|
|
Neue Antwort erstellen
Trumpcare is dead. Here are the funniest tweets memorializing its short, troubled life.
http://www.someecards.com/news/politics/...ahca-bill-dead/
Pat Robertson Yesterday: Mark My Words, The Lord Will Give Trump The Votes To Pass Trumpcare
http://www.joemygod.com/2017/03/24/pat-r...rumpcare-video/
In a single week, Donald Trump has been proven:
(1) Incompetent. His first major legislative goal – repealing and “replacing” the Affordable Care Act -- just went down in flames.
(2) A liar. FBI Director James Comey said the FBI has “no evidence” to support Trump’s trumped-up charge that Barack Obama wiretapped or otherwise monitored Donald Trump.
(3) The subject of an FBI investigation into possible collusion with Russian operatives to win the 2016 presidential campaign. Comey also said that by last July the FBI had accumulated enough “credible evidence” of such collusion begin its investigation.
It was not just a bad week for Trump. It also was an “Emperor’s New Clothes” week. Trump’s braggadocio has now been revealed as a total sham. He’s incompetent, he’s a liar, and he may well be a traitor.
Apart from his most ardent supporters, most of America is now waking up to the walking catastrophe who is now our president. That’s progress.
The Republicans Fold on Health Care
The House abandoned its legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, handing President Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan a major defeat.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...amacare/520788/
McConnell Covered Up CIA Reports That Russian Hacks Were Aimed At Electing Trump
According to a bombshell report from the Washington Post, the CIA concluded that Russia actively interfered in the election not just to destabilize our political system, but to actively elect Donald Trump.
This conclusion was not something they just pulled out of thin air. Intelligence agencies had arrived at their conclusion in September, and briefed a bipartisan group in the Senate and House about it then, along with President Obama. The President wanted to go forward with a full disclosure of the report, but Mitch McConnell quashed it, threatening to taint any disclosure with the claim that it was being made merely for political gain.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/12/mitch-...ched-disclosure
Ali Velshi Nails Tom Coburn For Lying About Healthcare
http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2017/03/a...-let-tom-coburn
More Kleptocracy: Jared Kushner, Trump Son-In-Law, Set To Make $400M Off China Tower Deal
Bloomberg reports that a company "owned by the family of Jared Kushner" has worked out a sweet deal with a Chinese company that is planning to invest $400 million in Kushners office, located at 666 Fifth Avenue. Wait, 666? The address of the devil?
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/more-k...shner-trump-son
Speaker Paul Ryan Admits Defeat: 'Obamacare For The Foreseeable Future'
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Friday laid blame for the failure of a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare on Republican members of the House, and said he would move on to other issues that “people have even more agreement on.”
“You have all heard me say this before, moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains,” Ryan said at the beginning of a press briefing. “And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today.”
Noting that “the President gave his all in this effort,” Ryan instead pinned blame on the bill’s failure on the members of his own House Republican caucus.
“There is a block of no votes that we had, that is why this didn't pass,” he said, after one reporter asked him if he blamed the conservative House Freedom Caucus for obstructing the bill.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ry...eseeable-future
RE: left McCarthyists
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 25.03.2017 14:50von mbockstette •
| 12.380 Beiträge
Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #161
Für Lesefähige und -willige:
"For starters, the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is estimated to reduce deficits by $337 billion over the next 10 years -- an important selling point for fiscal conservatives and those concerned about the sustainability of the health care system (and particularly Medicaid) going forward.
Furthermore, the legislation includes almost $600 billion in tax cuts over the next ten years by repealing many of Obamacare's taxes.
Finally, the AHCA is expected, after an initial increase in premiums in 2018 and 2019, to lower premiums in the individual market beginning in 2020, and to contribute to a more stable marketplace for health insurance. This is because of the legislation's "Patient and State Stability Fund," which gives states assistance and flexibility to help cover those with higher health expenses and pre-existing conditions, in particular.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/13/opinio...chen/index.html
Wer würde denn von den tax-cuts in angeblicher höhe von 600 Milliarden US-$ profitieren? Die mit niedrigem oder gar keinem Einkommen wohl dann doch eher nicht, oder? Die Nummer mit den tax-cuts ist doch bis zum Abwinken bekannt, Von linearen tax-cuts profitieren stets und immer die mit den höchsten Einkommen und die sind nicht auf Obamacare angewiesen. Die Reichen und die privaten Krankenversicherungen sollten durch die Abschaffung von Obamacare gehätschelt werden. Reiner Klientelismus.
