100 Days And Counting

                One hundred days is 3% of an eight-year presidency, or 6% of four years for you liberal optimists who may not have a calculator handy. The first 100 days is one of the presidential measuring sticks the media has used consistently, however, since FDR had to remake almost everything economic during the panic of The Great Depression.

                It seems to me President Trump has had a really busy and productive first 100 days. Oddly a check of CNN, Fox and Wikipedia come up with three different sets of numbers (by 3-7 things) of the number of bills and executive orders the President cranked out from the White House. Wikipedia included a category called “Presidential Memorandums” which may explain some of the difference.

                CNN’s take is that Trump’s first 100 days have been more failure than success. Fox’s is the opposite. Wikipedia makes no evaluation but the list will make your head spin.

                From seemingly little things I had either forgotten about or never knew, like a suspended reduction of Federal Housing mortgage insurance premium rates to some more substantial things I did know like approving the Keystone and Dakota pipelines.

                My personal favorite—an executive order—is the decree that no new Federal agency regulation can be added without first removing two old ones.  I fist-pump and cheer whenever I reread that one.

                One can say with reasonable accuracy that in 100 days of the Trump Presidency there have been 30 executive orders issued and 28 (or 32?) new bills signed into law, 13 of which were roll backs of Obama regulations. (Insert smiley face emoticon here.)

                CNN declares the Presidency “a failure in the midst of party turmoil,” citing “crushing defeats” on immigration reform, The Wall on our southern border, and the repeal of Obamacare.

                I’m willing to bet the book isn’t exactly closed on any of those three topics and running the country isn’t like a sporting event where 100 days signals the end of a contest, pick up your seat cushion and thermos and go home.

                Media Research Group says the news coverage of the first 100 days of Trump’s Presidency have been skewed 89% toward the negative. There have been a total of 18 minutes of national news coverage on Trump’s jobs creation and 10 minutes on treaty negotiations and improved foreign relations with the likes of Egypt, China, Israel and others.

                If that’s wrong it’s because the MRG put out bad information. I didn’t make it up. We don’t do the Associated Press or CNN thing here without telling you we are.

                Negative reporting 89% of the time keeps the Left’s political thought circular, indeed, but it’s not a real stretch to suggest maybe a teensy bit of media bias, do ya’ think?

                Take for instance the first time a Supreme Court Justice has been approved in a president’s first 100 days since 1881. Positive, right? Mostly all we heard in the news (and not for very long before they moved on to something more real) was that the republicans cheated and invoked a nuclear option provision to vote Neil Gorsuch in with less than 60 votes. The first time a Supreme Court Justice had ever been approved in such a manner.

                Conveniently forgotten was that it was Harry Reid, that liberal poster boy and progressive rascal, that invented the Senate’s “nuclear option” to get over 100 Federal judges installed during Obama’s presidency.

                I wonder if we traded one Supreme Court appointment for 100 some odd Federal appointments if we’d have had the perfectly constitutional and legal Presidential Executive Order on immigration stayed twice in minor Federal courts?

                Eventually we will spank their little bottoms in in The Supreme Court and a more sane immigration policy for a part of the world that regularly exports death will become effective but it will have to be later, rather than sooner, it appears. Like I said, it’s not a sporting event.

                And no, we didn’t get Obamacare fixed yet and who knows for sure what’s going on there. I suspect repairs, repeals and revisions are inevitable as The ACA will suffocate in its own vomit if we don’t do something.

                According to Rand Paul the profits in the health insurance industry went from $6 billion per year to $15 billion per year under Obamacare and I am cynical enough to believe with that much money involved not all the Representatives and Senators, not to mention the silly fellow it’s named after, have got pure motives. (Ok, that was sort of an AP-like thing.)

                President Trump says he is frustrated by some of the mechanisms of government and I’d imagine after running a multi-billion-dollar business empire, being dependent on about 500 guys and gals that can’t agree on lunch, let alone the future of U.S. healthcare, is more than a bit perplexing.

