Trump the GOP and Democrats. A new path or more of the same.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump starts his second month in office.
Not much to say about our man Trump. I do think he needs
to forget about twitter, and do his job. He still has hundreds
of people to nominate for the senate to vote on. Hundreds to 
fill jobs so the government can continue to operate.
 
Seems Trump isn't aware he is the president of all the people
not just those who voted for him.

Our new atterney general has shown his position on the LGBT
community. He has removed the order to schools to follow
Obamas order for schools to protect the rights of transgender
children and their needs. Technically the protection exists
yet, but he isn't enforcing it. I don't think he plans to either.

GOP
Our friendly house and senate members are playing hard to find
unless its to see a hand picked group that might be willing to give
them money. Those that do show up to talk to the voters are getting
an earful. They listen, but have  little to say other than they will have
their staff look into it. A common dodge by politicans.

As long as those who support Trump continue to do so our GOP
Congress will want to avoid their voters asking questions they
don't want to answer. Trump is trying to claim the protesters are 
hired activists out to stop him from doing what the voters want
him to do. Just more of Trumps fantasies, because he thinks he
won sooo big..

Many people are afraid of loosing their health care, and the GOP
only makes dumb excuses. Like "Oh people should get a job so they
can get good insurance. Or you shouldn't wait till your sick to
buy insurance."  All good ideas in theory, but a lot of people
don't have a job that pays more than minimum wage, and they are 
not going to get good insurance and feed them selves much less a
family with that kind of money.

What about people who are born with health problems. How could
they buy insurance before they got sick? What about people who loose 
a job, and without money the insurance companies will drop them due
to not paying the premiums.  Then if they had health issues they can't
get reinstated even if they are willing to catch up on the premiums
after getting a new job. I had that happen to me. The GOP used to
claim the ACA had death panels. Well I kind of think it's the GOP
who is the death panel for the working poor.

[Old Rabbit]

Trumps white house
It has been reported the chief of staff in the white house asked the
FBI to knock down the validity of the russian connection with Trumps
campaign publicly. Since Trump says nothing happens without his approval.
Is he trying to block something we need to know about?

It has been reported Six people were fired for failing to pass background
checks by the FBI. Makes one wonder who Trump is hiring. Trump is very
smart (at least so he claims) so it's likely he knew them pretty  well when
they were hired. I don't think they should have even been in the White
house till they passed the checks. But they were there. They were all
removed the same day.

I wonder how many times the public and congress will allow Trump to say
"Oops I made a mistake" as an excuse.

The GOP and Trump continue to call the demonstrations against congress
a plan by paid activiests to stop him. He just can't accept the fact he lost
the popular vote. Hand to be millions of people illegally voting for Clinton.
Of course the GOP doesn't want to mention the Tea Party movment was
mostly started and supported by big business billionaires. This movement
is grass roots in spite of Trump and the GOPs claims.

Several doctors feel Trump has mental issues that could affect his ability
to see reality. To think something exists when it does not, and should be
removed from office. What  if he decided we were under attack. Would
others stop him, or would he be allowed to order a retaliatory attack. I
think the vice president should relieve  Trump of his power untill Trump
could be clinicly checked. The constitution allows this with the cabinets
help. I think most of us have noticed Trump  being strange in his actions
and speaking. Saying one thing then turning  around a few minutes later
saying the oposite. Even to claim he didn't. I am sure he would be very
put out if he was removed from power, even temporaroly, but when wars
can be started at the push of a button we should be very cautious.

I fear the VP and cabinet are more afraid of Trumps retaliation on them
if it failed to show he had a problem, than protecting the country or
the world. You know Trump (who claims to be the smartest, healthiest,
and best man of all time.) would want to choose his own doctor.

Even our allies are worried. They asked the VP who was really in charge.
I hope Trump doesn't get us or the world in a war we all will regret. At
least those of us who are still alive.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump is going out of it's way trying to get
the FBI, Congress, and other securty agancies to play
down the Russian Connection with  the Trump campaign. 
Have them contact the press and say there is little or nothing
to it.

Why does Trump want to hide or prevent investigations about
him and Russia? Why not open it up, and clear the air so it
can be put behind him. Instead they just want to say it's
nothing and we shouldn't worry about it. This just adds
suspision to the whole thing.

Trump continues to lie. No surprise there. He was making
a speech in front of conservatives, and made a cliam there
were people lined up for six blocks outside. There wasn't
even a block or line of people at all. Just a group of
protesters across the streat. Trump needs to get off
this ego trip and get down to doing his job.

Now he is telling government security agencies to find a
good reason to keep poeple from the 7 Islomic countries
from traveling to the USA. He has already heard there
is little risk from traveling from these countries.

Trump is calling the major news outlets an enemey to the people.
So is this going to be an excuse for Trump to not let the major
press in on his news briefings?  He did that only letting in reporters
who show him in a favorable light. The only news he wants people
to see. If it makes him look bad it's fake news. Is this ego or is
he wanting to hide improper activites from the public?

The pundants and media have been dancing around it, but Trump is
an authoritarian. They may not want to make that next step, but
a person who is that way is a Fascist. I first heard it used to describe
Trumps actions today. His supporters may not want to believe it, but
it's a very small step from what Trump is doing now to one of Fascism.
It's a strong word, but accurate for someone who wants control beyond
law and the contitution of a democracy. Perhaps Trump doesn't mean to
be that way but the far right with it's extremist ideals may be willing to
push Trump in that direction. He should dump Bannon like a hot potato,
along with the Atterney General he picked.

GOP
I wonder how far Trump can go before Congress has spine
enough to hold Trump accountable to the constitutions and
the law?

Our friendly GOP congress and senate members are claiming
the people coming to town hall meetings are paid to be
there. Up to $500.00 each. I kind of thhink if that was
the case they could find the money trail.

The GOP may think they are being smart calling these people
paid demonstrators, but I think it's is going to backfire on
them. People don't like being called liers in the real world.

