Trump White House: CBO Findings Wrong! Even More Will Lose Health Insurance Under TrumpCare!

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Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated!  Especially these chuckleheads:

Just after the Congressional Budget Office said it estimates that under the Republican health-care bill 14 million Americans will lose their health insurance next year, and 24 million will lose their coverage by the end of the decade, the White House said it disagrees “strenuously” with that analysis. 

“We believe that our plan will cover more individuals at a lower cost and give them the choices that they want for the coverage that they want for themselves and for their families, not that the government forces them to buy,” Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price explained on Monday. 

Hours later, the White House’s internal analysis of the American Health Care Act leaked. It confirms that the Trump administration disagrees with the CBO’s findings — but not because AHCA will “cover more individuals.” The executive branch estimates that 26 million people would lose coverage within the next decade — more than the CBO’s estimate of 24 million. 

 Wow. Just wow.

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Today's Dispatches From The Stupid Party

Another day, another dose of Rethuglican stupid.

Re a nullification bill proposed by Alabama Rethuglican State Sen. Shadrack "Where Did Meshach and Abedne Go?" McGill:

"The Alabama legislature is considering an unconstitutional bill that would make it a felony for federal law officers to enforce any bans on semi-automatic weapons or high-capacity magazines in the state — a measure that, its author insists, would be good for the state’s economy, or at least its gun manufacturers." (our emphasis)

Arkansas Rethuglican State Sen. Jason "I Is Illiterate" Rapert:

"I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don't represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is not going to save us. We're going to take this country back to the Lord. We're going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we're not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!" (our emphasis)

You can see Sen. Dimbulb's rant here.

Akin's Evolution

The last time we tuned in on lady parts expert and Rethuglican member of the (not kidding) House Science Committee Todd "My Ass Is" Akin he was expounding on his theory of "legitimate rape." We know how that went.

Now, My Ass Is Akin is questioning evolution, saying,

"I don’t see it as even a matter of science because I don’t know that you can prove one or the other. That’s one of those things."

Yes, one of those things. The congressman may have something, though. Looking at him, how can anyone say he's the product of evolution, right?

(image: New logo for the Rethuglican Party?)

Rocks for Brains Quote of the Day

“For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you,” he added. “He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress...If you want to be a purist, go somewhere on a mountaintop and praise the East or something. But if you want to be in politics, you learn to compromise. And you learn to compromise on the issue without compromising yourself. Show me a guy who won’t compromise and I’ll show you a guy with rock for brains.” (my emphasis) Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) today on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," referring to his teatard Rethuglican Party's no compromise, no prisoners approach to government (see also "Sunday Reading," below).

A Tale of Two Republicans

Respected conservative Republican Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) gets defeated in his primary by a tea party/plutocrat candidate, and now comes this scrap of shite from Ponch (!) McPhee, a treasonous dirtbag in Virginia:

"[W]e shall not have any coarse [sic] but armed revolution should we fail with the power of the vote in November," McPhee writes. "This Republic cannot survive for 4 more years underneath this political socialist ideologue."

What makes this more than the usual inbred right-wing Cooter tippy-tapping in his underwear is the fact that said McPhee is editor of the Greene County Republican Committee newsletter, in which this appeared. (Would that be the Secret Service knocking on your door, "Ponch?") Really, though, considering the hateful, insane bile that has been pumped out of hundreds of radio stations and Fox "News" every day for decades, it's no wonder that the McPhees of the world prosper, while the Dick Lugars get unceremoniously canned.

(Image: Ponch ("Paunch?") McPhee, Greene County, VA, Rethuglican shiteletter editor - Hackwhackers' approximation)

Poll Shows Alabama and Mississippi Rethugs Are Dolts

Poll -- and comment -- courtesy of Daily Kos:

"Alabama Republican Primary voters:

Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?
Christian: 14
Muslim: 45
Not sure: 41

Do you believe in evolution, or not?
Believe in evolution: 26
Do not: 60
Not sure: 13

Mississippi Republican Primary voters:

Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?
Christian: 12
Muslim: 52
Not sure: 36

Do you believe in evolution, or not?
Believe in evolution: 22
Do not: 66
Not sure: 11

Ironically, these are the same assholes who think there should be a literacy requirement to vote."