"Das Scheitern des Versuchs, die unter dem demokratischen Vorgänger Obama eingeführte Gesundheitsreform zu demontieren, bedeutet eine riesige Blamage für den Präsidenten und seine Partei. Nichts hatte die Republikaner stärker geeint als die Entrüstung über «Obamacare». Sieben Jahre lang hatten sie gelobt, die unpopuläre Reform durch etwas Besseres zu ersetzen, sobald sie wieder die Macht im Weissen Haus hätten. Nun haben sie dem Land vorgeführt, dass sie dazu gar nicht in der Lage sind, weil sie sich über den richtigen Weg zutiefst uneinig sind.
Dass Trump weder mit einem Ultimatum, noch mit intensiven Einzelgesprächen eine Mehrheit für die Gesundheitsvorlage zusammentrommeln konnte, stellt den selbsternannten Meister der Verhandlungskunst bloss".
Zitat von mbockstette im Beitrag #307Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #161
Für Lesefähige und -willige:
"For starters, the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is estimated to reduce deficits by $337 billion over the next 10 years -- an important selling point for fiscal conservatives and those concerned about the sustainability of the health care system (and particularly Medicaid) going forward.
Furthermore, the legislation includes almost $600 billion in tax cuts over the next ten years by repealing many of Obamacare's taxes.
Finally, the AHCA is expected, after an initial increase in premiums in 2018 and 2019, to lower premiums in the individual market beginning in 2020, and to contribute to a more stable marketplace for health insurance. This is because of the legislation's "Patient and State Stability Fund," which gives states assistance and flexibility to help cover those with higher health expenses and pre-existing conditions, in particular.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/13/opinio...chen/index.html
Wer würde denn von den tax-cuts in angeblicher höhe von 600 Milliarden US-$ profitieren? Die mit niedrigem oder gar keinem Einkommen wohl dann doch eher nicht, oder? Die Nummer mit den tax-cuts ist doch bis zum Abwinken bekannt, Von linearen tax-cuts profitieren stets und immer die mit den höchsten Einkommen und die sind nicht auf Obamacare angewiesen. Die Reichen und die privaten Krankenversicherungen sollten durch die Abschaffung von Obamacare gehätschelt werden. Reiner Klientelismus.
"Das Scheitern des Versuchs, die unter dem demokratischen Vorgänger Obama eingeführte Gesundheitsreform zu demontieren, bedeutet eine riesige Blamage für den Präsidenten und seine Partei. Nichts hatte die Republikaner stärker geeint als die Entrüstung über «Obamacare». Sieben Jahre lang hatten sie gelobt, die unpopuläre Reform durch etwas Besseres zu ersetzen, sobald sie wieder die Macht im Weissen Haus hätten. Nun haben sie dem Land vorgeführt, dass sie dazu gar nicht in der Lage sind, weil sie sich über den richtigen Weg zutiefst uneinig sind.
Dass Trump weder mit einem Ultimatum, noch mit intensiven Einzelgesprächen eine Mehrheit für die Gesundheitsvorlage zusammentrommeln konnte, stellt den selbsternannten Meister der Verhandlungskunst bloss".
Tax cuts durch Republikaner sind gewoehnlich nur drauf konstruiert, die Einkommen der oberen 2-5% zu buttern.
Kosteneinsparungen im Healthcare Versicherungssystem dagegen kaemen allen Menschen zugute.
Davon wollen die gekauften Republikaner aber natuerlich nichts wissen.
Universal Health Care Would Save Americans $600 Billion A Year (Chart)
A study done by Gerald Friedman, an economics professor at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, found that:
With private health insurance, health-care expenditures are largely fixed with respect to income and, therefore, are a heavier burden on the poor and middle classes than on the wealthy. By linking health-care expenditures to income, a tax-funded singlepayer system would provide savings for all Americans below the wealthiest top 5 percent.
The US spends more than any other country on average when it comes to health care, yet our life expectancy for men and women is lower than the average. Data also shows that our quality of services is not any better than the average country with universal health care.
But when it comes to health care, Decision Data found that there are a few areas that are vastly inflating our spending numbers:
Americans spend 160% more on drugs vs. the Netherlands, and about 36% more than the next-highest-spending countries, (Japan and Canada). That’s partly because Americans want a pill for everything, but mostly because the US has generous patent protections for drug makers allowing them to charge high prices.