Dem
I haven't said much about the democrats lately. They are voting
against Trumps picks more. I hope they work to get more people
running for state government. Otherwise the GOP will hold power
in the federal goverment, becuse states can make it harder for
people to vote. Especially those who might not vote the right way.
Polictical partys tend to do bad things trying to stay in power.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
I heard Trump say in effect. "It doesn't bother me if someone doesn't
like me. Or say something bad about me." Now that is a laugh. He spends
a lot of time defending his self than much  else. During his campaign
he spent the better part of a week defending what he seid about a beauty
contest winner. Trump has the thinkist skin of a president since Nixon.

Trump is more like someone playing the part of being president in a virtual
reality show than someone who really trying to be a good presidnt. He
continues  to only speak to those voted for him insteaad of us all. He
doesn't seem to understand a president is for all the people not for party
politics alone.

Our man Trump, a president over a house of chaos, or is it a lot of
hot air by the media? Trump seems to be tripping over his own feet. The
best way to get rid of bad news is to lay out all the facts. No lie trying to
blaim it on leaks and the press.  I think his war on the press is going to
get old even to his supporters if he continues doing it for months.

GOP
The GOP continues to support Trump by saying it's too early to have
a special prosecutor. With a atterney generals connections to Trump
he has no business with the investigation. Someone who could bury
important data if it protected his career or the Trump administration.

Also a special prosecutor would take the politics out of it along with
the Congress. That way they could just say it's out of our hands.  As is
they are caught up in it as well.

Will the GOP in congress listen to the votors in their districs, or
the leaders of the party? Many of them got a earful at home over the
past week. I think most of them are too ariogant and think they know
what's best, and how much money they can get for their next election
cycle.. Also they tend to believe the demonstrations are paid 
activies for the most part. I think most will only be changed by how
voters treat them in the voting booth.

The GOP always claims the private sector is the best for virtually everything
except for defense and a few agencies like Tax collection, Treasury, and
other things that affect the people as a whole. Problem I see is anytime
you allow the private sector handle things people "Need". People in business
see dollar signs. When people need something they will pay about any price
to get it. Remember $5 gal gasoline? The $20 pills that went to $750.00. If
people need it they will do what they have to  to get it.  This destroys the i
dea of letting the market control the prices. If it's things people only want
then the free market works well. Seems those in the GOP want to ignore
this, and continue pushing to privatise things people really need.

Dem
The democrats elected Tom Perez chairman for the party. I hope he knows
how speak  to the center of the country. If not the democrates may have a
tough time in 2018.

Link to a video about the Democrate election of their Chairman.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/dnc-selects-tom-perez-as-new-chair-884928579885

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump is going to speak to the legislature Feb 28th
at 9 pm eastern. It will be interesting to see how often
he lies and talks about how big he won the election over
Clinton in spite of illegal voting. I understand he is going
to brag about how much he has done over the last 5 weeks. Well
other than making it harder for people to get home loans, exporting
people who have a right to be in the country, making life harder
for Transgender people, and over 10 million in travel expenses to
Florida. I don't think his administration has done much at all.

He will claim he created lots of jobs, but out of over 150,000 created
in January 2017 he was probably responsible for about 20,000 at the
most, and many of them had more help from Obama than him.

"Meet the Press" asked the Trump administration if they had
someone to send over for an interview. All they offered was
their deputy press secretary. So the program said no thanks
and had a GOP senator from Arkansaw instead. A man who was
bought and paid for by GOP billionaires in 2012.

When asked about how he felt about the large group of voters
who met him last week asking him about their health care. He
basically said he promised to get rid of the ACA when elected,
along with other things. So he didn't really care if they
liked it or not. I guess he doesn't care if people can afford
insurance or not. He did say he would support Medicaid..I got
news for him the working poor are rarely eligible for medicaid.

In Missouri you can't have more than $1000.00 on hand to be eligible.
These days that is barely enough to keep the bills paid for a month
or two. In cities rent alone can run more than that for a month.

I wonder how many of the GOP in congress feel the same way about
the demonstrators. If so they may loose their next election.

There are a lot of good people who claim the GOP for their party, but
the leadership needs to move back from the far right. It's easy to see
someone who is fat paying for food with food stamps and feel they are
lazy leeches on society. But looks is often deceiving. Seems our
friendly GOP likes to point to people who appear to be parasites as
an excuse to cut federal programs for the poor. People do cheat the
system, but I think it owuld be better to make the program so it incurages
those on aid to get off it. When people on federal aid live better than
you can on minimum wages, how can we expect them to work.

Thats why minimum wage needs to be raised. Our new labor secretary doesn't
want that , and isn't even wanting to support higher pay for overtime.

With people like this I find it hard to understand why people still support
the GOP and Trump. The world is changing, and people have to change with it
or they are going to loose out. Manufacturing is moving towared full automation.
This means fewer manufacturing jobs now and in the future. No matter which
party is in power. People need education and training to do the jobs of the
future, not empty promises from big mouthed politicians like Trump. Yes he
is a politician now even though he may not have been one to start with.

Dem
People are asking if the democrats are going to say no to everything Trump
wants. Just like the GOP did with Obama. They said they would support ideas
from the GOP and Trump if they were realistic, and helped the country as a
whole. Not only for Trumps supporters as he implies in his speeches.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump is working to discredit anyone or even government
agencies if they say anything that makes it look like had any
connection to Russia. The FBI, CIA, and the Media to name a
few. Even congressmen who are wanting a special prosecuter and
a non partisa commission. This smacks of a cover up no matter
what Trump or the GOP says.

What is the GOP trying to hide. They are claiming there isn't
any evidence of a Russian connection before they even start an
investigation. Trump made a statement he hadn't called Russia
for 10 years. Even though he ran a beauty contest there just a
few years ago. So why did Trump try to say he hadn't been there
even though there is solid proof he was?

