The Trump Administration and ObamaCare - Trump Era

CNN - Politics: Reports " Vice President-elect Mike Pence said Wednesday that repealing the Affordable Care Act was part of keeping promises Republicans -- including President-elect Donald Trump -- made on the campaign trail. "

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The New Trump Administration has to get health reform right, it can not throw people who have ObamaCare on to the streets, it would not be fair or good politics, they should take their time to get the right reforms and try to get some Democrats support the move.  On the whole the Republicans can expect the Dems not to be easy to work with when it comes to ObamaCare, its the only thing that Obama has on the domestic side of his terms.    The 2018 mid terms will start to become an issue by mid 2017, the reforms need to be done by the end of 2017.

Trump Cast doubts on Russian Hack - Trump Era

BBC News: Reports " President-elect Donald Trump has backed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in casting doubt on intelligence alleging Russian meddling in the US election. "

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IN Moscow President Putin must be laughing his backside off, he does not have deny the hack as a future President disagrees with the present President on the hack.   The reason that Trump does not want to take the US Intelligence view of the hacks is that  it gives the Democrats a weapon to use against him over the next four years.  When can this end, when Trump is in the Oval Office and is President, then he must open his eyes and accept the truth otherwise Putin will play him like a fiddle and Western security will be under threat.

The Republicans + The Russians + 2016 Election - Trump Era

The Hill: Reports " House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said he has seen no evidence that Russia was trying to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House. "

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The Republicans are not going to accept the Democratic Party's view of 2016 election as it undermines the Trump victory, thus in till the intelligence agency come to Hill and in OPEN session go through ALL the information they have the Republicans can argue the above.   The Democrats want to place a question mark near the Trump Victory, it helps them justify their loss in 2016.   They still find it hard to accept that HRC was a bad candidate and the loss in 2016 was more down to the strategy of the Democratic Party than the Kremlin in Moscow. 

Nixon + South Vietnam + 1968 Election - Nixon Era

The New York Times: Reports " Nixon Tried to Spoil Johnson’s Vietnam Peace Talks in ’68, Notes Show "

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The allegation is not new that Nixon in 1968 subverted the Paris Peace talks by telling South Vietnam to keep its distance from the talks.   The new information is from the notes of future Nixon Chief of Staff Halderman.    As stated in this blog and many others it has been argued that Watergate, the break in of the DNC in Washington D.C in 1972 was an attempt to see what the Democrats had on Nixon when it came to the stalled Paris talks of 68.    The then President Lyndon Johnson was aware of what Nixon was up to, he had him bugged, no one was clean when it came to the 68 elections.   In those days, the Parties did not have to worry about the Russians, they played by their own rules, the one rule was not to get caught.

Trump and North Korea - Asia Crisis in the Making

BBC News: Reports " In a tweet, the US president-elect derided the claim by North Korea's Kim Jong-un that preparations were in the final stage, saying: "It won't happen." "

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IF the North Koreans create an ICBM what will the Trump Administration do about it, have talks, were the North Koreans promise things and they does the reverse, try to get China to place pressure on NK, that has not worked.   Thus we come to the military option, could Trump order a military operation to remove the threat, that could be very dangerous, as NK has the bomb, and could react by attacking South Korea Capital, the Capital is not far from the border, or does it go for a ground invasion, how would the US react to a million North Koreans crossing the border.   One option is to arm the South Koreans and Japan with nukes, that would be a warning to NK to back off, they could not blackmail the region in the future, none of the above are easy, but doing nothing is not a option.

Trump on Russian Hacking - Trump Era

Fox News: Reports " Incoming White House Communications Director Sean Spicer told "Fox & Friends" Monday that "there doesn't seem to be conclusive evidence" Moscow was behind the hacking of Democratic emails during the election. "

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What will it take with the President - Elect and his team, does he need a picture of Putin hacking from his personal computer, it was the Russians, the US intelligence services confirm that fact.   The Democrats are right in their demand that the Senate the investigate the links between the Russians and the Trump Campaign and business assets.   It push reality to think that Trump has some special knowledge that is correct and and in reverse what everyone else is telling him, what are business links and personal links of the President -Elect when it comes to Russia.

The Obama Legacy under THREAT - Trump Era

The New York Times: Reports " The most powerful and ambitious Republican-led Congress in 20 years will convene Tuesday, with plans to leave its mark on virtually every facet of American life.....and unraveling some of the most significant policy prescriptions put forward by the Obama administration. "

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The price of losing an election is seeing your Presidential legacy thrown in the bin, that is why Presidents entering their 2nd terms want their candidate to win the election.   Nearly all if not ALL of the executive action by President Obama will be thrown out, the Iran deal could be heading for the bin also.   The Democrats have not helped themselves in the Senate, they changed the rules as to allow 51 votes needed to pass a Cabinet nominee, the threshold for the Supreme Court is still 60, but that rule could be changed by the Republicans.   A Trump Presidency, it is still hard to write that, if I had written in 2015 that Trump would be the next POTUS I would have been laughed out of blog writing.  On the other hand in 2016 I did do a bet in the bookies that Trump would win, my political gut was telling me something that my brain could not accept.  Thus we have 19 days to go in till President Trump is in the Oval Office.