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California’s clean-air agency voted on Friday to push ahead with stricter emissions standards for cars and trucks, setting up a potential legal battle with the Trump administration over the state’s plan to reduce planet-warming gases.

What is that you are manufacturing in Germany that you need a 3 year apprenticeship?

“Look, I’m a team player,” Trump said of the Republican Party. “I’ve played this team. I’ve played with the team. And they just fell a little bit short, and it’s very hard when you need almost 100 percent of the votes and we have no votes, zero, from the Democrats. It’s unheard of.”

Packed into a ritzy Washington hotel ballroom, a meeting of nearly 1,500 bankers momentarily turned into a pep rally. Be proud of being a banker and of the industry’s record profits, the speaker implored the assembled. In fact, he urged, it’s time to ask Congress for help so the industry can do even better.

“I don’t want a seat at the table. I want the table,” James Ballentine, chief lobbyist of the American Bankers Association, told the crowd.

After spending years humbled by the fallout from the financial crisis, the banking industry is suddenly feeling emboldened. Attendance at the annual association gathering jumped 50 percent this year as bankers sense a rare opportunity with the election of Donald Trump and Republicans’ control of Congress to upend dozens of regulations put in place after the financial
meltdown.

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156 IQ for Trump

And I understand that Frederick Douglas was the proctor for the tests

The AHCA was the first major piece of legislation pushed by the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress, a key political test early in the president's term, when he should be at the height of his power and party cohesion at its strongest.

In spite of all of this, Mr Trump, Mr Ryan and the Republicans running Washington could not get the job done.

For Republicans Friday wasn't just bad. It was a disaster.

When historians look over Trump's presidency the one thing they won't be saying is how smart he was.

“Obamacare is failing the American people and I deeply appreciate the efforts of the Speaker and the president to keep our promise
to repeal and replace it,” McConnell said. “I share their disappointment that this effort came up short.”

I never said repeal and replace Obamacare — you’ve all heard my speeches — I never said repeal it and replace it within 64 days,”

...[but] it’s not true that Trump never said he would repeal and replace Obamacare in the early days of his administration.

Indeed, the then-GOP presidential nominee declared a week before Election Day that he would ask Congress to hold a “special session” to “immediately repeal and replace Obamacare,” which he vowed to do “very, very quickly.” Repealing and replacing Obamacare was also listed as part of Trump’s 100-day plan.

Im a gun totin,

"Democrats will crawl back once the system fails on its own," he said. "The people that stood with Nancy Pelosi today understand the system is going down and the higher costs are on their shoulders, not ours."

Donald Trump promised to be a different kind of president. He was a populist fighting on behalf of the “forgotten man,” taking on the GOP establishment, draining the Washington swamp, protecting Medicaid from cuts, vowing to cover everyone with health care and make the government pay for it. He was a pragmatic businessman who was going to make Washington work for you, the little guy, not the ideologues and special interests.

Instead, Trump has become a pitchman for Paul Ryan and his agenda. He’s spent the past week fighting for a health care bill he didn’t campaign on, didn’t draft, doesn’t understand, doesn’t like to talk about, and can’t defend. Rather than forcing the Republican establishment to come around to his principles, he’s come around to theirs — with disastrous results.

Democrats don’t like this bill. Independents don’t like this bill. Conservatives don’t like this bill. Moderates don’t like this bill. All the energy behind the American Health Care Act is coming from inside the GOP congressional establishment — and now from Trump himself.

You're being played.

If he does have any coherent political theories, we'll never know it because he is a con man and will say what he thinks people want to hear, not what he may have in his noggin.

The way he brings the wording together is so tacky he deserves the mockery 10 fold.