It is evident that a huge mistake was made by many voters during the last national election. The current seat filler of the oval office stated plainly what he was going to do if reelected and people voted him back in., we are now in the loose-leaf binder of his mind with pages that have torn ring holes! Each successive day of this occupation shows how ineffective the GOP led Congress and the minority DEMs have become under this grifter in chief aka Resident remodeler. The pure unadulterated or reckless actions have at once placed a distance between our allies although those actions have prompted those allies to take on a larger share of defense. The allies realize that if they do not coalesce and make decisions that do not heavily rely on the US, they will have issues and essentially allow the rise of the same issues that precipitated WWII.
We (the US) are fortunate that there are more rational world leaders who see what the “ponziesque” actions of the current seat filler are and are quietly placing guardrails on those schemes. The US voters have the hard job and that is to replace the “CAPO” and his sycophants with serious representatives of our states and the country.
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Gop On The verge of doing something right?
KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Updated Fri, December 12, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it’s the House’s turn to show what it can do.
Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a last-minute sprint as his party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for those who buy policies through the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, which are expiring at the end of the year. Those subsidies help lower the cost of coverage.
Johnson, R-La., huddled behind closed doors in the morning — as he did days earlier this week — working to assemble the package for consideration as the House focuses the final days of its 2025 work on health care.
“House Republicans are tackling the real drivers of health care costs to provide affordable care,” Johnson said in a statement announcing the package. He said it would be voted on next week.
Time is running out for Congress to act. Democrats engineered the longest federal government shutdown ever this fall in a failed effort to force Republicans to the negotiating table on health care. But after promising votes, the Senate failed this week to advance both a Republican health care plan and the Democratic-offered bill to extend the tax credits for three years.
Now, with just days to go, Congress is about to wrap up its work with no consensus solution in sight.
What Republicans are proposing
The House Republicans offered a 100-plus page package that focuses on long-sought GOP proposals to enhance access to employer-sponsored health insurance plans and clamp down on so-called pharmacy benefit managers.
Republicans propose expanding access to what’s referred to as association health plans, which would allow more small businesses and self-employed individuals to band together and purchase health coverage.
Proponents say such plans increase the leverage businesses have to negotiate a lower rate. But critics say the plans provide skimpier coverage than what is required under the Affordable Care Act.
The Republicans’ proposal would also require more data from pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, as a way to help control drug costs. Critics say PBMs have padded their bottom line and made it more difficult for independent pharmacists to survive.
Comment from provider: After 10 years the GOP is finally thinking about their constituents, this is a sad state when the leadership is too afraid of a “child” to take care of their constituents who should always take precedent! MA
It is horrific to see this country’s leadership headed by possibly the most historically corrupt and incompetent official since the founding of the country.
10 years plus is enough time
The GOP long opposition to the ACA (Obamacare) continues, instead of crafting “something better” the GOP has continued place roadblocks and restrictions in its implementation. (bear in mind that the GOP took the “better” parts of the healthcare bill and added to their own healthcare plans. Now we are still fighting the same fight and affecting the health of millions of Americans even down to many being unable to afford basic healthcare. The Congressional GOP members appear to being ignoring their own constituents’ dilemma along with everyone else’s.
Time produces folks of the same mental space regularly, but we usually do not hear about them until their actions become egregious and murderous. Abetted (sometimes) by a governing bloc these “exotics lose all sense of reality since they live pretty much in their own heads. The insides of their heads would lay out like a bag of cats (sorry cat lovers), a lot of meowing and scratching! When the contents erupt no one understands or believes the utterances and statements that issue forth. Fact is those outputs are as dangerous as a 5-year-old with cherry bombs and a box of matches.
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It occurred to me that the citizens of the United States have been victims of a ploy known as” rope a dope “which was used so successfully by the “Great Muhamed Ali”. Knowing this and paying attention to news sources (such as they are) should be a loud wake up call to all of us. Every known statement about past tyrants seems apply to our current Resident. It is easy to complain and carp about our politics and governance but seemingly difficult to gear up for the next election opportunity. Every political shift in this country is an opportunity to change for the better, yet we elected a proven liar and thief! This person has surrounded himself with sycophants whose sole job is carry his water and pour it over all of us. The depth of the dishonesty in our government is quite deep and not showing any sign of lessening in this administration. I believe every citizen wants good and fair governance but we still fall under the blanket of Politi speak which sounds good but is sometimes just another “Rope a Dope”!
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