The Donald Trump Impeachment Clock Is Ticking

blackascoal said:
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/blog...t-what-democrats-need/?utm_term=.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 What was originally enacted in the 1960s is Part A, which covers payments to hospitals, and Part B, which covers payments to physicians.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/broke-and-because-of-aca/
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lies and liberal liars.....
 
blackascoal said:
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/mone...-betting-trumps-impeachment-online/329742001/

Trump .. less of a president .. more of a sideshow.
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I have a thousand bucks to spare......since you're so confident, are you giving me three to one odds?......ten to one?......how much can you afford to contribute to my vacation plans......
 
Republicans will have no choice but to get rid of Trump. His cancer is spreading even among their own.


A Conservative Christian College Protest of Mike Pence

GROVE CITY, Pa. — On Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence will give the commencement address at Grove City College, the small Christian institution in Western Pennsylvania where I am a junior. A few years ago, Mr. Pence would have been a noncontroversial choice. Other prominent Republicans, including Ben Carson, Jeb Bush and Laura Bush, have spoken here, and the school is known for its conservative values. Indeed, the phrase “conservative values” is in the Grove City mission statement.

But the announcement that Mr. Pence would be commencement speaker this year drew considerable backlash. Alumni and students flooded administrators’ inboxes with emails protesting the decision, and faculty members have called for boycotts. Many who oppose the decision say that hosting Mr. Pence will serve as an endorsement of the current president.

Many of the issues evangelicals care about — marriage, abortion and religious liberty — are more dependent on a conservative Supreme Court than a conservative president. Divorced, disrespectful and domineering, Mr. Trump might not have been the first choice of many Christians, but he was certainly more likely than his Democratic opponent to advance cultural conservatism on the court.

Plenty of young evangelicals I know, however, were not persuaded by that argument. Claire Waugh, a senior from Woodbridge, Va., told me that she refused in November to have a Trump vote on her conscience, and that she hates to see the country being “led by a man who spews vitriol against anyone who is unlike him, a man who tries to invoke God’s name when he is acting utterly ungodly.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
 
blackascoal said:
Republicans will have no choice but to get rid of Trump. His cancer is spreading even among their own.


A Conservative Christian College Protest of Mike Pence

GROVE CITY, Pa. — On Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence will give the commencement address at Grove City College, the small Christian institution in Western Pennsylvania where I am a junior. A few years ago, Mr. Pence would have been a noncontroversial choice. Other prominent Republicans, including Ben Carson, Jeb Bush and Laura Bush, have spoken here, and the school is known for its conservative values. Indeed, the phrase “conservative values” is in the Grove City mission statement.

But the announcement that Mr. Pence would be commencement speaker this year drew considerable backlash. Alumni and students flooded administrators’ inboxes with emails protesting the decision, and faculty members have called for boycotts. Many who oppose the decision say that hosting Mr. Pence will serve as an endorsement of the current president.

Many of the issues evangelicals care about — marriage, abortion and religious liberty — are more dependent on a conservative Supreme Court than a conservative president. Divorced, disrespectful and domineering, Mr. Trump might not have been the first choice of many Christians, but he was certainly more likely than his Democratic opponent to advance cultural conservatism on the court.

Plenty of young evangelicals I know, however, were not persuaded by that argument. Claire Waugh, a senior from Woodbridge, Va., told me that she refused in November to have a Trump vote on her conscience, and that she hates to see the country being “led by a man who spews vitriol against anyone who is unlike him, a man who tries to invoke God’s name when he is acting utterly ungodly.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0
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Plausible deniability about obstruction of justice just evaporated with today's WaPo bombshell...
The odds are changing wildly as we speak...
Maybe you should take Pimp up on his stupid bet.
 
Buckly J. Ewer said:
Plausible deniability about obstruction of justice just evaporated with today's WaPo bombshell...
The odds are changing wildly as we speak...
Maybe you should take Pimp up on his stupid bet.
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I absolutely agree with you.

I don't read Pmp's post .. I have that idiot on IGNORE .. along with Guille, ILA, and a host of truly uneducated and ignorant pieces of shit that I don't want to talk to..

Besides, what does he have to bet that I want?

ZERO
 
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Tick-Toc, Tick-Toc ..

WH lawyers consulting experts on impeachment proceedings

President Trump's White House counsel has reportedly started looking to experts for information on impeachment proceedings to prepare for the possibility of Trump being forced out of office.

Sources from the White House told CNN Friday that while they believe Trump being impeached is unlikely, they have started researching impeachment proceedings amid more calls from Democratic lawmakers to impeach the president.

The news comes after almost two weeks of bombshell reports for the Trump administration. Comey's abrupt firing last week and subsequent stories surrounding his firing have caused a firestorm in Washington.

On Monday it was revealed Trump shared top-secret information with Russian officials. On Friday it was reported that during that same exchange with Russian leaders, Trump said that firing Comey "eased" investigation pressures. And according to a Tuesday report, Trump once asked Comey to stop the FBI's investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

The multiple revelations have led lawmakers to question the intentions of Trump's decision to fire Comey. Some call it an obstruction of justice meant to interfere with the bureau's investigation of Trump's campaign ties to Moscow. Others have called for impeachment over it.

While Trump still has a strong Republican backing in Congress, his lawyers are reportedly taking the warnings seriously by learning how to approach possible impeachment.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...proceedings-report/ar-BBBjI6p?ocid=spartandhp
 
Buckly J. Ewer said:
Well now the whole board will know what you are...thank you.:good4u:
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Everybody knows you're a no good racist cunt as well. I have news for you, Trump isn't going anywhere so I'd just top myself now if I were you. Alan Dershowitz, unlike you, knows his shit and he is also totally objective when it comes to legal matters unlike ambulance chasers like Jarod and McAwful. I feel sorry for raving loonys like you, Desh and BAC, you'd already built the gallows for the necktie party and put the champers on ice!!


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