After years of unwarranted investigations of Clinton and Obama
the GOP shys away from looking at Trump. Claiming it's a waste
of our time.

Appears the GOP is scared they will loose their chance to pass
tax cuts for rich businessmen and get rid of the ACA. If
Trump is removed from office first. They sure  don't want it
dragged out till next year when they are facing re election.

If Trump wants credibility then lay everything out in the open.
Including his tax returns. He says there is no connection so
prove it. He has lied too much to just take his word.

Trump called for streat rallies across the nation over the weekend,
but it was rather lacking. Only hundreds in total accross the nation 
showed up versus the 3 million protexting Trump the day after his
inauguration. To be fair Trump didn't give them much time to plan.
Guess his supporters are like him in that they figured so many would
show up they didn't need to.

Trump continues to bring in his billionaire friends. They might find
them selves caught up in a big scandle with Trump. Some of them are
friends of Russian oligarchs. Now isn't that interesting. Could it be
Putins interest in Trump is trying to find out where Russian money is
going?

Billionaires have friends around the world, their activities could
involve anything one could imagine legal or not.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump stays mostly with his written speech. Will he stay with
with what he said or not? Time will tell.

Our man Trump made a speech that should make his supporters
happy.  Well written and well spoken, but Trump is a professional 
speaker. A man who knows how to say what people want to hear. 
Time will  tell how much of it was lies or misleading.talk just to
make us feel good. His speech did sound like it was more for the
country as a whole instead of a campaign style speech. Someone
did do a good job writing it.

Some of what he said was misleading, I can't say they were all lies,
but Trump never likes to admit anything but success. Even if he has
to lie to cover up a mistake in judgment or due to ignorance. I
wonder where the money will come from for all his ideas. He didn't
say much about that except for cuts in government agencies. There
isn't a lot of money to be saved cutting the State department, EPA,
and others. So I think he will have a hard time getting even a GOP
congress to agree. Of course the GOP is always willing to cut funds
in things they believe the private sector can do. Even if saving a dime
costs us a dollar in the end. I fear our space program will feel budget
cuts too. It's one agency the GOP has few problems whittling on. This
is short sighted as other countries will pass us when we should be a
leader in aerospace. People should remember NASA works to make
commercial flying safer for us all.

As I figured Trump did try to take credit for many jobs that were in
work before the election, much less over the last 5 weeks. The economy
is doing better because of Obama not Trump. Let's see how it's doing
by this time next year. Oh the stock market is likely doing better with
promises of lower taxes for the rich investor.

The soldier who died in Trumps raid is a hero who followed orders in
belief he was helping make our country safe..I just wish Trump had
used better judgment.Instead of what appeared to be wanting
to make a quick show trying to prove he will be a strong president.
Personally I think he shouldn't have mentioned the raid at all in a
political setting. Especially how it turned out, and with reports it 
gained little if any information which Trump tried to claim otherwise.
Trump should have taken full responsibility as commander in chief.
Instead he is trying to shift the blame to military mistakes, and Obama.

Trump signed a bill into law that allows people with mental problems
to buy guns. Yet he claims he is trying to make the country safer.

His speech was full of promises and ideas, some are good, but talk
is cheap, so let's see how he walks the talk. We need to remember that
Trump is a actor, a member of the screen actors guild by the way. So
he is very good at being a two faced lying con artist who will tell
voters what they want to hear. It is true when we like someone
we tend to only hear or see what we want to. So it's no wonder his
supporters want to overlook Trumps bad habits.  I wouldn't be so hard
on him if he didn't lie, and was willing to follow the constitution instead 
of his wallet.

Trump only cares about one thing. His self, and he will do anything to
make his self look good. Even to use a widow of a service man trying to
show he cares. Many people know Trump personally and agree that he
is this way. In rare instances he will do a kind thing, but not often and
it's likely just to help his image.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump thinks he did a great job with his speech. So he is
delaying his new Travel ban as not to step on the news reports of it.
When Trump first signed the Travel ban he was acting like the
country was at a terrible risk. Perhaps it was only more of his
misleading statements as news reports of his speech are more
important to him than his previously stated risks to the country.
He and the GOP are trying to sweep the Russian connection and
the idea of releasing his tax returns under the rug. They are
hoping it will go away.

Trumps atterney General claimed he didn't talk with the Russians,
but evidence shows he did talk twice to the Russian ambassador.
The question is. Why did he lie?

GOP
The GOP voted against asking for more information from the
Trump campaign about the Russian connection. The white house
was told to save all data and emails related to  it.. Trump made
the claim it was done to protect those in the White House.

Our friendly GOP is hiding their latest ACA replacement plan. I
guess to keep their telephones from lighting up to oppose it.
Personally this cloak and dagger way of trying to keep the public
in the dark will likely backfire on them. The GOP just can't
beleive people need help. They apparenly don't care if people
lay dying in the gutter. So they can cut taxes for their
rich friends that give them money to help them get elected.
I think it will take more than GOP double talk and passing
the buck to get re elected if they take peoples health
coverage away, or make it impossible to renew.

The GOP leaders are just like the guy who in stories used
to kick orphans and old people out into the streets because
they couldn't pay the rent or the mortgage. They will sit
in their fine homes and appartments while the poor are left
to beg from their neighbors. Their rich supporters will
put ads on TV telling everyone how good they are, with 
no mention of their heartless deeds. I wonder how they
can even call them selves religious much less pray
with a clear conscience.

Perhaps like the warning to Scrooge they will only have
their money to carry after they are dead. This is only a story
and no one is asking the rich to give away all their money,
but to only pay a fair share to a country they would  not have
all their riches without.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump continues to deny he has any connection to the Russian leader,
or any of his men. If Trump would come clean, reveal his Tax returns, require all
of his people to do the same. Perhaps all this business could be cleared up.

