Trump demands do-or-die Friday vote on healthcare plan

[riversedge]

Source: rawstory.com


23 Mar 2017 at 20:48 ET


U.S. President Donald Trump will get a second chance to try to close the deal with Republican lawmakers on dismantling Obamacare in a high-stakes vote on a new healthcare bill rescheduled for Friday.

After a week of calling Republican lawmakers and bringing them into the Oval Office for meetings, Trump was dealt a setback on Thursday when a vote on what was supposed to have been his first legislative victory had to be postponed because of opposition from two flanks in the party.

(READ MORE: House of Representatives cave to Trump demand for healthcare vote on Friday)

Conservatives felt the bill did not go far enough to repeal Obama’s namesake healthcare legislation, and moderates felt the plan could hurt their constituents.

House Republican leaders had signaled they were ready to work through the weekend to figure out a way to reconcile their differences. But Trump sent his top lieutenants to a dramatic meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday night with a message: he was done talking.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-demands-do-or-die-friday-vote-on-healthcare-plan/

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So, now it on for Friday.

Link to tweet

Graphic on Obamacare and Republican healthcare bill (http://tmsnrt.rs/2n0ZMKf)

Graphic on shifting positions in the U.S. Senate on Republican healthcare bill (http://tmsnrt.rs/2mUE4Xf)

Graphic on poll on Americans’ views of the Republican healthcare bill ( http://tmsnrt.rs/2n7f3e4)

[Plucketeer]

1. Oh PLEASE -

oh pleeeeeeease - oh-please - oh-please, let Trump go for the "Die" option! That (his dying) would cure alot of the sickness in this nation right now!

[riversedge]

6. Wonder what his arteries look like with all that KFC he eats??

[defacto7]

56. I've heard that shooting Draino helps clogged arteries.

Maybe someone should suggest it to him.

[milestogo]

31. + 100000000

[pangaia]

2. trump demands... my ass.... fuck that....

[riversedge]

7. House of Representatives cave to Trump demand for healthcare vote on Friday--is another

headline on Raw Story.

Ryan did cave--earlier today--they had planned on working through the weekend and a vote on Monday.

[hamsterjill]

32. Exactly.

I didn't think the Oval Office gave Congress deadlines! Guess we know who rules Ryan's ugly ass.

[dchill]

45. "...who rules Ryan's ugly ass."

I thought it was the ghost of Ayn Rand.

[hamsterjill]

52. Clearly, in this instance, it is Trump

I guess the orange idiot is giving Ayn Rand a run for top dog, no????

[dchill]

53. For now, but in the long run it's gonna be Rand.

[hamsterjill]

57. I don't doubt that one bit.

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. It would be best if tRump resigned. . . . nt

[mpcamb]

14. Just sent that suggestion to him.

[Posting Anonymously]

4. Final Solution

It's all part of Trump's Final Solution: kill as many Americans as possible by destroying the healthcare infrastructure of millions of people, destroy the environment and enable the wealthy to finish off the complete fleecing of the populous.

[JudyM]

19. Using that term so casually could be felt as pretty insensitive, even though you may not mean it

to be. Hitler's use of that phrase meant something far worse, torture and mass murder of millions. Some here on DU lost family in that actual genocide. Speaking for myself.

[mr_lebowski]

39. Yeah, but IS it? Is it REALLY that casual?

Does anyone here seriously think this ... man ... wouldn't LOVE to watch his 'enemies' (racial, political or religious) burn, or to usurp other lands by force and cause him a big giant World War, so he could feel all tough and badass?

I think the evidence is becoming pretty glaring that this guy ... burn women, children, houses, and villages ... wants to see blood and gore and guts, and veins in his teeth ... I mean KILL.

[JudyM]

44. Um yes. There is a massive difference between profiting without regard to its effects, which tRump

does, and intentionally committing genocide for the purpose of genocide.

[Posting Anonymously]

48. NOT CASUAL

The use of the term was NOT casual. Trump is engaged in a modern day version, permutation, or whatever term you want to use, of the Final Solution: exterminate the poor, suck working people dry, work people to death so the rich can "prosper", steal as much as possible from working families, destroy ecological systems on a planetary scale so the rich can be even richer. People who can't SEE that reality are flat out fools. The irony is the scum of the Earth such as Trump will end up killing more, shortening more people's lives and creating more damage than the "original" Final Solution. Overall, by the way, this crap has been going on for 150,000 years and what we are seeing today is hardly news and is hardly ANY different from what occurred during the Final Solution (hint if you're doing the analysis: "when you're dead, you're dead; you think death from industrial cause or pollution is "different" from death in a "death camp"? It isn't. When you're dead you're dead and what Trump is doing is thus logically INDISTINGUISHABLE from what Hitler did. THE BEHAVIOR IS IDENTICAL.

