I hate to break it to you but we're not in control here. You are. HRC didn't run on a platform with a major part being repeal and replace. It's your turn to come up with a plan, but nobody has any good ideas. You had 7 years. All you can come up with is scrap it. That's hardly a plan. Both sides have shown an unwillingness to compromise. What's your point.

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After all your Hillary bashing, now you use her as a benchmark to judge the POTUS by? Talk about a low bar to beat.

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Best idea yet. I'm shocked I haven't heard this yet.

You can't make this stuff up.

Now we don't need a full border wall. First it was the greatest wall in history, then maybe we could use a fence in some areas, now it's not even a freakin' continuous structure. From failing to repeal and replace the ACA, to not calling China a currency manipulator, and now the wall. This guy is running out of promises to break. It's almost he has to exist in the same reality the rest of us do. Who could have thought health care would be so complicated, right guys?

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They had 7 years to do that. Where is the plan? Oh wait...there is none. Republicans are running head strong into the old idea that once you give someone something, it is very difficult to take it away.

Instead of scrapping the whole plan and trying to make something from scratch, why not work with Democrats and try to fix the broken system? Or, does it need to get tossed because Obama?

Even with a Republican President and Republican controlled House and Senate, they can't even repeal the ACA. You guys had 7 years to come up with an idea. WTF?

?Plan C? on Obamacare, Repeal Now and Replace Later, Has Collapsed

WASHINGTON ? With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, Senate leaders on Tuesday pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama?s health law without a replacement ? but that plan appeared also to collapse.

Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all Republicans, immediately declared they could not vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement ? enough to doom the effort before it could get any momentum.
?I did not come to Washington to hurt people,? Ms. Capito said in a statement. ?I cannot vote to repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan that addresses my concerns and the needs of West Virginians.?

Senator Rob Portman of Ohio hinted strongly that he too would oppose it.
The collapse of the Senate Republican health bill ? and the failing struggle to find yet another alternative ? highlighted a harsh reality for Senate Republicans: While Republican senators freely assailed the health law while Mr. Obama occupied the White House, they have so far not been able to come up with a workable plan to unwind it that would keep both moderate Republicans and conservatives on board.

By midday Tuesday, the Republican Party?s seven-year-old promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act appeared broken. At the White House, President Trump said his plan was now ?to let Obamacare fail,? suggesting Democrats would then seek out Republicans to work together on a health measure.

?It will be a lot easier,? Mr. Trump said, adding, ?We?re not going to own it. I?m not going to own it. I can tell you the Republicans are not going to own it. We?ll let Obamacare fail and then the Democrats are going to come to us.?

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, gamely pressed forward on Tuesday even as the ground was giving way beneath him.
?I regret that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of Obamacare will not be successful,? Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning. ?That doesn?t mean we should give up. We will now try a different way to bring the American people relief from Obamacare. I think we owe them at least that much.?

On Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats alike were trying to make sense of the bill?s downfall ? and what comes next. On Monday night, two Republican senators, Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas, came out in opposition to the bill, leaving Republican leaders at least two votes short of those needed to start debate on the measure.
Two other Republican senators, Ms. Collins and Rand Paul of Kentucky, affirmed their opposition to the measure last week, leaving Mr. McConnell with no room for error as he tried to move toward a vote.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday morning, Mr. McConnell laid out plans for a vote on a measure like the one vetoed by Mr. Obama in January 2016, which, Mr. McConnell said, would include a ?repeal of Obamacare combined with a stable, two-year transition period.?
Under that bill, the Congressional Budget Office said, 18 million more people would be uninsured within a year, and 32 million fewer people would have coverage in 2026, compared with current law. Premiums, it said, would increase at least 20 percent in the first year and would double by 2026.

That bill would have eliminated the Affordable Care Act?s expansion of Medicaid and subsidies for the purchase of private insurance. But it would have left in place rules established by the Affordable Care Act that require insurers to provide specific benefits and prohibit insurers from denying coverage or charging higher premiums because of a person?s pre-existing medical conditions.