The US has a big obesity problem, ranking first in the world. 28.7% of Americans are obese versus 11.8% of people in the Netherlands. (Source above.) Obesity costs extra because of weight-related costs like diabetes. Americans over 18 are about 45% more likely to have diabetes. (USA diabetes source, Netherlands Diabetes source.)
Hospital costs in the US are the highest in the world at $10,300 per stay. Hospital costs make up 16% of total healthcare costs. In the Netherlands, the average hospital stay costs about $4,100. These are primarily administrative costs which include legal staff and expenses, (arguably because Americans like to sue each other). US hospitals also have higher-than-average profit margins.
Decision Data notes that since Americans are unlikely to get thinner overnight, we’ll have to assume the costs associated with obesity until we decide as a country to take our weight problem seriously. The other thing that couldn’t change overnight, although curbing drug costs is currently under review in the U.S. Senate, is the insane price of prescription drugs — but the prices for prescriptions could eventually be scaled down. Another factor contributing to high health care costs is the higher-than-average salary our doctors receive. It would be unfair to scale U.S. doctors’ average wage of $243,000 back to the next highest country’s — Australia’s $173,000 annual salary — so we would have to assume that cost into government spending as well.
Even so, private companies are unlikely to disappear entirely in the U.S. so using the Netherlands model of the government covering 80 percent of costs of health care would be the most comparable model to compare our costs. Including drug costs and obesity, we still land at spending around $6,189 per person on average because we eliminate costs associated with administration fees for insurance companies. Insurance CEO salaries, advertising, and the back and forth between doctors offices and insurance companies is where the savings comes in. Making one unilateral health care plan would streamline the health care process in that regard.
Friedman’s study also found:
“A single-payer system would produce huge administrative savings by simplifying billing operations within providers’ offices and hospitals, and by redistributing the monopoly profits currently enjoyed by pharmaceutical makers and other companies.”
http://reverbpress.com/politics/economic...ion-year-chart/
So allmaehlich kommt die Journaille in Schwung und macht den verlogenen Republikanerscheiss nicht mehr mit.
Courtesy Tom Bucceri... Andrew Sullivan, quoting David French:
"I’ve watched Christian friends laugh hysterically at Trump’s tweets, positively delighted that they cause fits of rage on the other side. I’ve watched them excuse falsehoods from reflexively-defensive White House aides, claiming 'it’s just their job' to defend the president.
Since when is it any person’s job to help their boss spew falsehoods into the public domain? And if that does somehow come to be your job, aren’t you bound by honor to resign?
It is not difficult, in a free society, to tell a man (no matter how powerful they are or how much you love access to that power), 'Sir, I will not lie for you.'
Trump isn’t just doing damage to himself. As he lures a movement into excusing his falsehoods, he does damage to the very culture and morality of his base."...
Is Political Gravity Finally Sinking Donald Trump?
Is he waving or drowning? Swimming or sinking?
I ask this question because we’re more than two months in and the trauma has not subsided, but it has, perhaps, bifurcated. Sure, Trump still shows alarming potential as a would-be tyrant, contemptuous of constitutional proprieties, and prone to trashing every last norm of liberal democracy. But he is also beginning to appear simultaneously as a rather weak chief executive, uninterested in competent management or follow-through, bedeviled by divisions within his own party, transfixed by cable news, and swiftly discrediting himself by an endless stream of lies, delusions, and conspiracy theories. Even the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal challenged his credibility last Tuesday. They did this because, at this point, among sane people, he quite obviously has none.
The polling, meanwhile, is brutal. Gallup puts Trump a full 21 percentage points below average for presidents at this point of their administration. ...
...But the lamest of the enablers are the anti-anti-Trumpers, those conservatives who know full well the depravity of this president, and yet focus on his opponents (I’m looking at you, National Review, with a few honorable exceptions). So much hysteria, these knowing right-wingers sigh. Ignore the character flaws, they urge. Just look at the tax cuts. And, er, Gorsuch! No, Trump won’t actually bring back a major tariff, they insist. Our system is far too robust for soft despotism. And so on. The Republicans who recently told us that an FBI investigation disqualified someone from the presidency are now telling us there’s nothing to see in the Russia mess. And the moralists who impeached a president because of his low character and lies are now silent when it comes to the putrid excrescence now preening in the Oval Office.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...er+%281+Year%29
Let Us Now Appreciate Paul Ryan's Utter Failure as a Political Leader
The rollout of the American Health Care Act, by contrast, was a mystifying debacle. And as much as anything, its demise is an indictment of Paul Ryan that should shatter what's left of his myth as competent policy thinker or political leader.
