The Republicans are holding hostage the lives of 9 million children whose participation in CHIP is threatened because Republican lawmakers didn’t get the funding bill passed last Saturday night.
Check this site to find out if your state is affected. In Pennsylvania, funds run out this month, maybe as early as this week. California is in the same status as are many blue states.
And what is holding things up? Republicans want cuts somewhere else. This is disgusting behavior. The bill to fund CHIP should come with no strings attached.
No, don’t even. This is not negotiable. The funding of Childrens’ health care is not negotiable. At all. Call your senator. Pat Toomey in this state. They’re going to try some other tactics to ram through budget cuts and compromises in this bill and it will *almost* sound reasonable to people who don’t have the time or inclination to research what they’re being asked to give up. But the answer to those items is unequivocal. Pass the funding for CHIP first because time has already run our for our kids. THEN we’ll talk.
Maybe you don’t have kids or grandchildren or cousins or nieces and nephews on CHIP but *I* do and delaying this is like putting a gun to some poor kid’s head and asking us to hand over our Medicare so Republicans won’t blow the kid’s head off.
That gun metaphor is intentional because delaying this is going to result in the death of some poor children.
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Trump is going to Las Vegas today. I hope Las Vegas gives him their “warmest” welcome.
This morning, I heard some woman on NPR say that mass shootings by crazy white guys with an Arsenal are just something we have to get used to.
Which makes me wonder why we are so irrationally afraid of Muslims. Most of them aren’t planning to go all jihad on us and murder us in our beds. Why the travel ban? Why can’t Fox News viewers stop peeing the bed about it and get used to it?
It’s not even remotely the same thing since there are a LOT more crazy white guys with guns in this country but we’re just supposed to let them get away with terrorizing the rest of us. And no one’s screaming bloody murder about THEM.
Let’s have a little consistency.
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The Confluence 
This morning, I heard some woman on NPR say that mass shootings by crazy white guys with an Arsenal are just something we have to get used to.
Yep, heard this same thing from a congress critter.
Which makes me wonder why we are so irrationally afraid of Muslims.
My hubs made this very point when I told him what that congress critter said. But we know the answer to that. The white guy is one of their own whereas the mooslem is not. Racists mfers. Apparently they were all riled up by the Russians on FB. Russians knew (of) them before we did. We gave them too much credit.
I don’t understand why the Democrats can’t make hay with these videos to turn people’s minds. There is another video of him talking about silencers.
Replies to that tweet are disheartening. The 2A people are out in force. But are they fake, Russians, real Americans? See what these social media networks have done to honest discourse.
THIS is the President of the United States, richest country, sophisticated country, most innovative in all manner of things…
{{facepalm}}
“Is this your company or something?” — tells you so much about this nincompoop!
The concept of doing something good because it’s right is completely alien to Trump.
He suspects her motive and thinks she is lying about the ‘product’ for personal gain, (and he is ignorant). This guy is one mentally damaged individual.
I saw this Haberman tweet when she first tweeted it. Why was she tweeting it and why didn’t this detail get into the article? NYT is complicit. Also check Eric Garland’s whole thread. Why did the media make Hillary the scapegoat for other nefarious things happening at MI and WI? That was a CYA if there was one.