Ann Coulter doesn’t get much correct, but when she does, really gets it. From this week’s column:
Where’s the Obamacare repeal? Where are the hearings featuring middle-class Americans with no health insurance because it was made illegal by Obamacare?
The House passed six Obamacare repeals when Obama was president and there was no chance of them being signed into law. Back then, Republicans were full of vim and vigor! But the moment Trump became president, the repeals came to a screeching halt.
Read the rest at your leisure here.



Annie is retooling her image a bit. I believe she intends to be a plague on the GOP congress, and this is her good start. No sense going after Democrats, they are no fun to kick.
My take is they have been waiting for Price. Now he is there, they can scapegoat him if anything goes wrong, and take credit when it goes right. Congress cannot organize a wet dream on their own as it requires someone to take accountability.
I expect stuff to happen, as the ACA gives unbelievable power to Price to do whatever he wants. If he does 90% of the restructuring, all he needs is Congress to put it into law after the fact.
Stupid, but it may work.
Interesting take.
I still blame Congress.
Congress is pretty much the root of the problem. I want a law passed that requires them to spend 90% of their time physically in their district and do the job over Skype.
I’ve been concerned from the moment McConnell started making noise about retaining the filibuster which goes directly against the Founders’ idea on how the Senate was supposed to work as described by Madison and Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. They’ll use that excuse to argue they need a filibuster-proof majority to do anything. The goalposts are always being moved with them in charge of the party. They are out of excuses.
Great point Whiskey.
Congress is beholden to their money interests and don’t like Trump. [edited for what I assumed were typos. MLH]
Congress is frightening me with the nuclear option as well. Obama did and now both parties are ignoring and manipulating the Constitution. I fear we’re not far from becoming yet another banana republic and I blame the GOP for allowing this to spiral out of control over the past 8 years.
McConnell did not act pro-actively and now has to take drastic measures; you’ve already witnessed the reaction in the market today. Frankly, I’m sick of being victim to idiots who have never worked in the private sector.
My solemn vow: I will never vote for a career pol again. You ain’t suffered from the slings and arrows of a capitalist economy? You don’t get my vote.
I’m so disturbed, I made a personal relative call our entrepreneurial governor Rick Scott today for some helpful feedback. They are personal friends and I just want to know WTH is going on.
Thanks MLH. I can’t fix typos yet.
It’s as if Abraham Lincoln was elected with Congress controlled by Doughfaced Whigs still afraid to challenge the Southern Democrats.
It won’t work. Plainly the gope leadership doesn’t want to actually repeal obamacare, no matter what they’ve said in the past and no matter what the people who voted for their party want.
Gosh, isn’t that obvious, and obviously something that helped Trump win office? Anyway, it seems plain that they hope they can figure out some way to keep from having to actually repeal that cursed abomination, because the gope’s donor class paymasters really like the idea of dumping the expense of their expensive employee healthcare, no matter what.
The GOP- still the stupid party.
Yup. Called it.
“The GOP- still the stupid party.”
The rude awakening I have suffered is that the GOP differs very slightly (if at all) from the DNC.
Now what?
Reading a new book “The Quartet” by Joseph Ellis about the Continental Congress. Much to my surprise, the original colonies had no desire to form a “nation;” in fact, they wanted merely to form a peaceful and supportive military pact with one another as a domestic form of the League of Nations.
This book is forcing me to re-think some lifelong beliefs in the power of one nation. I’m beginning to see why Texans and Floridians and some other southern states would like to separate from California, NY, MA, New England, etc.
The author of this book makes some comparisons between European countries and individual American states in terms of culture and fiscal priorities. Have we become too diverse to assimilate and succeed as one nation? The experiment with the EU is a powerful example for that argument along with the national reaction to Trump’s election. Never in my Boomer lifetime have I witnessed such a division of goals, priorities, and values. Even the 60s and 70s do not begin to compare.
Washington and Hamilton were the true promoters and architects of the creation of one nation. John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison were supporters as well although somewhat less enthusiastic.
Were all of them wrong?
The Thirteen Colonies will take you even further back.
Now what?
