Oh, to be a fly on the wall for this one. Fortunately, like any DC insider, I have my sources, so I was able to snag a copy of the lunch menu for the Trump-McConnell lunch today. El Presidente Pendejo is having a double bacon cheeseburger with kettle chips and two scoops of ice cream for dessert. Yertl the Turtle is having Yertl the Turtle is having the humble pie, with a Maalox chaser. Mint Tums will be in a candy bowl in the middle of the table.
With his endless macho braggadocio, Trump has not just thrown McConnell under a bus, he has pitched the entire GOP on the tracks in front of the 12:42 express from washington to New York. In what were surely unscripted remarks at a photo op before a meeting of his Klown Kounsel Kabinet, Trump uttered the words o Republican ever wanted to hear.
“You shouldn’t even call it ‘Obamacare” anymore, Obamacare is gone”. Ummm, no numbnuts, Obamacare is not gone, because your goddamkn Senate couldn’t pass a law to repeal it. What is now gone is a functional healthcare system that makes even a vague, laughable attempt to care for the most vulnerable Americans. Welcome to the age of Trumpcare. Alan Grayson had it right a couple of years ago, when he said from the podium in the well of the House chamber, “The GOP healthcare plan? Don’t get sick! And if you do get sick, then die quickly”.
But why stop there? In a scene from the current blockbuster reality series “Earnest goes to Washington”, Trump prived he’s still got game. He went on to say that congress was already forking on “temporary fixes” to the current healthcare problems. Little wonder McConnell is standing next to His Lowness at the podium right now looking like his lunch consisted of spoiled lemons. There is only one fix congress can come up with for this problem, since they can’t repeal the law, they’ll have to codify the subsidies into law. It’s either that, or the government ends up paying more and more for healthcare for those uncovered, which increases the deficit.
Mitch almost had an infarction when The Inglorious Basterd said that the unraveling of Obamacare was bringing Democrats running to the table to help to fix it. Personally, I think it’s long past time for Presidents to be subjected to mandatory drug tests. Why in the world would Democrats move one inch to fix this? It already was fixed until Trump axed the subsidies! Trump jumped into this mosh pit all by himself, and the rest of the GOP lemmings are in there with him, why on earth would the Democrats turn on a shower to help them clean off?
But the best was yet to come. Trump reasoned that he only cut off the subsidies was that they were nothing but corporate welfare for the insurance companies. He rambled on about the swelling insurance company stock prices for insurance companies, and he was having none of it. News flash Widdle Donnie. Giving money to large corporations are what the Republican party is all about! Why in the hell does he think that large corporations and their officers give so much money to Republican candidates? Like the RNC doesn’t already have enough problems with a possible looming super donor revolt is tax cuts don’t come down the pike, let’s piss off every donor we can find wirth more than $40 bucks to spend on a Chinese made MAGA hat.
You know, I had started to worry that now that the healthcare fight appeared to be over, the grassroots intensity that it had generated would calm as other things came to the forefront. We all know that memories where politics are concerned tend to have th life span of a 7 year cicada. But Trump has just handed every Democrat running the ultimate gift. The longer this goes on, the worse it gets, take CHIP as a perfect example. The longer CHIP goes unfunded, the more families will be shown on the news, detailing the life and death struggle their family is going through due to a policy decision that could have come right out of the Pol Pot regime. With friends like these, who needs enemas?