This something else Joe Biden should be reminding people hat he and then President Obama fought the fight against many of the same Republicans still working who want’d to ‘repeal’ with nothing reasonable to replace it….
There WILLL be more…..
A record 14.5 million Americans have signed up for Obamacare health insurance since November, President Joe Biden announced Thursday.
That’s the highest number purchasing insurance during an open enrollment period for the marketplaces created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
The previous record of 12.68 million was set in 2016, the final year of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy research organization.
Enrollment for the most recent period began in November and ended Jan. 15 in most states. Residents of California, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. still have until the end of January to sign up.
Enrollments were boosted by the pandemic relief package passed last year which temporarily expanded subsidies for the plans.
Subsidies became more generous for those who already qualified for assistance, lowering both premiums and deductibles. They were made newly available to people earning more than four times the federal poverty rate – about $51,000 for a single person.
Biden said families saved an average of $2,400 on premiums. Four out of five enrollees picked plans costing less than $10 a month, according to the administration….
New Open TREAD IS HERE..…..
A little Republican afternoon clownfoolery.
Nikki Haley ,always trying to keep herself relevant ,decided today to demand the resignation of both the the President and Vice President.
Unsurprisingly, Nikki didn’t think matters all the way through.
She was immediately mocked from all sides for supporting an action that would elevate Nancy Pelosi to the Presidency.
I saw a brand new, sealed book about “Trump’s Brand New UN Ambassador” at a Barnes and Noble in my travels.
You couldn’t even sell that at an 80% markdown!
Carful SE
I’ve been shopping around ‘The Big Guy’ demise for months
And maybe she was counting on people like Gottheimer from NJ and other such Centrist Democrats wanting to cross over and make Kevin McCarthy Speaker/President Designate.
Nah. She’s just stupid.
No doubt. I just like to try my head at thinking ahead of the curve.
But EARNED HER YOUR ATTENTION and other’s
Jack’s
Right..
Bull Shit lines only are for and apply to the
The Trump faithful
My suggestion yesterday that Solicitor General and chief arguer for Roe before SCOTUS Elizabeth Prelogar could be a contender for a Court slot probably should be filed in the column of “if Thomas keels.”
Your headline: “Record 14.5 Americans sign up for Obamacare”
Is the 0.5 American waiting to escape the womb just to sign up for Obamacare?
And will the other 14.0 Americans be summoned before some future GOP investigating committee?
🙂 😉
Just the 14.5 when linked piece was done
As u point out gonna be millions more
You still don’t see it, James (confirmationbias@work): your headline doesn’t say 14.5 million Americans” ; it says “14.5 Americans”.
I was wondering who the 0.5 American might be.
Is that ACA-covered half of him going to vote Democratic, and the other half Republican?
😉
There’s a new lie emerging from Covid-19 skeptics of late: Athletes are dying after getting the vaccine.
Former NBA great John Stockton drew national attention earlier this week when he insisted in an interview that “there’s 150 I believe now — it’s over 100 professional athletes dead, professional athletes, the prime of their life, dropping dead that are vaccinated, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court.”
On Wednesday, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson got in on the action in an interview with Charlie Kirk, the head of the conservative group Turning Point USA.
“We’ve heard story after story, I mean all these athletes dropping dead on the field,” Johnson said. “But we’re supposed to ignore that. Nothing happening here. Nothing to see. This is a travesty. This is a scandal.”
Johnson’s office offered no specifics to back up his claim Thursday. “The senator has been pressing for transparency in government, especially in our federal health agencies, so that the American people have as much information as possible before they make health care decisions for themselves and their families,” a spokeswoman said.
It isn’t a scandal. Mostly because it’s not happening…
— Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 2:18 PM ET, Thu January 27, 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/27/politics/ron-johnson-john-stockton-covid-comments/index.html
Between Tucker Carlson bemoaning that he no longer wants to fuck M&Ms and Kid Rock’s new song where he sings “fuck Fauci” and “Let’s Go Brandon” over and over again Republican culture has hit a new low this week.