Unless of course he and his campaign is guilty of working with the Russians to win
the election. Or perhaps have done something illegal that Putin is holding over his
head. Either way it must be brought out into the open. His supporters may  want
to ignore this, but the majority of the country wants to know if Trump and his people
are being honest. So far their actions suggests they are not.

Just calling it fake news or lies by the press is not going to help, much less asking
other government agencies to support his claims. It just makes Trump and his
people look more guilty. Of what we don't know for sure. The attorney general
did finally remove himself from the investigation, but did he try to stop others from
investigating or cover evidence before he did? After all he like Flynn were working
for Trump from the beginning. The same people who said "Lock her up" during
Trumps campaign. Rather ironic they would end up looking bad.

GOP
They are still chasing their tails trying to figure out how to get rid of the ACA without
being kicked out of office. Perhaps it will go from Obamacare to Trump care. I just hope
they fix it. We should change to the same kind of health care Canada has. It works better
and is cheaper.

Also they need to stand up and tell Trump he has to get off his ego trip and start doing his
job. Not just talking about how big his win was, the leaks, and how bad the Press is.  Also to clean up the Russian affair so theyall can get to work. As is little is getting done, good or bad.

Dem
They are doing what they can to keep the GOP honest, but the minority party has little
control. I am hearing they are out trying to get more people involved in running for office
and voting.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump tries to devert attention from reports about 
him and the Russia. To trying to say some Democratic Senators 
had talked to Russians in 2003. Claiming they should be investigated.
This is typical for Trump wanting to strike back if he feels
attacked. Again Trump should open up with the truth instead of
trying to hide, or cover up a Russian connection, but he just
never wants to back down. I guess he feels it makes him look weak.

Trump tweets Obama put a illegal wire tap at Trumps tower to collect
campaign data. This is just another deversion. The president can't order
a wire tap. That the job of the FBI or CIA. and a court has to approve it.
Any taps would have been for foreign diplomats talking with Trumps people.
Not Trumps campaign data unless it was tied to a foreign intity like Russia.

A Russian oligarchs large passenger plane was seen in the same cities
where Trump was various times in and around Trumps election. This could
just be a coinsidence but suspisous at least. Trump may have been doing
some business with him, or perhaps the oligarch was ferrying some
Russian officials to see Trump or his people.

His atterney general has agreed to seen written aswers to questions
about his visits with the Russians. Guess he is afraid to talk in
a public hearing about his lieing previously. The GOP commmettee General
allowed the AG to just write answers to questions.

The State Department has had press briefings on a regular basis
for years, but since Trump took office they haven't had any.
They are promising to start. One wonders why they are so quiet
after decades of daily briefings.

Trump is pushing to seperate women from their children if they come
to our country to escape political terrorisim. To remove small children
from a mother is a terrible thing to do. Especially for the child. These
people are heartless in their actions, and I think Trump should be ashamed.
This is something one might expect from Putin's Russia not America.

The people are to be imprisoned by private intities who are in the business
of detention. Kids and adults alike. Up to 20,000 beds they say. I wonder if
the GOP wil provide the billions of dollars to do all this?

Seems Trumps supporters don't care if he lies. They seem to think
all politicans lie. That is a poor reason to excuse Trump of his
lies, and the kind of people he is hiring. People who live for their
money, not our country.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump is in Florida again. The forth trip since he took
office. He claims he is working. Well why can't he work in
Washington DC. and save the tax payer millions of dollars in
travel.. Not only does it cost the Tax payer it shuts down the local
airport while Trump is there. This costs tens of thousands in lost business
to people that depend on the airport to make a living.  This doesn't count
the cost in police protection, and other losses by the public to support
Trump and his people. So far the Trump administration hasn't reimbursed
any costs to the city or the airport. Just another rich guy stepping on
regular people.

Obama often went to Camp David for weekends. A helicopter trip away.
He accused Obama of traveling all the time. So I think he should
remember that the next time he flies to Florida on the Tax payers tab.
He should also move his family out of Trump Tower in NY which is costing
the government a half million dollars a day to protect. Not counting
the city of New York. Trump doesn't seem to care how much it costs
to do all this unnecessary stuff. I guess he thinks he can continue to
act like a billionaire even though it costs the tax payer a lot. I think a
elected official should have to show good cause to travel at government 
expense, and not just because they don't like the weather.

Trump tweeted that he found his Tower was wire tapped, but has shown
no evidence of it. Now if its true there could be something  illegal going
on with someone in his campaign or a court wouldn't approved it. If it's
not true then he is proving how unqualified he is to be president. A
president must tell the truth to be strong, otherwise he has no credibilty.

I wish Trump would quit tweeting nonsense. This just slows the government
down and makes him look weird. Putin called him a Clown early in his
campaign. It was a mistranslation that Trump thought was a compliment.
I really wish he had stayed on his TV show where he could act smart
without hurting anyone.

GOP
Our friendly GOP continues to support Trump and the people he picked 
for his cabinet. Trump still has almost 2000 people to nominate or appoint
to federal agency offices. Something he should be doing instead of tweeting
and playing Golf on weekends. Someone needs to tell him it's a 24/7 job.
Not some high society thing he and his super rich friends can play with.

I was told by some who voted for Trump because they wanted a man who 
wasn't beholding to anyone. Well it seems Trump is beholding to Russia.
If not why is he trying his best to cover or hide any information about his
people talking to Russia. It makes it look like he owes them something.
Perhaps he did something bad in Russia, I don't know, but all Trump has
to do is lay everything out in the open. This is going to haunt him
throughout his presidency if he doesn't. 

As is our government is not working well, and puts us at risk. Only a
strong government deters a war, a weak one that is unstable actually
invites attack.

The Congress needs to hold Trump accountable, and impeach him if
need be. I know they are scared of loosing their jobs if Trumps supporters
get mad at them, but they should think of our country first not re election.

