President Trump just called me. Still on phone.
"We just pulled it," he tells me.— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017
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President Trump just called me. Still on phone.
"We just pulled it," he tells me.— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017
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dmsilev
Couldn’t close the deal! Sad!
Corner Stone
As I just said in the squirrel thread about the man with the squirrel hairpiece:
“I fucking hate Donald Trump so fucking much.”
Yarrow
YES! Trump is a loser! Ryan is a loser!
TenguPhule
Trump pulled out prematurely and wasted his load!
Hunter Gathers
Low-T Beta Cuck Loser.
JMG
Gonna be some heavy drinking in relief at whatever bar near the Hill GOP reps hang at.
MJS
So Spicer lied, again. Wonder if there will be any repercussions with the White House press corps? Just kidding.
Corner Stone
@dmsilev: I hope this ends with Trump and ZEGS in a knife fight with their left hands bound together by rope.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ….
hueyplong
So much for taking names, loser.
Ian G.
Sad!
Also, you forgot “baby blue” in the title.
Corner Stone
“The Art of The Deal”
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
bupalos
Booooo. booooooooooooooooo. I wanted to see how embarrassing the count was going to be!!!
Mike J
dmsilev
Also, I like Costa’s follow-up tweet: “”I don’t blame Paul,” Trump tells me”. Translation: Trump: “I blame Paul.”
Ian G.
@JMG:
Somewhere, John Boehner is popping his 3rd bottle of pinot noir, lighting a Marlboro, and laughing his ass off.
WereBear
I haz a happy. For everyone!
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
Also, Alex Jones is apologizing for Pizzagate.
pk
I like this kind of “Winning” a lot. I hope he strokes out. I can’t wait for the tweets.
Marcopolo
Great news! OT on the Russian front, is anyone tracking the story I just read at daily kos regarding part of the quid quo pro of that mess being Trump getting a small piece of Rosneft?
Screwed up the link cause of iPhone but will try to edit it in. Linkee: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/23/1646686/-RussiaGate-blows-WIDE-OPEN-in-Abrahamson-report-High-crimes-and-misdemeanors-by-Trump-Sessions
dmsilev
OK, so what happens now? I mean, The Base must have their Obamacare Repeal, so the GOP has to hork up _something_, but WTF can they do?
Also, is schadenfreude overdose a covered condition under ACA plans? Just curious.
Buskertype
honestly, at this point I expect to spend the next 22 months playing this game
“we’re gonna repeal it on Tuesday! 100% for real this time, no backing down! Wolverines!”
Spanky
‘dafuq is Trump calling reporters for?
bupalos
Yaaaaaaay!!! They’re going to parade out ZEGS for a presser. I hope he’s brought out in a cage with 8 miserable shrivelled congressional bearers like Steve King all stripped to the waist and bleeding, with Nancy Smash forcing them along with a spiked bull whip!
TenguPhule
@dmsilev:
They try again, with an even worse playing field because no reconciliation to hide behind.
Or let Trump sabotage the ACA by having him appointing people to maintain it that want to kill it. Which he is already doing.
Anya
He is so bad at this.
Were John Miller and John Barron busy? Why is the vulgarian doing his own calls to the media?
trollhattan
@Ian G.:
Or, a preceding “Because I used to love her, but…”
So much winning you’ll become tired of all the winning.
Gin & Tonic
Why is the President telling the Speaker of the House what to do with respect to legislation? I thought these were separate branches of government.
Yes, I am home from the hospital, and yes, I feel like taking some powerful drugs and slleeping for a while. So maybe more later, guardedly optimistic.
Mike in NC
Tonight would be a good time for ZEGS to get nice and shitfaced.
Mr Stagger Lee
I would go (not so) Free Republic, but I have no place to delouse.
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@Marcopolo: Definitely the one to watch. Rosneft really helps explain and connect it all, and naturally DT demanded a piece of the action. If that part can be proven, that’s a pretty big smoking gun.
Thoroughly Pizzled
@dmsilev: They’ll indict Hillary.
Elizabelle
@Gin & Tonic: Hope you will recover speedily.
WRT the topic: this week, Americans saw the psychopaths behind the Republican masks. I hope they can’t unsee that, and burn up the phones whenever the GOP decides to take another whack at healthcare.
Or taxes, or anything big. These are not public servants. Resist.
Chris
What does that mean? Just that they’re giving themselves a few more days to try to summon all the votes, or that they’re actually backing off from the whole thing?
Ksmiami
We have to tell Trump that he can make Obamacare better and call it Trumpcare and defenestrate Ryan (R-Sociopath) at the same time
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
And its 2017 sequel:
“The Art of the Fail”
japa21
If Trump tries to get pissy with some of the GOP reps, I wouldn’t be surprised if suddenly they change their committee votes and have his taxes released. This is a major blow to his image of being a master negotiator. And, a major reason why he got as many votes as he did is because that was how he was perceived by a lot of his voters.
