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I don't believe Trump picked them at all. This reeks of Steve Bannon. He calls himself a Leninist and is committed to destroying the government. Each of these picks is designed to destroy the departments they've been given.

That might have been true before Trump but almost every Republican is scared of his Nazi followers. I'll believe they care when one of them changes sides.

I have to admit that this election basically broke me. I knew how low the right could sink but I still haven't begun to find a way past the betrayal from so many on the left. I can't seem to find my way back to activism. So I thank MissLlanview and MamaVee. Thank you for being so much stronger than I am.

I wish you were right but their hatred of the ACA is rooted in ideology and a lack of rationality. In a sensible country with a Republican Party that wasn't basically an occupying force they would realize that fixing the law would be better for them because that's what their constituents want but they just don't care. It wouldn't just be the right thing to do but it would be the practical thing and yet they refuse to do it because Obama's election drove them [!@#$%^&*] insane and their hatred of him overrides everything. They will gleefully kill their own voters if it means they can stick it to him. Think of Obama as Batman and the GOP is made up of a million different versions of The Joker. The Joker doesn't want to take over the world. He just wants to hurt Batman.

The right wingers are losing their collective [!@#$%^&*]. It's fun to see. At least it would be if it wasn't an ocean of transphobia. It's amazing how much energy these folks put into hate.

Another Kent State is inevitable at this point. It may not come this week but it's coming.

One of the reasons I'm staying away from protests and marches now is that people don't bother to learn the most effective ways to protest. I've actually undergone civil disobedience training when I was younger in preparation for Operation Rescue coming to town. A lot of these folks seem to think they are going to a party. I was looking in one FB group where people were talking about the Bikers for Trump showing up and saying that they'll probably get arrested. They haven't figured out yet that the cops aren't going to be there to protect them. The cops will be more than happy to arrest them, throw 30 of them in a jail cell so they can barely sit down then crank up the heat. This is fascism. The rules have changed.

A former health insurance CEO explains how the GOP sabotaged Obamacare from the beginning. "But when the time came to pay up for risk reduction in the Obamacare exchanges, Congress reneged and paid only 12% of what was owed to the insurers. So, on top of the fact that the companies had to bear the risk of unknown costs and utilization in the startup years, which turned out to be higher than they expected, insurers had to absorb legislative uncertainty of whether the rules would be rewritten. It is no wonder that this year they have dramatically increased premiums, averaging 20%, to compensate for the extra risk they didn’t factor into the original lower rates. In contrast, underlying health costs are rising at about 5%."

I don't know if I mentioned it here but I worked for one employer for 8 years and had three different insurance providers because the spikes in premiums forced the company to keep trying to find a more affordable option. People who are whining now about their premiums going up ain't seen nothing yet if the Republicans succeed with this madness.

And those costs will get passed on to everyone including people with employer-based coverage.

Stay tuned. I think we might see some trolling.

Paul Anka and a Bruce Springsteen cover band are out of touch coastal elites? I kind of like watching Trump flip back and forth between saying that he will have plenty of celebrities then claiming he doesn't want them.

It's funny that people think Trump will bring jobs back when he outsources the making of his own products. You can't fake that kind of gullibility.

We will hold Trump accountable. His supporters won't. I was at a fundraiser tonight with someone who works in DC and has ties to Congress. They said that the GOP is getting hammered with outrage from constituents. Much more than they expected. I don't think it will make them change course but perhaps those voters can be turned in 2018.

The false equivalence and excuse making will never end. It's all they have.

I counter that question with: if (when) the economy goes into the ditch - as it always does under Repblicans- and unemployment rises and the stock market crashes will they admit that Trump is a conman and that they got bamboozled? But I already know the answer. Right wingers never own up to their mistakes.

It looks like Jennifer Holiday is going to do it and has the nerve to invoke Marian Anderson. "Ms. Holliday said she was asked on Wednesday if she would sing at the concert scheduled for Jan. 19, and she agreed, seeing the request as similar to those she received to sing at the White House during past Republican and Democratic presidencies. “I just thought of the history part of it, and about singing on the mall where Marian Anderson paved the way for me to sing as a black American,” she said, referring to a 1939 concert that Ms. Anderson, a popular singer, performed from the Lincoln Memorial after being denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall because she was black."

To be honest, I suspect they had the same arrangement for Obama's inauguration but kept it on the down low. Trump loves reality show style drama so he probably had someone leak this to get his cult all worked up.

I beginning to think that these announcements of people performing at the inauguration are the equivalent of death hoaxes. I'm not believing any of them unless they are announce by the performers themselves. That said, the tweet from Cheryl Lynn is every bit as mean and tacky as anything Trump would say.

It's been lovely to see how effusive and loving these men are. They love each other. They love their wives. They love each other's wives and families. You aren't going to see this from the TrumpPence admin. You'll never see Donald talk about how grateful his is for his wife or kids. He'll talk about how hot and/or successful they are because he thinks that reflects on him but he'll never see him spontaneously express love or gratitude.

Kasich is kind of a dead man walking now. His stance against Trump is coming back to bite him. The head of the Ohio Republicans - who also opposed Trump then came around - has been replaced by a staunch Trump supporter and even the Lt. Gov has walked away from him. It's just a matter of time before Trump decides to tear Kasich to pieces.

They'll always have women. It's not Fox if there isn't some skinny chick wearing a sleeveless dress sitting on the set with her legs tightly crossed.

Rubio just got re-elected for a 6 year term. He's betting that Sunkist Stalin will be impeached or dead by the time he's on the ballot again.

Not exactly true. The last reporter brought up his tax returns twice. That's when he really got agitated and ended the conference. The first two engaged in the usual knob slobbering.

Putin couldn't have dreamed that taking over this country would be so easy and so cheap.