[Responsibility2nd]

What bothered me the most about the failure to vote on TrumpCare was Trump’s response.

That Friday he announced that he was done. That healthcare reform failed and so he was “moving on”. He was going to move from healthcare reform to tax reform.

Only to start first thing again Monday with tweet after tweet blaming the HFC.

And did we miss it? Did we miss the tax code reform Trump said he was moving on to?

No. No, I don’t think we did. The way I see it - Trump has continued to be too busy sucking up to RyanCare to be bother with tax code reform.

[Alberta's Child]

The one explanation that makes the most sense to me is that "health care reform" was really a misnomer. The AHCA was nothing more than the first (necessary) step in the tax reform task. Nobody in the House leadership or the White House cared all that much about the ObamaCare items in that bill. All they really wanted out of that bill was the CBO score that estimated $1.2 trillion in Federal spending reductions over ten years. Even if that forecast was half-baked at best, it was at least a very large number that could serve as the basis for a comprehensive tax reform plan.

Just my humble opinion here ...

[GregB]

It’s a learning process...everyone take a deep breath!!

[sergeantdave]

“The way I see it - Trump has continued to be too busy sucking up to RyanCare to be bother with tax code reform.”

Unrealistic expectations on your part. Did you really think Trump would move his entire agenda within 60 days?

Pop some popcorn and relax. Trump has moved the conservative agenda forward better in his first 75 days than so-called “conservatives” Bush I and Bush II did in 12 years.

[SecAmndmt]

As others have pointed out, I think the administration is divided into 2 camps: independent conservatives like Bannon and Sessions, and swamp minions (unfortunately, this probably includes the veep). The swamp minions would never side with the HFC on health care or anything else. I suspect that they had the prez’s ear on the first go round. Hopefully, the golf outing meeting with Rand will shape round 2.

I want this prez to succeed, but the Republic will not survive Democrat-lite anything.

[Grampa Dave]

No. No, I don’t think we did. The way I see it - Trump has continued to be too busy sucking up to RyanCare to be bother with tax code reform.

An Isis leader agrees with you re Trump~

You are now ruled by a stupid idiot: IS’s messages to ‘bankrupt’ US

Rediff.com ^ | Wednesday, April 5, 2017 | PTI

Posted on 4/5/2017, 10:29:47 AM by Jyotishi

The Islamic State has derided United States President Donald Trump as a “stupid idiot” and said his rise to power was a sign of America’s bankruptcy.

Targeting Trump directly for the first time since he took office, the Islamic State terror group in the 36-minute audio released by its spokesperson Abu Hasan al-Muhajir yesterday called him an Arabic term that means an “idiot”, saying the US President does not know anything about Islam, NBC News reported.

Terming the US as “bankrupt”, it said, “the sign of your elimination are now clearer to everyone, as the most clear of signs is that you are now ruled by a stupid idiot who does not know what Sham and Iraq are, or what Islam is, who continues to express his hatred and war against Islam”.

The propaganda said Trump has expressed his “hatred and war” against Islam, the report said.

Other translations of the statement replaced “stupid idiot” with “riff raff” or “harebrained”, it said.

Al-sham is a term Islamic State uses to describe a region that includes Syria.

It appears to be the first time the Islamic State has referred to Trump since he took office.

IS, which controls large swaths of territories in Iraq and Syria, is currently being targeted by a US-led military coalition.

Trump has pledged to “totally obliterate IS,” which swept across parts of Iraq in 2014.

Trump has been widely criticised in the past for his controversial statements on Islam.

The IS statement does not appear to directly refer to Trump’s executive order temporarily banning people of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3541317/posts