Carl Tuckson hit a new low tonight by bringing George Floyd’s sister into his disgraceful tirade against which ever qualified person President Biden picks, and we can be totally sure why he was on about it like he was.
Left on their own
Calson and Trump
can fuck up their own wet dreams
Tucker Carlson is a major force in the Republican Party.His show is the most popular on Fox News/Entertainment.Many more rank and file Republicans pay attention to what he says compared to Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney etc.
Indeed just a few weeks ago,Tucker essentially called Ted Cruz a liar to his face and Cruz ,rather than being outraged ,literally changed his position to placate Carlson.
Morning All….
Dreaming……
After the Senate parliamentarian shot down Democrats’ third effort to include immigration provisions in their sprawling social and climate spending bill, advocates entered 2022 united behind a bolder, more politically risky strategy: to convince Senate Democrats to disregard their chamber adviser.
The end of 2021 saw a rift emerge within the immigrant advocacy community over the best strategy to push critical protections for undocumented immigrants through Congress for the first time in decades.
Some groups adopted an all-or-nothing approach, arguing for nothing short of citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. After Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough rejected two such proposals, arguing that they didn’t comply with Senate budget rules, other advocates eyed a narrower option that would provide temporary protections but not citizenship.
But in December, when MacDonough shut down that option as well, she ushered in “immediate full alignment” among organizers behind a plan to see her decision set aside, said Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center.
More….
Some Special Interest Groups on the left are keeping selves on dreams that just ain’t gonna happen….
They REALLY should be helping Democrats getting MORE US Senate seat’s….
THAT matters!
Tucker Carlson, who bemoans that he no longer wants to fuck an M&M now that she isn’t wearing go go boots, coukd be a serious contender for the GOP nomination if Trump doesn’t run.
Think about that.
Oh I agree.
I commented earlier that Carlson is a major,if not ,the major opinion leader in the Republican Party.
Watching him force Ted Cruz, supposedly a likely candidate in a Trumpless race in 2024 literally change his position on the domestic terrorists of Jan. 6 ,was as sight to behold.
Carlson essentially Ordered him to so so and Ted meekly complied.
Yes, Carlson could be a major candidate in 2024.
What about Hannity?
A new Morning Consult poll shows that if Trump does not run in 2024 Trump has a narrow lead over other GOP contenders.
That’s Trump Jr. wth 25%, Ron DeSantis with 24% and Mike Pence at 12%.
What a sad state of affairs for the once Party of Lincoln.
The ‘big guy’ may fade, as the big dog here suggests, but the party is still deep in his thrall.
And at least DJT Jr is a half step better than Eric or Rudy. “Rhetorical gifts” and whatnot…
Oh, it’s HIS…
Even if the minions are all fighting against each other
At least GW Bush stopped doing coke and ran for a lower office first
The crowd’s are hungry for scraps they can het?
Good Morning
Around my way we got a bot of snow dumped is…..
So peaceful and quiet!
Sports betting apps ads are now the biggest pain on social media for some of us……
“Just look at how Democrats organize and spend money.Gor Christ’s sake ,Jamie Harrison raised over $100 million only to lose his Senate race to Lindsey Graham by 10 points.Amy McGrath runs for Senate in Kentucky and raises over $90 million only to get crushed by Mitch McConnell.”They were always going to lose those races ,but Democrats obsess over high- profile races they can’t win because that’s where all the attention is.We’ re addicted to hopeless causes.”
James Carville
The old boy is right about that.I know no one in SC who thought Harrison had any chance to unseat Graham.Indeed he ran just slightly better against Graham than Brad Hutto ,the State Senator who ran against Graham in 2014 and spent only a few hundred thousand dollars.
It’s one thing to show the flag so to doeak but that kind of money should go to potentially winnable races,not these quixotic efforts that are destined to end in defeat.
