John McCain: the hair in the GOP soup

"John McCain flew to Washington with brain cancer Tuesday to cast the deciding vote to put the GOP health care bill to a vote, then on Thursday he cast the deciding vote to kill the bill. Democrats hated him one day then loved him the next. He faces censure now for doing Comey’s act."   Comedian Argus Hamilton

McCain to Begin Cancer Treatment Monday   . . . "He will undergo what is described as a "standard" regimen of radiation and chemotherapy. " . . .

I imagine the doctor telling McCain to not make any major decisions for the foreseeable future.

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ObamaCare Fines Nailed The Working Class In 2017 And Other Unpopular Truths

Investors Business Daily  "Preliminary data from the 2017 tax season are in, and they're shocking. Not only does it look like the working class bore the brunt of ObamaCare individual mandate penalties this year, but people with relatively modest incomes apparently paid a lot more than the Congressional Budget Office anticipated.

"The data underscore a reality that Democrats would prefer not to talk about: While ObamaCare has been a big help to the near-poor and those with major medical needs, it gives a bad deal to nearly everyone else. Even among working-class households earning 150% to 250% of the poverty level, supposedly among the law's biggest beneficiaries, just 1 in 3 people who lack insurance from other sources are getting silver coverage that will protect them from financial disaster. Most of the other two-thirds are uninsured, either because they or a spouse work full time and don't qualify for exchange subsidies, or else they've spurned subsidized bronze plans that carry $6,000-$7,000 deductibles — despite the threat of an individual-mandate penalty.

"The much-despised individual mandate was the central target of Republicans' chaotic, desperate effort this week to kill or wound the ACA in any way possible. Yet simply getting rid of the individual mandate, without addressing the ACA's underlying problems, would be a destructive act that would only increase premiums, which is the opposite of what Republicans say they want." . . .

Who actually DID sabotage health care?

 "Senate Republicans dodged a bullet Friday by failing to repeal Obamacare, when you consider the GOP won the House, the Senate, and the White House by opposing Obamacare. Why would they want to repeal it? By opposing Obamacare for one more election, they can win control of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and Buckingham Palace."

"The GOP health care bill failed to get to a House and Senate conference for final writing last Thursday. A poll of GOP voters favored paying for government-provided sex change operations for government workers. They wanted to install testicles on all male Republican members of Congress."  Comedian Argus Hamilton

Who sabotaged health care?  . . . "*Obama, Bernie, and many Democrats' goal for a long time has been to get to a single-payer government-run system.  They knew they couldn't sneak that through, so they did what they do best: they passed a bill that would destroy the private health insurance system under the guise that they were helping people.  The compliant media supported them every step of the way, as they stacked the bill with massive mandates that would obviously increase costs substantially, while they continually lied that costs would go down to intentionally mislead the public and members of Congress who, according to Pelosi, had to pass the bill to see what was in it." . . .

Why do the media willingly spread the garbage that Trump sabotaged Obamacare after six months in office, when it has been intentionally collapsing for seven years?  Are they that stupid or just willing puppets?  The media say Trump has done nothing his first six months in office, but somehow they credit him with ruining Obama's biggest domestic achievement.

*All well qualified to be governor of California, I might add.

Here comes that word "sabotage" again  . . . "While the GOP came up one vote short of repealing the individual mandate early Friday morning, the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service thinks that the new data from the 2017 tax season suggest that President Trump's effort to undermine the mandate might be working." . . . 

SNOPES TAKEN HOSTAGE: Left-Wing “Fact-Checker” Reveals It Has Lost Control Of Its Website

Noisy Room  "At one point in the distant past of the Interwebs, Snopes.com was taken seriously as a leading de-bunker of urban myths.

As the years went by, its founders — a once-married couple named David and Barbara Mikkelson — decided to drift into political commentary. As their site grew, they hired an openly partisan, left-wing blogger named Kim Lacapria.

"Lacapria had earlier declared herself “openly left-leaning” and very liberal. She has tarred conservatives as “teahadists” who “fear female agency”.

"After joining Snopes, Lacapria quickly found herself and the site embroiled in controversy as her various posts read like Democrat op-eds and not any sort of fact-checking.

"The Mikkelsons themselves are an interesting pair. They divorced in 2014, but appear to be engaged in a vicious battle over their assets. One court document accuses David of “raiding the corporate business Bardav bank account for his personal use… [which] he expended upon himself and the prostitutes he hired.” . . .

…"Snopes “is now in danger of closing its doors” and has been forced to hold a fundraising campaign (link intentionally omitted).