[Posting Anonymously]

46. 6 Million Deaths

Read the Journals and DO THE MATH. What Trump has ALREADY done will directly and indirectly result in the extermination of way more than 6 million people. We live on a PLANET. That means that the consequences of his anti-social, psychopathic, utterly depraved behavior are going to play out WORLD-WIDE and consequently the incontrovertible fact of the matter is way more than "merely" 6 million will die. Do you know what the environmental consequences ALONE of the policy changes are thus far? Start reading ad let me know when you got through all the stuff as I have. I'm not into the politically correct crap. The Holocaust was a catastrophe of epic proportions. But the incontrovertible fact of the matte is Trump has now proven himself to be simply a modern day proponent of HIS version of the Final Solution but just draped in finery and technological wizardry. Want my advice? You better start opening your mouth and scream bloody murder if there is to be even a remote chance of stopping our latest HITLER. Period.

[JudyM]

47. I dedicated 6 months full time to this past election. I have been an ardent outspoken

environmentalist, including taking cases to court, for 30 years. Let that sink in, that's who you're communicating with here. The depth of my commitment to environmentalism and social welfare is significant.
This continued insensitivity says something. Or perhaps the pain of this term can only be felt by Jews.

[LanternWaste]

54. The crowd had clothes... it was the little fella who yelled to everyone...

Try not to think that simply because many well-read, intelligent individuals read your hyperbole as rooted in a dramatic lack of rational thought does not make our observations inaccurate.

The crowd had clothes... it was the short, awkward fella who yelled at everyone how great he was that was actually naked, regardless of whether you want people to scream blood.

Ellipses.

[Bengus81]

49. I don't think what Trump,Ryan and those thugs in Freedom cacus is "casual" either....

This IS life or death for 20M people including MYSELF who are on the ACA. I'm retired,if those CRIMINALS throw the ACA out the window I LOSE coverage. I can't get on Medicare for TWO YEARS providing that's still around.

Like Hitler these people DO NOT CARE who dies,neither do their masters the Koch brothers.

[JudyM]

50. That is not targeting you for your religion, rounding you up in cattle cars, sending you to freezing

camps to undergo hideous torturous experiments, be shot or gassed or starve.

[joanbarnes]

5. Okay, die then....

[Marthe48]

8. Maybe he'll fire himself

because he's a big fat incompetent FAIL! The constant blather since 2010, from all the repugs, bound and determined to repeal the ACA, and it gets right down to it, they are too incompetent, too greedy and too cruel to pull it off. I wonder how that 17% base will effect repug reelection in 2018?

[Freethinker65]

9. If the Republicans in the house were smart, they would politely disregard Trump

But they are not

[Crash2Parties]

10. He "demands"? Why oh why won't Fox play that video, How Bill Becomes a Law when he's watching?

Couldn't Breitbart at least to a little mini-feature on how laws are made in America just to help him out a little?

[groundloop]

12. Oh so true. 45* just doesn't get it that he's not this country's CEO.

He seriously should have paid attention in middle school civics class.

[Dave Starsky]

18. Even CEOs don't run their companies this way.

They are accountable to their shareholders and boards of directors.

Trump has always been the president of a serially bankrupt sole proprietorship.

[murielm99]

30. We need to keep pointing this out

to people who think he is such a great businessman. He has never had to be accountable to anyone!

Good post.

[Dave Starsky]

40. I point it out to everyone, particularly my GOP acquaintances.

The simple fact of the matter is, regardless of whether you are a Democrat or Republican, if you worked for a major corporation whose CEO acted the way Trump does on a daily basis--repeatedly telling easily discredited lies in public, flying off on golf vacations every weekend on the company dime, inviting his nonemployee children to meetings where corporate policy and strategy are discussed, publicly shaming previous and present company higher-ups for his shortcomings, flying around the country performing self-serving PR activities (again on the company dime)...ET CETERA, ET CETERA--it would take less than one day for the board of directors of your corporation to hold an emergency meeting and fucking fire his ass, sending Corporate Security to march him out of his office immediately without even a second to collect his shit.

THAT is how companies are run in the real world. But I guess I shouldn't expect some poorly educated Republican dipshit in some jerkwater town to know that.

[raccoon]

58. Great post. nt

[Still In Wisconsin]

11. Go for it Dump... do or (fuck off and) die n/t

[paleotn]

13. OK....

knock yourselves out. Let us know how that works out for ya, Rethugs. Bring Don't Care to a vote without the votes. Idiots.

[hamsterjill]

34. I hope YOU are right.

But somehow, I think he will get the votes. This is all a staged "win" so orange ass can take a victory lap. No thought to how many people will die. Well, maybe it's not "thought". They don't care how many die.

[hibbing]

15. "felt the plan could hurt their constituents"

Gotta love the writing in these articles. "Could", you think so? I mean it's only up to 24 million people that would lose their insurance.


Peace

[hay rick]

16. Which raises the question...

Are these unprincipled cowards more afraid of displeasing their big dog donors, their dumbass voters, or yappy dog Donald. I see Trump getting the bronze medal in this competition.

[harun]

51. It's always about the donors. They don't care if Obamacare stays in place.

Because they complain about incessantly it to their dumbass voters and win doing it.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Let's close the hospitals and keep operating too!

