Dinner And Deals In The Blue Room Tonight
[guest post by Dana]
Tonight, President Trump is hosting a dinner at the White House in the Blue Room. The President’s guests will be Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. Subjects of discussion reportedly to be focused upon will be establishing protections for the Dreamers, and finding ways to stabilize the health insurance markets.
According to Schumer this morning:
It’s a continuation of what we should do in December and we’re going to work very hard to get him to be for Dreamers and straightening out health care.”
Seriously, given that Schumer and Pelosi are all too aware that a little flattery goes a long, very long way with Trump, I don’t think they’ll really have to work all that hard to win over a president who is beholden to no party, nor wed to any political ideology. Perhaps tonight might even be the first major step in that “new era of bipartisanship” we keep hearing about.
A little dinner party and a little “dinner table bargain” in the offing…
(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (023079) — 9/13/2017 @ 5:43 pmmeanwhile sleazy mitch and his corrupt pig wife snubbed President Trump at the Camp David
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 5:49 pmWhat kind of a person with pretensions of being President hires a corrupt pig wife to be the country’s Transportation Secretary?
nk (dbc370) — 9/13/2017 @ 5:57 pmthat’s in my spiral notebook with my other questions
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 5:59 pmSorry, Dana.
Yes, Trump’s Suck-Up-To-The-Democrats campaign seems to be in full speed ahead mode. Ivanka and Jared should be happy, though.
nk (dbc370) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:00 pmeveryone needs to take a step back and ask themselves one question
what has poop-lick paul ryan done for you lately
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:01 pmHow’s it go, if you look around the table and don’t see the mark, the mark is you?
Trump’s bill-signing hand is not, I’m afraid, exhausted from the balanced budgets, Obamacare repeals, border-control bills, and tax reforms that the Republican House and Senate have been sending him.
The fundamental reason bi-partisan deals are in the offing, is because no uni-partisan bills have had Republican support.
Trump is not the cure, but he’s not the disease.
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:01 pmwhat kind of cookies do you like Mr. Frederick
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:02 pmSo Nanski and Chuck are now dining with Hitler?!?! How is the media going to report that?
Colonel Haiku (a4b010) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:25 pmPresident Cruz, President Walker, President Amash, none of these Presidents would have an Obamacare repeal to sign. None of them would have a real budget, much less a balanced one, to sign. None of them would have entitlement reform to sign. They can probably expect to get a DACA amnesty to sign, though (and all would have signed it).
All for the same reason. Good men all, but they have a Republican-controlled Congress to work with. And Republicans in Congress stand for nothing and signify nothing but the perpetuation of themselves in office.
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:29 pm@Colonel Haiku:So Nanski and Chuck are now dining with Hitler?!?! How is the media going to report that?
“Still at War With Eastasia”
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:29 pmToday:
Dana (023079) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:36 pmThis could’ve been quite the menu:
Agnewlotti: stuffed with sweet taters, nutmeg, parsley, sage, Rose Marie and Tyme (with ricotta cheese on top).
Beef Tenderloin a la McConnell… layered with bresaola (air dried salted beef), head cheese, parsley, garlic and Wonder Bread crumbs. It will be served with a rather extravagantly garnished broccoli dish, Broccoli a la Derecha.
The meaty main dish will precede a green apple crostata—an Italian apple pie. The pie comes with caramel sauce, toffee crumble, ONE scoop of vanilla ice cream (two scoops for teh Don) with a drizzle of olive oil.
Colonel Haiku (a4b010) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:42 pm11… that about covers it, Frederick!
Colonel Haiku (a4b010) — 9/13/2017 @ 6:45 pmFrederick@10
I disagree slightly. I think some of those things, especially replacing Obamacare, would probably have passed. I think most of the alternate reality Presidents would have worked harder to get legislation passed than Trump has worked. Worked enough that at least it wouldn’t come down to the whims of John McCain deciding the fate of nations.
Your overall premise about the general nature of Congress I agree with.
kishnevi (4490a8) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:13 pm@kishnevi:I think some of those things, especially replacing Obamacare, would probably have passed.
Really, whose vote would have changed, and why? Why did they vote for it all those times Obama was in office and would veto, but not now when he’s not there?
I think most of the alternate reality Presidents
Cruz and Amash are in Congress now, what’s the excuse?
it wouldn’t come down to the whims of John McCain deciding the fate of nations.
It happened so many times before Trump. What was Bush’s excuse?
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:17 pmRemember too Kishnevi that McCain was the Republican candidate for President in 2008 and would have had his whims deciding the fate of nations, if the Establishment Republicans had had their way, and that McCain is a lot of the reason why Trump got the nomination.
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:20 pmAll you say is true. But what I am saying is that another Republican in the White House would have tried harder, been more involved in the process, and probably bern more successful. You would be talking about how bad the GOP replacement was, but not the failure to produce a replacement.
kishnevi (4490a8) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:28 pmi wonder what the drizzle of olive oil really adds to the party
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:30 pmi had olive oil cookies this year they were in the shape of a pig (not a stinkypig) and they had some icing and they were really good
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:31 pm@kishnevi: Ok, what blandishment or charm would Cruz, say, have offered and which vote do you think he’d have flipped–and why did he not do it this year (or why did it not work)?
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:32 pmBearing in mind that the Senate, by and large, has always hated Ted Cruz perhaps even more so than Trump.
Frederick (80401a) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:32 pmi’m a big liar i had the “bacon fat ginger-snap cookies” one time – them was shaped like lil piggies – and olive oil *cake* another time
happyfeet (28a91b) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:35 pmStatement by Pelosi and Schumer after Dinner with Donald.
https://twitter.com/search/Statement+from+Pelosi+and+Schumer+on+dinner
The after dinner mint.
“How sweet it is!” – Jackie Gleason ‘The Jackie Gleason Show’ CBS TV, 1966-1970
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:50 pm“So Nanski and Chuck are now dining with Hitler?!?! How is the media going to report that?”
Something to do with an epidemic of whiplash amongst the former Trump bashers would be my guess.
Bang Gunley (5a4596) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:54 pmStatement from Schumer and Pelosi:
While Sanders said “excluding the wall was not agreed to.”
Dana (023079) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:56 pmLink here.
Dana (023079) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:59 pmWhen ICE operations are going swimmingly at Motel 6s, put that rebar someplace else thats crumbling in the Still Trumpin sense.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 9/13/2017 @ 8:01 pmSay Huckabee-Sanders when referencing Sarah …. I was thinking Bernie was being a broken clock on this.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 9/13/2017 @ 8:04 pmSweet and sour pork; dinner they ordered in– Chinese?! Seriously?!
“Oh, I’m not gonna take any shots from a waiter!” – Harry Hinkle [Jack Lemmon] ‘The Fortune Cookie’ 1966
DCSCA (797bc0) — 9/13/2017 @ 8:31 pm18. kishnevi (4490a8) — 9/13/2017 @ 7:28 pm
Only Marco Rubio would possibly have produced a replacement for Obamacare – except he probably wouldn’t have prioritized it. No replacement passed because nobody came up with a good bill, and nobody could because it couldn’t be passed through the reconciliation process. One problem with a good Obamacare replacement is that there would be some big losers, at least among doctors and hospitals. Anything good also would be impossible to score.
Sammy Finkelman (7fac35) — 9/14/2017 @ 8:53 am