"In the letter David Mikkelson wrote describing the reason for the campaign, he admits that the company has lost control of its own website and says it’s being held “hostage” by a vendor it outsourced various services to.

"That’s a big deal. In fact, Mikkelson implies that the vendor could create, alter and delete any site contents it wants to. Thus far, he claims that hasn’t happened." . . .

Bob Vander Plaats to Trump: Wash Out Scaramucci's Mouth and Fire Him

NewsMax

(L-R) Bob Vander Plaat, former U.S. Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R-AR),
Minute Man project founder Jim Gilchrist and former Arkansas
governor Mike Huckabee. 

"President Donald Trump must show leadership by "washing out" Anthony Scaramucci's mouth "with a bar of soap" and escorting him "personally off the White House grounds," Family Leader CEO Bob Vander Plaats said.

" 'I suggest you lead by first washing out Mr. Scaramucci’s mouth with a bar of soap," the Iowa evangelical leader said Friday on the organization's website. "After a thorough rinsing, strip his credentials and escort him personally off the White House grounds.

" 'President Trump must take quick and decisive action to preserve the legacy of our great republic," he said.

"Vander Plaats' column followed a tweet he posted Friday calling for Scaramucci's firing after he slammed outgoing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and senior strategist Steve Bannon in a profane tirade with The New Yorker:

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Bob Vander Plaats @bobvanderplaats

"Silence equals assent." @POTUS must model and demand a higher standard. @Scarramuci should be fired immediately. https://twitter.com/stevedeaceshow/status/890922603719872516 …

 

Gorka defends Trump’s transgender ban: Military ‘there to kill people and blow stuff up’

Joe Newby  "During a recent appearance on BBC Radio 4, White House aide Dr. Sebastian Gorka defended President Trup’s transgender ban in the military, saying that while the administration wants transgendered people to live happy lives, the military is there to perform a specific task and not to be a platform for social engineering.

“ 'The military is not a microcosm of civilian society,” he said. “They are not there to reflect America. They are there to kill people and blow stuff up. They are not there to be socially engineered. We want people who are transgender to live happy lives, but we want unit cohesion and we want combat effectiveness.”

"Here’s audio of his comments as posted by the BBC Radio 4’s Twitter account:"
. . . 

"A post at the Washington Examiner further noted:

The U.S. military has one goal: Protect and defend. Or as Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution reads, “to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.”

The goal of the military is not a social experiment; it’s not even to see who is the most patriotic. (I’m a patriot but I couldn’t physically do what’s required of many of our service people.) Its job is not to see if men and women can both do the same amount of push-ups, or if a woman can hold up in a unit of mostly men without interrupting the männerbund, or if a woman who identifies as a man can drag a 170-pound male away from heavy gun fire.

Its job is not to pay for people to have elective surgeries so they feel more like a woman or a man.

While trans activists, including Caitlyn Jenner, are understandably upset about the ban, many members of the military who have seen active combat both support transgenders and agree with Trump’s decision, not because they are mean, old-fashioned bigots but because they view the active recognition of transgenders in the military as more of a petri dish of social experiments, wrapped in a progressive agenda.

Despicable: WaPo tracks down, doxxes Pickle, a nine-year-old Trump supporter

Joe Newby  "As part of the apparent effort to foment hate and violence against those who support President Trump, the Washington Post actually tracked down and identified a nine-year-old supporter of the president whose letter to the White House was read by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Naturally, the Trump-hating propagandists at the Post didn’t believe that such a fan of the president could exist — naturally, because ALL liberals hate Trump, therefore, in their alleged “mind,” everyone MUST hate Trump except for Nazis and bigots.

Photo added.

But it turns out the youngster, nicknamed “Pickle,” exists.  So naturally, the Post decided to identify him.

The Post hid their article behind a paywall, but Mediaite reported:

Thanks to some intrepid reporting by Monica Hesse of the Washington Post, we can now say that Pickle, the human, is not a figment of anyone’s imagination.
"He’s a real boy. . . .

More here.
Intrepid? Please.  Keep in mind this is the same Democrat-media complex that sees Russians behind every blade of grass, and thinks you’re a neo-Nazi if you have a short haircut.  They have yet to find any proof of their Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, but hey, they can find a nine-year-old boy who loves the president.

"According to Mediaite, the letter shocked reporters so much they actually became “Pickle-truthers” and refused to believe he exists." . . .

Watch Classless McCain Betray the Republican Party, Whoop It Up with Democrats

Independent Sentinel  "The dramatic moments before and after he betrayed the Republicans and his country

“ 'Watch the show,” the Arizona senator told the media when he first entered the senate chamber.

"When he arrived, he held a brief conversation with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer ( D-N.Y.), an exchange that left Schumer smiling, the Washington Post reported.

