Nancy on a Roll

By Pogo, a Trail Mix Contributor

Well, the Republican House got just enough votes (217) to pass a “health care” bill by 4 votes and its purpose – to give a tax break to the top 2% – succeeded in spades. WaPo’s excellent article on it is here.

Nancy, on fire, let fly. After telling those who voted for this nonsense that they can’t hide, that it is tattooed on their foreheads, she left no doubt, saying, “You will glow in the dark on this one.”

Pelosi warned: “So don’t walk the plank, especially unnecessarily.”

Even Joe Manchin – WV’s favorite sell out – told president drumpf that the people of WV who never had health insurance and access to healthcare before Obamacare didn’t know how they got it, but he would make sure they know how they lost it. Apparently even he was inspired by Nancy.  As they used to say, You Go Girl.

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  1. “Nancy on a Roll”

    hoagie, sweet, parker house, kaiser or rock and….?

  2.  bid, your suggestion that the new  Président de la france would be good for us reminded me of this atlantic article:
    The Dessert We Deserve: How the French Macaron Became American
    The meringue-y sandwich cookies—airy, dainty, gluten-free, and high-maintenance—are “the new cupcake” the nation has been waiting for.

  3. thanks, gang, for all the well-wishes.  so far so good altho still swollen, stiff, braced and hobbling around via walker. too bad, unlike fearless leader’s appletini mishap, there wasn’t a better story connected to the great fall than just a slip in the mud. more entertaining breaking news type story.


  4. Published on May 7, 2017

    Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat. John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting http://www.gofccyourself.com.

  5. Saw Oliver’s tour-de-force on neutrality last night, some excellent reporting, I didn’t know providers were at again

  6. luv to know who wrote that “glow in the dark” line for Nancy, or if her own — that was the line of the week

  7. ny times: Keith Olbermann Was Once Cable News’s Liberal Standard-Bearer. Now He’s Missing Its Boom Times.
    Keith Olbermann doesn’t look much like a warrior. His gray hair is giving way to white, his midsection threatens the buttons of his sport coats and he walks gingerly, with a gnarly limp from an aging knee. When I visited him in late January, he was ill, hoarse and racked with fits of coughing. But when he hobbles into his studio and sits, a table shields his less flattering proportions, accentuating broad shoulders and an icy blue gaze. And when he starts to speak — confidently, quickly, alternately gesticulating or pretending to read from a stack of papers — he looks more like the man he used to be: the broadcaster who helped not only revolutionize sports news, but also invent a new mode of liberal cable-news political commentary.
    His current show — a series of web shorts titled “The Resistance” — is not on cable and was not supposed to exist at all. It began last September as “The Closer”: six- or seven-minute monologues, written and performed by Olbermann and posted twice a week, on YouTube, the web and social media, by GQ magazine. It was expected to end after Election Day, but Trump’s win changed that. On Nov. 16, one week after Hillary Clinton conceded the election, Olbermann sat down at the desk of a spartan set constructed mostly of blankets, inside a cavernous photo studio on the 24th floor of 1 World Trade Center, and declared war on Donald Trump. “Since no Democratic or liberal politician has yet stepped forward out of the morass of Politics Inc. to take on the responsibility of the resistance,” he said, “I, with complete awareness of the presumptuousness and arrogance of this statement, volunteer myself.”
    In the weeks after Trump’s election, the humor and levity sprinkled throughout “The Closer” vanished as the show narrowed its focus to a single mission: to end Trump’s presidency and see him “on a boat headed to the Cayman Islands.” According to “The Resistance,” the United States has suffered a “bloodless coup” and is “no longer a democracy”; the president is a “Manchurian candidate” who is “mentally ill” and beholden to “Russian scum”; we are witnessing the steady reduction of “the chance that we will have any future elections”; and Olbermann, the show’s tireless hero, will not rest until this problem is solved. “Is There an Actual Tape of Trump’s Russia Collusion?” an episode title asked last month. “There may be two tapes,” Olbermann concluded, citing a blog post from Louise Mensch, the English founder of the news and opinion site Heat Street — a former member of Parliament whose belief in Trump-Russia collusion is so strong she has suggested everyone from Ferguson protesters to James Comey is under Russian control. The world Olbermann describes on “The Resistance” is different from and even more dystopian than anything I can recognize, and his efforts to chase down Trumpian conspiracies can strain credibility. It was hard not to wonder what he was trying to accomplish, and what he truly believed.
    […long background piece here…]

