6/28/17: The more Americans know about the GOP healthcare plan, stalled in the Senate, the more they loathe it. A poll shows the plan is less popular than the House-passed version, which was only slightly more popular than shingles.
Americans, by a 4-1 margin, now trust
Democrats in Congress more than Republicans when it comes to healthcare.
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6/29/17: The splenetic president wakes up in a sour mood and binges on cable news. Then he decides to tweet.
He attacks MSNBC morning hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who have been critical of his policies. The former, he refers to as “low I.Q Mika.” The latter he labels a “psycho.” Brzezinski, Trump complains, “was bleeding badly from a bad face-lift” when he last saw her at Mar-a-Lago.
Even Republicans are stunned by the crass nature of such tweets. “I don’t remember anything quite like this,” says former Republican congressman Vin Weber. Sen. Ben Sasse cautions Trump, pointing out, it “isn’t normal and it’s beneath the dignity of your office [emphasis added].” “The President’s tweets today don’t help our political or national discourse and do not provide a positive role model for our national dialogue,” Sen. James Lankford adds.
Speaker Ryan, for whom the Teddy
Roosevelt-era insult, “he has no more backbone than a chocolate éclair” seems
fitting, musters up a smidge of courage. “Obviously, I don’t see that as an
appropriate comment,” he admits.
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6/30/17: Joe Scarborough fires back, saying the White House leaned on him to apologize to the tissue-thin-skinned Tweeter-in-Chief. Otherwise, the National Enquirer would run an attack piece on him and his co-host.
In a press gathering Sarah Huckabee Sanders, clearly suffering from Stockholm syndrome, tells reporters appalled by Trump’s attacks, “You hurt his feelings. It makes him sad. He must crush you like worms beneath his feet.”
(Okay: I made that quote up.)
Meanwhile, we should note the National Enquirer is run by longtime Trump friend and aptly named publisher David Pecker. This fine publication is famous for running the kind of hard-hitting journalism Trump loves, including a story claiming Ted Cruz’s father played a role in the killing of John F. Kennedy. There have been countless other Enquirer reports touting the greatness that is Donald J. Trump.
Other headline-grabbing stories from the desk of Mr. Pecker include the saga of Hillary Clinton who had six short months to live (October 2015), O. J. Simpson who was doomed in four even shorter weeks (October 2014), and Angelina Jolie, anorexic and definitely dying (August 2015).
If Ted Cruz’s father didn’t help kill
JFK, well then, John F. Kennedy Jr. was murdered by the
mob. (See: 12/13-15/18.)
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IN OTHER HEAD-SCRATCHING NEWS, the president suggests Congress repeal Obamacare and figure out what to replace it with later. Who needs healthcare! Orange Leader gives up!
The Congressional Budget Office estimates this “plan” would cost 32 million Americans their insurance. Apparently, the GOP goal is to work toward no insurance for anyone.
Their plans keep getting worse.
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