                Unlike CNN I don’t fault the President for that. He got Congress off center. He just didn’t envision that would mean they would walk blindly into their own unique roadblock, whether because of childishness or criminality or political grandstanding.

                This whole wall thing is kind of baffling to me too.  The democrats are declaring a victory because the President withdrew a request for its funding out of the budget. Indeed, even Rush and Hannity nearly lost their minds over the notion Trump didn’t try to ram the funding through and the possible suggestion (by others) that maybe the wall wouldn’t be built.

                I have said all along, and I doubt I’m alone, it doesn’t matter to me if we physically build a solid wall from the Gulf to the Pacific as long as we secure the border, right? So, this past week Brandon Judd, president of the Border Guards Labor Union, said that illegal border crossings were at a 17-year-low as a result of merely enforcing existing laws. Rand Paul, addressing the same issue, cited a 14-year-low.

                I’ll take either number, personally. All I want is to be safe and to quit giving benefits reserved for Americans to those who don’t even have the decency to knock on the door before they come in. Maybe we need a wall. Maybe not. Either way I’d count a 17-year low as a win, but then I’m not part of any real media and certainly not the one putting out negative information about the President 89% of the time.

                I don’t really have space to properly credit President Trump for the 11^th hour phone calls from the heads of Mexico and Canada asking for an opportunity to renegotiate NAFTA. If that happens, and it probably will, the media, who may know less about business than most politicians, will probably count that as Trump going back on his word about eliminating NAFTA.

                He doesn’t call me and tell me stuff but I’m guessing Trump is thinking he is getting exactly what he wants, which is fair reciprocity for United States businesses in their dealings with our North American partners. Sure he’d have tossed NAFTA if he had to and he still might. But doesn’t it make more sense to simply renegotiate it and make all sides feel like winners if possible rather than enter the hostile but still better U.S. trade position that would have resulted otherwise?

                Does anyone else think the first real businessman President in U.S. history with a personal wealth around $5 billion before he got elected might have known it might end up this way? Anyone out there personally negotiate a lot of deals at this level?

                Oh, and did anybody notice after his visit here President Xi of China told North Korea they were on their own if they don’t knock it off? China has also quit shipping them coal and in the last week or two moved 175,000 troops to their border with North Korea. (I didn’t get the attribution for that jotted down. I was driving. Sorry.)

                Way over 1,000 words sorry. But I do think I’ll stick around and watch another 100 days. It’s actually kind of fun watching media heads explode.

O'Fox is O'Fine

                Callum Borchers of The Washington Post had an editorial piece this week on the big Fox O’Reilly scandal wondering if the network will be able to survive the turmoil with which it’s popular time slots have been beset in the last eight months.

 Indeed, Greta Van Susteren left Fox News last September because she was “disturbed by the culture.” That probably doesn’t mean what the left would like us to believe—that the big forced sex party at Fox News is too much for women to bear—since Greta was a staunch defender of Roger Ailes, the network CEO who resigned following a flurry of sexual harassment accusations which Greta felt had turned into a bit of a witch hunt.

                I am not saying there was or wasn’t sexual harassment by Ailes. I’m just repeating what Greta said. Look it up yourself.

                Then Megyn Kelly abandoned ship in January after a tenuous relationship with our new President and his millions of supporters who also happened to be Fox news viewers. She cited the desire to spend more time with her young children as the primary motivator for her move to NBC and more power to her for that. I can only begin to imagine the time demands that come with an eight-figure salary.

                Martha MacCallum replaced Greta in the 7 p.m. time slot and turned in the biggest quarter in that time slot’s history in the first quarter of 2017. Same with Tucker Carlson at 9 p.m. where he replaced Megyn.

                Borchers even cedes those facts in his editorial and follows the concessions immediately with the question, “But how many more changes can Fox News withstand?”

                Do you think he means before the network is overcome with success?