[Kobuk]

Trump tweeted that he found his Tower was wire tapped, but has shown
no evidence of it. Now if its true there could be something  illegal going
on with someone in his campaign or a court wouldn't approved it. If it's
not true then he is proving how unqualified he is to be president. A
president must tell the truth to be strong, otherwise he has no credibilty.

I'm willing to bet this is a ploy by Trump and his crooked Cabinet cronies to divert the public and Congress's attention away from the Russian investigations.  It's just Trump trying to use any tactic he can, including making up "fake"  stories to get what he wants.

[Old Rabbit]

I agree Kobuk its an deversion, along with most of the media too.
Even a few GOP congressmen. Trump is fretting because the media
doesn't love him. As long as he runs wierd tweets I doubt many will,
other than his supporters.

Trump
I don't have anything much as everyone is investigating his Russian
connection and his claim about the wire tap. I am sure something will
bounce down the road soon.

GOP
They don't want a special proicuter to investigate Trumps campaign
for some reason. Perhaps they are afraid they might find something
that would cause them problems with Trumps supporters.
Time will tell.

Dem
They are trying to win some special elections for congress due to
some GOP congressment being nominated by Trump to head agencies
or on the cabinet. Time will tell if the protesters will translate
into enough votes for democrats to win in a normally GOP area.

Time will tell.

It has seemed strange that voters claimed they wanted change in
government, but re elected nearly all of those in congress save
a vary few. The very people who sat on their hands instead of
working with Obama. If they wanted change they should have
voted them out.

Some are complaining the Democrats are saying no to Trump and
making it hard for him to acomplish anything. Well all I see
them doing is trying to make sure we don't end up with some
people who plan to do more harm than good. Though they can't
do much other than delay.

The ACLU is working to make sure Trump follows the constitution. 
Other than that Trump is tripping up on his own. Mostly due to
a lack of inexperience working with government. Not counting lots
of distracting Tweets that make little if any sense.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump
Our man Trump has possible ties to corrupt people in other parts
of the world. Even those tied in a back door way to terrorisim.
 Is this why he doesn't want to release his tax records? These
kinds of deals make the big bucks because sanctions make it hard
to move money. So the Terrorists throw money at politicions or
dictators to launder it.

I don't think Trump is really out to support terrorisim, but the
law says a business has the responsibility to make sure the people
they deal with are honest people.

Perhaps this is why Trump is pushing against any investigation with
his connections to Russia, for fear he or his family could be guilty
of a crime that people are put in prison for.

Or even worse Putin might have evidence of such a deal by Trumps in
that part of the world. A way to blackmail Trump. I am sure Putin
would be happy to hold something like that over Trumps head.

People who are billionaires want to be multibillionaires, and bad
people around the world know who have money, and they do approch
them with fantastic deals. Deals that are hard to turn down by mony
mad rich people, but if they aren't careful they will find them selves
involved with crimminals, and many of them launder money for
anyone including terrorists.

Now Trump is pushing to purge agencies like the FBI, CIA, and
others in government. If they don't support his ideas he may
accuse them of treason. Trump accused Obama of McCarthyism,
but it is Trump who is guilty of McCarthyism.

It seems Trump was mad about the AG excusing his self from any
investigation into the Trump capmaign. Makes one wonnder why
he would feel that way unless he was afraid of the investigation,
and expected his AG to cover something.

GOP
Our friendly GOP is pushing to change or remove the pentalties
for those who don't have insurance. They know this will drive insurance
premiums even higher. Also they are going to limit medicade substies
for new people. Offer tax credits for the poor who would get little or
nothing since they pay little tax. The hurtful changes will kick in after
the 2018 elections, and in 2020 it will basicaly be gone as far as makeing
inssurace availble to the working poor.

Already 4 GOP senators are opposing this idea to basicly destroy the ACA
by 2020 instead of replacing it. So they may have to come up with something
different without a majority in the senate to vote for it.If Trump stands by
his word he wil throw this back in the GOP's face anyway.

It shows the GOP  feels if someone can't afford health insurance they should
get a job. Well the day the working poor could afford good insurance has past.
The cost of insurance has gone sky high. Some people don't make neough to
pay the premiums and eat too. The only good way is to spread the cost across
the nation like most countries do. That way the big pharmaceutical houses would
have to deal with a nation instead of individuals they can step on. Also much could
be done to reduce health costs with preventive care the poor can't afford.

I hope the public doesn't allow the despicable tactics of the GOP to succeed in
hurting the health of the working poor of our country.

[Old Rabbit]

Trumps 47th day.
Our man Trump is claiming the new GOP health care thing is what he
ran for office on. I kind of wonder how many feel it's what they
really thought he was talking about. Lower premium costs? No. More
people covered? No.. Medicade substies, lower if any. Oh and not to
forget. Big Tax Cuts for millionaires and billionaires. Bless their
hearts. You know they really need it. Perhaps the GOP is saying
thank you for all that money they gave them to get re elected.

If your between 50 and 64 expect extra big premiums with this plan
because you all are generally sickly.

They should lock Trump in the White House. His running around could
help pay for a lot of insurance.

Trumps new travel ban is already on the rocks. He is still trying
to block Muslims from entering the country. Hawaii is already filing
suit to stop it. 

GOP
The GOP had the appointment for the deputy AG was in committee refusing
to say he would appoint a special prosecuter for the investigation of
Trumps campaign and the Russians. I am amazed how many people feel they
can get by with refusing to do a proper investigation of Trump. The new
AG didn't excuse his self untill pressured to. Now he is trying to explain
why he didn't own up to talking to the Russian ambassador when asked.
He is still making excuses.

If they think the media will let it go, I feel they better think agains.
Even if some of those in government are ready to sell us out over money
and politics, I don't think the media will.

The GOP can claim they are following a mandate, but they just might
find out how shallow it really is in 2018.

It seems the GOP and Trump both listen to those weird far right
talk radio shows. All those people give is conspiracy theories.
Trump listens to Fake facts and claims the media reports fake news.