    On some episodes of “The Resistance,” Olbermann sounds prescient; more often, and more recently, he doesn’t sound much removed from the unfocused rage and wild speculation that so many, including Trump, directed at Obama’s presidency. When he says that Trump is growing crazier by the day, or that he’ll soon be revealed as Russia’s puppet and impeached, Olbermann is suggesting to liberals that there is an endpoint — that the right mole, whistle-blower or leak will end their nightmare. He’s offering hope. The professed aim of the show may be to end Trump’s presidency, but it has another purpose too: It is a world built by Olbermann that justifies his existence. If “Countdown” was a refuge for liberals in a time of crisis, then “The Resistance” is a refuge for Olbermann himself. A man with his success and self-regard almost has to believe he has a role to play in shaping American history, and within this show, he is Cincinnatus — wanted, needed and fighting for the very soul of America.

    As we ate our oysters, an older couple got up from a nearby banquette and, on their way to the exit, approached Olbermann. “Excuse me,” the man said. “I do miss you. Just terrible.”

    “Thank you,” Olbermann replied warmly. When the man apologized for interrupting, Olbermann cut him off. “No, please. Watch me online,” Olbermann said. “Go to GQ.com; I do commentaries three days a week.”

    “You know, the news is just terrible,” the man said.

    “It’s not the same without you,” his wife agreed.

    “Thank you,” Olbermann said again. Then: “Find me online; I’m doing the commentaries online.”

    “GQ.com?” the man asked.

    “GQ.com.”
    “Cable news,” the old man lamented. “There’s no news.” And then the couple turned away.

  8. Can’t wait to hear Yates testify before Congress this afternoon.

    Pogo…  I’m much disappointed with the Celtics performance in D.C.  I’m much disappointed by Thomas blaming the refs…  only losers do so.  With that said…  both you and I know that whomever wins this series will get their asses handed to them by the Cavs.

  9. There are no coincidences. Padilla, the composer of Jace’s  fine selection from yesterday, emigrated to Pueblo in New Spain to work his musical craft. Years later, on Cinco de Mayo, Napoleon III’s army was defeated at Pueblo by Mexican forces. So Jace, what was your role in the defeat of Mdm le Pen?

  10. Renee. I agree with most of your comments and hope you’re right about the ECCS. ?

  11. Renee, but when Boston wins against Washington and faces Cleveland, unless Tristan Thompson starts moving his slow ass or they put LeBron on Olynyk, Boston matches up well with Cleveland.

     

    Tom Price meets drumpf administration expectations and earns 4 Pinocchios for his comments about what the AHCA will and won’t do re: Medicaid spending, kicking people off insurance rolls, raising premiums, pre-existing conditions, etc. (the last three lies were in his comments on the Sunday shows but Kessler mercifully did not include them in this piece). He returned the drumpf spokesmen (are there actually any women other than daughter/first lady Ivanka in the administration?) to the 4 Pinocchio territory after a few slip ups that earned only 3 Pinocchios. Good job, Tom.

  12. Trump is a big fat liar…in every sense

     

    I wonder if Bernie will come to SF to campaign against Nancy P and support his candidate or does he have a few other anti choice candidates he has to work with.  Oh yeah  where are your tax returns?

  13. Even Mrs Greenspan thinks Pussy Grabber can’t blame Obama for Flynn

  14. OMG….  Olynyk sucks!  I call him The Big Lumbering Oaf.  How can one be a 7ft tall basketball player and yet not being to rebound or make a lay-up.  Pogo…  your Cavs are resting while the Celtics and the Wizards beat the crap outta each other.

    ….   getting a head start on making the popcorn…    lots and lots of popcorn!