Those numbers apparently chased Ms. Murkowski away.
?There?s enough chaos and uncertainty already, and this would just contribute to it,? she said.
They also spooked a bipartisan group of 11 governors, led by John R. Kasich of Ohio, a Republican, and John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado, a Democrat, and including Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, a key opponent of the repeal effort.
?The Senate should immediately reject efforts to repeal the current system and replace sometime later,? said the group, which consists of five Republicans, five Democrats and one independent. ?This could leave millions of Americans without coverage. The best next step is for both parties to come together and do what we can all agree on: fix our unstable insurance markets.?
The statement was endorsed by the governors of Alaska, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Virginia.

Republican leaders in Congress originally intended to proceed with a similar ?repeal and delay? strategy in January. But Mr. Trump, among others, insisted that the repeal and replacement of the law be simultaneous.
It was unclear whether Mr. McConnell would even be able to clear a procedural hurdle to get to a vote on the repeal-only measure. He faced the same math problem as with his own bill: He can afford to lose only two Republican senators, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking the tie.
Not only has he apparently lost three, Senators Collins, Murkowski and Capito, but he must wait for the return of an ailing Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona.
Ms. Collins said she would vote against the procedural step.

?I do not think that it?s constructive to repeal a law that is so interwoven within our health care system without having a replacement plan in place,? she said. ?We can?t just hope that we will pass a replacement within the next two years. Repealing without a replacement would create great uncertainty for individuals who rely on the ACA and cause further turmoil in the insurance markets.?
Mr. Portman all but joined her.
?If it is a bill that simply repeals,? Mr. Portman said, ?I believe that will add to more uncertainty, and the potential for Ohioans to pay even higher premiums, higher deductibles.?
Dr. David O. Barbe, the president of the American Medical Association, which opposed Mr. McConnell?s bill, urged lawmakers to pursue a bipartisan approach on health care, saying, ?The status quo is unacceptable.?

The Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, invited Republicans to work with Democrats to improve the health law. He warned that passing a repeal-only measure ?would be a disaster,? saying it would cause millions of people to lose coverage and, in many ways, would be worse than Mr. McConnell?s original bill.

?It?s like if our health care system was a patient who came in and needed some medicine,? Mr. Schumer said. ?The Republicans proposed surgery. The operation was a failure. Now Republicans are proposing a second surgery that will surely kill the patient.?

Reporting was contributed by Avantika Chilkoti, Emily Cochrane, Robert Pear and Jennifer Steinhauer.

I find it funny that you think others should carry your tax burden just because you failed to do your due diligence. When I bought my first home downtown the taxes were low, like most homes in DTJC, so we went to the assessor's office and asked about it. Yes I got hit with a huge tax bill in the following cycles, but it gave me time to plan ahead.

When the value of your home rises, but you can't afford the taxes, you need to move or find a way to afford your taxes. It's wrong, not to mention incredibly selfish, to think that you should get a break just because the value of your home went up.

Be an adult and deal with your problems. Stop trying to pass them off on anyone else but yourself. Then again, you're the one with opinions like taxes should be based on lot size rather than value, so I won't hold my breath you are going to do what you're supposed to do.

What happened to "Hire American". If enough lobby groups put pressure on Trump he'll cave in. I guess Americans have a problem with hotel work or seafood processing. I bet it's all those lazy millennials who think it's beneath them to work.

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that and he invented the internet.

I was unaware of Fulop's move at the Holland Tunnel. I would feel the same way about that as I do about what happened at the GW Bridge. So there is your outrage. You just proved my point though. You clearly do not care about anything that doesn't directly impact you. Your biggest concern is for the wasted tax dollars and not the lives of your fellow NJ residents. Why don't you show a little compassion for once.

And for the record, I am not a Fulop supporter. I think he is full of shite.

I guess delayed emergency response times, double and sometime triple the normal response time, is no big deal? How would you feel if you needed paramedics to come give you life saving help, or if your house was on fire, or you were being assaulted by someone and the emergency response took double or triple the amount of time to get to you? Is that a "nothing berger"? If your friends or family died because of a couple closed lanes, would you still think it was no big deal? Or, do you only care about something if it directly impacts you? Get some perspective on your life and have the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

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You say this like it's not the same thing for Republicans. It doesn't matter what side of the aisle they are on; it's always fuck the other guy, and the minority wants to work together. Nothing new here.