I think it's time for Trump to go back to his Ivory tower and
sulk.. Or go back to his apprentist show. He doesn't seem to
know  our government isn't run by one man with a board of
directors. This works well for a large corporation or a dictatorship,
but not for a nation of free people.

[Old Rabbit]

Trumps 48th day
During the GOP convention the Trump campaign faught to remove
from the party platform any support to help Ukraine with weapons.
Trump and his people claimed they didn't have anything to do with
it even though they did. Now they are admitting it for some reason. 
Seems the Russian connection with Trump just grows and grows. It's 
even possible that Putin offered to help Trump win if it was removed
from the party platform. There is a bit of evidence for this because
weekieleaks first posted hacked info about the democrats a few days 
after help for Ukraine was removed from the GOP platform.

It's also strange how the Secretary of state totally avoids answering
questions by the press, even to kick them out. This is a first since
WWII ended.  I wonder if Trump has told him not  to. He also fired 
several career workers from the State department. Some of which
had been there for 30 years or more. Is that more of Trumps plans?
I did hear Trump is wanting to cut the size of the State department. I
wonder what will happen when a diplomatic crisis occurs? Especially
with few or no experienced people there to help.

With the State department reduced what will happen to people
we helped to work against dictators and other bad governments. 
I am sure Putin will be happy to see less of this. Does Trump
really think Putin will play nice if we play nice? I hope not. Because
Putin has no loyalty to anyone but his self and wants to rebuild what
he thinks is the power, and influence of the old Soviet Union. He will
step on anyone to accomplish it, including us if he can get by with it..
I hope Trump doesn't learn the truth at our expense, and the GOP is
crazy to let Trump lead us all down the garden path.

Our man Trump has conspired with the GOP to ruin government 
supported health care. This new plan of theirs is mainly
designed to cut 250 billion with a B in taxes from the top 2
percent of tax payers. I can guarantee when this plan is found to
cause increases in insurance premiums. Which it is designed to
do. They will say. "We told you government supported health
care won't work. Even with our improvements."

They are already claiming the ACA is crashing, but those who
know say it isn't. It's just fake facts by Trump and the GOP
leadership. If they really believed health care by government
was harmful to the country I might feel different, but as is it's
all about cutting taxes. They would rather let the working poor
struggle and die than add a dollar in tax to their rich friends.

It's up to the American people to decide. I think most would find
a good single payer plan is much better. To go to the doctor and just
show them your medicard, and your in. If people want fancy health 
care, like face lifts, tummy tucks, private rooms ect. Let them pay extra. 
The rest of us can get the care we need without going bankrupt.

If Trump and the GOP leadership threaten and brow beat Congress into
voting for it, I kind of imagine those people who voted for Trump will
feel differently by the mid term election. Then I imagine the GOP
will wonder what happened to their so called mandate.

Today working women were out in force protesting Trump. It wasn't as
big as the the march on jan 21st, but considering it was working
women during a workday it was a good turnout. I say stand up for your
selves. My mother worked for less than minimum wage for years with
little or no credit for doing a good job.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump 49th day
Our man Trump in his campaign complained that Clinton was
giving favors for money. Trump as president is doing that very
thing to fatten his wallet.

The GOP leadership has no shame. They are using lies to take
health care from the working poor. Rushing their new plan through
congress because they are afraid the public will talk GOP
congressmen into not voting for it. No hearings to get input
from health professionals, and insurance professionals.

It seems this business that the ACA is crashing is because a
huge insurance company wasn't able to get it's way in federal
court. It's that company's ceo who is spreading the lie.

Also there is little or no premium price control for health
insurance. This is one reason prices are so high. More money
grubbing by rich executives. The ACA has made the insurance
companies a lot of money because more people have insurance,
but they want more, more, more, to feed their craving to be
billionaires. Then multi billionaires. A billion dollars is
a incredible amount of money. More than any one person ever
needs. You could spend 10 million a year for a 100 years.

I am surprised the insurance companies aren't lobbying to keep
the ACA. The GOP has run down the ACA from the beginning. Made
false claims about it. So why wouldn't a lot of people feel it
needs to be replaced after the GOP pounded it into their heads.

So now the GOP is trapped by their own lies, and feel they have
to replace it. Why? Beecause those who voted for them wanted it
done away with. That's their excuse anyway. I think it's an
excuse, because they know 66 percent of the nation want to keep
it and expand it. Of course the other 33 percent are probably
GOP supprters..

Also hospitals and other medical care facilities will loose money
with the change to Trump care. This will result in higher
costs for us all.

[Old Rabbit]

Trumps 50th day.
Even after almost 2 months Trump still feels he has to lie. I guess
as long as his supporters don't care he will continue. Today there was
a nice increase in job growth reported. Trump laid claim to it of
course. Odd thing though this same reporting entity was said to be
wrong by Trump before. Now he agrees with it.

It turns out Flynn was a lobbyist for the government of Turkey while
he was part of Trumps campaign. Turkey paid him A half million dollars
for his work. He just now officially filed as an agent of a foreign
government. Trump and his people claim they didn't know Flynn was
working for Turkey as a lobbyist. Even though congress told Trumps
white how about it. Did some one keep Trump in the dark? Or is it just
another lie, but why the lies instead of just admitting the truth.

Also it seems people who are responsible to investigate Trumps
recieving money or favors from foreign governments are being fired.
Now isn't that interesting. Is Trump wanting to cover up payments
from foreign government for his self? I mean the GOP loves him after
all. So he can break his oath of offece to suit his self as long
as those responsible to hold him accountable look the other way.

GOP
The GOP Speaker of the house bragged about taking Medicaid away
from the people who need it. Mental health, poor, children, and
I presume older people. Medicaid helps when people are virtually
broke. If someone did this as a private citizen they would be
in jail instead of being a congressman. Not only that Trump supports
his ideas  even though in his campaign he said he would protect
Medicaid, medicare and social security if elected. Trump uses lies
to get his way just like a politician. People might have thought they
were electing a outsider, well they didn't. He is a insider wanting
more monty for his self and his family.

