#May 7th Trump Tweet - "Republican Senators will not let the American people down! Obamacare premiums and deductibles are way up -- it was a lie and it is dead!" Senate Republicans are split several ways on how to replace the ACA. What is becoming more likely is that the GOP-controlled Senate will set a future date for the repeal of the ACA and agree to work on a replacement in the interim.
Calling the ACA a lie more properly fits the GOP American Health Care Act, as it is being promoted in ways that the bill's provisions contradict.
#June 3rd Trump Tweet - "We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!" Several federal judges have already ruled that his immigration ban is discriminatory and/or doesn't identify a proven threat.
#June 4th Trump Tweet - "We must stop being politically correct and get down to the business of security for our people. If we don't get smart it will only get worse." The term "politically correct" is used to try to prevent liberals from identifying real problems and proposing solutions for them.
#June 4th Trump Tweet - "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!' " Trump left out the part in which the mayor said to not to let the sight of more armed police alarm you.
#June 4th Trump Tweet - "Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!" The fact that violence is committed by various types of instruments and in various ways, doesn't wash away the great number of injuries and deaths inflicted by guns. Notably, within hours of Trump's tweet, three policemen were wounded in a shootout at a Texas gas station.
# A recent poll by the non-partisan Public Religion Research Institute found that 57 percent of white evangelical Protestants believe that God had a direct hand in elevating Trump to the presidency. How could anyone believe in a God who displays the incredibly bad judgment to give the nation and the world such a woebegone leader?
#Rhonda Whiteman, board chair of Montana Native Vote, says that Gianforte [Greg, elected to the U.S. House] is for repealing the Affordable Care Act, which includes the Indian Health Care Improvement Act -- a huge factor in a community where lack of health care takes 20 years off the average lifespan compared with white Montanans.
#Ari Berman, voting rights analyst, says that the 2016 election was the first in more than 50 years conducted without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, and 14 states had new voting restrictions in effect for the first time.
#David Cole, advocating "Making Trump Pay" in the June 5/12 issue of The Nation, writes: "Our democracy is defined at least as much by the informal constitutional norms that have evolved over the past two centuries as by the formal principles reflected in the written document. These include notions that presidents should respect the other branches of government, that lying is unacceptable, and that the president, who technically oversees all federal law enforcement, should not interfere in criminal or counterintelligence investigations --especially those that concern the president himself or his close friends and advisers. But if we are to finally rein this man in, we must insist that he pay for his continuing violations of our constitutional norms -- by calling our representatives and demanding an independent investigation, by hounding them at town halls and public appearances if they do not respond, and by the choices we make at the ballot box in the 2018 midterms."
#Reports are that President Trump is preparing broad exemptions to employers that object on religious or moral grounds to a reproductive mandate, a move that would impact thousands of women who currently get compensation from employer-provided insurance plans with no out-of-pocket costs. Trump signed an executive order last month instructing HHS and other departments "to address conscience-based objections to the mandate" -- that is to a reproductive services mandate.
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