Trump Thread

[HopAlongBunny]

Get ready to party!
Makers win over Moochers with House passage of Trumpcare.
Rushing it through before any annoying analysis made sure this Bill is free from downside (publicly...anyhow)
Rejoice!:http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...scorn-the-sick

[HopAlongBunny]

The "adjustment" to health care is a little hard to assess. Few people (including members of Congress) have received it and read it.
The bits that we know range from bad to catastrophic, depending on pre-existing conditions. Fortunately, included in the bill is $8 billion over 5years to help with that (the real short fall estimated to be at least $25 billion per year)
Here are a few overviews:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...are_video.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...macare-repeal/

I wonder if the results of this will make any difference, anyhow best (I could find so far) on what the bill does:

http://www.politifact.com/florida/ar...lth-care-bill/

[AE Bravo]

Thoughts on Comey getting terminated?

[Montmorency]

IDK, but I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, because I'm easy Comey, easy go.

[Hooahguy]

A lot of people are comparing this to what Nixon did about a year before he resigned during his investigation, but I think the comparisons are kinda shaky. Unless there really is something bad that Trump is trying to hide. Whats interesting is that Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, had to recuse himself about the investigation into the Trump campaign. And he was one of the people to recommend firing firing Comey. So this might get interesting.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Comparing it Archibald Cox is silly. Cox was a special prosecutor investigating administration corruption having been specifically appointed by the Justice department to do so and was fired when he persisted in requesting tapes of conversations in the White House which may very well have been valid evidence in that investigation. It felt, at the time, as though the President were firing the prosecutor in his own trial because the chap was prosecuting too well. Cost Nixon a lot of political "points" among his own party at the time.


Comey moved into the political game and ended up in a situation where anything he was saying was evaluated politically first. Not good for the FBI.

[Montmorency]

Comey moved into the political game and ended up in a situation where anything he was saying was evaluated politically first. Not good for the FBI.

How about the timing? This wasn't untrue in the past half year. Aside from speculation on the Russian investigation, there ought to be some other association that makes it convenient to make this decision now. The administration could also have been planning for Comey's dismissal since at least March, but then it's still the same question. Depoliticizing FBI leadership isn't a good account on its own when firing Comey clearly enflames that issue.