definitely not an adult.

Lost the popular vote by a historic margin, is currently “enjoying” record low approval ratings for a president at this point in his term, and today the Kochs said they were funding reps who vote against it.

That’s the holdup with the current version, but the reason they can’t fix that is because there are moderates at the other end who won’t vote for it if they capitulate to the Freedom Caucus.

This is verbatim an email I got at work today. I work in this industry. Pure gold.

“being less beholden to the delicate feelings of the insurance industry would be a good start”

Oh but they won’t impeach him over Russia! It’ll be a business thing. Conflict of interest or gross incompetence or something. Unless the FBI et al produces incontrovertible evidence they won’t do anything to risk Pence.

Why would any Republican at this point throw their support behind a guy who has a 37% approval rating and is actively being investigated by the FBI?

I think just about everyone can concur that Obamacare isn’t the perfect plan, but it wasn’t intended to be. It was a first attempt to fix our absurdly f’ed up system, and changes still need to be made (being less beholden to the delicate feelings of the insurance industry would be a good start) - even Democrats agree…

Trump’s leverage over congress is interesting to me. He is known for demanding loyalty but shows no loyalty in return. He routinely fucks over his “friends”. The cabinet sounds like they are treated as untrustworthy figureheads. And campaign allies? Chris Christie is an excellent example of what awaits someone stupid…

Precisely. Among many, many other things.

Except they aren’t because the main holdup is it isn’t vile and grasping enough. They will polish this piece of shit for weeks while Dump tantrums and the investigation into Russian agents quietly churns away...

Because the day he refuses to sign a bill they send him is they day they begin impeachment hearings.

Yep. The repubs have been playing the underdog for so long that they have no idea what to do now that theyve actually won. They have no one to point the finger at anymore. 

This is just Trump cucking Paul Ryan’s lifelong dream of installing Randian P-90X Market based solutions for Medicaid because he didn’t hop on the TrumpTrain during the campaign. Plus he doesn’t care about ACA or any replacements- it isn’t what he ran on, and it would be smart to walk away rather than enable a 2018…

I’ve lost hope. Republithugs are party over country. This bill fucks over 90% of Americans, so in the end they’ll fall in line. I of course hope I’m very wrong. I just don’t think I will be. I think tomorrow I’m going to wake up to the beginning of the end for America.

“(Although without a strong, unified Democratic Party on the other side, I’m not entirely sure where that leaves us.)“

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

Oh God please tell me he’s going to “get them” and “come after them” please! I don’t know why but it just makes me laugh to watch his tantrums. Hahahaha no one loves you Donnie you tang shaded loser!

This whole thing cracks me up. As soon as the GOP realized they now had power, they knew they were fucked. They knew they had to craft a plan after spending eight years promising that they would, they knew that it would be incredibly unpopular, they knew the ACA was enjoying record approval ratings, they knew all of…

A few pundits had speculated that the divisions within the Republican party would actually flare up if they managed to get a Republican into the White House, and that would be more damaging to them in the long run than if they lost the 2016 election.