And Ryan has basically admitted he has no power as speaker.
hovercraft
Now the real fun begins!!!
Report: Bannon Wants A ‘S*** List’ Of Health Care ‘No’ Votes
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
Fortunately, this is not a drug-induced hallucination. (The thread, I mean.)
Glad you’re home, best wishes for a speedy recovery. The Mets need you!
JMG
Meanwhile, Wall St. Journal is reporting Flynn, while on Turkey’s payroll, plotted to kidnap that Gulen guy who’s living in Pennsylvania and have him returned to Turkey. Kidnapping is a very bad crime. I wonder if he’s looking for witness protection even as I type this.
Turgidson
Enjoying the spectacle of Hair Furor and the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver doing a simultaneous face plant into a pile of dog shit. But now Hair Furor will just direct that cruel zombie of a ghoul he appointed to HHS to destroy Obamacare administratively, which will unleash its own world of hurt on people who deserve better, and try to pin that shitshow on Obama. I doubt he’ll succeed in the latter goal, but the former is what worries me.
Robin G in NY
@bupalos: I like the way you think!
Chris
CNN: “Rep. Andy Barr said Ryan told them health care is basically dead for the rest of the Congress.”
Oh please, oh please, oh pleasepleaseplease, let it be true.
mai naem mobile
Yuuuuge!!!! Bigly!!!! Loser!!!!Not Sad!!!!
germy
ryan is giving a press conference? These live stream things always crash our computer. Can someone give me the key words?
Elizabelle
@Chris: I hope that is true. I’d think we can pick up seats in the midterms, and who knows what will happen with Trump and all the cozied up to Russian Republicans in the meantime?
Elizabelle
@germy: Have CNN on mute. Just see a podium and waiting audience right now.
Brachiator
@dmsilev:
The Republicans want to pass something before everyone leaves for Easter recess, April 7. If they hold it over until after they come back from recess, they allow more time for back biting and social media criticism.
But with any luck, we will get to see Trump act out and do something stupid because he did not get his way.
Were the major holdouts still the Freedom Caucus?
danielx
@TenguPhule:
Far be it from me, etc, but could you lighten up on the appalling images?
Anya
Some former of current (I am not sure) republican representative was on CNN last night and was arguing that if this bill fails then it will be prove that the republicans cannot govern. He was arguing for the importance of passing the bill but not because it was a good bill but because it would help the republican party survive or something like that. I hope this is right and this failure is repeated over and over again. Trump will just rely on Executive Orders. It’s an easy momentary win for him.
tobie
OT…Do we have any idea why Comey went to the White House today? Could it be related to the story @JMG: referenced that Flynn was conspiring with the govt of Turkey to kidnap the Turkish cleric Gulen living in Pennsylvania? Flynn’s turning out to be one arrogant, stupid turd blabbering about possible crimes in communications with foreign governments he should have suspected were monitored.
Elizabelle
CNN’s talkers make me wish they just put up a yule log while waiting for press conferences.
And here’s Ryan.
“Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. …. Doing big things is hard. We need time to reflect how we got to this moment, and how we could have done it better.”
A plea to work together. There’s so much they can do to improve people’s lives.
Ryan and everyone in Congress is there to improve Americans’ lives. Now he’s disasterporning about Obamacare.
I can’t type fast enough to keep up with the lies and spin.
Trump gave all in this effort. LOL.
Turgidson
@Brachiator:
Odds are pretty good that there will be a late night Twitter shit fit of some sort tonight, or at least before Monday. The question is whether he’ll unleash a world of butthurt on his own party’s House majority, or he’ll say a bunch of batshit crazy shit to make sure the media changes the subject and forgets how big of a LOSER he looks like today. I’m hoping for the former. And they’re not mutually exclusive, so things could get interesting.
FlipYrWhig
“I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn’t get there.”
Elizabelle
He’s in a spring green tie. His nose does look really long.
Says Ocare is so fundamentally flawed that propping it up isn’t even possible.
talks about death spirals.
I am tired of these lying shitweasels. Happier not watching the news.
Now asked if it’s the conservatives that defeated, same folks who drove out Boehner.
Turgidson
@Elizabelle:
It would just be swell if some intrepid reporter or pundit would tell this shithead to his face that he’s full of shit about Obamacare and ask him if he ever gets tired of being a lying twit.
Elizabelle
Ryan believes that Ocare is collapsing, that’s it’s flawed, that it’s hurting families.
I’m kinda glad he’s doing his FoxWorld patter.
Admits Ocare is the law of the land. We will be LIVING with it for the forseeable future.
Ryan says he thinks they were doing the Dems a favor by passing this law.** Typing, so I can’t see his nose.
He is a liar, isn’t he?
He talks about the architects of Ocare. At least Ocare HAD architects. It’s a skilled profession.
** Because OCare is so bad. He is in a different world, along with Trump.
TenguPhule
@danielx: What? I got complaints about violence, so there’s no violence here. Some people are never satisfied.