He is such a dope. If this caves on him, he is irrelevant, and he knows it.

Looked at another way, they are now boxed in. Repeal and the wrath of
citizens and health care are upon them, fail to pass and they are laughing
stock and the emperor has no clothes and no judgment.

Cornered. No good choices there.

[JudyM]

20. Grabbing em by the...

[Cryptoad]

21. Reckon Trump is going to send his Russian Thugs friends ,,,

around tonight and throw a few members of the House off roof tops....?

[uppityperson]

22. The executive branch doesn't dictate to the other branches, regardless of desire to do so.

FDT

[Shrike47]

23. You know why he demanded they vote tomorrow? Doesn't want to work

on the weekend. Mar-a-Lago!

[elias7]

27. I'd love to see press start reporting & tallying the weekly costs of his trips and golf outings

I remember how venomous the right was regarding Obama's vacations and golf

[thesquanderer]

24. I think the key to the article is this...

“The president has said he wants a vote tomorrow, up or down,” Collins said.

“If for any reason it is down, we are just going to move forward with additional parts of his agenda” like tax reform, Collins told reporters after leaving the meeting.

He wants it done, because he really doesn't care which way he goes. He never really cared about health care reform, beyond its usefulness as a campaign issue. He just wants it dealt with, one way or the other, so he can move on to something he actually has some interest in, i.e. tax reform. (Presumably ways for him and his rich friends to keep more of their money.)

[RobinA]

43. This Is True

Healthcare has gone on way past his nanosecond attention span. Healthcare? We're still talking about that? That is so last week.

[Corgigal]

25. The Grand Ole Party

is being told by a foreign asset to get something done by tomorrow morning. Man, how the pretend powerful has fallen. Democratic Party can piss me off but I never had to deal with that. I would be so embarrassed, but I have ethics..so......

[C_U_L8R]

26. What me worry? I'm going to MerdeLargo !!

Gotta weekend of golf and ogling to do.

[Quanta]

28. Resist the Fake President

On the heels of the recent proof of treason, the understood fact that this president is fake and illegitimate, we, the American people have to take it upon ourselves to get back out in the streets once more. We should be having massive protests nationwide this weekend. This entire administration must be scorched. We refuse to be Russia 2.0 or made submissive to Putin's ego, or his little dog's too!

[Ilsa]

29. "Die" is fine by me; all of the GOP in congress and WH. nt

[jeffreyi]

33. There's such an imminent

Shitstorm, during and after nothing will be done. This has to go down.

[Skittles]

35. die you fuckers, DIE

[Skittles]

36. how does a guy who looks like a fish when he talks

smile like this?


I honestly thought Dubya was annoying to look at but this orange piece of shit is even worse

[Moral Compass]

37. When in doubt escalate!

Trump knows only one mode--attack. Problem is that doesn't really work in a legislative setting and you have little or no leverage against the people you are trying to manipulate.

The, Republicans, under the brilliant generalship of Paul Ryan (Policy Wonk Extraordinaire) have created a lose/lose situation. Their constituents are furiously against repeal of the ACA without a plan that is better and cheaper. The "plan" they've come up with is not only not better but it is likely to not be anywhere remotely cheaper.

So, if they don't vote for this catastrophe they'll get primaried by the well funded manic right. If they do vote for it their voters will vote them out of office.

Neither one is attractive.

The Freedom Caucus will not be satisfied until we are right back to where we were before the ACA--pre-existing condition exclusions, maximum lifetime benefits, no keeping adult children on parents policies until 26--and no subsidies dammit! Anything else is rampant socialism.

The moderates (yes, they do still exist) would like to keep all the good things about the ACA, but just call it something else.

Trump will push and I'm pretty confident he's going to end up with egg on this face. Although I could be wrong and they may pass this out of the House. The Senate could be crazy enough to approve it.

Problem is even if this ends up on his desk and he signs it--it's pure poison. Welcome to politics, Donnie Boy!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Then die and leave us alone

[nitpicker]

41. Link to BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39375123

(snip)
US President Donald Trump has demanded a make-or-break vote in the House of Representatives on Friday on his troubled healthcare bill.
(snip)

Mr Trump reportedly warned fellow Republicans that they had a choice between voting for his bill on Friday or being stuck with Obamacare for good.
(snip)

Meanwhile, Chris Collins, New York's Republican representative, said: "The president has said he wants a vote tomorrow, up or down. If for any reason it is down, we are just going to move forward with additional parts of his agenda."
(snip)

He needs a minimum of 216 Republicans to vote for the bill. If 22 Republicans join the Democrats in voting against the bill it will fail, and an Associated Press tally late on Thursday suggested that at least 28 Republicans opposed it.
(snip)

[Vinca]

42. Guess it will have to be early Friday. It's Mar-a-Lago day. Time for golf!

[briv1016]

55. This is like the student that puts off the term paper till the last two days before it is due.

Then when he misses the deadline, he asks the professor for a one day extension.

[Fast Walker 52]

59. because he is just THAT much of an asshole

some people think he wants to humiliate Paul Ryan. But he's hurting himself too.