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Again, nothing new here. The left has always had a vocal minority that feel theirs is the best, and only, way forward. The right has the same thing. At least if Pence was President, maybe things would be a little more predictable and even minded, but who knows. Trump is not going to get impeached.

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Normally, when you have a President that doesn't act like a spoiled child, then I would agree with you. I think the current attitude in America more similar to a prisoner getting used to being in prison. It's your new normal, and anyone would become accustomed to most situations given enough time.

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You're the one who brought up treason. But since you mention it, I don't think this would rise to the level of treason; so we can agree on something's after all. I was laughing at your statement that Russia isn't an enemy of the USA.

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LOL...let us all know when you decide to come back to reality.

Trump is what you would call a polezniye duraki in Russian.

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Pot, meet kettle.

I agree. I doubt much, if anything, will come of this. It's just more proof that you can't trust a politician. Even a brand new one.

Swing and miss. You're 0 for 3 today man.

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Deflect deflect deflect, is that all you can do now? You answer questions with questions. I can admit the DNC is a majorly fucked up organization. Personally, I was not the biggest fan of Hillary, but at least we know she had some experience in government.

You got played by Russia because it didn't matter to Russia who was running against Hillary. They would have most likely done the same thing with anyone else that was on the GOP ticket. It wasn't so much of a pro-Trump campaign from Russia, but an anti-Hillary campaign. Yes, nobody can prove with 100% certainty that it was the Russians behind everything, but if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck...it's probably a duck.

Did it ever dawn on you that Obama had to carefully consider how he handled the hacking after he found out? That maybe he needed to be very delicate to avoid the appearance of helping Hillary to win the election? If he had done more and Hillary won, you would be the first person on here talking about how Obama colluded with Hillary to help her win.

It wouldn't have been the first time Obama was wrong about something, but at least he can admit when he is wrong.

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At the end of the day none of that matters though since Obama is not our President anymore. The time for making a stink about those things has passed. Just admit it. You got played by Russia. Why are you trying to defend this so much?

You must be hungry Monroe, lot's of burger related words. The meeting didn't have to influence anything. The meeting itself was the criminal act. The act of conspiring with a foreign adversary.

All of a sudden you want to brush off meetings as just meetings, but when it's with the AG on a tarmac it's a big deal, right?

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If it was a meeting about adopting Russian babies then there would be no problem, but conspiring with a foreign adversary to influence or undermine an election is a crime, and Don Jr. pretty much admitted it himself when he posted his emails.

I'll say it again, but I don't think Trump Sr. has the forethought to plan something like this out. The more facts that come out about this, the more it proves Russia was involved in influencing our election. I don't think they wanted Trump to win, as much as they wanted Hillary to lose. It could have been anyone on the GOP ticket and I think it would have gone down in a similar way.

How sweet would it be if Donny boy was undone by emails? I can almost taste the tears from Trump supporters now. Sooooo tasty.....

If by making deals with terrorists means "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" then okay.

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What the hell are you even talking about?

Yeah, except one is on the level of trying to prove 9/11 was an inside job and the other was trying to, and successfully, influence an election in a foreign country.

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FAKE NEWS. Don Jr. knew exactly what the meeting was about, and he knew where the info was coming from.

No matter how you want to spin it, this doesn't look good for Don Jr. But then again, he is not the president, so it most likely will make news for a day or so, they fade away.

I just want to go on the record here and say that I do not think Donald Trump colluded with the Russian to win the election. I don't think he has the capacity of forethought to plan something like that. I do think that Trump playing on American's fears and dreams of a better life PLUS Russia hacking the DNC and Wikileaks releasing the emails the day before the convention PLUS the DNC rigging the nomination against Bernie was what won Trump the election. It was a clusterfuck of monumental proportions either way, and here we are.

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Here you go. I was able to get some screen shots. All of 18 fraudulent voter registrations. The article does not say if any fraudulent votes were cast, since it looks like the registrar's office caught the faked names.

Just another example of Trump supporters grasping at straws to prove something that doesn't exist in any significant way. My question for Trump supporters is, why do you keep trying to prove he won the popular vote?