Except Warnock in Georgia
‘Never give up the ship’
“…Darth Vader’s daughter ,Liz Cheney ,is now a hero to liberals simply because she recognizes Biden did not steal the last election.Wat Assad commentary on our politics.Where simply acknowledging reality is now seen as a profile in courage.”
Bill Maher HBO comedian /commentator
Here or not’
She will have to win back home where she WILL run on her voting solid GOP
Unlike everyone else here?
I couldn’t care less what happens to Liz Cheney.Until she broke with Trump ,whose attempt to steal an election , was a bridge too far for her,she was one of his most faithful supporters.
I point oit that she is NOT who most think she is
At least Cheney still supports democracy and in making the Jan 6 Commission meaningful. Here days that is highly unusual.
It would be much nicer if she also supported voting rights. But I wouldn’t call her purely evil because she at least has integrity on that one important issue.
A GOPer House would make her immaterial
I am considering crossing back over to vote in the state Republican Primary as a way of stopping the Trump endorsed candidates from getting nominated and potentially winning, if those polls James posted yesterday are to be believed(and I do generally trust Quinnipiac; for a local pollster, AJC and Insider Advantage are utterly laughable). As the Democratic candidates I support are mostly foregone conclusions to win their Primaries, it only makes sense.
Kemp hasn’t been a great Governor, but would be far better than that stooge Perdue or “#FeelTheVern” Jones. Likewise with Butch Miller and Brad Raffensperger. None of them will get my vote in November, but it is important to get people with at least miniscule integrity as the nominees for all the parties.
I would assume U are not alone and GOPer’s have warries of the seme…
A Washington State trooper who very publicly quit over the vaccine mandate has died of COVID.
ESPN is reporting that GOAT quarterback Tom Brady has decided to retire.
That is correct on Brady
Bless’m …..
He put in the tine
Other reports (re: TB12) differ.
I see where Federal Judge Michelle Childs of South Carolina is being considered for the Supreme Court vacancy.
I appeared before here in a case back in 2007 when she was a State Circuit Court Judge.
She would be an excellent choice in my view, very knowledgeable and a great judicial temperament.
With both you and Jim Clyburn supporting her, I’m sure Judge Childs would be unstoppable.
Haha!
I would get involved but I think I’ll let Jim carry the water on this one!
Lindsey Graham was making very positive noises about Judge Childs (and presumably about voting for her confirmation if nominated) on one of the Sunday morning talk shows.
If he’s on board, as well as Cong. Clyburn — and most importantly Jack 😉 — it’s hard to see Tim Scott voting nay should her confirmation come before the Senate.
Both Sen. Graham and Cong. Clyburn mentioned Judge Childs’ education (undergraduate and legal) in non-Ivy League colleges, and in fact Southern ones, which are also the only ones attended by Jim Clyburn, Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott.
On the other hand, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) made some remarkably tactless remarks this weekend on Fox (for which any Democrat would be crucified by the Left and probably be forced out of office). He said that it was ironic that black women would benefit from the same affirmative action policies that are now before the Supreme Court, with a very strong implication that female Black judges are less competent or deserving than white ones.
Unlike Lindsay Graham, I don’t think Tim Scott has to date voted for a single one of Biden’s judicial nominees.
Tim Scott, from Jack’s aways, seem’s like a rock solid solid GOPer……,
Uh yeah….
You’re just figuring that out?
Graham is going to catch a lot of flak back in S.C. among the Republican nutjobs who dominate many of the local county parties.
They are always censuring Graham for one thing or another.
His comments regarding Child’s might merit one of those censorious blasts from Aiken ,Harry or Greenville counties
I have a good friend who is from Aiken county. I remember the political signs in the area that suggest we vote someone for someone because”he is one of us”. It had a picture of what looked like a redneck good ole boy. I understood what the sign meant.
refrigerator Perry had a large expensive home on aprominant road that was right next door to a dilapidated trailer park!