Elizabelle
Says he thinks tax reform will be a heavier lift. And he used to lead the committee, so he knows something about that.
snicker
TenguPhule
@JMG:
The FSM can’t possibly luv me enough for this to be true.
Tom
In lieu of flowers, leave a flaming bag of dog shit on the door step at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.
germy
@Elizabelle: will he be taking questions?
danielx
@bupalos:
Now there is an image I can use.
Note to Marmalade Shithead: This ain’t the New York City Board of Zoning Appeals, pilgrim.
NorthLeft12
The part of this that still bothers me is that the bill failed to get enough Republican support to pass because it was too generous to ordinary people and not mean and nasty enough for the Creepy Caucus.
Think about that.
Elizabelle
@germy: No. He just fled.
germy
Elizabelle
@germy: Yeah. I noticed that one.
Obama(Care) is not going to explode. That’s Fox News lies. Ryan was peddling the same line. Because he’s such a policy-driven wonk.
They are psychopaths. Full stop.
FlipYrWhig
@Elizabelle:
This means Scary Jonathan Gruber, right, who said an inartful thing once about how it was designed?
VFX Lurker
@danielx: I just skip any comment with his name on it. Looks like I’m not missing anything.
germy
Chris
@NorthLeft12:
Yep. But I’ll take whatever I can get.
The gray adder
@Tom: I have some cat shit, if that helps.
Felonius Monk
I guess Paul Ryan will remain
SpeakerEunuch of the House for the time being.mapaghimagsik
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap:
Fuck Alex Jones. He has a lot more to apologize for than that.
But it seems the closer is closed, for now so awesome.
grandpa john
@Elizabelle: The best way they can improve peoples life is if they all agree to resign immediately
Elizabelle
@grandpa john: That, or being hung. In groups.
Psychopaths. How can you not see it?
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle: You’ve been reminded about this before. Its Hanged.
Mike in DC
Quoth Jay-Z, On to the next one.
Miss Bianca
@hovercraft: Dear God, I think I’m gonna have to buy more popcorn!!
Elizabelle
@TenguPhule: Hanged works for me.
String ’em up.
Felonius Monk
@WereBear: There was a crowd of people at Elise’s office in Glens Falls this morning having a “Die In”. They showed it on local news. Good times.
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle: When you use hung, it means something entirely different, which has to do with male genitals. Unintentionally funny, but mixes your metaphors, so to speak.
Turgidson
@Elizabelle:
Well. In an extremely perverse way, this is true. Obamacare’s approval rating would have shot into the stratosphere once it was taken away and the flaming pile of cruel dog shit they called a bill took effect and threw millions off their insurance while also fucking with the plans of people who didn’t lose it. And even our extremely messaging-impaired Democratic Party would have had trouble fucking up the electoral windfall that would create. But that’s extremely cold comfort given the toll of human carnage inflicted by this piece of shit.
misterpuff
@dmsilev: You have to listen to Trumpspeak backwards: “I buried Paul!”
Death Panel Truck
@Ian G.: It’s probably a reference to the Valentinos’ song “It’s All Over Now,” covered by the Rolling Stones in 1964.
Feebog
So apparently trying to bully congress critters in safe red districts does not work. When that is the only rabbit you have in your hat, you are truly and royally screwed.
msdc
I love that Costa breaks the news while he’s still got Trump on the phone. Live by the tweet, die by the tweet…
artem1s
@Brachiator: They moved a couple of the Freedum Caucus back to yes by promising they’d get to skull f*ck dead kittens and deny maternity care to the not-fetuses. But that only causes a dozen or so of the less crazy Pubes to bail into NO category. Also the Kuck Bros threatened to primary anyone who voted yes.
artem1s
3…2…1 until Ryan decides he needs to spend more time with the family.
Miss Bianca
@Elizabelle: OMG – that tool. “This governatin’ sure is HARDER than just being against everything the black guy wanted! WHO KNEW? Oh, gee, Democrats, come and hold our hands while we figure out how to pass EFFECTIVE legislation that screws the 99%!”
Uncle Cosmo
@Elizabelle:
In business news, the Chicago Board of Trade late this afternoon saw abrupt upward movement in the price of hemp futures…
Hobbes83
@dmsilev: I love these Trump parody comments.
Elie
@japa21:
He did himself some real damage by all those tweets and the approval rating of 37% –combined with an approval rate of their plan at 17%. There was no cover and add to that he threatened them. His own House Ways and Means Chair told him NO.
Elie
@Miss Bianca:
LOL — so true!
Zinsky
What. A. Colossal. Failure. The Democrats should have the video of Trump saying his health care plan was going to be “beautiful” and “everyone will be covered” on the front page of the DNC’s website on a continuous loop. This pervert couldn’t take a shit and have it come out properly. Pathetic.
J R in WV
@TenguPhule:
Male genitals OR works of art being placed upon a wall, being hung….
The Dudeist
@dmsilev: I thought he made deals in his sleep?