"This meeting was a big deal from the standpoint that it took place almost 2 months later than Obama’s first full meeting due to the Senate Democrats joining the “resist” movement."

"Just two of Trump’s Cabinet chiefs were approved on Inauguration Day, fewer than his three most recent predecessors. The process has been mired in procedural delays forced by Democrats in committee and problems in processing vetting paperwork. The White House also played a role in the delays, waiting to submit now-Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s nomination in March."

And, I can't think of another group of cabinet members with more conflicts of interests!

You seem particularly bitter in your response!

Like Democrats believe health care to be, health care is infrastructure, and nobody has a right to infrastructure, unless you own it.  

Stop spending money on sick people who will eventually die anyway, and spend it on the things society needs.

Yeah Putin, is an issue.

The federal government has become too bloated and too powerful. So much so it feels entitled to create regulations that dramatically stifle commerce  and interfere in people's personal freedom and private property rights while very often producing very little good. In far too many cases, the stated reasoning  for the regulations is without merit or the good that is achieved is so small it is impossible to for a rational observer to justify that action.

 
One of the other main obstacles to reform are government union contracts and civil servant regulations that make it nearly impossible to terminate employees. In reality Congress, over many decades, is ultimately responsible for the dire situation but many over reaches in regulation can be corrected with reducing regulations. The age old federal solution of throwing more money at a problem to solve it hardly ever works and needs to come to an end. The new money creates a new agency and new set of regulations except the existing and competing agency or regulations rarely goes away.

Have you ever examined a listing of all the exiting agencies, departments, offices, bureaus, commissions, boards, authorities, committees, divisions, stations? This link is far from complete.

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I'll take that bet.

   On top of the loser paying $500.00, loser must refrain from posting on TER P&R for 500 days.
   Posting with new alias after losing  bet is a penalty of an additional $ 500.00

   You won't be able to  hide your identity with a new alias after losing.  
 I know numerous Russian hackers  who could easily gain access to your TER account.    

I have enough time, intelligence and yes - desire and patriotism to make the effort to know when the Press is trying to bullshit me. Let's talk intelligence first. You can't recognize the video I posted was 22 minutes and 49 seconds long? First hint, that’s how long it would take to watch the whole fucking thing. You lose more intelligence points for not realizing that your video was HIGHLY edited. Or maybe you knew that but didn’t care. It's OK when the Press dissects your videos for you, so you don't have to think about reality? Are you telling me that thinking for yourself takes too much time? If you like, I’ll give you those points back and deduct them from your desire, and patriotism columns. Your willingness and gullibility to gobble up every fake news story that fits your prejudice is all too sad.
   

The Press is the ONLY commercial enterprise that is specifically protected in our Constitution. The founders expected in return for the press to be reasonably honest. If the majority of the press continues to trade in mostly propaganda regarding the political spectrum we can expect that one day the First Amendment will be modified and most likely taken over by the government. The fact that you and others either don’t care or can’t see this is inexplicably sad.
   

My balls and Trump’s future have ZERO to do with why I take the time and effort to engage you. If things continue on their present course it would not surprise me at all for Trump to be gone long before your predicted date. After all the posts and PMs you and I have exchanged and you STILL don’t know that Trump is not and was never “my guy”? But once again, it only proves you don’t care or can’t understand. Tell me, point deduction from the intelligence or desire column?

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