Rode through the heart of that town the other day going back home from Charleston. Looks like a cross between a place you could film a Hallmark movie and South Metro Atlanta 20 years ago, both of which would definitely indicate majority white and Republican populace.
It is ridiculous to me that white people around here actually and uncritically look at themselves(beerguts, gibberish half sentences, empty Red Bull cans, and truck nuts) and think they are the master race.
Bill Maher New Rules for this week: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdJOLMgY4p0
As always, a good gut check.
Everyone saw that numnutes Tump says if he gets his old job back he’s pardon those who tried to overthrow the country for hih
No surprise. The Camp Auschwitz sweatshirt guy would probably get a cabinet post.
Can you imagine if a bunch of Black Lives Matter people had done what these Republican Terrorists did?
I’m sure that made sense to you…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday harshly criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham after he called former President Donald Trump’s comments about Capitol riot defendants “inappropriate.”
At a rally in Texas on Saturday, Trump said he would consider pardons for people who were charged in the January 6 attack on the Capitol if he decides to run and wins in 2024.
“We will treat them fairly,” he said. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons.”
So far 761 people have been charged in the Capitol riot, with counts that include entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct, and assaulting police officers, among others.
During an appearance Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Graham was asked about the comments and called them “inappropriate.”
“I don’t want to send any signal that it was OK to defile the Capitol,” the South Carolina Republican said, adding: “There are other groups with causes that may want to go down the violent path if these people get pardoned.”
Graham has consistently called for the prosecution of people who attacked the Capitol during the insurrection.
Greene, a Republican from Georgia and staunch supporter of Trump, blasted Graham in a long post on her Gab account, airing a list of grievances.
“Lindsey Graham has done nothing about J6,” Greene began. She has previously visited Capitol riot defendants in jail and has complained about their living conditions. In her post, she accused Graham of doing nothing for them.
“Instead of actually doing something about the great injustice happening to pretrial Americans awaiting their day in court, Lindsey Graham turns his head to their abuse, votes for Joe Biden’s nominees, votes for Joe Biden’s Infrastructure bill, and then pretends to be a friend to President Trump,” she wrote.
“Aren’t we all sick and tired of those kind of ‘friends,'” she added…
—Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider
Sun, January 30, 2022, 7:19 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-blasted-001931941.html
I’m pleasantly surprised to hear Graham’s comments – especially after blasting McConnell for not getting along with Trump.
Probably jockeying to replace Mitch when the latter croaks.
Greene is a supporter of domestic terrorism.
Grenne is a idiot
Ole’ Lindsey in s bad place
Je IS gonna have to do somethings that will not make the ‘Big Guy’ happy.,,,,
TV and film star Howard Hesseman dies at 81.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/howard-hesseman-dead-wkrp-cincinnati-1235084085/
RIP
Dr. Johnny Fever
Big update on Daniel’s congregation:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/australia-hillsong-church-leader-steps-down-to-defend-charge-of-concealing-child-sex-abuse/ar-AATjfvg?ocid=ob-fb-enus-1541512262291
I hope that Daniel was never the victim of Brian Houston. It is highly possible of course that he never even met the guy.
Do we know if he still belongs to Hillsong?
Can’t access it due to the paywall, but this looks to be essential reading.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fbi-infiltrator-nazies-kkk-biker-gangs-1280830/
Good Early Morning
As usual
Texas Gov Anbbot, nits as he is, leads Beto less than a year out in the polls
Ah,Texas!
I see media types have dragged Susan Collins out on the Biden court pick……..
Reporters gotta make their money……
Collins is a waste of air time….
The funniest part was Collins circumlocutions involving supporting Trump if he is the Republican candidate n 2024.
While essentially saying that it was doubtful she would, she didn’t rule it out.
Question?Why would anyone vote to remove a President from office,then four years later vote to put him back in?
Her answer once again illustrates the hold Trump maintains over the Republican Party .Even those who voted to convict him at impeachment still won’t totally denounce him.
Crazy.