                The most recent data I can find still shows Fox News with more than double the viewership of MSNBC between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Go ahead and pick a different time slot, libs, if you think that will cheer you up. (Spoiler alert: It will not.)

                None of this is to defend Bill O’Reilly against the mounting allegations of sexual harassment, nor am I prepared to jump on the Crucifixion Committee. What I am is stunned by the Left’s continued war on any possibility the Right could enjoy success or popularity when the Left doesn’t want it to be so.

                Fox and O’Reilly did pay $13 million to five women over several years. That’s a real fact, not an Associated Press speculation. It’s also a lot of money per incident. I’ve heard many Left Wing media heads assert that where there is smoke there must be fire.

                Bill Clinton was accused of all manner of rape and assault as well as “simple” harassment 17 times in 30 years. (How big must that bonfire be?) But the only payout on public record is $850,000 from Clinton to Paula Jones.

                Seventeen claims and you can finish your term as president of the United States. Five claims and you have to resign as a TV show host. I’m not saying either man may be a shining example of good citizenship but the irony in what we will allow in professional standards for a U.S. President v. a conservative network talk show host is a little striking isn’t it?

                O’Reilly doesn’t need me to chime in on his defense. Right or wrong, he’ll be okay. He’ll syndicate a column or start a blog or write some more books and continue to have ten times more fans than Don Lemon’s mom can muster for The Lemonhead Fan Club. (Ok, that was exactly like an Associated Press factoid.)

                And Fox News will be fine, which you would think is obvious but if Callum Borchers can actually get ten column inches in a syndicated op-ed to suggest they will not be then there are probably others salivating over the imagined demise of the one and only, single, solitary conservative news channel in existence in these United States.

                Borchers reports (wait…no, I guess that’s right, he reported something) that Fox25News in Boston is changing their name to Boston25News in the wake of the Bill O’Reilly scandal because they consider the Fox News Label—the one still twice as popular as its closest competitor—to be a liability. And because they are run by the dumbest executives in TV since the clowns at A & E were ready to can Duck Dynasty (the most watched 30-minute show IN HISTORY) because Phil Robertson answered a question he was asked in an interview honestly if not politically correctly.

                I know it drives the Left crazy that we even exist, let alone in the numbers we do—you know, the kind of numbers that can elect a President they don’t like or dominate TV news ratings with the one show they hate more than broccoli—but I would hate it if we lost the lone voice of conservatism on TV.

                You certainly can’t count on liberal media scum to report things like President Trump quietly completing negotiations last week for the release of six U.S. citizens imprisoned in Cairo for three years without any evidence against them for any crime and without ever being granted a trial or a hearing of any kind.

Two of the U.S. detainees were Aya Hijazi and her husband Muhammed Hassanein. Call me racist but I think those sound like Middle Eastern names, maybe even Muslim. And we all know Donald Trump wants to throw all Muslims out of the United States. So since it doesn’t fit the leftist narrative let’s not report it at all.

In fairness, I did a sweep of print media looking for that story and I did find three paragraphs under “News Briefs” buried on the inside pages of none other than The Denver Post—my favorite opposition newsletter.

So Obama was president for most of the three years they were imprisoned and nothing happened. In less than 90 days Our President brought them home without releasing any terrorists or delivering any pallets of cash. Huh.

Remember all the front-page press Obama got for emptying five cells at Guantanamo Bay for the return of one U.S. soldier. Until he turned out to be a deserter who had gone AWOL and endangered his entire unit in the search for his sorry hind parts. Then it became a slightly quieter story, unless of course you tuned in occasionally to the lying bastards on Fox News.

Trump negotiated the return of six Americans quietly, without a press conference, without requesting a parade or any laurels for doing what comes as second nature to him (that would be “the right thing” in case you watched the Obama presidency so closely for so long you forgot what that was). Just like he has done so often for underprivileged people for whom he has purchased houses, provided jobs and paid tuition without seeking attention for it.