Aside from the ocassional PowerPoint, it's really not clear what the man is good for.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017...f245d7f4020bc76
GOP Smoke Screen Falls Apart: Devin Nunes Won’t Deny The Source For His Wiretap Claim Was Trump
Unable to provide evidence or even say who his "source" is, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) refused to confirm or deny if his "source" was the Trump White House.
Nunes is sorry. So sorry he went to President Trump and the press with “evidence” that Trump was not lying when he falsely accused President Obama of wiretapping him.
Unable to provide evidence or even say who his “source” is, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) refused to confirm or deny if his “source” was the Trump White House. Nunes further said he couldn’t show his committee the information the “source” provided to him.
If the “source” of his “evidence” wasn’t the Trump White House, which is known for seeing events that never actually happened and standing by these thin conspiracies no matter the facts, it seems like Nunes would have been happy to announce that.
Instead, we have the bomb thrown yesterday to muddy the waters and feed the Trump cult, who still believe that Obama wiretapped Trump and that Nunes’ revelation that there were multiple FISA warrants under which Trump was caught colluding with Russia somehow exonerates him.
Nunes won’t say his source wasn’t the White House and he won’t show anyone his evidence.
This is the person Republicans chose to run the House Intelligence Committee.
Nunes gives all appearances of working as a propaganda machine for President Trump rather than serving as Intel Chair of a very serious investigation that impacts our national security and sovereignty.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/23/n...hite-house.html
Trump: When the President Says It, That Means It’s True
The commander in chief embraces a peculiar worldview in which bogus claims are retroactively justified and evidence simply conjured into existence.
....Perhaps that is not because of a blithe ignorance of this looming danger, but because the president is incapable of telling truth and falsehood apart.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...t-facto/520551/
Trump legte Merkel Rechnung in Milliardenhöhe vor
http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/treff...id_6836877.html
:-)))
RE: left McCarthyists
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 27.03.2017 13:00von Maga-neu •
| 35.169 Beiträge
Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #314
Trump legte Merkel Rechnung in Milliardenhöhe vor
http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/treff...id_6836877.html
:-)))
Die positivste Sache der Trump-Präsidentschaft ist m. E., dass wir Europäer vielleicht endlich gezwungen werden, uns zu emanzipieren. Allerdings ist die Doofheit der Regierenden nicht zu unterschätzen - und das gilt eben nicht nur für Trump...
Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #315Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #314
Trump legte Merkel Rechnung in Milliardenhöhe vor
http://www.focus.de/politik/videos/treff...id_6836877.html
:-)))
Die positivste Sache der Trump-Präsidentschaft ist m. E., dass wir Europäer vielleicht endlich gezwungen werden, uns zu emanzipieren. Allerdings ist die Doofheit der Regierenden nicht zu unterschätzen - und das gilt eben nicht nur für Trump...
Und gleich wieder die Flucht zu Allgemeinplaetzen und Generalisierungen -nur um Trumpsky zu relativieren und der Versuch, den impact seiner Negativa abzuschwaechen.
So durchsichtig wie lachhaft. :-)
RE: left McCarthyists
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 08:40von nahal •
| 24.465 Beiträge
"A former top Obama administration official has acknowledged efforts by her colleagues to gather intelligence on Trump team ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and to conceal the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/...trump-team.html
RE: left McCarthyists
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 14:00von Maga-neu •
| 35.169 Beiträge
Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #318Werde meinen Nick umändern in MIGA (Make Italy Great Again):
Endlich ist es raus!!! Man versteht, was MAGA eigentlich bedeutet!!! :-))
Donald J. TrumpVerifizierter Account
@realDonaldTrump
...money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!
https://www.google.de/search?q=roman+emp...=2IcT7hjhVAiGgM:
RE: left McCarthyists
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 14:25von nahal •
| 24.465 Beiträge
Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #319Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #318Werde meinen Nick umändern in MIGA (Make Italy Great Again):
Endlich ist es raus!!! Man versteht, was MAGA eigentlich bedeutet!!! :-))
Donald J. TrumpVerifizierter Account
@realDonaldTrump
...money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!
https://www.google.de/search?q=roman+emp...=2IcT7hjhVAiGgM:
Nix da, zu spät. Bist entlarvt.