  15. patD – They are hard to find down here & quite pricey.   This is my entire year’s haul, so far.  (I found these at a special event.) You’d need about $7.00 worth of those babies to fill up a cupcake liner.   No way to outsource & drive down the cost, either.  Market them as a diet food?  You can buy & eat a sleeve of Oreos or have two, delicate bites of these lovelies.

    I wonder if any members of the house have voter’s remorse yet?

    Hope you’re doing OK.

  16. Flatus. Puebla. Pueblo is generic for any small town or village. Don’t mean to be critical.  Yes, small world story re: Padilla and his music.  Thx Jace.

  17. Enjoy watching the Yates & the Judiciary Committee … “We can’t tell you nuttin about nuttin”

     

  18. The conversion of MSNBC to faux news is progressing (a word not loved there anymore) with the hiring of George (never a correct guess) Will.  No links provided.

    Yates is providing a nice revival of the floater’s russian problem.

  19. Renee, there is that rest thing.   And the Cavs need it – they are tied at 29.9 years with the Clippers as the oldest teams in the league, and at 32, Lebron borders on geriatric NBA wise.  Boston is at 25.6, Washington at 25.8 and Golden state at 28.1.

  20. My hallucination of the day: Russia “scandal” could turn into nothing more than Benghazi for liberals. All smoke, no gun.

  21. Craig

    Saving grace on your hallucination, it would mean taking over House & Senate first.

  22. Craig – that is what the republicans are trying to do.  Their meme is that it was Obama who did it.  What we have going is that the whole corrupt gang has dissed the intelligence community of all friendly, sort of friendly and friendly prior to 1-20-17.  There are a lot of people out there who have a desire to see some people doing hard time, and they are not the Obama team.  We know the republicans are not going to do anything, unless they see their voters go away.

    Hearings or no hearings, it is important to see that Russia and Putin is front page every day.  ‘Trump-Russia”  every day and in every way.

  23. Jennifer Rubin certainly thinks Sally Yates shone today in her testimony to Lindsey Graham’s committee.

    “Yates is giving a tutorial in committee testifying. She just walloped not one but two GOP senators. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) tried to accuse her of misconduct in refusing to defend the Trump administration’s travel ban, which was ultimately blocked by multiple courts. Yates reminded him that at her confirmation hearing, Cornyn had asked if she would refuse to carry out an illegal or unconstitutional order. She recalled she had promised him she would indeed refuse. Ouch. Then up came Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) sleazily trying to get her to opine on Huma Abedin’s email habits(!). When that led nowhere, he took to quoting the statutory basis for the travel ban. She corrected him by pointing out that there was subsequent congressional action that specifically prohibited religious discrimination. Moreover, she took the opportunity to drop the news bomb that the administration ordered the Office of Legal Counsel to not even tell the acting attorney general the ban was in the works. Game, set, match.”

     

    Heheheh.  Stuffing Cornyn and Cruz.  Bet she enjoys a nice glass of wine tonight.

  24. Meet France’s new first lady – BBC News

    https://apple.news/Ahs1W-5gfSJew6C5PuvsWhg

     

    “Born Brigitte Trogneux, the heir to a chocolatier company known for its macaroons…”

    (I assume they mean French macarons, not those little coconut, macaroon jobbers.)

    Jamie – Belgian waffles & macarons!

     

  25. No…  there’s no smoking gun…  yet.  Someone from some intelligence agency leaked Flynn’s conversation with the Russian Ambassador to the Washington Post.  Someone who probably couldn’t believe that Trump wasn’t firing him despite being told Flynn was compromised.   I believe that if Trump were to do something really stupid that did jeopardize the safety of this country, the truth would get leaked really fast.

     

  26. having watched the Cav come back from three down last year, Lebron James could play by himself and win just through sheer will.  He is pretty amazing

  27. For any fans of two series on PBS, 1900 House and Frontier House, a new challenge starts this week.

    Victorian Slum House will have participants living in conditions of the 1870s when “a financial depression is compounded by Irish immigrants who arrive in  England in search of employment.”

  28. So trump’s FCC will investigate Colbert after complaints that Colbert made his joke about drumpf and Putin. First fucking Amendment anyone?