And certainly without receiving any credit for it from the base creatures on the left who sell us their “news” as if they can tell fact from fiction.

Yes, I would miss the voice that told us what the Left didn’t want us to know. But I am more than certain that Fox News will continue to outshine the best the Left can put out there as cutting edge journalism, or whatever it is.

           
            I just want to put my two cents worth in right here to begin to lobby for Dennis Miller to replace Bill O’Reilly. Not only would it be wildly entertaining, it might actually cause some strokes and aneurisms among the Callum Borchers of the world when Fox, once again, shattered their own records.

The Million Dollar Question

                Earlier this week the City of Denver on behalf of the Denver Police Department agreed to award the parents of Jessica Hernandez $1,000,000 in compensation for her death at the hands of police officers in January of 2015.

                Jessica was 17 years old and had stolen a car which she and friends had been out in all night. In the morning officers spotted them in the car at the end of an alley smoking marijuana (legal, yes, but not if you’re 17…in a stolen car). Officers approached the car and ordered the kids to get out. The kids were indeed unarmed.

                Except for the 4,000 lb. vehicle which Jessica maneuvered until it was pointed at police and then accelerated toward them using the car as a weapon. The two officers feared for their safety in a tight alley with little room to escape and fired eight shots at the car to stop her. Jessica was struck by three bullets and died.  One of the officers was struck by the car and suffered a broken leg.

                After the mandatory period of administrative leave following a critical incident both officers were immediately exonerated and no charges were filed. It was determined they were acting within policy, that their lives were in danger and that their response was appropriate. This was agreed upon by the District Attorney and the DPD Review Board.

                The reason for the settlement then was that it would have cost the city more than the $999,999 (the actual amount involved for some reason I’m sure makes sense to attorneys) to go to court. Oh, and to help Jessica’s parents find closure, of course.

                Almost immediately after the incident the ACLU and the Colorado Latino Forum were involved and their voices were much louder than those of the family in seeking “justice” for the death of a young car thief who had attempted, at the very least, assault if not murder in that tight alley.

                The Associated Press made a national story out of it and because they were involved the facts took a back seat to the narrative and agenda. The New York Daily Times even sent a reporter out who was able to determine (journalism gives you incredible omniscience)  that the other four teens in the car were “narrowly missed” by the officers careless bullets.

                But before all that, and I never saw it reported again, one of Jessica’s cousins appointed himself the family’s mouthpiece as everyone else was understandably too shaken to talk to the press. And in a TV interview on I believe the very night of the incident I heard him say that no one was concerned with anyone being blamed for Jessica’s death, he just wanted to see “the family get what they had coming to them.”

                I guess that turned out to be $999,999.

                With the help of the ACLU the AP immediately began floating stories that Jessica was young, Latina, and LGBT and sometimes Q (why is anyone promoting the use of the “Q” word?) and the discrimination by law enforcement against those three groups had been well documented and observed in recent months. (Remember this was back shortly after the troubles in Fergeson, MO, and anywhere else the media could find a nonwhite lawbreaker who had been killed in confrontations with police.)

                Ok, I get the police could have made the young and Latina ID through the windshield of the car. The cops I know are pretty smart and they can tell young and brown-skinned when they see it. But my son the cop assures me that there is no training at the academy or on the job that teaches them to tell if someone is gay or not through the windshield of a car.

                You only achieve that level of genius if you report for the Associated Press.

                Not that that has anything to do with the cop’s decision to shoot. One witness, who said she watched the incident from her backyard, said the cops had alternatives citing stun guns and rubber bullets. I am more familiar with tasers and nonlethal rounds than you might think and I can assure you that neither is a good choice when trying to stop a car speeding toward you driven by someone with apparent malicious intent. But the media printed it anyway.

                The family issued a statement through the ACLU which the AP published from coast to coast that they were “dismayed the DPD defended the officers by blaming Jessica for her own death.”

                I may have to agree with you there Mom and Dad that it was not Jessica’s fault.  It is really hard for me not to be so judgmental that I would blame the parents for their daughter’s death.

