28th June 2017, 1:03 AM
So the health care bill really is struggling in the Senate, for now at least. Huh, that's good to see. I never would trust Republicans to do the right thing, so it still could well pass, but it's promising that it's faring this badly so far and so many Republicans oppose it from both sides.
In other news though, Trump once again revealed himself to be an idiot who doesn't know anything, as at the White House meeting he ordered with the whole Senate Republican caucus Tuesday afternoon, when asked about the tax element of the health care bill (you know, the fact that it's a massive tax cut for the rich) he seemed to have no clue that there was a tax part in that bill: "A senator who supports the bill left the meeting at the White House with a sense that the president did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan — and seemed especially confused when a moderate Republican complained that opponents of the bill would cast it as a massive tax break for the wealthy, according to an aide who received a detailed readout of the exchange." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/he...pence.html ... this person is actually president? Seriously? How could someone so dumb have gotten that far...
In other news though, Trump once again revealed himself to be an idiot who doesn't know anything, as at the White House meeting he ordered with the whole Senate Republican caucus Tuesday afternoon, when asked about the tax element of the health care bill (you know, the fact that it's a massive tax cut for the rich) he seemed to have no clue that there was a tax part in that bill: "A senator who supports the bill left the meeting at the White House with a sense that the president did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan — and seemed especially confused when a moderate Republican complained that opponents of the bill would cast it as a massive tax break for the wealthy, according to an aide who received a detailed readout of the exchange." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/he...pence.html ... this person is actually president? Seriously? How could someone so dumb have gotten that far...