Es gibt glaubwürdige Gerüchte (Leaks aus dem Clinton-e-mail-Server), Senate Intelligence Ausschuß erwägt eine Untersuchung, ob nicht DU die Ursache für Trumps Wahlsieg bist.
RE: left McCarthyists
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 16:23von Maga-neu •
| 35.169 Beiträge
Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #320Erwischt. Trump ist sozusagen meine Marionette. :-)Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #319Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #318Werde meinen Nick umändern in MIGA (Make Italy Great Again):
Endlich ist es raus!!! Man versteht, was MAGA eigentlich bedeutet!!! :-))
Donald J. TrumpVerifizierter Account
@realDonaldTrump
...money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!
https://www.google.de/search?q=roman+emp...=2IcT7hjhVAiGgM:
Nix da, zu spät. Bist entlarvt.
Es gibt glaubwürdige Gerüchte (Leaks aus dem Clinton-e-mail-Server), Senate Intelligence Ausschuß erwägt eine Untersuchung, ob nicht DU die Ursache für Trumps Wahlsieg bist.
RE: The craziness of the political Right.
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 16:28von Willie (gelöscht)
Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #317
"A former top Obama administration official has acknowledged efforts by her colleagues to gather intelligence on Trump team ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and to conceal the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/...trump-team.html
Fox News.
Home of "Judge" Napolitano... :-D :- D
RE:The craziness of the political Right.
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 16:31von Willie (gelöscht)
Donald Trump’s lawyers say a sexual harassment lawsuit will “distract the president from his duties”
Donald Trump's legal team is employing a strategy that failed when Bill Clinton tried it 20 years ago ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/29/donald-t...rom-his-duties/
RE: The craziness of the political Right.
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 16:34von Willie (gelöscht)
Republicans vote to block resolutions on Trump's tax returns
The House and its tax-writing committee voted on Tuesday to block Democratic resolutions demanding President Trump’s tax returns.
The votes were the latest of many Democratic attempts to get Congress to request Trump’s tax returns. While none of the attempts have been successful so far, Democrats are pushing the topic to force Republicans to go on the record about Trump.
During a markup that got heated at times, the House Ways and Means Committee rejected a measure to direct the Treasury Department to provide the House with Trump’s tax returns and other financial information.
The panel voted to report the measure to the House floor “unfavorably” on a party-line vote of 24-16.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/326220...mps-tax-returns
RE:The craziness of the political Right.
in Redakteure/Politiker/Parteien 30.03.2017 16:36von Willie (gelöscht)
"Don't call them idiots. They are not benign bunglers. They are malicious, nefarious, greedy, cravenly, and cowardly. They don't care about life at a lower pay grade. They don't care about the planet in 100 years when they'll be long dead. They care about their money now, and calling them idiots relinquishes a certain amount of responsibility for their actions."
~Andy House The New York Times reader
E.P.A. Chief, Rejecting Agency’s Science, Chooses Not to Ban Insecticide
Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, moved late on Wednesday to reject the scientific conclusion of the agency’s own chemical safety experts who under the Obama administration recommended that one of the nation’s most widely used insecticides be permanently banned at farms nationwide because of the harm it potentially causes children and farm workers.
The ruling by Mr. Pruitt, in one of his first formal actions as the nation’s top environmental official, rejected a petition filed a decade ago by two environmental groups that had asked that the agency ban all uses of chlorpyrifos. The chemical was banned in 2000 for use in most household settings, but still today is used at about 40,000 farms on about 50 different types of crops, ranging from almonds to apples.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/po...lorpyrifos.html
Bitte geben Sie einen Grund für die Verwarnung an
Der Grund erscheint unter dem Beitrag.Bei einer weiteren Verwarnung wird das Mitglied automatisch gesperrt.
 Besucher
0 Mitglieder und 14 Gäste sind Online Wir begrüßen unser neuestes Mitglied: Corto Besucherzähler Heute waren 205 Gäste und 2 Mitglieder online. |
 Forum Statistiken
|
 | Einfach ein eigenes Forum erstellen |