                If you’ve read this far at least some of you are wondering like me, “What was your 17-year-old daughter doing out partying all night on a school night in a car she stole smoking up the last of the pot as the sun came up and the cops found her? Did you even wonder where the hell she was?”

                Please, share with us the parenting skills and the steps in behavioral modification that led to those results.

                True, I know excellent parents whose kids have ended up in trouble with the law for one reason or another. Sometimes a kid just takes a wrong turn or has some experiences beyond parental control. But I don’t know anyone personally whose kid tried to run over a pair of cops with a car, stolen or otherwise.

                I do, however, know another cop pretty well who has been forced to kill drivers of cars on two separate occasions when they were aiming their cars at him and accelerating directly at him using their vehicles as deadly weapons. It’s not my son so relax, this particular circumstance is not my personal axe to grind. Yet.

                That officer was also exonerated as acting appropriately and I would suspect in most municipalities around the country a vehicle can be classified as a deadly weapon when used as one.

                Neither of his incidents drew the attention of the ACLU or the national coverage of the sensational (and I don’t mean that in a good way) Associated Press. It made two paragraph mentions in the News Briefs section of the The Denver Post and you never heard about it again unless you knew the guy.

                Both of the drivers that officer was forced to shoot in self-defense were white.

                You can’t believe how it sickens me to acknowledge that. I thought eight years ago we were so far beyond that. I grew up in Colorado surrounded by people of Latino descent. Sure, I can usually identify brown skin when I see it but it has rarely meant anything to me in a racial context.

                They are my neighbors. They are my friends. My wife and I don’t discuss their skin color when we decide if we’re going to hang out with them or not. The very fact I am typing “they” makes me nauseous.

                We are Americans and this is nonsense.

                $999,999 worth of nonsense. So, Ms. Rosales and Mr. Hernandez (Jessica’s mom and dad), I hope a million dollars makes the guilt go away. I’m glad Jessica’s cousin got what he wanted for you.

Lines In The Sand

                After 70 days in office President Donald Trump has played golf once every 5.6 days compared to only once every 8.8 days in 8 years for former President Barack Obama. So there.

                There actually was a whole article in the Washington Post today (4/9/17) comparing the two president’s golf habits. Written by a fellow named Phillip Bump. (Bump, Phillip Bump.) It’s intent, not surprisingly, was to make President Trump look like a real slacker and I’m wondering who might be buying that after the two-month whirlwind of activity in the White House.

 This, three days after President Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk missiles to be fired at the Syrian airbase in Sharyat from which, this past week, Syrian President Bashar Assad launched a deadly and internationally illegal chemical attack on a village in his own country.

                How desperate are the left and their media clowns to distract us from the shift in actual leadership that has occurred in The White House? The word nitpicking comes to mind. Is nitpicking a real word?

                But hey, if the left wishes to compare presidents let’s rock.

                In 2013 B. Hussein O. drew a “line in the sand” and told Assad he’d best not cross it or else, regarding the internationally agreed upon ban of the use of certain horrific chemical weapons. By 2013 it was pretty clear how much backbone Barry had so Assad went ahead and launched a predictably deadly chemical attack on his own people.  In fairness, those women, children and elderly victims were related to healthy young males who were trying to overthrow Assad.

                “Or else” turned out to be a series of polls of the American public and some conversations with Congressional leaders (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one) about what a retaliation may or may not do to President Jell-O’s approval ratings. Barry’s ultimate hard line decision in support of humanitarianism everywhere was to move the line in the sand back a few yards and say, “Well, you’d better not do it again ‘cuz this time I really, really mean it.” Which led to the civil war Syria is currently engaged in and Syrian refugees seeking cover anyplace they can find it. Except in Syria, of course.

                Uh-huh.

                It’s not like Donald Trump didn’t ask the American people how they felt about taking action against despots like Assad. He asked us to believe in him when he campaigned.  We did and we elected him president no matter how much they don’t like it in La-La-Land or the dreaded 5 Boroughs.