"Schumer knew what was about to happen.

“ 'I knew it when he walked on the floor,” Schumer later recounted, explaining that McCain had already called to share his plans.

"But few, if any, of his Republican colleagues knew what was going to happen, WaPo reported." . . .

"Watch the video as the self-important John McCain makes a dramatic entrance into the Senate chamber to vote against the “skinny bill”. He walked to the center of the room to grandstand, paused, held out his hand dramatically to get attention, and gave the thumbs down like a pompous fool. Senator Bernie Sanders appeared to know what was about to happen."

Kelly’s first task: Stabilize the West Wing

Politico
"Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has griped privately for months about the disarray at the White House. Now he’s tasked with bringing order to the chaos. 7/29/2017 Kelly’s first task: Stabilize the West Wing 

"When he officially becomes chief of staff on Monday, Kelly, a no-nonsense retired Marine Corps general, will be thrust into the center of the West Wing soap opera, where President Donald Trump’s policy agenda regularly gets preempted by feuding advisers and headline-grabbing scandals.

"It remains to be seen whether Kelly can succeed where Reince Priebus failed — by figuring out a way to rein in an unpredictable president and put a lid on the steady stream of drama at the White House.

"Privately, White House aides and others close to the administration acknowledged it won’t be easy. Even without Priebus, the West Wing remains fractured, with advisers competing for influence over the president.

“ 'I think this is the best and last shot,” said one person close to Kelly. “This is it.”

Best visual commentary ever on transgenders in the military?

Bookworm Room   "It’s quite possible that this is the best poster yet made to comment on the whole transgenders in the military debacle — a debacle predicated on a lie."

"And if you want the proper commentary to go with that poster, I highly recommend Brendan O’Neill’s brutal honestyabout the Orwellian thinking that is being pushed on ordinary people. His starting point is the Tory proposal that people can edit their birth certificates at will to state their preferred gender (of the moment):

It’s madness. And most people know it’s madness. Ask any normal, decent member of the public if Dave, 32, born a boy, still in possession of a penis, and a five o’clock shadow on a rough weekend, is a man or a woman, and I bet you they will say: ‘Man.’ Not because they are prejudiced or ‘transphobic’ – the latest phobia slur designed to pathologise dissent – but because they understand reality. And truth. And biology and experience. They know that in order to be a woman, you first have to have been a girl. 

But the true person in charge of the White House was first lady Michelle Obama.

UK Daily Mail  . . . 'She's the boss,' Mostromonaco said. 

'If he was mad at you for any reason, you'd be, like, "OK." If she was mad at you . . . if you thought for some reason she might be, you were, like, "I'm in so much trouble

The Maverick shoots down any chance of Obamacare repeal

Legal Insurrection "Overnight the Senate failed to pass a so-called “skinny” repeal of Obamacare, when three Republican Senators (Collins, Murkowski and McCain) voted against the measure.

"Whether the “skinny” repeal was an actual repeal was doubtful. As unveiled late last night, it removed the mandate, the medical device tax, and defunded Planned Parenthood, but it was something of a charade. Several Senators voted for it only after Paul Ryan gave some assurance that the Senate bill could be subject to a conference with the House, and would not be passed by the House as is.

"But passing the “skinny” repeal kept hope alive that there might emerge some meaningful form of Obamacare repeal. The defeat of the bill killed any form of Obamacare repeal for the foreseeable future.

"Collins and Murkowski always were expected to vote No, but McCain was the surprise. Even though Murkowski and McCain* had voted in 2015 for full, clean repeal of Obamacare, they didn’t have the guts to put their votes where their mouths had been just a couple of years ago." . . .

GOP flip-floppers were in favor of repeal before they were against it  . . . "Based on a tweet from political operative Jack Posobiec, "[m]ultiple Hill staffers confirm last night McCain was heard laughing w Dems and remarked, 'Lets see Donald make america great again now'."  Mission accomplished.  Revenge is best served cold, and here is one of Trump's signature campaign issues, served ice cold on the morgue slab, ready for the incinerator.

"Never mind what McCain promised his constituents.  He is now the darling of the left and the NeverTrumps.  He will be invited on all the Sunday talk shows, basking in his "maverick" glow. 

"If McCain is "flip," then Murkowski is "flop."  In 2015, she was also in favor of repealing Obamacare, telling Alaskans, "I will support the bill that repeals the ACA and wipes out its harmful impacts."  Not so this week." . . .

You picked a fine time to leave us, McCain   . . . We wish Senator McCain well.  He faces serious health challenges, but a lot of us won't forget what he did this time."