Tommy Christopher

Watch: Town hall hero calls out Trump Health Sec for trying to gut Planned Parenthood

Resistance to the Republican health care repeal plan grows stiffer every day, and was much in evidence at CNN’s town hall with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. After being forced to lie to a cancer patient who will be thrown off his health coverage by the GOP plan, Price was confronted by Katie Needle over […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 16, 2017

Trump Health Sec explains to cancer patient how kicking him off Medicaid will “strengthen” it

Republicans have been having tremendous difficulty selling their plan to repeal Obamacare, particularly when they are confronted by cancer patients who are only alive because of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion. At a CNN town hall, Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price may have delivered the coldest reply to date to people facing a […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 16, 2017

Elizabeth Warren: Trump “paid off” big corporations with Gorsuch nomination

The Senate Judiciary Committee will soon begin confirmation hearings for Judge Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy stolen from President Obama by Senate Republicans. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are leading the resistance against Gorsuch, exposing his record as a judge who sides with the wealthy […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 15, 2017

Poll: Trump-Republican repeal plan is less popular than ketchup on steak

The news just keeps getting worse for the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare. On the heels of the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) report showing that 24 million people would lose their health care under the plan, and the Trump administration’s own report showing 26 million being thrown off of their health insurance, a new poll […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 15, 2017

Joe Scarborough: “Painfully obvious” Trump leaked tax doc to “distract” from Russia and Trumpcare

The entire media world seemed to grind to a halt when Rachel Maddow teased that “We’ve got Trump tax returns,” and the suspense built further during the 19-minute tease at the start of her show. The story got a major boost from the Trump White House as well, which released a headline-grabbing statement effectively confirming the […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 15, 2017

Republicans are lying when they say an Obamacare “insurance card” isn’t the same as having health care

The Republican plan to repeal Obamacare was already poorly received before the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed that the bill would throw 24 million people off of their insurance. The Trump administration and Republicans tried to preempt that conclusion by attempting to discredit the CBO, and also by moving the very goalposts of reform. Last week, Office of […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 14, 2017

Look out down below: Trump approval set to break new record low

The political high point of Donald Trump’s 54 days in office was the brief glow of unearned praise from his address to Congress. But that moment failed to gain him any improvement in his dismal approval rating. And now, Trump is poised to break his own record low. Gallup’s latest approval ratings show a sharp […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 14, 2017

Colbert tells Obama what we all feel through spy microwave: “I miss you!”

The Trump administration missed the House Intelligence Committee’s deadline to submit evidence of Donald Trump’s lie that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, but they have managed to provide fodder for some much-needed comic relief from the steady stream of awful news that they generate. Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway provoked much-deserved derision with her suggestion […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 14, 2017

Panicked White House disowns its own budget office

Donald Trump’s White House knew they would have a problem on their hands when the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) got around to scoring the Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan. And so they waged a duplicitous campaign to discredit the CBO in advance of that report. In fact, at a recent press briefing, when reporters asked […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 14, 2017

Sean Spicer: Yes, Trump “still believes” the lie that 3 million people voted illegally

Donald Trump’s administration never met a lie on which they could not triple-down, whether it is Kellyanne Conway adding microwave ovens to the list of villains who are wiretapping Trump, or the ongoing lie that the GOP repeal plan will cover more Americans than Obamacare. And at a White House briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 13, 2017

Sean Spicer fails to condemn racist Steve King tweet: I’ll “get back to you on that”

A very small number of elected Republicans have denounced Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for this overtly racist and xenophobic tweet: Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO — Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017 Those Republicans who have failed to repudiate King’s widely-reported […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 13, 2017

Kellyanne Conway mocks the very idea of facts: “Of course I have no evidence”

Donald Trump seems to have committed an impeachable offense by libeling President Obama. After Trump declared, as fact, that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, the White House immediately announced it would comment no further until Congress investigated his unsubstantiated claim. But that bluff is coming due: The House Intelligence Committee has set a deadline for the White […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 13, 2017

Paul Ryan: If people lose health care, it’s because they didn’t want it

In the health care debate, the only thing that is arguably worse than the Republican plan to repeal Obamacare are the ways in which Republicans are attempting to sell the plan to the American people. They began by ignoring the fact that millions will lose insurance, then moved on to asserting that insurance “is not really the end […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 12, 2017

