He can’t be alone with a woman at any time without a chaperone.
You can’t feed him after midnight, it might get a hair out of place.
I suspect that part of why McCain forced the issue is because of his disease. He’s got to know that his continued ability to act as a Senator is probably coming to an end soon, and it’s certainly possible that his appointed replacement would be more willing to toe the line. So force the vote, get it over with, and then the likelihood of ramming it through with the help of his replacement lessens.
You are absolutely right, here. I know a few who voted Trump and they were voting against what they perceived as the Clinton dynasty and the status quo. Most of them thought Trump was a wild card, but I think some of them are surprised now to find out he’s actually nuts. But for sure, “broad brush lumping” will get us beat again if we’re not careful.
So why isn’t anyone demanding that conservatives and Trump voters “understand and sympathize” with poor voters, transgender soldiers, people on Medicare, etc?
The abortion issue wasn’t significant in Trump’s win. If it were, he’d never have gotten the nomination in the first place. Trump’s only position on abortion is that when one of his mistresses gets an abortion, she won’t come after him for child support.
To any pro-lifers looking for a home now that it’s clear that the Republicans have abandoned you, I recommend the Democratic Party.
Especially since the candidate who took their side got more popular votes.
Heh. Don’t hold your breath.
Who they voted for in the Republican primaries has nothing to do with who they voted for in the general. All of these people I know did not vote for Trump in the primary. But, once he was the only one running pro-life, with a VP with pro-life credentials and a promise that they would put two conservatives on the Supreme Court (the only chance of making abortion illegal again), they reluctantly voted for Trump.
I’ll also point out that the vast majority of voters do not vote in the primaries. Most people don’t get involved in the political stuff until shortly before the election.
Trump has not in any way let any of these people down in the pro-life department. He nominated Gorsuch–a textual originalist who will almost certainly find that abortion is not protected by the Constitution. That’s half of what they wanted. Now replace Ginsburg or whichever liberal judge retires first with another such judge, and they’ve got everything they wanted out a Trump presidency.
Even though there are pro-life Democrats, there is not a one who would nominate a judge that would overturn the right to have an abortion.
The fiscal year ends 30 September. This wasn’t early. The plan was to use the reconciliation process for tax reform next FY. Which is really the reconciliation priority for the GOP come October is now the new question.
McCain is concerned about the FY18 National Defense Appropriations Act. Between Budget Control Act mandatory cuts and the choking effect of DOD operating under continuing resolution a budget deal is his priority as the Armed Services chair. He has been focusing on it. It comes up as a major issue from Mattis. McCain just cleared the biggest distraction to trying to get that deal done in the last two months of the FY.
Surely that is coincidental. What very senior Senator would possibly think beyond the immediate issue on the floor? 
The assholes are EXACTLY why Trump won. They came out in force, and based on his approval rating, now we know they’re about 25% of the people who voted in the election. These are the same people who have been voting against their own economic interests for years, because their overriding interest is NOT economic, it’s social - #MAGA.
Of the rest, of course you have the Jesus freaks who held their noses and voted for a debaucher because maybe he’ll get abortion outlawed. Good luck reaching them.
And morons who like to cite the Constitution all the time and write comments randomly capitalizing words who thought Trump could get things done even though a lot of what he was proposing was unconstitutional.
Assholes, Jesus freaks, and morons. A few of the morons, I suppose, are gettable, just find the right shiny object.
As long as you continue to assume the Trump voters are all drooling idiots, Trump will continue to win. Underestimating the opposition is exactly why we are in this condition now.
I’ll lay it out one more time. No one has said they’re all idiots. There are two basic groups, the Trump base, that ~25% we’re talking about. They are functionally unreachable. Nothing that anyone says is going to change their minds without them suffering directly from President Man-baby’s actions. Period, end of story.
The rest are the possibles, those who through some serious self-delusion or ignorance managed to convince themselves that he wouldn’t be the freak that most of us here knew he’d be. They’re the ones to work on/with.
No, as long as they continue to BE drooling idiots, Trump will continue to win.
I for one do not underestimate the stupidity of anyone who thought voting for Donald Trump for President was a good idea. In fact, I hold their stupidity in high regard.