  29. KGC

    I guess they don’t watch HBO with constant F word and full frontal male nudity.   I swear their writers are all 14 year old boys who believe the Hustler letters to the editor.

     

  30. I’m watching, or trying to watch, the 2017 Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. They’re doing a tribute to Tupac Shakur who was inducted this year. Motherfucker, cocksucker & fucking are the primary words that are being repeated in the tribute. I don’t buy that profane is a problem.

  31. So Trump is doing the oh so predictable “let’s go to war to knock bad news off the front page” Schtick. I know, I’ll do it in Afghanistan this time. I can’t believe how fucking cynical I’m becoming.

  32. I can’t understand why they dont just go ahead and put em all into the R&R Hall of Fame, and get it over with…..why all the stupid suspense?  Do they sell that many tickets with this thing?

    its off-putting.

  33. We see this the same way, sturge. Rock n roll? Check. E-D-G? Check. Played on the radio?  Check.  Remakes by others? Check. Induction into HoF. ( We’re gonna have to get a bigger hall).

  34. kimmel was spot on last night

    https://youtu.be/SToeM55KMzU

    and more on above from wapo:

    Kimmel offered a suggestion for his namesake test. “The Jimmy Kimmel test, I think should be, no family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can’t afford it,” he said, as the audience cheered again. “Can that be the Jimmy Kimmel test? As simple as that? Is that oversimplifying it?”

    “You’re on the right track,” Cassidy assured him. “And if that’s as close as we get, that works great in government. Now we gotta be able to pay for it, and that’s the challenge, so all those middle class families right now…we have to make it affordable for them, too.”

    “I can think of a way to pay for it is don’t give a huge tax cut to millionaires like me and instead, leave it how it is. I mean, that would be one way,” Kimmel offered. “That’s my vote.”

  35. kimmel deserves hall of fame award for hitting it outta the park on the accuracy of his newt dis… uh, description

  36. bid & jamie, I know it’s a misspell of his name, but given his looks and vibrancy it’s hard not to think of him as that delicious french “cupcake” or “cookie”.

    and speaking of politically photogenic good looks and demeanor, sally yates scores a ten imho.

  37. Re: Kimmel’s suggestion, absolutely – but that suggestion is probably too complicated for the GOP contingent to wrap their heads around.

  38. our ko rant for the day


    Published on May 8, 2017

    And Trump? He is in trouble.

  39. and here’s seth’s take

    https://youtu.be/D7hzxYvCIUo
    Published on May 8, 2017

    Seth takes a closer look at the revelation then-President Obama warned Trump against ousted NSA head Michael Flynn and the fallout from the Republicans’ unpopular health care bill.

  40. what I like about the Kimmel test is guaranteeing health care would get on the path to moving insurance companies out of the way

  41. One possible way to get to universal care/single payer is a modern update and computerized version of the British show Doc Martin.  The Doctor and/or Nurse Practitioner is hired and paid by a government entity Federal or State and serves a particular geographic area in some form of clinic.   A chain of community clinics for basic well & chronic care with specialist referrals would cover the majority of people even in the most rural or poverty areas.  It’s more a matter of organization and reduction of costs on the service end by trying to keep people as healthy as possible and out of the hospital except where most needed.

    Some modern computerized Medical programs are so good, you can use them with an on line chat function with your basic care provider.

  42. JAMIE – There are docs/clinics who sort of do that on their own by creating memberships.  You pay x amount per year and get office visits and some other things (maybe in-house labs/X-rays) and completely avoid the insurance co.   Then, you just buy a catastrophic care policy for the big stuff you hope won’t happen…which meets the mandate to have coverage.

    Funny how Trump was against the mandate, but now continual coverage is part of the “replacement.”

    I would just like a policy that was as beneficial as my pre-ACA-compatible insurance.  I pay more and get less every year.  This was not the case before; there were smaller increases, but benefits remained available (not hidden behind the deductible).