The GOP is loaded with politicians who have backtracked on what they previously said about Trump. It is almost the norm ,except that many Republicans never criticized Trump in th first place.
Jack assumes Republicans are just afraid of Trump, but it is possible that a more accurate answer is that they share his values and they just underestimated how their supporters love Trump.
I agree with Zreebs, Trump speaks their language. He’s the Great White Hope.
He said the quiet dog whistle part out loud with no apology. Folks like Mitt had their lackeys do it and then later offer up a tepid apology.
No half assed racist light for Trump. He went full on racist and never looked back!
I don’t make that assumption.
Indeed on many occasions I have done posts criticizing the Republican Party and individual Republicans for towing the Trump line .
Do I think a lot of them fear Trump as a threat to their re-elections?Yes I do.That doesn’t mean though that I believe that is their only motivation for supporting himIndeed ,I would suggest that most of them are broadly supportive of Trumpian policies,if not somewhat leery of his pronouncements.
As for Collins, it would seem that her reluctance to forthrightly say that she would not support his candidacy in 2024 is a result of her reluctance to stir up the Trumpists in the Maine Republican Party despite her vote to remove him from the presidency.
Remember that the Maine GOP that produced Margaret Chase Smith, Olympia Snowe, William Cohen and Susan Collins also elected and then re-elected the proto-Trump crazy Gov. Paul Le Page.
And might elect him again this year if either Governor Mills stumbles or political tailwinds provide just enough.
Collins is 100% worthless.
Fox News and other right leaning media are
Are NOW focusing back to Immigration on the Southern border….
Interesting, eh?
Hear Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Miss.) yesterday about the S0uthern Border being America’s most pressing national security issue.
Oops!! How could I fail to credit J. Wm Fulbright’s Arkansas — rather than John Stennis’s Mississippi — for electing Tom Cotton.
On the other hand, I’m with him about the bipartisan Ukraine caucus.
Was another piece knocking Abbots sending Syate troopers down to there,.
Morning people sorry
Actual posts not gonna be a lot for a few days….
I’m here and i see like P1 days we keep it going…,,
Bush II backing a couple of women Trump
ain’t gonna be happy about……
Like i say….
Around the edges…..
ormer President George W. Bush gave money to the reelection campaigns of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the final months of 2021, a show of support for two of former President Trump’s top Republican targets of the 2022 midterm elections.…
The Hill
Here’s an example of our moderators well known habit of using something that has no relation to his idea( Here,that Trump is fraying “ around their edges”)as indicative of that idea.
So George W Bush ,who has opposed Trump since the beginning,famously labelling his inaugural speech as “ weird shit,” gives money to Lisa Murkowski and Liz Cheney and that proves, exactly what?
If and when those two win their primaries and elections we’ll talk Jack
There ARE Bush Republicans out there….
Yes there are.
The point of my comment ,which you conveniently ignore ,is that using Bushs financial contribution as indicative of Trumps supposed fraying “around the edges “is ridiculous in that Bush has never been a supporter of Trump.So why would his doing this be an indication of anything?
You either don’t understand that type of logic or are just purposefully trying to make some point that isn’t there to make.We have seen this all before and will again as it is your usual modus operandi.
The families hate each other
According to the media the two should have no primary chances
Bush is going for thr primary
The two cold br fine in the general
Or loss and help Democrats
And ways?
It’s Bush giving Trump the Texas middle finger …
TWICE‼️
More efforts by the ‘Big Guy’ going his own way and pissing off the state and local party members…..
Trump work enough?
Democrats could gain woth his people nominated who just might crash and burn in the general’s?
Former President Trump is under fire — including from some of his most ardent supporters — for his preliminary endorsement of a former State Department spokesperson over a steadfast ally in a Tennessee congressional primary.
The Hill
In South Carolina political news…
Congressman Tom Rice,who voted to impeach Trump ,is facing a number of Trumpite rivals in the Republican primary.The most serious seems to be State Legislator Russell Fry.School Board Chairman Ken Richardson and former Myrtle Beach Mayor Mark McBride were thought to be major contenders ;however neither has so far raised significant funds to be competitive.There are also six other candidates, none of whom have raised any money to speak of.
