The Donald Trump Impeachment Clock Is Ticking

[blackascoal]

People are betting on Trump's impeachment online

Will President Trump be impeached?*

With members of Congress tossing around the word "impeachment," online betting sites are seeing an uptick in bets that Trump won't make it to the end of his four-year term, CNBC reports.*

Under the symbol IMPEACH.TRUMP.123117, online betting site PredictIt has seen an increase in the past three days in bets that Trump might be impeached before the end of 2017. While those betting that the impeachment will happen are almost three times lower than those that he will not be impeached, the increase in bets signals the volatility following the latest allegations swirling around Trump.*

In the U.K., bets that Trump will be impeached increased after reports*surfaced that Trump asked former FBI director James Comey to end his investigation, MarketWatch reported.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...ine/329742001/

Trump .. less of a president .. more of a sideshow.

[Wolverine]

People are betting on Trump's impeachment online

Will President Trump be impeached?*

With members of Congress tossing around the word "impeachment," online betting sites are seeing an uptick in bets that Trump won't make it to the end of his four-year term, CNBC reports.*

Under the symbol IMPEACH.TRUMP.123117, online betting site PredictIt has seen an increase in the past three days in bets that Trump might be impeached before the end of 2017. While those betting that the impeachment will happen are almost three times lower than those that he will not be impeached, the increase in bets signals the volatility following the latest allegations swirling around Trump.*

In the U.K., bets that Trump will be impeached increased after reports*surfaced that Trump asked former FBI director James Comey to end his investigation, MarketWatch reported.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...ine/329742001/

Trump .. less of a president .. more of a sideshow.

Keep dreaming!
http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/18/ev...llusion-video/

[anatta]

media driven frenzy coupled with Democratic resistance = hysterical charges hyped by nothingness

[Lightbringer]

Congressman Mark Pocan says it has “moved us an hour closer to midnight.”



Trump Impeachment Clock Ticks as Poll Shows Just 29% Approve of Comey Firing
Trump's firing of his FBI director last week has only increased concerns of his ability to govern

With a new poll of U.S. voters on Sunday showing that less than one-third support his abrupt ouster of FBI Director James Comey last week, the talk of impeaching President Donald Trump and demands for a special prosecutor to investigate possible ties between his campaign and alleged Russian interference in last year's election have reached their highest levels to date.

The new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows that only 29% of all respondents approved of Comey's firing while over 50% percent of those who said they knew "a lot" about how those events unfolded said they disapprove of the president's behavior.

"Arguably he's already obstructed justice and already violated the emoluments clause. I'm not saying we should impeach him now, I'm calling for an impeachment investigation."
—History professor Allan Lichtman

With Comey's controversial dismissal coinciding with a new round of opinion polls that show Trump's approval ratings stuck at historically low levels, a survey from Quinnipiac last week showed that the top three words that popped into respondents' heads when asked to describe President Trump were: 'idiot'; 'incomepetent'; and 'liar'—in that order.

In the wake of Comey's firing and Trump's subsequent explanation last week, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) said Trump's firing of Comey reminded him of the so-called "Doomsday Clock," a project run by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which seeks to warn the world about the encroaching threat of nuclear and other forms of human annihilation. "Maybe we should start an impeachment [clock]," Pocan tweeted. "This moved us an hour closer to midnight."

In a widely-circulated op-ed written by Laurence Tribe on Saturday, the Harvard constitutional law professor explained why the prospect of impeachment proceedings should now be front and center. According to Tribe, though Trump's firing of Comey is itself troubling, the case against Trump goes well beyond that.

"Even without getting to the bottom of what Trump dismissed as 'this Russia thing,'" writes Tribe, "impeachable offenses could theoretically have been charged from the outset of this presidency. One important example is Trump’s brazen defiance of the foreign emoluments clause, which is designed to prevent foreign powers from pressuring U.S. officials to stray from undivided loyalty to the United States. Political reality made impeachment and removal on that and other grounds seem premature." But, he adds, "No longer. To wait for the results of the multiple investigations underway is to risk tying our nation’s fate to the whims of an authoritarian leader."

On Friday, Allan Lichtman, a professor of history at American University who correctly predicted Trump's presidential victory, similarly told Newsweek magazine that there is no longer reason to hold off talk of impeachment.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...e-comey-firing

Whatever nigger.

[MAGA MAN]

Whatever nigger.

lol

[blackascoal]

media driven frenzy coupled with Democratic resistance = hysterical charges hyped by nothingness

Are you suggesting that democrats shouldn't resist?

Trump is leaving on his first overseas trip looking like a clown and complete fool. :0)

Payback is a bitch.

[Lightbringer]

Are you suggesting that democrats shouldn't resist?

Trump is leaving on his first overseas trip looking like a clown and complete fool. :0)

Payback is a bitch.

Accept the results of the election, nigger.