If this plan succeeds I have a hunch the GOP will suffer a huge
defeat in the next election. Of course this plan is stepped in over
several years to hide the effects. More despicable acts by the GOP
and Trump. All this to cut taxes for the rich who make their money
selling to the American public. Also they move company offices out of
country to pay even less in taxes. Trump thinks this is smart.

They appear to want to return to the days of poor houses where the
elderly poor lived half starved and in filth. Perhaps work houses for the
poor, and children eventually. Once we start down this path where does
it end? It took a long time to bring most of the poor out of squalor. It
would only take indifference by the public for it to return.

In the past it was the rich who enslaved the (Lower class of people)
and I think they would do it again if it was allowed. After all the poor
are just lazy ignorant bums, deserving of no ones help. It's the rich man
who has made the country great and the poor are just anchors on the
economy. This is how I see the GOP leadership acting even though they 
would never say or publicly admit it.

This was common a hundred years ago when the super rich stepped on the
necks of the poor. If the public allows this, they will find out first hand what
life was like in days gone by.

I think most government agencies will be under attack. Agencies for the
arts, humanities, Public broadcasting, NPR. The GOP has wanted to limit
this kind of thing for years. They feel this among other things should be
in the private sector and not government. I suppose they have a bit of a
point there, but this is a small expense for government and provides a lot
of good for many people across the country.I think the GOP would close and
sell all the National parks if they thought they could get by with it.

I imagine some feel I am over reacting, and I hope I am, but I say what
I see, and I have been around long enough to know history will repeat it's
self if the people aren't careful. Human nature unrestrained can be a terrible
thing. We already have homeless people in the streets and living out of
cardboard boxes and their cars. People that only go to emergency rooms
for health care and can't pay for it. Many private organizations are doing what
they can to minimize suffering and starvation of the poor and their children,
but they can only do what donations allow.

What makes a country great is how it treats the poor, not how it treats the rich.
Nationalism will make us poorer as a nation not richer. This country was built
with immigrants, and became great because of it. 

[cause the rat]

Trump needs to get rid of everyone who is against him. So he fires those who are investigating his ties with Russia. Because every mobster knows. If you get rid of the witness it's like you never done anything wrong. Trump has also trademarked his name on a few more businesses in Russia. Again breaking a constitutional law.

Less than 130 days till impeachment.

[Kobuk]

Trump needs to get rid of everyone who is against him. So he fires those who are investigating his ties with Russia. Because every mobster knows. If you get rid of the witness it's like you never done anything wrong. Trump has also trademarked his name on a few more businesses in Russia. Again breaking a constitutional law.

Less than 130 days till impeachment.

Of course he's getting rid of people who don't like him or could investigate him. Did you honestly think he wouldn't? I find it really odd and suspicious that Trump fired 40+ attorneys just now. Makes me think there's something fishy going on. 
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/opinions/trump-beware-after-firing-bharara-callan/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/11/politics/bharara-profile-prosecutor/index.html

[Old Rabbit]

Trumps 51st day
Our man Trump has the right to fire anyone in the Justist edpartment.  I kind of wonder why
it's set up so he can.  The GOP put southern good ole boy in as atterney General.  Probably
about as far to the right as anyone since they kicked out the carpet baggers after the
civil wr.

It's the way he got rid of almost 50 federal AG's at once which was strange. I wonder how many
federal corut case were disrupted with this action. Were any affecting Trump or those close to him.
I wonder..

GOP
Our friendly GOP is still promoting their Trump Care joke.  I guess one has to give them credit
for trying. No matter how much it hurts people. The senate might be a sticking point though.

As bad as this plan is the Tea Party crowd  wants to get rid of it all together.  They ran on lies
now they have to deal with it. 

By the way GOP supporters are spending a lot of money putting ads on tv asking people to
support the new Trump care plan.  I guess they are worried they won't get enough votes to
pass it. Isn't that odd. According to the GOP their voters want it. So why the need to talk it up?
It would be nice to know who is spending all this money trying to talk up this plan.

A GOP leader was on Meet the Press this morning and he said people will have a choice. If
they want a better plan they can get it, but at their own expense of course. So the GOP is
offering  to pay, but only for cheap plans with little coverage. The ACA required sustities to
cover good plans not ones that did little to cover health care. He side stepped questions
about the higher costs not covered by their tax credits.

Dem
Just trying to do their job even if the GOP just stalls not really wanting to investigate this
Russian connection. with the Trump campaign.

[Old Rabbit]

Trumps 52 day
I hope our man Trump is following the activities of world
events instead of local politics. Or his favorite conspiracy
channel online or tv.

North Korea is working to have missiles that can reach the
us mainland in just a few years. Then they can blackmail us
with threats of hitting us or our friends with nukes. If China
backs them up where does that leave us?

Trump has fired almost all the knowledgeable people in the state
department. So who is he going to ask for advice in handling
such threats. What does he plan to do. Send them billions in
money in hope they won't do anything? Seems to be a habit
with the rich. They seem to think money will buy anything.

GOP
They are still pushing their new health plan. Calling it "Obama light."
I suppose they will try to point at the ACA when their plan fails to
help people. "Told you private insurance is best." The GOP have no
desire to help the working poor or older people. If they had their way
social security and medicare would go too.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump day 53
Our man Trump is now trying to change what he said about Obama
wire tapping Trump Towner. Now he says perhaps it was someone
in Obama's administration and not Obama directly. Trump hasn't
provided any evidence there was a wire tap. It's likely a
conspiracy theory he saw somewhere. Most likely to divert
attention from the investigation about the Russian connection.

