I say that Trumpcare is withdrawn by 9:30 am Texas time tomorrow and the sounds of defeat will be celebrated throughout the land.
In other joyous news, Jared Kushner just hired Abbe Lowel to do his lawyering. Jared must know he’s in big trouble. Hey, as Hank Williams Jr said – it’s a family tradition.
“I try to stay out of politics,” Ivanka Trump said this morning when asked whether she advises her father, President Trump, on his tweets.
I guess that’s why she has an office at the White House.
Grover Norquist, the man who said, “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub,” has taken a liking to Twitter.
Grover hates taxes and to illustrate that point, he tweet a tale of woe about his daughter.
So … as happens on Twitter, people tweeted back …
And the best of all …
Thanks to Mark for the heads up.
Sergey Kislyak is being called back home.
Where will Jared Kushner go to place his Moscow phone calls now? I kinda suspect that Kislyak doesn’t want to answer questions, particularly since he’s been called “the most radioactive man in town.” I hope he doesn’t find himself on the business end of a syringe once he returns home.
In Kislyak’s place, the Kremlin is expected to send Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov, according to Russian media reports. Antonov, a tough negotiator who is on the European Union’s sanctions list, will need final approval by Russia’s parliament.
Just when you thought the sleaze was all out of the tube, here comes Deutsche Bank.
One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner’s real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan.
The lender, Deutsche Bank, was negotiating to settle a federal mortgage fraud case and charges from New York state regulators that it aided a possible Russian money-laundering scheme. The cases were settled in December and January.
I am becoming increasingly suspicion that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are Boris and Natasha. I don’t know who is Bullwinkle in this whole mess, but I do know someone with the same IQ.
Bullwinkle: I’d like to apply for a job as an usher.
Boris: What experience have you had?
Bullwinkle: I’ve been in the dark for most of my life.
Rocky is obviously Mueller. Or, if you want to fill the entire Bullwinkle cast – Dudley Doright.
I mean, if we’re gonna have a cartoon, at least let’s have a funny one.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Trump has challenged President Obama to a vocabulary contest over Trumpcare.
Trump appeared on the Fox News Trump Infomercial, Fox and Friends, Sunday morning and claimed that Obama was playing fast and loose with the thesaurus while describing the healthcare bill.
“Well he actually used my term, ‘mean.’ That was my term,” Trump said. “Because I want to see — and I speak from the heart — that’s what I want to see, I want to see a bill with heart.”
Uh, well at least Obama isn’t playing fast and loose with the calendar.
Last Wednesday, Sean Spicer claimed that Trump’s use of the word “mean” was only rumor and speculation. Trump didn’t confirm he used “mean” to describe the bill until this Sunday interview on Fox and Friends.
Obama did not use the word “mean.” He used 939 words, 54 of which say …
Simply put, if there’s a chance you might get sick, get old, or start a family – this bill will do you harm. And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, cannot change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation.
That was on Thursday.
I think it’s highly improbable that President Obama steals words from Donald Trump and until I hear President Obama say “bigly” I will continue to believe that.