[GazzaQueen]

media driven frenzy coupled with Democratic resistance = hysterical charges hyped by nothingness

It's important they keep dressing up in pussy suits and throwing temper tantrums. People are fleeing the party in droves.

[Buckly J. Ewer]

Accept the results of the election, nigger.

Does Miss Cleo approve of her friend's post?
LMFAO

[Lightbringer]

Does Miss Cleo approve of her friend's post?
LMFAO

Ask her...oh no....

[Buckly J. Ewer]

Accept the results of the election, nigger.

Thank you for the reveal Guille...

[PostmodernProphet]

Medicare and Social Security are the only things keeping millions of senior Americans ALIVE.

.. and you think this is a waste of money?

do you understand the difference between "it is a waste of money" and "it wastes money"?........

[PostmodernProphet]

Then the answer would be to seek to improve those programs that are KEEPING MILLIONS OF SENIOR AERICANS ALIVE .. NOT TO ELIMINATE THEM.

and yet, when the Republicans propose that you lie and say they want to eliminate them......why is that?.......

[Lightbringer]

Thank you for the reveal Guille...

You just now figured out what I think of BAC? You're even dumber than I thought you were.

[PostmodernProphet]

Respectfully .. how is it that you don't know what's going on in your own party?

Paul Ryan’s plan to phase out Medicare is just what Democrats need

Democrats have been feeling many emotions over the last week — anguish, fear, rage, and despair, for starters. Now that their heads are clearing enough to begin asking themselves how they can mount an effective opposition to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress over the next four years. One of the first tasks is to find a battle to fight. It isn’t enough to just pick up the paper or check the internet in the morning and be horrified at whatever new appointments Trump is contemplating; for Democrats to regain their focus, they need a specific controversy around which they can organize and potentially notch a win. And it looks like they may have found it.

I’m speaking of Paul Ryan’s wish to privatize Medicare, or phase it out, depending on how you want to look at it. In an interview last week with Fox News, Ryan made clear that as part of the legislative bacchanal Republicans have planned for Trump’s first months in office, he plans to begin the Medicare phaseout he has long advocated. He seems to want to package it together with the repeal of the Affordable Care Act: “Well, you have to remember, when Obamacare became Obamacare, Obamacare rewrote Medicare, rewrote Medicaid. If you are going to repeal and replace Obamacare, you have to address those issues as well,” he said. “What people don’t realize is because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.761426aa4f25

‘Broke’ and Because of ACA?

House Speaker Paul Ryan falsely claimed that “because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke.” The law actually improved Medicare’s financing, and the program isn’t going “broke.”

Let’s start with the claim that Medicare “is going broke.” It isn’t. One part of Medicare, though, is expected to face financial shortfalls in the future without changes to either revenues or spending, or both.

Medicare is made up of four parts. What was originally enacted in the 1960s is Part A, which covers payments to hospitals, and Part B, which covers payments to physicians. Other parts were added later — Part C (Medicare Advantage, or private insurance options) and Part D (prescription drug coverage). Part A is funded by a payroll tax that goes into a trust fund, similar to Social Security trust funds,*while the physician and prescription drug aspects of Medicare are mainly paid for with general government revenues.

It’s that Part A trust fund that’s expected to run out of money. The current exhaustion date is 2028, according to the latest report from the Medicare trustees. “HI [hospital insurance trust fund] expenditures have exceeded income annually since 2008. However, the Trustees project slight surpluses in 2016 through 2020, with a return to deficits thereafter until the trust fund becomes depleted in 2028,” the 2016 trustees report says.

But that doesn’t mean Medicare would be “broke.” There are other parts of Medicare, and Part A would still have revenue through payroll tax receipts, though not enough to*cover all of the expected expenses.

“HI revenues would cover only 87 percent of estimated expenditures in 2028 and 80 percent in 2050,” the trustees report says.

Predictions of financing shortfalls have surrounded Part A almost since*it became law in 1965. By*1970, the trustees report projected that “the trust fund would be exhausted in fiscal year 1973, unless additional financing is provided.”

In 1980, exhaustion was expected in 1994; in 1990 the insolvency date was 2003. But Congress has repeatedly pushed back those dates, mainly through increasing taxes — both the payroll rate and wages subject to the tax. Right now, that tax rate is 1.45 percent on wages for employees and employers each, with no ceiling on wages subject to the tax since 1993.*(The Affordable Care Act added a Medicare surcharge on high-income wage earners, as we will explain later.)

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As for Ryan’s claim that Obamacare had worsened Medicare’s financing, that’s not the case, either. In fact, the law both expanded Medicare funding — adding a 0.9 percent tax on earnings above $200,000 for single taxpayers or $250,000 for married couples — and cut the growth of future spending.*Additional revenue and savings actually extend the life of the trust fund.
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/bro...ecause-of-aca/

lies and liberal liars.....