July 13, 2017

YOU THOUGHT that you could NOT despise Mick Mulvaney any more than you do now. YOU THOUGHT.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney has dubbed their economic policy approach "MAGAnomics." Catchy!

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/885482793379221508

July 13, 2017

I PREDICT that Donald Trump will NOT hang the new Time Magazine cover on his golf course walls.

July 13, 2017

Trump voters tell CNN they're terrified of Trumpcare

July 13, 2017

Who can turn the world on with her smile? Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly...

...make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can never tell, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all
How will you make it on your own?
This world is awfully big, girl this time you're all alone
But it's time you started living
It's time you let someone else do some giving
Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can never tell, why don't you take it
You might just make it after all
You might just make it after all

July 13, 2017

Mitch releasing a NEW DRAFT of TrumpCare TODAY, w/ the "Cruz Amendment" that will gut pre-existing

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-health-care-no-plan-b_us_59669079e4b0a0c6f1e5b20d?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans are still moving ahead with a vote on their health care bill next week, but barring some sudden changes of hearts, it looks like they will fall short of the votes ― and no one seems to have a real idea of what to do then.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is expected to release the text of a revised bill Thursday, along with an amendment drafted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that would dramatically undermine protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the name of lowering costs for healthy people. On Wednesday afternoon, Cruz suggested, but did not directly state, that he would vote against the motion to proceed on the bill if his amendment was not attached.

“If there are not meaningful protections for consumer freedom that will lower premiums, then the bill will not go forward,” Cruz said.

July 13, 2017

Oh Sweet JESUS, Kellyanne is now using flashcards to explain Russia. Are sock puppets next?

‘A meme is born’: Watch Kellyanne Conway use visual aids to explain why there’s no Trump-Russia collusion



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/a-meme-is-born-kellyanne-conway-uses-visual-aids-to-explain-why-theres-no-trump-russia-collusion/

In an interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday, counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway brought along some very important visual aides to “help all the people at home” dissect what’s really going on with Donald Trump and the Russian government.

Now, the ins-and-outs of Trump associates’ various connections to Russia make even a highly-engaged political observer’s head spin. Which is presumably why Conway brought along her helpful props to explain why—despite all evidence to the contrary—the only “conclusion” one can reach is not “collusion” but “illusion and delusion.”

July 13, 2017

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trumps border wall

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/341527-bill-allocates-16-billion-for-trumps-border-wall

The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises.

The bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for fiscal year 2018 also negates one of Trump’s central promises, that Mexico would pay for the construction of the wall.

“Keeping Americans safe by protecting our homeland is a top priority. This funding bill provides the resources to begin building a wall along our southern border, enhance our existing border security infrastructure, hire more border patrol agents, and fund detention operations,” said House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee Chairman John Carter.

Earlier in the day, DHS spokesman David Lapan said that the requested funding would be crucial to moving the project beyond current repairs, replacements and prototype projects.

July 12, 2017

Bastille Day: The Inauguration that Trump wanted, but didn't get.

PARIS — President Trump was not expected to attend France’s Bastille Day, which this year will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I.

But then he learned there would be a military parade.

French President Emmanuel Macron told Trump in a June 27 phone call about the event, which this year will feature U.S. and French troops marching through the historic streets near the Arc de Triomphe, fighter jets cutting through the skies above, and flags, horses and military equipment on display — the sort of spectacle that Trump wanted to stage at his own inauguration in January.

Trump told Macron he would be there, according to a White House official, and French and U.S. officials rushed to schedule a last-minute trip that will last about 27 hours and include dinner at an opulent restaurant in the Eiffel Tower and a visit to Napoleon Bonaparte’s tomb.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-loves-a-military-parade--its-one-reason-hes-heading-to-paris/2017/07/12/ccd46894-66df-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html

July 12, 2017

Trump: "I think many people would have held that meeting."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unaware of his son Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at the heart of a White House controversy, telling Reuters he only learned of it a couple of days ago.

Asked if he knew that his son was meeting with the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya in June last year, Trump said in a White House interview: “No, that I didn’t know until a couple of days ago when I heard about this.”

Trump Jr. eagerly agreed to meet the woman he was told was a Russian government lawyer who might have damaging information about Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as part of Moscow's official support for his father's presidential election campaign, according to emails the son released on Tuesday.

In the interview, Trump said he did not fault his son for holding the meeting. "I think many people would have held that meeting," the president said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-interview-idUSKBN19X2XF

July 12, 2017

Evangelicals "lay hands" on Trump in Oval Office, saying it's "such an honor" to pray for him

Johnnie Moore ن?
@JohnnieM

Such an honor to pray within the Oval Office for @POTUS & @VP .

https://twitter.com/JohnnieM/status/884942560439009281

Trump Prays With Evangelical Leaders in Oval Office
by ANDREW RAFFERTY

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent part of Wednesday praying with evangelical leaders in the Oval Office.

Social media posts from attendees show the president’s head bowed in prayer as those around him laid their hands on the commander-in-chief. Vice President Mike Pence is also seen in the picture praying.

“Such an honor to pray within the Oval Office for @POTUS & @VP ,” Johnnie Moore, a former senior vice president at Liberty University, tweeted.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the group was a faith advisory council that meets "from time to time to speak about issues important to that community."

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-prays-evangelical-leaders-oval-office-n782321