                So this time when Assad did the unthinkable, President Trump almost immediately unleashed a strike of firepower aimed mostly at infrastructure and not so much at people that sent a message even Mark Cuban would have understood that said, “If you think this is badass, wait and see what happens if you do it again.”

                And then he went back into dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said, “So, let’s talk about North Korea, shall we?”

                I know that Saturday there was another Syrian bombing run on that same village. But there were not any chemical weapons used.  Not this time. Three people died. Per bomb dropped I’m not sure Assad got his money’s worth but I’m sure it made him feel better.

                For those of you who don’t recognize it because of the numbing, apologetic, embarrassing eight years prior, this is what decisive leadership looks like.

                The Russians, by the way, have condemned President Trump’s actions as an act of aggression against one of their allies. That could get interesting.

                Additionally, Iran has condemned his actions as well and the Associated Press actually tried to make it sound like it should be an ominous surprise Iran was critical of the U.S.  I just finished laughing a few minutes ago.

                I haven’t watched CNN since Wednesday night when I was trapped in a hotel room but I just haven’t seen anything in the newspapers or online explaining how President Trump and his good buddy Vlad Putin are spinning this for the media as part of the evil plan they put together when Putin hacked Podesta’s email and made us all vote for Donald Trump so this day could come.

                Fortunately, when I talk to other people it turns out I’m not the only one who wonders who in the world the media, democrats and I-wish-I-was-a-democrat republicans are talking to when they assert that the Russians would have rather had Donald Trump in the White House rather than H.R. Clinton, who would have given then four more years of drawing stick art in the sand while cowering in the residential quarters of the White House.

                Can we please stop this nonsense over Russia’s use of psy-ops on an unsuspecting American public who, without their help, would never have figured out that H. Clinton was completely corrupt in the most criminal sense of the term, not to mention disrespectful of the nation, it’s people and the constitution that governs us?

                Maybe this country could use a little focus by its Congressional leaders (that silly term again) on health care, jobs creation and helping the President secure our borders and our safety. Maybe.

                Nearly lastly, I know the media is quite upset that President Trump won’t share his long-term strategy for ending the civil war in Syria and tidying things up in the Middle East in general other than to say we are first going to minimize ISIS and drive those savages back underground where they belong and then we will attend to the nation state issues that seem to flourish in the region. The media is also upset he won’t share the details of how he plans to deal with ISIS.

                I just have to ask, what makes that group of news prostitutes think they have any right to know or evaluate what our military strategy is in advance of its execution? They must be teaching a lot more heady stuff in journalism school now than when I was in college.

                I applaud President Trump for laughing at the Fake News Folks and telling them he is not going to share that information so they can broadcast it worldwide to help the enemy get a head start on defending themselves. I would ask what happened to common sense but in the media these days there is no more rhetorical question.

                By the way, this just in and I don’t know if it’s true or not but that works just fine for the Associated Press: Barack Obama won 3019 more games of HORSE on the White House basketball court than Donald Trump will ever win. So there.

Shut Up And Do Your Jobs!

                When you consider how many centuries it took us as a country and how many millennia it took us as a species to become socially aware enough that it needed to be a daily debate where those wronged by God or nature with the wrong genitalia should get to urinate it is no wonder we are struggling with our health care system.

 

It is a wonder we are able to take on nourishment without stabbing ourselves in the eye with a fork.

 

Which is exactly what I want to do when I think of the agony we are putting ourselves through trying to figure out how as a society we can fairly offer health care to all at a cost that doesn’t unduly burden everybody in the equation.

 

Somebody a lot smarter than me once suggested that if you want to know how things get done in Washington you just need to follow the money. But I have had a hard time finding out just whose pockets the insurance companies must be lining to overflowing in Congress.

