Maddow ratings up cause liberals are paying more attention to politics cause the president is insane, if i had to guess.

At least the greedy hand in the graphic is accurately coming out of flyover country.

Look how hard he pushed the house to approve a healthcare bill that had a 17% approval rating and destroyed the lives of so many millions of people. This guy is selfishly hell bent on erasing Obama's name and doesn't give a **** how many people are harmed in the process.

I doubt they get close to any kind of agreement on healthcare. Their tent is way too wide on that. Tons of GOP govs don't want to lose the $ now, hospitals, insurance etc

And I think blaming the HFC was just convenient and they like that stuff anyway. But if they were truly on board, then like 30 moderates would probably not want to do it. Then you have the senate as well.

It's always easy to say a vote was gonna be 10 short if it didn't happen, when it was probably closer to 40-50. Another dynamic is everyone has somewhat of an idea how the vote is going to go, so a lot probably vote no/yes based on what is best for them politically, knowing already if it will pass/won't.

I wish there was a long term betting market because I would ship my net worth on a bet that 100 years from now Trump's action today regarding climate change policy will be viewed as the single most reckless action taken by a president to this point in history. Yes including slavery.

The chatter is about GOP agreeing on a bill. Any bill that fits that description will be terrible and will place no pressure on dems to support. Will die in the Senate almost certainly.

Border wall funding likely to be put on hold

President Trump's funding request for a border wall will likely be put on hold, Senate Republican leaders signaled Tuesday.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, announced at a leadership press conference that Trump's supplemental funding request will wait until later in the year.

He said the Senate and House leadership are very close to negotiating a bill to fund government for the rest of 2017.

Adding a supplemental spending bill requested by Trump to pay for military activities and a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border would complicate the talks and should be dealt with at a later date, Blunt added.
"We have the FY17 defense bill," Blunt said, noting it is the top priority of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and could be used as a vehicle to pass bills funding other federal departments.

"All of the committees, House and Senate leaderships, are working together to try to finalize the rest of the FY17 bill," he added. "My guess is that comes together better without the supplemental."
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http://thehill.com/policy/finance/32...be-put-on-hold

I'd take this bet because it's likely that won't be the most reckless thing trump does.

It's a watermelon. She came out ok - but seems pretty lucky to have done so.

A significant war would certainly have less casualties than will be tied to todays policy shift. The only thing I can think of worse would be the use of a nuclear weapon.

Environmental economists in 100 years will be counting the cost of this policy shift in the hundreds of trillions of dollars.

FYP

Already saving up my bottle tops...

But weigh your global catastrophe against this: 65,000 coal miners got to feel good momentarily.

USA! USA! USA!

Booked if you agree to post up. If you win I'll happily ship you the moniez in 2117

How would they get the Freedom caucus on board with such a move? They want to unite the party but the tea party exists to obstruct the traditional party. I just don't see that being the move. And if they go the other way they just create a worse bill.

Regardless the likely chance of them passing a bill that insures more people with better coverage for less is zero. There is no way that type of bill gets out of the house.

Trump can't just seek democratic help and get a bill voted on.

Top house republicans looking to fund Obamacare payments they previously sued over.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare...acare-payments

Is there some procedural reason why not?

In my hypothetical, Trump doesn't need the Freedom Caucus or for that matter most of the Republicans. He goes the opposite way, which is what the populist wing wants, single payer (for white people). Then he picks up most of the Dems and the moderate Republicans. In fact, if Trump can get enough Dems that it becomes clear that the bill will pass, all the rest of the non Tea Party guys will come along because it's just better politics.

She shook it off like a champ. It's one of the best TV moments ever

There's no way the GOP will come together on a health care plan just to stick it to the Democrats. Half of these greedy ****s couldn't agree on the last one because it wasn't tough enough. Like, 28 million Americans losing their care wasn't enough.

These guys are finding out the hard way how easy it was to just ***** for 8 years. Now that the ball is in their court, they can't even agree on what sport they are playing let alone know what to do with that ball.

Trump already showed he was full of hot air when he gave that ultimatum saying they were going to vote on the bill tomorrow or he'd scrap it 100%. These guys are probably laughing at Trump behind closed doors as much as we are here.

Hastert Rule. Not really a rule, but the GOP swears by it. Thou shalt not bring forward a bill without majority majority support.

You could do it by discharge petition as that would get around Paul Ryan. Problem with that is that the moderates who are likely to join with D's are also the type that I'd expect to not want to piss off GOP establishment.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/846855178104045574