Trump always says he wants to do what he promised in his campaign.
Well there was a lot more than a big Wall for Mexico, or immigrants.
Like good health care for all, and protect social securit and
medicare. Time will tell.

Trump and the GOP claim the free market will make health coverage
cost less with better coverage. As of now there is no free marked
system anywhere in the world that works to provide health care
for all. There is nothing but loss when you cover someone with
existing health issues, and no free market can make it affordable.
It requires nation wide cost sharing by everyone to make health
care affordable for all.

GOP
It looks like the GOP's new health plan is dead on arrival
unless they allow hearings and amendments. The GOP leadership
wanted to ram through before the government report came out
on it's effect on the people. Turns out 24 million could loose
health care by 2026. 14 million by 2018. The GOP is trying to 
say it's not accurate, but if 14 million people are out it's
likely the GOP will take a big hit in 2018.

Our friendly GOP is still being called to have town hall
meetings. One only said he would have one if there no "Boo's
directed to him. (Yes Really)

Others have gone out of their way to avoid talking to their
voters. This is not going away like the GOP hoped it would.
This is making the Tea Party uprising look rather limited in
comparison.

I must admit I was suprised when Senator Cotton from Arkansas
spoke against the new health bill. I guess the town halls woke him
up a bit.  He seemed to be a bought and paid for politician before.
Time will tell if he stands against Trump or not.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump day 54
Our man Trump is wanting to call the GOP's new health play Ryan Care
instead of Trump care even though Trump supprts it. Kind of odd since
Trump puts hiis name on everything he likes or calls his own. Perhaps
he doesn't like it as much as he claims.

One of Trumps family who is in the white house make a huge real esteat
deal with a Chinese company. One with ties to the Chinese government. I
understand this family member owed a Chinese bank 250 million dollars.
After the deal 200 millioin was declared paid. There isn't anything
wrong with making money, but if he is making deals via the white house
it's likely unconstitutional or illegal.

Trump was on the Phone with the Atterney General. Trump says it
was only a best wishes call so to speak. Trump called Bill Clintons
meeting with the AG suspicious. Why shouldn't this be as well. A
president has no business conferring with his Attorney General. The
AG is supposed to be independent of the presidents wishes.

It seems our man Trump puts his self and his family before the country.
It was his decision to be president so claiming he can't get rid of
his businesses is no excuse. If he is worried about keeping or not
making money he should resign.

The North Korean madman is making threats because he dislikes the
war games in South Korea. He has done this in the past, but we can
only hope it's just hot air.  He did make a threat against any navy
ship that enters waters he claims.

Here is a link to a website that has a lot of info on our government, and
people in it. Politics and all.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/dcreport-org.html


GOP
Our friendly GOP voted to not make Trump release his Tax Returns. In
fact only one GOP house member voted to make Trump releast his
taxes. Even though a majority of the public thinks Trump should release
them all. The Clintons have released all theirs back 40 years.

Seems our friendly GOP are a bunch of cowards when it comes to being
against Trump. Never in the past has a congress been cowed so much by
a President.

Time will tell if this continues.

Dem
Haven't heard much out of them except they are  working to run people
against the republicans in 2018.  I wish them well. I think we can be sure
the GOP will use every trick in the book trying to win. Encluding keeping
people from voting where they can. Low voter turnouts tend to help the
GOP win elections. It's sad  when a minority party has the power to control
the government.

[Old Rabbit]

Trump day 55
Our man Trump is out making his speeches again. Running down the courts
because they won't let him have his way. Claiming they are preventing
him from protecting Americans from bad Muslims. Well it's been 2 months
and no terrorism by Muslim immigrant..

He is still talking about hispanic immigrants. There are more asian
immigrants than Hispanic ones. He doesn't talk about them though.
I wonder why? Perhaps it's because he thinks he can get more mileage
out of the Mexican border issue.

Trump is bragging on the plan to replace the ACA. Saying the ACA is
crashing, and will leave millions wthout health care. This is a lie
generated by the GOP and the insurance industry hoping to make more
money with the new plan.

Also Trumps Tax cut is designed to benifit the rich. The new health
care plan is to benifit the rich via tax cuts. Remember the GOP
believes in Trickle down economics. If the rich have money they
will invest in jobs. It hasn't worked in the past except to make
rich people richer. Trump ran for president to make money for his
self and his family, not to help the American people. If it wasn't
true why hasn't he divested his self and his family from his vast
business enterprises. He has a lot of debt, and may be using his
office to help pay the debt.

Trump has plans to reduce taxes for himself and his friends. Another
way for him to make money as president.

GOP
Our friendly GOP is fighting each other trying to pass their new
health plan. The conservatives want it all gone, the rest are feeling
pressure to fix the ACA. The Senate looks like they won't approve
it. So it's likely dead for now. I am sure the Speaker is unhappy that
his plans to rid the government of entitlement programs isn't sailing
through the house.

He should be ashamed. Charities and foundations do a lot to help
people, but only the government has the resources to help all who
need it. Not counting putting limits on big business who often takes
advantage of the needy. Even with the best of intentions people often
find them selves needing a helping hand.

Before the ACA people bought insurance that didn't cover them like
they thought. So they ended up broke oweing tens of thousands in
health costs. Insurance companies would sell these cheap plans acting
like they would give good coverage. The average person doesn't have
any idea how much it costs to go to a hospital. I was in the hospital
for 1 day with tests that cost my insurance over 12,000.00. So
one can imagine what a serious stay would cost. Low cost plans
would not have paid it. Oh and I had a co pay of less than $100.

The ACA required people to buy insurance that paid the bills, not
plans that pretended to. It's very likely we will return to plans
that do not give the coverage needed if the GOP has their way.


Dem
They are working to do the best they can to keep Trump and
the GOP from causing more harm than good to the people. I
am sure the GOP will try to pack the Supreme Court with
conservative judges. This will likely hurt the LGBT and others
who look and act different for many years if they do.
Only time will tell.