WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans’ long-promised effort to repeal and replace “Obamacare” was in serious trouble Friday ahead of a do-or-die vote demanded by President Donald Trump. Short of support, Speaker Paul Ryan met with Trump at the White House to discuss how to go forward. The outcome was uncertain, the atmosphere charged. Trump had insisted […]
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A fix for health insurance
Unbelievable, all the hoopla in the news over health care. It seems the politicians cannot come up with a plan to fit everyone’s needs at a low cost for the people they work for (that would be the American taxpayers). How about this for a concept — everyone have the same insurance the federal elected […]
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Con-men politicians
I am an American. I want my vote counted. I have listened to the reasons why some politicians don’t want my vote counted, and I am reminded of what the con artist replied when asked if his conscience bothered him after lying and cheating to so many people. He answered, “You can’t cheat an honest […]
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Trump’s chickens finally come home to roost
On Monday, accountability finally arrived for Donald Trump. After 70 years spent largely skating free of consequences for his puerile misbehaviors and diarrheal mouth, he likely found it something of a shock. Seven decades is a long time, after all, and if the so-called president has learned nothing else in those years, he has learned […]
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Neil Gorsuch steals the week
WASHINGTON — Watching the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, one might easily find oneself wishing he were president of the United States. Alas, he’s not. But Gorsuch’s selection to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia is the sanest act committed by a president whose first 60 days have left him with […]
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Gov. Paul LePage wants King, Collins to support GOP health plan
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage threw his support on Thursday behind the American Health Care Act, releasing letters asking U.S. Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins to back it and lending a prominent voice to the endangered national Republican health care plan. LePage has spent considerable time in Washington, D.C., lobbying members of Congress to […]
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Paul LePage says merging transportation, turnpike agencies could nix tolls
GORHAM — Gov. Paul LePage believes a merger between the Maine Turnpike Authority and the Maine Department of Transportation would benefit residents by leading to the elimination of most tolls. The Portland Press Herald reports LePage made the remarks before approximately 150 people at a town hall meeting held in Gorham on Wednesday. The Republican admitted […]
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U.S. investigates Paul Manafort's offshore financial transactions
WASHINGTON — U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned. Information about Manafort’s transactions was turned over earlier this year to U.S. agents working […]
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Gov. Paul LePage to testify against national monument
In this Aug. 4, 2015, file photo, the Wassataquoik Stream flows through Township 3, Range 8, Maine, on land owned by environmentalist Roxanne Quimby, the founder of Burts Bees. Maine Gov. Paul LePage has asked Republican President Donald Trump to undo Democratic former President Barack Obama’s designation of a national monument and give back the […]
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Rep. Devin Nunes reignites Trump surveillance controversy
WASHINGTON — The House intelligence committee chairman privately apologized to his Democratic colleagues on Thursday, yet publicly defended his decision to openly discuss and brief President Donald Trump on typically secret intercepts that he says swept up communications of the president’s transition team in the final days of the Obama administration. GOP Rep. Devin Nunes’ decision […]