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Robert Mueller Delivers Report to Attorney General
According to news reports, Robert Mueller has delivered a report to Attorney General Bill Barr. Fox News:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted to Attorney General Bill Barr his long-awaited report on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race and possible collusion with Trump associates — marking the end of the politically explosive probe and the beginning of a new battle over its contents and implications. Mueller is “not recommending any further indictments,” a senior DOJ official told Fox News.
The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course. The White House has not received or been briefed on the Special Counsel’s report.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 22, 2019
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Congress’ lack of institutional spine is probably the bigger hurdle for Trump accomplishing his goals. These guys couldn’t march in lockstep if you tied their bootlaces to each other.
Isn’t that what happened with the ACA repeal?
It should be free: it is in the public domain.
Yes it will be in the public domain, federal regulations are in the public domain as well — but you pay to get a printed or electronic copy. The more valued-added that a given publisher makes to the document, e.g. indexing and making it more searchable than the original government publication, the more they may be able to charge. The Amazon page is a pre-order for who knows when. Recall that the Starr Report was also sold back in the 1990s.
More to the point, the theory, such as it is, is seriously flawed: Any Republican Would Have Won in 2016? It Ain’t Necessarily So.
Time for the real investigation to start:
No no, I was assured that Tom Price and other Congressmen had been working on a plan since the first vote.
Especially that policy whiz kid, Lying Ryan.
It’s outrageous.
When did Paul Ryan betray Obamacare repeal?
I do remember being displeased when he had a reform plan with some wonderful stuff in it that left the health insurance ban in place. It still would have done much more good than harm, and I was probably wrong not to support it.
If there’s anyone who was or is more reliable on and whose policies would better have managed the debt, I hope someone will tell me.
The news lately has reminded me of other GOP folks who were Obamacre traitors.
Maybe you are being fair but someone should have come up with a plan to deal with all of the liars on repeal. There were 100 in the House. Just to be perfectly clear, I don’t think that mattered, but it would’ve been nice as one of the leaders of the republican Congress that he would’ve gotten strategic in some way.
This is my view. No one is strategic about this and there’s not much he can do about it.
Well, there are GOP primaries now and then.
On the plus side I do like @larrykudlow and I am very happy he is working for the President. I think he’s probably too optimistic about growing our way out of the debt problem, but he might be right, and the good news on a better debt-to-GDP ratio was promising. Anyway, the debt isn’t his fault, and I’m pretty sure he’ll do more good than harm.
That was their only chance to wipe it out pretty much. If they weren’t ready they should have just waited a year and done some education and planning first. This is a disaster in multiple ways.
Kudlow likes central bank easy money almost as much as Trump or 80% of the GOP. He isn’t going to do anything substantial. They just want to get past the next election. He always talks about “king dollar” but it’s all BS. He is just status quo. No debt ratios are going to improve.
Sorry, G-man. Jon’s correct title is “Ricochet Editor and Taco Enthusiast Jon Gabriel”.
Please adjust your Ricochet stationery accordingly.
What’s the deal there? You think he’s a liar?
Gee, I don’t. A touch naive I fear, but that’s all. (Worse things might be true of me.)
The ratio of US debt to US GDP did recently improve. If it’s the start of a trend, it’s a big deal. Early data, not much in the way of evidence. A ray of hope in the darkness; I remain quite a pessimist on the debt.
Not me. I am beyond caring at this point.
Promises that can’t be kept won’t.
He’s just another stock market cheerleader like they all are. He’s not going to recommend anything hard like Reagan and Paul Volker did.
Trust me, it’s not a trend. Nothing matters until central banks can start raising rates. They can’t do that because it will create a debt deflation and 4% on the 10 year US treasury literally breaks all Western governments.
All Trump is doing, really, is slowing down bad things happening and beating the crap out of the media etc. That’s enough, considering everything.
