female to run a successful presidential campaign and as a steadfast advocate for life and family issues, Kellyanne beautifully embodies the 2017 March for Life’s theme, ‘The Power of One,’ ” March for Life President Jeanne Mancini said in a statement.
The event draws thousands from across the country ever year and is one of the largest abortion protests in the U.S.
The march takes places on Jan. 27 this year and will stretch from the National Mall to the Supreme Court.
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The president-elect has said he will elect justices to the Supreme Court who are "pro-life." ..........................
Donations to journalism nonprofit surge after Streep Golden Globes speech
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Donations to journalism nonprofit surge after Streep speech
By Jennifer Calfas - 01/09/17 03:55 PM EST
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Donations to the Committee to Protect Journalists surged after actress Meryl Streep used her Golden Globes acceptance speech to urge people to support the organization, Money Magazine reported Monday.
In her lifetime achievement award speech, Streep urged.............................
"...Our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in our Constitution," Streep said. "So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood foreign press and all of us in our community to join us in supporting the Committee to Protect Journalists, and we’re going to need us going forward and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth."
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Streep cited Trump’s imitation of a disabled New York Times reporter in one of his rallies while on the presidential campaign trail last year as the most devastating "performance" she saw in 2016. She said the imitation left her heartbroken.
“Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence,” Streep said. “When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”
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D.C. authorities vow to respect Trumps inaugural protesters if theyre peaceful
I just hope all stay safe--everybody.
D.C. authorities vow to respect Trump’s inaugural protesters — if they’re peaceful
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-authorities-vow-to-respect-trumps-inaugural-protesters--if-theyre-peaceful/2017/01/06/4951e74c-d44c-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?postshare=6481484004266806&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.1a5a9b4408e1
By Aaron C. Davis January 6
On the floor of an Army post two miles south of the Capitol on Friday, soldiers moved index cards representing groups of roving protesters around a giant map of Washington. Then they plotted where to post police and National Guard soldiers to ensure the presidential inauguration is not disrupted.
Planning for protesters is taking up more bandwidth ahead of the quadrennial festivities in the District than at any time in over a decade, since thousands sought to overshadow the second inauguration of President George W. Bush in 2005, officials say.
The number of those who might converge in the District this month to protest the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is unclear. But dozens of groups have applied for permits, and more than 100,000 have registered online that they plan to participate in a march the day after the Jan. 20 inauguration.
In light of those early indications, authorities on Friday dedicated a large share of a rare, joint news conference with D.C. police and the Secret Service to stress that they will respect the rights of those demonstrating. In return, the authorities said, they expect the gatherings will remain peaceful.................
'Women's March on Washington' organizer emphasizes inclusivity
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'Women’s March on Washington’ organizer Bob Bland speaks with The Washington Post's social change reporter, Sandhya Somashekhar, about the rally planned for the day after Donald Trump's inauguration. (Elyse Samuels/The Washington Post)
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