by Matthew CasperWith the House passage of the American Healthcare Act of 2017, jubilant House Republicans have once again taken to the airwaves to blanket the country with their current talking points regarding the effects of their legislation on the people of the country. As I ...read more
After failing to pass the cack-handed health care bill he didn't write (or bother reading), Donald Trump is still not done with Obamacare. In a new attempt to dismantle his predecessors signature piece of legislation responsible for insuring tens of millions of Americans, Trump ...read more
by Matthew CasperTo the surprise of no one, perhaps save the most ardent boosters of President Donald J. Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the Republican plan to massively cut taxes for the upper 2%, repeal and (rhetorically) replace Obamacare failed Friday, being pulled ...read more
Speaking with Frank Rich at the NY Mag, Alex Carp outlines why Trumpcare is essentially finished, no matter what plays out over the next few weeks: But let’s say this bill does limp its way to the Senate. There, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are lying in wait to trash it as Obamacare ...read more
One of the many reasons why Donald Trump has been such a disaster, and will continue to be a disaster, is because the only rules he follows are the whimsical, ignorant demands of his loyalists. In other words, Trump doesn't care about any boundaries on the presidency other than ...read more
President-elect Donald Trump, in between obnoxious, deeply insecure tweets in which he attacked both John Lewis and Saturday Night Live, gave an interview to The Washington Post over the weekend, despite labeling it and other publications as "the dishonest media."Trump told ...read more
Following a vote in the U.S. Senate, the congressional Republicans in the House passed a budget resolution, 227-198, that officially kicks off the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Friday. Specifically, it's not an outright repeal of the ACA -- yet. But it ...read more
Republicans awoke on November 9 to the realization that their wet dream of almost eight years was about to come true: They were going to get to repeal Obamacare. But the question very quickly became how to do it. The GOP still doesn't have a filibuster-proof majority in the ...read more
(Photo: President-elect Donald J. Trump during a meeting at The New York Times’s offices in Manhattan on Tuesday. CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times)Donald Trump agreed to an extensive sit-down with The New York Times on Tuesday and the story that's emerging from the meeting ...read more
It's not breaking news to report that Donald Trump doesn't know a goddamn thing about anything. Based on what he's said, it's obvious that either he's personally ignorant of basic constitutional parameters or that he's deliberately deceiving his "poorly educated" voters. I tend ...read more