The political establishment continues to collapse. Despite the fever-dreams of the gope, there is no going back. The GOP base simply will not accept a continuation of the failure theater so beloved by the establishment. The leftist base of the demonrats simply won’t accept election results.
There’s a lot of ruin in a nation, but only so much. As you say the country is terribly divided, with the left openly pining for a coup. If they get the government back, look out. They thought they had it in the bag with Hillary versus Trump- but now they know better. I expect they’d move fast and hard to destroy the opposition, law and Constitution be damned. The gop and its witless establishment will continue their tradition of hapless irrelevance.
And the mass of the right will resist, with equal force. End of game for the regime founded circa 1789, one way or another.
Trump better succeed. The political establishment should pray every day that he won, because the alternative is much worse, for them and everyone else.
Were all of them wrong?
Pardon my rambling, and no one should feel any obligation to respond to it, read it, or notice it in any way.
That noted, I do not think the Founders were wrong. They cannot be blamed because their creation is having a rough patch, centuries later.
The blame falls upon their successors- most directly both the leftists who hoped to avoid their political doom by importing a new people and the gope which couldn’t look beyond the cheap labor that this lawlessness brought to them.
If we are now to diverse to remain in the same country, that is the cause.
But I don’t think were are. We are just governed by fools.
Fortunately, elections should enable us to replace them before we are driven to resort to violence.
You are correct; the Founders thought of nearly every possible alternative but even those geniuses couldn’t be expected to account for every future disfunction. ):
Not sure I agree here X.
Do you think the Founders were flawed or is it our blasphemous lack of adherence that is flawed?
“Do you think the Founders were flawed or is it our blasphemous lack of adherence that is flawed?”
Neither. The Founders set up a system that was a stunning success, with the 13 colonies eventually growing into a world power. That ain’t hay.
But we cannot avoid noticing that centuries have passed. To pick one example, we have about 100 times as many people as we did back at the founding, yet only about 5 times as many Representatives. The Senate has a similar issue.
This isn’t a problem with what the Founders created, it’s a problem with the people in charge today. They have a lamprey-like attachment to the status quo, in all its forms. The number of Congresscritters hasn’t changed in almost a century. Why not? The population has roughly tripled.
We can’t blame the Founders for the ensuing lack of effective representation, nor can we say that we haven’t adhered to their vision, because they were silent on this particular question.
Old cliche- a fish rots from the head down. That has certainly happened the present leadership of this country- and only time will tell if elections are enough to enable them to be replaced in time to avert further disaster.
Too diverse. Tooooo!!
“Trump better succeed.”
Indeed; this is why I supported him from the very beginning of the primaries. He understood that there is a destructive divisiveness in this country and appeared eager and prepared to deal with it.
None of the other GOP primary candidates seemed to comprehend this because they’ve lived in very cloistered worlds; this truly defines the difference between a politician and a globally engaged entrepreneur.
Have I clearly communicated my disdain for politicians who don’t wander outside their own jurisdictions? Have I communicated clearly the importance of governors such as Florida’s Rick Scott who spend most of their time outside the state looking to poach business opportunities for their constituents?
I’m frustrated because this is all simply a page from my Econ 101 course that I took as a freshman in college.
BTW, I got an “A.”
EThompson, I just want to give you some props. You were one of the few that backed Mr. Trump from the start.
Thanks, but after living in NYC for 12 years, I grew used to his braggadocious behavior; I even admired the moxie as he managed to get himself out of financial trouble numerous times both legally and profitably!
I figured this was as good a resume as it gets to run the U.S.Treasury.
Things went haywire when the politicians of the 30’s trashed all the restrictions in the constitution. Since then it has been a steady decline in the ability of the country to actually govern itself, while the elite have slowly taken control.
I’m not speaking cultural control. It’s political control that we are seeing. People no longer can do as they wish; way too many laws interfering with that ability.
AND (lastly) this is not a federal issue only. The states have gone crazy with passing laws. You could most likely take an easy 50% of the legal code from a state and toss it – and you would live more freely.
Good points Dev. I think you can also go back farther to the Wilson admin, the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment.
When the limits of the Constitution were still somewhat in place they were circumvented by outsourcing money to a bank cartel.