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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#179827: Mar 27th 2017 at 5:25:12 PM

Jared Kushner, Trump's Son-in-law, Aide and soon to be Head of 'Office of American Innovation', had met with influential Russian Bank last year. Kushner will also testify before Congress on Trump-Russian Ties.

It'd be so ironic if Kushner was the man who sold out Trump.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#179828: Mar 27th 2017 at 5:33:29 PM

Office of American Innovation, huh?

I'm kind of curious as to what sort of "solutions" they have in mind. Given that it's the Trump administration it's probably terrible though.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#179829: Mar 27th 2017 at 5:36:01 PM

[up]Based on their opening statement, their goal appears to be to part and parcel the government, selling it off one piece at a time to line their pockets.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#179830: Mar 27th 2017 at 5:38:14 PM

[up][up] The Innovation Office is supposed to help lean up the Government and make it run more like a Business. Yes, that's bad, but fortunately Kushner's not doing it alone; Several Tech Corperate Heads and Former Heads, including Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Tim Cook, will be helping, at least at first.

edited 27th Mar '17 5:38:25 PM by DingoWalley1

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#179831: Mar 27th 2017 at 5:55:49 PM

Run like a business = more authority delegated to executives = increased powers of the President.

This is an effort to create a monarchy.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#179833: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:21:08 PM

You might want to watch what you browse after tomorrow: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/internet-privacy-bill-vote-coming-in-the-house/

edited 27th Mar '17 7:55:49 PM by Bat178

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#179834: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:29:21 PM

[up][up][up]That's my take on it, including the large amounts of wealth flowing in from the royal demesne.

A certain red state quietly reveling...Georgia to explore Medicaid changes after GOP health plan’s implosion

Gov. Nathan Deal said Monday his administration is exploring changes to Georgia’s Medicaid program after a sweeping Republican overhaul of the Affordable Care Act was scuttled in a stunning rebuke to Donald Trump and Congressional leaders.

The Republican governor said there are limits to what the state can request “as long as mandates under the basic Obamacare legislation stand in place.” But he said the state would review healthcare options that could include changes to “mandated minimum coverage” provisions that require the state Medicaid program to cover a range of health services to recipients.

Georgia lawmakers in 2014 passed legislation that gives the Legislature the final say over any expansion to the Medicaid program. Provisions were slipped into the last three budget plans allowing the state to pursue a specialized Medicaid waiver, but no such authorization was put in this year’s spending law.

“We are exploring a variety of solutions that bring Georgians greater flexibility and access to care,” said Deal spokeswoman Jen Talaber Ryan. “No specific proposals have been decided upon, but he will continue working with members of the General Assembly to evaluate all options.”

Georgia flirted with a wide-ranging waiver in 2015 under President Barack Obama’s administration that would have sought more Medicaid money to help the state’s struggling rural hospitals and its big “safety net” hospitals like Grady Memorial in Atlanta. But the state later quietly abandoned those discussions.

The demise of the GOP healthcare proposal, which collapsed last week among opposition from Republican moderates and conservatives, has revived statehouse talks that Georgia could pursue a new waiver program.

Although Price doesn’t have the power to transform Medicaid funding into the lump-sum block grants that state leaders have long sought, he has broad discretion to make other changes to healthcare funding that could be more politically acceptable for conservatives.

One of the most common methods is known as a Section 1115 waiver, and several conservative states have already used it to expand the Medicaid program on their own terms. A waiver from Arkansas, for one, let the state use Medicaid funding to allow uninsured residents to buy their own insurance plans.

Deal and other state leaders did not lament the failure of the GOP plan last week. The governor had repeatedly urged Congress not to “punish” Georgia and other states that refused to expand Medicaid, as the proposal would have rewarded states with more generous Medicaid funding.

Then to placate a growing conservative revolt, the proposal would have restricted Georgia and the 18 other states that haven’t expanded from growing their Medicaid rolls. And Georgia leaders said those changes would have made a dilemma – reopening a debate about expanding Medicaid – even worse.

This particular debate is specific to GA, but now that healthcare is part of the national conversation, I suspect medicaid/medicare expansions and other things are going to pop up even in red states—except Mississippi and Alabama.

edited 27th Mar '17 6:33:36 PM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#179835: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:29:35 PM

Typically, "Efficiency" has been a code word for "Privatize".

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#179836: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:39:40 PM

Trump and his people carving up our government cannot and will not end well. But I'm hoping that their own incompetence combined with Gates and Musk having some input (assuming anyone listens to them) can limit the damage.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#179837: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:49:47 PM

Trump's on a twitter rant:

Why isn't the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech....

...money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax. #MAGA!

The Republican House Freedom Caucus was able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After so many bad years they were ready for a win!

JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#179838: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:52:38 PM

You know, Trump, you should really do something about those nasty subversive Republicans in government. Only when they're dealt with can you move forward.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#179839: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:52:39 PM

[up][up] ... Why is he referring to himself in the 3rd Person?

Also, it does seem that Trump is going after the Teapublicans and not Ryan. I hope and pray that him burning that Bridge utterly destroys his Presidency.

Also, I propose we make "Maga" a verb that means "trying to make something work that you have no knowledge on at all." Like, "President Trump maga the United States."

edited 27th Mar '17 6:52:55 PM by DingoWalley1

CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#179840: Mar 27th 2017 at 6:55:26 PM

Is he still in the campaign? How long have we been stuck with this guy? And on the verge of carving up the government to hand off pieces to cronies two months in, note I don't think Trump can use appeal to (imaginary) worse problems anymore.

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#179841: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:01:09 PM

Isn't the whole Uranium deal made by private companies before the sanctions became a thing? Thus a non-issue that can't be pinned on HRC as a Secretary of State?

Inter arma enim silent leges
AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#179842: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:03:14 PM

He's counting on being able to make the accusation and be believed, rather than anything to do with facts. Which has been the theme of his life the past two years.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#179843: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:11:49 PM

@Wyldchyld: I seem to remember this sort of thing coming up before... there's a legal term for it, or something? Relating to the fact that any legal system that allows modifications can be destroyed?

It's some kind of paradox, but I can't remember what it's called. Can anyone help?

It's been fun.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#179844: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:15:28 PM

The Uranium deal is something that's approved by eight different federal agencies.

Clinton couldn't have signed off the deal unilaterally even if she bitched and moan, while kicking and screaming.

New Survey coming this weekend!
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#179846: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:31:49 PM

...Did he forget that he already won the election months ago?

[up] Ugh, aren't matters like those significant enough that they should be handled separately?

edited 27th Mar '17 7:32:44 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#179847: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:35:04 PM

I heard on the radio (I think) a while ago that Republicans don't want to do anything for infrastructure.

Do not obey in advance.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#179848: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:37:36 PM

[up] Hmm, it does seem rather unlike the Teapublicans to support something like that.

Disgusted, but not surprised
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#179849: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:37:53 PM

Sounds to me that Trump really wants to get the Democrats under his leadership, since he's got most of the 'moderate' Republicans under him already. I think that, if he really does go through with combining Infrastructure Spending and Tax Reform, he won't get Moderates on both sides to vote for it, he'll get them both to out right reject it.

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#179850: Mar 27th 2017 at 7:45:34 PM

You might want to watch you browse after tomorrow

I'm Canadian, so have fun with that.

I'll save a chuckle for you.

edited 27th Mar '17 7:45:45 PM by HextarVigar

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.

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