St. Augustine:
If you want to know what’s going on listen to this
https://mcalvanyweeklycommentary.com/bill-king-hedge-political-turmoil-central-banks-control-revolution/
Every Republican should listen to it twice. That is the best thing I have ever heard in one spot. It’s the whole interrelation between geopolitics, Central banks, debt, the trend towards populism and socialism, etc.
No promises, but I opened the link and I’m likely to give it a listen.
Seriously, this is very understandable. Most of the time it’s very abstract or whatever. It’s very hard to see how it affects ones political objectives unless you really stick with it. I’ve just got some unusual personal circumstances that make me obsessed with it. It’s tedious as hell, really.
The Republicans were put back into the majority on the core promise that they would repeal Obamacare. Ryan was put into leadership and then elevated to Speaker. He had 6 years to hold hearings and really develop the case, and line up every Republican who wanted to be reelected, and pass the real bill. Take only his time in the Speakership and he had two years to write, pass, and shove the real bill into the Senate repeatedly.
Yes, this would put the spotlight on the scam artists in the Senate, but that is what was needed. With a real bill, McConnell would have been forced to whip his caucus and would have been incentivized to recruit candidates that would keep their word on this core promise. Obama would veto it and then the Republican led Congress would pass it again and put it on the desk of the newly elected Republican president for his signature on his first day in office.
None of this happened because Ryan and McConnell never wanted it to happen. Period.
Yes, that seems like a fair critique.
This is very close to exactly how I think about it. We have some RINOs. Fine, God love them they are better than Democrats, but it has to be dealt with. Same thing with Maine and Alaska. My guess is those states have some real problems that actually require some socialism. Fine. But my god get ready for all of this. Get realistic about everything.
Obama care was the greatest Cloward and Piven maneuver of all time and then never dealt with it as such.
We’re going to get universal coverage, the only issue is how are you do it and if it heads off single-payer.
I don’t get how I messed up this edit —>
This is very close to exactly how I think about it. We have some RINOs. Fine, God love them they are better than Democrats, but it has to be dealt with. Same thing with Maine and Alaska. My guess is those states have some real problems that actually require some socialism. Fine. But my god get ready for all of this. Get realistic about everything.
Obama care was the greatest Cloward and Piven maneuver of all time and it was never dealt with it as such.
We’re going to get universal coverage, the only issue is how are you do it and if it heads off single-payer.
Given the level of disagreement here on Ricochet on what “repeal” would look like, I didn’t see how the Republicans in Congress could possibly come up with a plan. (Those who thought repeal meant repeal and nothing more were already a tiny minority.)
The plan wasn’t that hard to create from a conservative perspective. Question 1: Should government be managing health care delivery or only regulating the insurance market? Answer: Only regulating this insurance market. Question 2: Should the states continue to regulate the insurance market or would a national marketplace best serve the interests of patients and practitioners? Answer: A national market place. Question 3: Should private insurers be required to include pre-existing conditions in the pool of maladies covered or should government provide a Medicare/Medicaid pool for such adversely selected claims? Answer: Government pool (since insurance cannot be mandated for all). Question 4: Should Government pool be funded as a general obligation or a fee for service program? Answer: General obligation (since insurance cannot be mandated for all).
Employer-based insurance was distorting the market. That was both subsidized by the government and the employer.
They had to come up with a way to get everyone covered and progressively subsidized after this mess.
Then throw in Medicare.
The bad decisions were made in World War II and then LBJ just made it worse.
The whole thing had to be overhauled without freaking everyone out.
The ACA is just a sneaky plan to force single-payer.
The constitution may say this or that, but we have a statist mess to clean up and it can’t be cleaned up with idealism.
The way they should’ve done this 70 years ago, is they should’ve forced everyone to buy straight indemnity catastrophic coverage and then something like a whole life product to go with it. Then they should have just socialized as necessary. That is a very simplistic but accurate way to start thinking about it.
What drives me crazy is, the old system wasn’t even 100% progressively subsidized–it was partly regressively funded–and the blankety-blank ACA is even worse. I mean how dumb can they be? Freaking criminals.
Maybe. We might have to settle for less harm than usual.