I see it as more a political calculation. Going after legal pot would piss off the citizens of California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. Are they likely to support Trump anyway? No? Fuck 'em.
I heard something that this is part of the problem that the GOP is facing right now. They wnated to keep the status quo (which they understood well enough) and weren’t trying to build a system, so they really didn’t need to know details of the system they wanted to block nor issues around implementing a new system. They’re now trying to get up to speed very quickly on some of the nuances of trying to change healthcare in a very, very short time.
Of course, I’m willing to bet that most of the Republicans in the House and Senate did know that it was going to be complicated.
More than 60 times. They were enthusiastic, if brainless.
For him, it’s never been complicated - he and his family have Dr What’s-His-Face on retainer, he sees them, they write a check, easy-peasy. He’s never had to navigate the maze of an HMO, or go to an ER and hope the bill will eventually be covered and not denied, or any of the other things that normal folks experience when they need healthcare. :rolleyes:
Yes they do, and any Dem that works WITH them will be used as a patsy. To take any part in this would be monumentally stupid. Make the Republican party OWN this.
There is this, based o how he has actually treated family, he seems to view medical care - or rather the withholding of it - as a weapon.
Donald Trump has admitted cutting off medical treatment to his nephew’s sick baby after he allegedly had his alcoholic brother’s children cut out of his father’s will.
In an interview with the New York Times, Trump said he retaliated because he was ‘angry because they sued’.
His brother Freddy, a pilot, had died an alcoholic in 1981, aged 43.
He had two children – named after his parents Fred and Mary – with a stewardess he married at age 23 called Linda Clapp. The couple later divorced.
When the family patriarch Fred Sr., died in 1999, Freddy’s son, Fred III, spoke at the funeral. Later that night, his wife went into labor but the baby had cerebral palsy.
The Trump family promised to pay the medical bills.
But when Fred Sr.’s will was read, it revealed that the majority of his inheritance would be split between his children – except Freddy Trump Jr.
Freddy’s children sued and alleged that Donald - who helped draft the will - and his surviving siblings had influenced Fred Sr., who had suffered from dementia.
They also said an earlier version of the will had said they would receive a share of their grandfather’s fortune – believed to have been more than $20million.
So the real estate mogul, the frontrunner for the GOP’s presidential nomination, got his revenge by withdrawing the medical care for his nephew’s sick child.
“Let it be a disaster, because we can blame that on the Dems that are in our room – and we can blame that on the Democrats and President Obama,” - Trump, at the National Governors Association
A whole town is pissed at Trump for doing what they elected him to do.
Pro-Trump town riled up after immigration officials arrest popular restaurant manager
Wow. Why the f**k did they VOTE for him, then?
My eyes hurt from all the rolling.
[list=a][li]He’s not Black.[/li][li]He’s not Muslim.[/li][li]He’s not female.[/list][/li]
Of course none of that has a blame thing to do with one’s qualifications and ability to actually be president.
Word of advice: I’ve found that tears prevent the pain from rolling eyes.
A prediction for the title of a future political history book or Michael Moore documentary film: Sad! The Presidency of Donald J. Trump.
Nobody who lived through it would want to read or watch it.
Sad!
Trump went on Fox and Friends and stated that he believes that Obama is behind the leaks in Trump’s administration:
“my generals are the most respected that we’ve had in many decades” - what the fuck is that? Has an entirely new class of generals been promoted in the past 40-or-so days? Or are these the same military leaders that have been in place for at least the past few months or so?
Also - is there wild fluctuation in the level of respect for “generals” over the decades?
“The buck stops elsewhere.”
…by the realization that he had not yet been sucked into the swirling vortex of a Hell-mouth. Other than that, I got nothin’.
During the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, someone handwrote a sign and posted it in the Senate hearing room: “The buck doesn’t even slow down here.”
Bones isn’t on tonight b/c of Trump being on TV !