Morning Joe on Crack

[angrychair]

They are spinning this "new" philosophical position for trump to throw away the "freedom caucus" and court 30-40 Democrats to get his agenda moving forward and he will be a middle of the road populist...



So out of touch it's bizarre...nuts!

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. They are all a bunch of nuts.

They just change positions to whatever way the winds are blowing.

Assholes ,all of them.

[Cosmocat]

7. And the wind will VERY quickly blow toward their obligatory tithe

for their masters ...

Next up, the mandatory wealth redistribution, or "tax reform."

45 and the "freedom caucus" will be really chummy then, and the wind (hot air) scar and company will be spinning will be how dems won't get on board with it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Ryan would have to suspend the Hastert Rule for that to occur.

[SaschaHM]

3. Unlike Paul Ryan or John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi can actually control her caucus....

so 30-40 Dems breaking rank is not going to happen.

[Duppers]

5. Exactly!

Ridiculous to think otherwise, especially in this political climate.

[KingCharlemagne]

9. It's actually the responsibility of the party Whip (currently

centrist Steny Hoyer) to control his or her party caucus (although responsibility in the public imagination usually attaches to the nominal party leader).

[Demsrule86]

4. Democrats will not support Trumper's agenda.

Now if he wants to enact progressive legislation and get 20 or 30 Republicans...that might work.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. All Democrats + 23 Republicans would be enough elect

a new Speaker!

[Demsrule86]

13. That might work...but if we elect one of the freedom caucus types

they might get more done.

[Mr. Ected]

6. There's one item on the Trump agenda that will CERTAINLY muster 100% Democratic approval

Impeachment.

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[wishstar]

8. First Joe & Co propping up Ryan, then shift to saying Dems are now obstructionists

But Dem Sen. Chris Coons was very good rebutting the accusation of Dem obstruction saying he has written bills already and Dems have many suggestions for improving ACA, not repealing and a while back 12 Dems wrote letter to McConnell encouraging working together to improve ACA with more tax credits to small business and improving insurance markets etc.

[Hortensis]

11. Rump is actually far left of the GOP congress.

Oh, he's far too self involved to have a true ideology, but probably because of that he's revealed capacity to recognize some simple truths. Such as, as he said himself once, the economy does better under Democratic administrations.

And I don't really doubt he would like to keep his trumpsters' adoration and prove his greatness by genuinely making Obamacare better and cheaper, and require less funding also. And he could literally do all that by expanding Medicare, of course.

Seems like the reason this couldn't happen isn't that in some other world Rump himself couldn't work with Democrats and the handful of remaining centrists in the GOP, but that the GOP, and the dark forces behind it, would turn whatever screws it had on him needed to stop it, including just removing him for cause. What might Comey alone have to say to him?