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Locust in human form Tom Price blows smoke when asked about how the House ACA “replacement” will cost Americans coverage, and Joan McCarter at Daily Kos is concerned, as we all should be, that he’s allowed to get away with it.

Dr. Price, one of the many Trump cabinet members who committed perjury in his or her confirmation hearing–I’m glad that Paul Krugman mentioned this–could not give a flying fuck about honesty nor could he about making sure Americans have health insurance. This is a man who doesn’t even believe in employer-based health insurance.

A  press corps that lets him perform diversionary maneuvers like this is functioning so shoddily that fodder for Trump’s demagogic attacks starts to stockpile.

Needless to say, when Price claimed that the House bill would not increase the deficit, he was lying. Like Trump and all of his accomplices, Price lies constantly.

As McCarter notes: “Never mind that the huge tax cuts in the bill would dramatically reduce revenues, and that all the gains made in Medicare financing would be lost, and exhaust the Medicare Trust fund by 2024. Which would be expensive, to say the least.”

Who does he think he’s kidding?

Like the cost of an I-Phone could go anywhere covering the skyrocketing insurance premiums that will result from his ACA “replacement”?

“I believe in self-reliance,” this toad tells Fox “News.” Except when it comes to the rich, which is why Chaffetz spends nearly every waking minute arranging to transfer more subsidy to the wealthy taken out of the hide of America’s working people.

Prime example: the ACA “replacement” cooked up by Chaffetz and the GOP House.

When are the Dems going to blow the “self-reliance” myth out of the water?!

So many restaurants install noise-reflective materials to produce even higher decibel levels, thus ensuring that people who crave that kind of thing are happy.

If din makes a scene, so be it.

But how nice to eat at Henry’s on 105th St and Broadway and sample the way noise-absorbing ceiling panels make conversation possible.

Teach-ins on Bannon, Ryan, and the gang should be held, so that the American public understands exactly who is doing this to them, how and why.

A Climate Change bureau should be established by the DNC, holding daily briefings on the climate catastrophes happening all around us on a daily basis, on the scientific findings contradicting the hogwash spouted by the GOP.

Lieu tweets: “Mr. President: If there was a wiretap at Trump Tower, that means a fed judge found probable cause of crime which means you are in deep shit.”

AND

“Either @realDonaldTrump is paranoid like Nixon, or judge found probable cause of crime for #wiretap. Either way our President is in trouble.”

AND

“Trump’s explosive admission of #wiretap at Trump Tower means Congress must appoint special prosecutor to review what was learned from taps.”

then scream and/or talk at a very fast clip.

Thus Fox News, Trump and his lieutenants, and the entire right wing universe.

makes him ideally suited to Trump’s Cabinet.

In The Guardian, Jon Swain and Oliver Laughland review “gun for hire” Sessions goes-way-back, all-the-way-back abuse of his powers.

The late-night comedians have a much higher truth quotient than the broadcast “news” shows aired a few hours earlier each evening.

Trevor Noah runs the tapes showing how Trump’s pulled this pivot stunt before and before “and every time the media falls for it!”

And, of course Trump thinks the whole thing is a joke anyway, as Noah’ s tapes further record the President boasting of how easy it is to “act Presidential.”

His counter-accusations get more and more hysterical and outlandish. SCARY!

in gallons of drooling raves over his lie-and-hate-ridden speech last Tuesday.

Eric Boehlert at Media Matters describes how the “mainstream” media turned into a gaggle of ass-kissing courtiers.

One of the low points in the media’s deference to Trump, and that’s really saying something. So what they woke up for about six weeks?