 

That seems to me to be the only possible explanation for why we would hesitate to allow or require insurance companies to compete across state lines. Other people a lot smarter than me believe that alone would bring down premium costs faster than a rock in water.

 

Not to mention allowing small businesses to band together for the purpose of purchasing policies at group rather than individual rates.

 

And does anyone else wonder what a tonsillectomy really costs? When you go to a doctor or hospital for anything no one says, “this procedure is going to cost $7,830, would you like to buy it?” Nope, they just say, “you need this procedure or you’ll die” and you have no idea what it costs until you get the bill in the mail. And even then you don’t know until you get your insurance statement telling the provider, “well, we will only pay $600 for your $7,800 procedure, and our client/your patient will cheerfully pay another $1,500 of their deductible. How would that be?”

 

And everybody says, “Ok,” except maybe you who says “Hey, wait a minute…” but no one cares.

 

It’s not my original observation (all those people smarter than me again), but name one other thing you consume where the price is a post purchase surprise. Does that seem right to you?

 

Plus, if I have Blue Cross Insurance and you have Humana and my provider says they’ll pay the $600 and my deductible is $1,500 but your Humana says they’ll pay $800 and your deductible is $2,500 for the exact same procedure and neither of us had a chance to say “I think I’ll go on Craig’s List and shop for a better deal,” that seems kind of messed up too.

 

I’m not in favor of having the government, of all corruptible entities, set standardized medical rates but doesn’t it seem like the cost of healthcare should be a little more transparent? Imagine what might happen if the cost of a triple bypass were subject to the same laws of a free market as buying a car.

 

Ok, there might be some good arguments against opening up surgical procedures to the lowest bidder but a little transparency in a more open market would surely bring costs down.

 

For a society that thinks it is so enlightened we can spend months debating where a guy can pee if he thinks he’s a girl, we have sure made some really simple concepts complicated.

 

I do know there is little about our health care dilemma that is actually simple, but good grief.

 

There are many who think the issue is so complicated that we ought to just let the government manage the whole thing and then we won’t have to worry about it. There are at least an equal number of us who think letting the government manage something as complex and important as health care might be the dumbest thing we have ever done as a country.

 

I know they’re really happy about universal health care in Iceland and Finland but we are not nearly the homogenous societies with common values that those countries are. Sorry.

 

                The Republican Party can’t even agree on a proposal to try and remedy the situation which has me more angry than any other piece of this puzzle. We knew when President Trump was elected that repealing and replacing Obamacare was at the very top of his to do list.

 

                Why then, weren’t we prepared with a multitude of proposals prior to January 20^th for how to get that done? Why hadn’t the debate and discussion already taken place instead of it seeming like a big surprise that we needed to get some legislation written? The right hand never had less idea what the left hand was up to, it seems.

 

                Seriously, if the Republican Party can’t get its head out of the 18^th hole and work together to take advantage of the fact they control the White House and both houses of Congress right now and effect some change that matters then we should never again be allowed to complain when the liberal agenda further constricts our freedoms and liberties and offends simple common sense.

 

                This is like a horribly bad joke. Who cares what CNN says? They don’t get to pass laws. Get the job done and stop bickering. You morons should have had this worked out weeks ago and there should already be a health care bill in the Senate to distract Senator Schumer, et al, from the fact Neil Gorsuch is about to become a Supreme Court Justice whether they like it or not.

 

                If ever the Republican Party had had its pants pulled down to its ankles to expose who they really are more than now I can’t imagine when. It is painfully obvious that the fractures and fissures between true conservatives and career politicians in the party are vast. The Democrats may propose polar opposite points of view than conservatives but by God, they are unified in their lunacy.

 

                Can’t the Republicans at least agree on principal? At the moment it doesn’t look like it. And if those idiots can’t get Obamacare replaced they had better at least figure out how to keep it from suffocating under its own weight because the implications of that are going to affect one heck of a lot more than 10 million real people and 14 million more imaginary ones.

 

                Shut up and do your jobs! Honest to Pete.