Benjamin Franklin

With he exception of a war here and there. At least try to make something resembling reasonable points. Back to the topic of Trump foreign policy. Tillerson says the US is done talking on North KOrea. Wonder what that means. Two hot potatoes right now.

I wouldn't look to Russia for pravda.

Nice mix of fact and fiction there. Who needs truth when you can add all the wacky conspiracies you want?

Meanwhile in Syria, not a lot of great options. Assad used nerve gas--but is propped up by our great friends in Russia. This is a true first test of foreign policy. Citizen Trump advocated that the US ignore Assad's actions in the past. I wonder if President Trump feels the same.

Glad so many want to talk about the kite surfing former president but I was talking about the current occupant at 1600 PA Ave and what he's doing.

I. Agree. With. DR. That wasn't easy. The price of freedom and particularly the price of privacy in today's age may come at the cost of some degree of safety. But I'd rather be free and accept the risk of a terrorist than be less free and invite the authoritian government into even more control over me. It's a choice. Freedom ain't free. Sure. The old "if I'm Not doing anything wrong, what do I have to fear from Big Brother" rationale. See any problems with giving that authority to the man? Sure. The old "if I'm Not doing anything wrong, what do I have to fear from Big Brother" rationale. See any problems with giving that authority to the man?

New policy: Invite dictators to the White House and praise them. "I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President el-Sisi. He’s done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. We are very much behind Egypt and the people of Egypt. The United States has, believe me, backing, and we have strong backing." If you're judging the US by its friends...

Dead horses ride the best here at PPP. Have you met Gatorman?

OCinBuffalo knows all. Duh.

Acknowledge? I acknowledge he ran well. I would never ever honor him. It's a disgrace that his name is up on the wall. Sickens me every time and the rest of the country mocks Buffalo every time they see it. Totally unnecessary and should be removed. It's not Orwellian. It's deciding to not honor a wife beater double murderer. And as far as angering half the fan base, it's got to be easier to politically align with people not defending OJ.

The handshake thing is more bizarre.

I didn't read your post but it's still excellent. Turning over a new leaf?

Can't bring myself to care. Working on it.

McConnell didn't point to Obama's agenda and say let's fight this or that. He said the party's first mission was to ensure Obama was a one term president. That is putting party before people. And on the Garland thing, your rationale is furthering the second grade BS. I don't care who started it. The Senate's job is to advise and consent on presidential nominees. Did they? And so now the Dems are threatening their own symbolic filibuster to Gorsuch, who is an equally qualified candidate to Garland. They are both unquestionably excellent choices and both should have been/should be approved by overwhelming majorities. Don't you see how assinine both parties are? How this helps no one? Saying "he started it" is only second in stupidity to actually participating in the process.

And the Reps would laud it. It's a stupidity roundup. Two parties are as dysfunctional as can be. I truly think there are cracks forming. It will get uglier before it gets better but some voices are speaking up. That's a good sign. McConnell said his party's primary mission when Obama got elected was to make sure Obama didn't get a second term. And Merrick Garland might have a thought on the nomination process. Let's not pretend any party is in the right here and putting us before party. Yet we re elect congressman at a rate that would make a tenured professor jealous of their job security.

Boehner and Biden almost had social security reform done when Obama "moved the goalpost." Takes a couple of good negotiators to get real work done. I like Ryan a lot but I'm not sure that's his strong suit. It will be interesting to see if this failure gives rise to some moderate power. The electorate is probably not quite there yet but the seeds are being sown, which is good. The Gorsuch Dem stupidity to come, and a few more extremist meltdowns may get us to middle governance.

"I don't think that one party's going to be able to fix this by themselves," the South Carolina senator Lindsay Graham said Saturday at a town hall event. "I think the President should reach out to Democrats, I should reach out to Democrats, and we should say, 'Let's take a shot at doing this together because it ain't working doing it by ourselves.'" Pretty consistent reasonable voice of the middle.

And that 50% of the country opposed (both for ACA and ACHA).

Your attitude is the exact problem. They are doing it so why can't I? Second grade logic that doesn't help the country..

Schumer is the poster boy for bad politics right now. Yes the Garland thing was pig disgusting BS. But it's over. If you want to be the bigger person, play the game the way it is supposed to be played, not the way the Rs just played it. That would be high character and a proper way to treat Gorsuch and the process. I will applaud the Dems who vote yes on Gorsuch. I hope some show the spine to do it. Move the country forward.

See London atracks thread. It's become a pox. The Republicans stumbled ass backwards into what might be a good thing. Trump says he wants to see the ACA fail and then get back to discussing points but just maybe this recent Rep embarrassment on the vote and the near miss of ACA repeal for the Dems will get a few like minded people to the table across the aisle and start a discussion. Care for dependents, pre-existing conditions, the concept of shopping for care...the ACA is NOT the total disaster top to bottom that it is sometimes painted. Then fix/repeal some other parts. How much control do states get and what happens if states fail to provide? Need a good realistic answer to this because it will surely happen. Really tough questions that will take two parties working together to hammer out. Otherwise the Reps will pass something and in 4/8 years, the Dems will repeal and replace and we will be back on this stupidity rodeo.

3 pages of thread. Not one expression of remorse or serious post about what happened. What a cesspool. Sad day for the UK. Be strong allies.

Some of the original reporting around Flynn was that his communications were picked up from listening to Russian citizens. Could that be the incidental communication Nunes referred to? No warrant necessary for that if a Russky calls an American.

I am in DisneyWorld. The USA is not too far off this judging by the sample. It might stick once we tell people at the end of their lives that they can have a pain pill but not the chemo/surgery they need because we can no longer fund health care for everyone, and especially end of life everyones. Or not. We've had 75,000 years of homo sapien evolution looking for our next meal and countless evolutionary species and years before that...Safe to say that the last hundred years of excess food is an adjustment period for humanity. Going to take more than a few generations to figure out the woes of excess food.

And let's see him cut defense spending too.