    I’ve lost 3 docs, moved to a new clinic, have no physical therapy unless I meet the deductible first, and, the RX listed as being covered for arthritis was denied because it’s only covered if it’s NOT prescribed for arthritis, but for an off-label use (pre-cancerous lesions).

    Now, the bigger drug store chains are creating an express plan that will probably drive up drug costs even higher.

    The financial engineers in the insurance industry should all get really sick.  Yes, they have money and Cadillac policies, but it would put them in the company of those suffering from the policies they’ve concocted.  Maybe, just maybe, some of them would grow a conscience.

  43. that poor dog is getting so tired…kind of like the rest of us are tired of losing  winning

  44. I listen to the Administration thru its spokesperson, Mr Spicer, attack Ms Yates and I want to puke and puke and puke~~~

  45. I hope Pres Trump has his passport and entry documents in perfect order for his upcoming journey

  46. How many thumb drives can a DIA officer fill with classified information in 18-days?

  47. Flatus SpLIEcer is scum.  Don’t know what he was like before he entered the drumpf universe, but whatever integrity he had is gone.

  48. BID

    You have my sympathy.  Unfortunately, TX was one of the states that did its best not to cooperate with the ACA with the result that the citizens are getting royally screwed.  This is opposed to WA where they have bent over backwards to work with the programs.  Costs and co pays have still gone up thanks mainly to drugs etc.

    We do have a well developed Community Clinics such as Community Healthcare with its four clinics within Pierce County which has its own Insurance Plans for Medicaid and accepts all other programs within the state.  Visits there based on income or individual plans is $0 to $10 for office visits.  There is a pharmacy and dental clinic on site.  In addition the City has Kaiser, Franciscan, and St Josephs that all provide specialists, hospital, and emergency and specialist co-pays again go from $0 to $50.  They all share a coordinated computer system as needed.  So I’m on the high end of the specialist Co-Pay but my drugs are next to nothing again because of the state plans.

    It is a rotten shame the rest of the nation doesn’t have it that good.

  49. Everybody move to WA! 🙂

    Has Congress even made a peep about Big Pharma (aside from the Epipen hearing)?

     

  50. Associated Press (Washington, D.C.)

    May 9, 2017

    In late breaking news, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions issues a memorandum to all Justice Department personnel banning the use of the terms Russia, probe, hack or hacking and campaign in the same sentence or in any sentence containing the word Trump and that any files containing any of those terms are to immediately be destroyed and any investigations related in any way to those terms are to be immediately discontinued.  Any violation of those instructions will be cause for immediate termination.

    In a separate memorandum Sessions announced that all probes or investigations related to emails, servers or anyone named Clinton shall immediately be re-opened.

  51. OMG!  Trump has obviously become scared to death of this Russia thing.  It looks like the testimony of Yates and Clapper has sent him over the edge.  Can’t wait til’  someone(s) in the FBI starts to chirp like a birdy.

  52. I thought Nixon established massacres occur on Saturday night, not Tuesday afternoon.

  53. Tuesday Afternoon Massacre: Next we’ll hear Trump is wandering around the White House cursing at the paintings.

  54. Attention! MSM!  It’s time to hire investigative journalists instead of talking heads.

    As Lewis Black said, if this were just a book we were reading, it would be a great one…but it’s not a book.

    SNL will have a lot to cover.  Melissa McCarthy is hosting.

     

  55. Craig – He already has.

    We don’t need no stinking hearing for the next FBI Director, right?

    MSM could help with that, too.   Don’t just do a google search.

  56. Damn. What’s next for America? The only sane person is the Governor of Texas. God bless that man!

  57. Senate Intel Committee Asks The Treasury Department For Information On Trump Team’s Financial Ties – BuzzFeed News

    https://apple.news/AjjYOSd8SSaWdPUunoYkw1Q

     

    “The Senate Intelligence committee has asked the Treasury Department’s financial crimes network for information related to President Donald Trump and his team, as part of its Russia investigation…”

  58. I really hope the Daily Show is live tonight but I doubt it.  Of course our current White House semi-resident is so concerned about ratings that he made sure his impeachment trial will be must see TV.

