7/18/17: The nine lives of the Republican healthcare bill are still being squandered. Once again, a GOP plan dies in the Senate when four Republican senators announce they won’t vote to allow debate on the merits.
Trump promised 68 times to repeal and replace Obamacare.
The bill is that bad.
Some insist this marks the end of a seven-year-long run, during which Republicans voted dozens of times to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. And need we remind anyone that “repeal and replace” is what Candidate Trump promised to do 68 times while running for office?
He would kill Obamacare on Day One.
He would make “repeal and replace” look like child’s play (assuming the child had no pre-existing conditions). Tweeting in February 2016, Trump promised: “We will immediately repeal and replace ObamaCare – and nobody can do that like me. We will save $’s and have much better healthcare!”
With Republican majorities in House and
Senate and rules changes to make it possible to pass the “carefully crafted”
plan by a 51-vote margin, Trump manages to accomplish … nothing.
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WELL, THEN, how’s the “witch hunt” going? How many people with ties to the Russian government were in the meeting with Don Jr. Okay, not one, not two, but three! Even Fox News can’t ignore the story. It turns out the eighth participant in the meeting which Donald Jr. completely forgot about was a Russian-American, Ike Kaveladze, an expert on adoption and babies!
Hahaha. No.
Kaveladze works for the Russian oligarch
Aras Agalarov, a man worth $1.96 billion and known for close ties with President Trump, a man
worth $3.5 billion, and Vladimir
Putin, who has spent his time in office wisely, saving his rubles. One source estimates
Putin may have a secret stash of $200 billion.
Anyway, according to a story in Newsweek, Kaveladze
was investigated in 2000, when he was:
…found by
investigators with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to
have helped move more than $1.4
billion on behalf of a large number of Russian and Eastern European
clients through accounts with Citibank in New York and Commercial Bank in San
Francisco.
Technically,
his actions turned out to be legal. But investigators found he filed papers to open 2,000 shell corporations and U.S. bank
accounts in Delaware, “all on behalf of Russian operators that were used
to launder offshore cash coming into the United States.”
As you can see no sensible person would
imagine Kaveladze went to the meeting with Jr. for any other reason except to
talk about babies.
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Everyone in the meeting forgot the meeting ever occurred. |
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