Cummings: U.S. Attorney firing may be connected to Trump corruption probe

Donald Trump summarily demanded the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, one of whom had good reason to refuse to go along. Preet Bharara, who was at the time the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, had stated previously that Trump had personally asked him to stay on at a November 30 meeting […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 12, 2017

Cancer patient confronts Issa: I can’t afford my treatment under GOP plan

Republican lawmakers may find it easy to make glib suggestions to cancer patients about health care on cable news, but it is quite another thing to face those same constituents in person. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) found that out over the weekend when he was confronted by a cancer patient, who told him that she […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 12, 2017

Two things journalists are getting wrong about health care right now

It just recently dawned on Donald Trump that health insurance is complicated, which may explain why the roll-out of the Republicans’ Obamacare repeal plan has been greeted with such confusion and opposition. Corporate media coverage of the repeal plan has been intensely negative — and much more positive toward Obamacare than when the Affordable Care Act was actually […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 11, 2017

Broken promise: Trump fails to beat Obama’s jobs performance

Donald Trump was quick to retweet a Drudge report headline trumpeting February jobs numbers that were, in Drudge’s words, “great again,” but were actually a continuation of the record-setting trend set by President Barack Obama: https://twitter.com/DRUDGE_REPORT/status/840195842183127040 It is definitely too early to tell what effect, if any, Trump’s election has had on employment. But during […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 10, 2017

UPDATED: Trump gets sued on behalf of 50 million people — the citizens of Washington state, Hawaii, NJ, NY, Mass, and MD

Donald Trump’s first crack at fulfilling his campaign promise of a “ban on Muslims entering the United States” went down in flames after dozens of courts ruled against his order. And now, following a long delay of his own making, Trump’s new Muslim ban is poised to meet the same fate, as Politico reports that four […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 10, 2017

Watch: Steve King is stunned to learn that majority supports Obamacare

Nothing about the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare indicates that they have any idea what Americans want from their health care system, or that Americans really do want to keep the health care reform act that has extended care to millions. And Rep. Steve King (R-IA) made that ignorance crystal clear — on live television. King got a measure […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 10, 2017

Republican lawmaker says cancer patients can go to the ER for health care

Shareblue has been covering the many aspects of the poorly received Republican Obamacare repeal plan. But as bad as that plan has already proven to be, there are many Republicans who want to do much worse. One of those Republicans is Florida Representative Ron DeSantis, who is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, which […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 09, 2017

Trump spokesman brushes off conflict of interest concerns; literally advertises Trump’s hotel

Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer continued the Trump administration-in-waiting’s pattern of brilliantly making the case for warranted concern about Trump’s business conflicts when he took to a taxpayer-funded transition podium to answer questions for the first time. First, Spicer defensively responded to a question by NBC News reporter Katy Tur by asserting that […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 19, 2017

White House: Don’t trust the non-partisan CBO, trust the Trump budget office

The news for the Republicans’ attempt to repeal and “replace” Obamacare gets bleaker every day, and will undoubtedly get worse once the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scores the bill sometime next week. Thus it was no surprise when White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer attacked the CBO repeatedly at a televised briefing, calling their […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 08, 2017

Joe Scarborough: Trump has ‘trashed the entire government’

Recently, the Morning Joe gang declared their fear of the Donald Trump presidency which they helped to enable. After having acted as advisors to the Trump campaign and administration while reporting on “exclusives,” reality seems to be setting in for the show’s team. Now, host Joe Scarborough has awakened to the central tenet of Trump’s governing […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 08, 2017

Trump puts nation in “peril” to bask in undeserved media afterglow

In case you missed it, Donald Trump spent weeks warning that his Muslim ban was all that stood between the United States and a flood of terrorists, first as a way of explaining why his administration offered zero notice to affected federal agencies, and then as part of his campaign against the 48 (and counting) […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 01, 2017

Shock Poll: Majority of Americans think Jeff Sessions lied to Congress and should resign