     

  59. TDS cast is going to be in Colbert’s show tonight.  I wonder if they finished taping before the COMEY news?

  60. Healthcare & macarons. WA has it all.  Careful with the invitation JAMIE!  🙂

    Why are names changing to all caps?

     

  61. Rudee and Chris will have a duel to see who gets to head the FBI

  62. Comey gone? Good riddance. Seldom has one man done so much damage to so many.

    May he rot in Hell.

  63. Let me make sure I understand this. The guy who lied, lied, lied about Hillary Clinton’s emails from the time he started running for president until today and has never retracted a single lie of his or corrected any stupid ass tweet that he’s made about them fired the director of the FBI, who coincidentally was investigating his campaign ties to Russian influence on our election, for exaggerating the number of emails that were forwarded by Hillary Clinton’s top aide to her husband, because he CORRECTED his misstatement?  Am I missing something here?

  64. Mr Pogo,

    What is it ? It’s White House eyewash as delivered by a firehose.

  65. I agree with Jace. President Obama should have canned that bastard’s ass 11 months ago. However, the only way that the kremlin can peaceably overcome the storm started by this bush league firing of comey, is to hire either Sally Yates or Hillary Clinton to head the FBI. I expect this storm to hit landfall on Election Day 2018.

    With the House being overwhelmingly kremlinite, I can’t conceive of pol ryan allowing a bill of impeachment, not even if deadbeat pussygroper is caught in bed with a dead woman AND a live boy. Of course, if the beady-eyed pence were out of the picture, ryan might demand impeachment.

  66. Conspiracy theories you might find fascinating:
    Making the rounds from a friend of a friend of a friend.
    I don’t know – it’s hard for me to see any U.S. ties to Russia…except for the Flynn thing and the Manafort thing
    and the Tillerson thing
    and the Sessions thing
    and the Kushner thing
    and the Carter Page thing
    and the Roger Stone thing
    and the Felix Sater thing
    and the Boris Ephsteyn thing
    and the Rosneft thing
    and the Gazprom thing
    and the Sergey Gorkov banker thing
    and the Azerbajain thing
    and the “I love Putin” thing
    and the Donald Trump, Jr. thing
    and the Sergey Kislyak thing
    and the Russian Affiliated Interests thing
    and the Russian Business Interests thing
    and the Emoluments Clause thing
    and the Alex Schnaider thing
    and the hack of the DNC thing
    and the Guccifer 2.0 thing
    and the Mike Pence “I don’t know anything” thing
    and the Russians mysteriously dying thing
    and Trump’s public request to Russia to hack Hillary’s email thing
    and the Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king thing
    and the Russian fertilizer king’s plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign thing
    and the Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night thing
    and the Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery thing
    and the Cyprus bank thing
    and Trump not releasing his tax returns thing
    and the Republican Party’s rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
    and the election hacking thing
    and the GOP platform change to the Ukraine thing
    and the Steele Dossier thing
    and the Leninist Bannon thing
    and the Sally Yates can’t testify thing
    and the intelligence community’s investigative reports thing
    and the Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all “fake news” thing
    and the Spicer’s Russian Dressing “nothing’s wrong” thing
    and the Chaffetz not willing to start an investigation thing
    and the Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation thing
    and the The Lead DOJ Investigator Mary McCord SUDDENLY in the middle of the investigation decides to resign thing
    and the appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by trump in the trump university scandal appointed to head the investigation thing
    and the The White House going into full-on cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and subsequent firing of Flynn thing
    and the Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama thing
    and the Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn’t do anything thing
    and the Agent M16 following the money thing
    And now the trump team KNEW about Flynn’s involvement but hired him anyway thing
    and The Corey Lewendowski thing
    and the Preet Bharara firing thing but before he left he transferred evidence against trump to a state level Schneiderman thing
    And the Betsy Devos’ Brother thing
    And the Sebastian Gorka thing
    And the Greg Gianforte from Montana thing
    And the pence actually was warned about Flynn before he was hired thing
    and the Pence and Manafort connection thing
    And the 7 Allies coming forward with audio where trump was picked up in incidental wire tapping thing
    SO yeah there’s probably nothing there!

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