Throw The Bums Out
26/09/17 15:11
Looks like the Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, will be a "no" vote on the Graham Cassidy healthcare bill scheduled for this week. Her vote means that the bill will not pass, Obamacare will continue to live another day, and we Americans who are not receiving subsidies on the various exchanges will continue to see unaffordable increases in our annual premiums. In practical terms, it means that people who can barely afford their premiums up to now will be forced out of their insurance plans due to anticipated increases with nowhere to go. Families who up till now relied on the insurance provided through the exchanges will no longer have access to healthcare for themselves and their children. Obamacare was destined to fail and the republicans in Congress cannot seem to muster the support within their own ranks to both repeal and replace the program. Sad.
It is true that once the government creates an entitlement it is almost impossible to take it away. In the case of Obamacare, you can bet that President Trump will find a way if Congress can't. He now says that they have the votes but won't be able to bring it to a vote until early next year. And, he's looking at working with Rand Paul on implementing an executive action that will further erode the asset base required to support the Obamacare behemoth. In the meantime, Trump's base will be working on replacing those congressmen and congresswomen who are not willing to work day in and day out to implement the Presidents agenda. This includes the likes of Susan Collins and her ilk. Getting rid of Paul Ryan and Mitch O'Connell has to be the first order of business on everyone's agenda.
I'm sitting here at 17 Meadow thinking that they should have gotten a little more done today then they did. I was hoping to see the subway wall up inside the shower and the vanity installed. Neither was done today as promised. Jeremy promised to have our bathroom up and running if not complete by this coming Friday. We're at the rental for another week so no great shakes if that doesn't happen. It is true that once things start to slide there is no telling where it stops. They inserted the mirror in the wall above where the sink will be so Nancy will have something to look at when she arrives after leaving work a little after 5. That's a good thing.
I've already told her that putting lights above the mirror was a non-starter since it places them up snug to the ceiling and that wouldn't look quite right. Jeremy placed the fixture above the mirror this morning just to show me and he was quite right. So, I raced around town looking for replacement light fixtures before coming home here this morning but ended up ordering them on Amazon to be delivered Friday. We also discussed the height of the subway wall and just how far above the shower door it should go. We agreed on the Goldilocks version: not too high and not too low - Just right.
Evan seems to be settling in quite nicely at the new place across town. So much so, in fact, that he may be reluctant to leave. He does complain here and there and that to go anywhere from the house is a bit of a hike so he is less inclined to go out for a sandwich or an errand without doubling up on what he expects to accomplish on any single outing. On occasion, he'll come back to the house by himself just to hang out in his bedroom for a couple of hours. I can't say I blame him. I'm not sure that that is precisely what I am doing here this very moment. I have more things to be preoccupied with when I'm here than does he but that is probably neither here nor there.
On a day like today when it's hot and in the eighties somewhere thereabouts I can't blame him for staying back at the rental which has central air conditioning. I'm thinking more and more about having that installed here next year and that idea seems to be garnering universal support. It may also provide a bulwark against unwanted noise from an adjoining property where once the land was undeveloped but now sports what appears to be a new pool under construction. It is within hollering distance of our property and the children living there are young so not an imminent threat. Nonetheless, an irksome development that has not gone unnoticed. Truth be told, I rather fancy the sounds of children playing and doing what children do so this latest development doesn't much bother me. I can't speak for Nancy, but I think she would not use the word "fanciful." We'll hope for the best.
It is true that once the government creates an entitlement it is almost impossible to take it away. In the case of Obamacare, you can bet that President Trump will find a way if Congress can't. He now says that they have the votes but won't be able to bring it to a vote until early next year. And, he's looking at working with Rand Paul on implementing an executive action that will further erode the asset base required to support the Obamacare behemoth. In the meantime, Trump's base will be working on replacing those congressmen and congresswomen who are not willing to work day in and day out to implement the Presidents agenda. This includes the likes of Susan Collins and her ilk. Getting rid of Paul Ryan and Mitch O'Connell has to be the first order of business on everyone's agenda.
I'm sitting here at 17 Meadow thinking that they should have gotten a little more done today then they did. I was hoping to see the subway wall up inside the shower and the vanity installed. Neither was done today as promised. Jeremy promised to have our bathroom up and running if not complete by this coming Friday. We're at the rental for another week so no great shakes if that doesn't happen. It is true that once things start to slide there is no telling where it stops. They inserted the mirror in the wall above where the sink will be so Nancy will have something to look at when she arrives after leaving work a little after 5. That's a good thing.
I've already told her that putting lights above the mirror was a non-starter since it places them up snug to the ceiling and that wouldn't look quite right. Jeremy placed the fixture above the mirror this morning just to show me and he was quite right. So, I raced around town looking for replacement light fixtures before coming home here this morning but ended up ordering them on Amazon to be delivered Friday. We also discussed the height of the subway wall and just how far above the shower door it should go. We agreed on the Goldilocks version: not too high and not too low - Just right.
Evan seems to be settling in quite nicely at the new place across town. So much so, in fact, that he may be reluctant to leave. He does complain here and there and that to go anywhere from the house is a bit of a hike so he is less inclined to go out for a sandwich or an errand without doubling up on what he expects to accomplish on any single outing. On occasion, he'll come back to the house by himself just to hang out in his bedroom for a couple of hours. I can't say I blame him. I'm not sure that that is precisely what I am doing here this very moment. I have more things to be preoccupied with when I'm here than does he but that is probably neither here nor there.
On a day like today when it's hot and in the eighties somewhere thereabouts I can't blame him for staying back at the rental which has central air conditioning. I'm thinking more and more about having that installed here next year and that idea seems to be garnering universal support. It may also provide a bulwark against unwanted noise from an adjoining property where once the land was undeveloped but now sports what appears to be a new pool under construction. It is within hollering distance of our property and the children living there are young so not an imminent threat. Nonetheless, an irksome development that has not gone unnoticed. Truth be told, I rather fancy the sounds of children playing and doing what children do so this latest development doesn't much bother me. I can't speak for Nancy, but I think she would not use the word "fanciful." We'll hope for the best.