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ abrupt recusal from all Trump campaign/Russia investigations and amended written testimony to Congress have done nothing to diminish the drumbeat for his resignation. Democrats have been loudly proclaiming that Sessions should resign over the lies he told in testimony at his confirmation hearings. And now a new poll from Quinnipiac finds that […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 08, 2017

Trump budget director says “insurance is not really the end goal” of GOP health insurance reform

When White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer came out of hiding this week, it was to introduce Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s ill-prepared presentation on the poorly received Republican plan to repeal and “replace” Obamacare. While they had their props at the ready, there was a notable lack of substance, and a dearth […]

By Tommy Christopher - March 08, 2017

62-year-old pig farmer warns GOP: Repealing Obamacare will create “one great big death panel”

There is something happening here, as demonstrated by the massive resistance being organized at Republican town halls recently. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) found that out when folks lined up out the door for his Iowa Falls event that started at 7:45 in the morning: Lines outside of Grassley town hall. Started at 7:45 am; half of […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 21, 2017

Trump shows his white supremacist streak by pathetically bullying Black and Jewish reporters

Donald Trump took questions for over an hour at a press conference following his announcement of a new pick for labor secretary, and offered rambling remarks that covered the familiar territory of bashing the media, lying about the court that killed his Muslim ban, and lying about his electoral victory. The event was characteristically chock-full […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 16, 2017

Trump has not received an intelligence briefing since Flynn resigned

Shareblue was first to report that within days of taking office, Donald Trump scrapped the Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) in favor of a format of his own devising that the White House has had trouble explaining. Now, it appears that the new intelligence briefing relied heavily on disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, whom the White House […]

By Tommy Christopher - February 16, 2017

White House freely admits American consumers will pay Trump’s border wall tax

Donald Trump took a beating from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto when Peña Nieto responded to Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for his absurd border wall by canceling their meeting next week. Trump’s answer to that was to have his press secretary propose a 20% tax on Mexican imports. Sean Spicer unveiled the plan during a briefing […]

By Tommy Christopher - January 27, 2017

Tommy Christopher

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Watch: Town hall hero calls out Trump Health Sec for trying to gut Planned Parenthood

Trump Health Sec explains to cancer patient how kicking him off Medicaid will “strengthen” it

Elizabeth Warren: Trump “paid off” big corporations with Gorsuch nomination

Poll: Trump-Republican repeal plan is less popular than ketchup on steak

Joe Scarborough: “Painfully obvious” Trump leaked tax doc to “distract” from Russia and Trumpcare

Republicans are lying when they say an Obamacare “insurance card” isn’t the same as having health care

Look out down below: Trump approval set to break new record low

Colbert tells Obama what we all feel through spy microwave: “I miss you!”

Panicked White House disowns its own budget office

Sean Spicer: Yes, Trump “still believes” the lie that 3 million people voted illegally

Sean Spicer fails to condemn racist Steve King tweet: I’ll “get back to you on that”

Kellyanne Conway mocks the very idea of facts: “Of course I have no evidence”

Paul Ryan: If people lose health care, it’s because they didn’t want it

Cummings: U.S. Attorney firing may be connected to Trump corruption probe

Cancer patient confronts Issa: I can’t afford my treatment under GOP plan

Two things journalists are getting wrong about health care right now

Broken promise: Trump fails to beat Obama’s jobs performance

UPDATED: Trump gets sued on behalf of 50 million people — the citizens of Washington state, Hawaii, NJ, NY, Mass, and MD

Watch: Steve King is stunned to learn that majority supports Obamacare

Republican lawmaker says cancer patients can go to the ER for health care

Trump spokesman brushes off conflict of interest concerns; literally advertises Trump’s hotel

White House: Don’t trust the non-partisan CBO, trust the Trump budget office

Joe Scarborough: Trump has ‘trashed the entire government’

Trump puts nation in “peril” to bask in undeserved media afterglow

Shock Poll: Majority of Americans think Jeff Sessions lied to Congress and should resign

Trump budget director says “insurance is not really the end goal” of GOP health insurance reform

62-year-old pig farmer warns GOP: Repealing Obamacare will create “one great big death panel”

Trump shows his white supremacist streak by pathetically bullying Black and Jewish reporters

Trump has not received an intelligence briefing since Flynn resigned

White House freely admits American consumers will pay Trump’s border wall tax