Unlike Liz Cheney in Wyoming where a simple plurality is enough for victory,SC has a runoff provision between the top two candidates if no one passes 50% in the initial vote
Rice has been unwavering in insisting that he has no regrets about his impeachment vote and indeed has said that his vote to back Trumps electoral challenges was a mistake.Fry meanwhile is selling “ Impeach Tom Rice “bumper stickers for ten dollars each.
The primary and runoff will be in June.
What are early numbers?
He’s one one of my GOOer ‘fringes people ‘
Then….
Trump today officially endorsed State Rep. Russell Fry in the above race.
This might mean that many ,if not most ,of the remaining candidates will exit the race ,as support for Trump was the common refrain of all of them.
We’ll see
One MUST remember
Some of the people Trump wants as his own may NOT actually be that popular come election day
Do NOT Warnock or other nameless races Trump ‘s person lost in the last year…..
Good Early Morning …..
The President visits the ‘Big Apple’ today..,,,
Don’t look bit the Democratic President is in contact with the US President is in contact with several US Republican Senators….
They say it’s just about a court pick….
Leakage talk about other stuff?
Republicans seeking re-election who backed former President Donald Trump’s impeachment or voted to convict him last year are outpacing their GOP challengers in the money race, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings.
The eight Republicans who voted in favor of either impeachment or conviction and are facing voters this year raised more money than those who seek to oust them from office, the filings released this week showed.
Leading the pack was Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who pulled in more than $1.97 million during the last three months of 2021, bringing her yearly total to nearly $6.5 million. Harriet Hageman, Cheney’s Trump-backed challenger, who launched her bid in September, reported about $443,000 in contributions last quarter, bringing her total for the year to just north of $745,000.
The disparity was mirrored in other races. Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., brought in eight times what his Trump-endorsed primary challenger secured last quarter, while Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., raised more than five times what Trump-backed state Rep. Steve Carra brought in from October through December. And in Washington state, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler out-raised her Trump-backed opponent, Joe Kent, bringing in about $422,000 compared to his roughly $297,000 during that same period.
On the Senate side, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, more than doubled Kelly Tshibaka’s fundraising haul last quarter. Tshibaka, backed by Trump, raised about $1.82 million last year, far short of Murkowski’s $5.4 million.
The trend also played out in races in which Trump has not endorsed a primary challenger or only recently offered his blessing. Reps. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and David Valadao, R-Calif., are outpacing their fields in the fundraising battle, while Rep. Tom Rice, R-S.C., narrowly topped state Rep. Russell Fry, whom Trump endorsed Tuesday.
The fundraising totals show that knocking pro-impeachment Republicans out of Congress will not be a walk in the park for Trump’s preferred candidates.
On the other hand, some impeachment backers have decided that running for re-election is not worthwhile or may prove futile. Trump has heralded retirements by three House Republican impeachment backers — Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio and John Katko of New York.*
“Great news, another one bites the dust,” Trump said in a statement last month following the news that Katko will not seek re-election at the end of his current term.
— by Allan Smith, NBC News
https://news.yahoo.com/republicans-impeached-trump-outpace-challengers-025938709.html
* But in the case of John Katko (and certainly of Adam Kinzinger), it was pretty clear that Democratic state legislators would redistrict them out of their non-metropolitan seats anyway, regardless of ex-Presidents’ hurt feelings.
I don’t know about the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s plans for Anthony Gonzalez’s 16th district in the suburbs of Cleveland, Akron and Canton when Ohio loses its 16th seat next year. But see Ballotpedia today:
https://news.ballotpedia.org/2022/02/02/a-redistricting-update-from-new-york-and-ohio/
Good Early Morning…….
Morning……
Old format post’s coming back this afternoon or tonight…….
Ooops!…
New Thread coming….