Answers for Anne Marie

So, the Three Caballaros were at PF again this AM... and the older gent actually notated something in his stenographer's pad... but only once after he did some bicep curls on a machine and I thought, "poor thing, he's not going to remember that."  Mr. Mustache was there too, though the handlebars were a bit droopy today.
And the GOP Healthcare is DEAD.  And the Idiot is blaming Democrats and a few Republicans... maybe someone should enlighten him because he evidently hasn't realized his part controls both the House and the Senate: they shouldn't need the Democrats, in fact they've been bragging about that fact for some time now, all the while accomplishing nothing.
And Anne Marie asked some questions yesterday, here are my responses.

1.  What deceased person would you like to meet and why?
Heath Ledger, and I'd like to ask him why he couldn't have been more careful.  His was the one celebrity death that broke my heart.

2.  Truth or Dare?
 Truth, always the truth.
3.  What is your creative talent?
Words, I love words.
4.  Clothing - necessary or useless?
That all depends upon whom I looking at... oh, you mean me... well, necessary, who needs growth hormones?
5.  What is the first name of your BFF?
That would be Betsy, and even though she's older than me, I'm her legal guardian since she had her stroke.
Weird/funny question - what is your fave tune that ALWAYS makes you smile?  
"So Long Dearie" from Funny Girl... "it's a little lumpy, but it rings!"


Finally, this morning while I was doing medicine ball crunches on my purple yoga mat Big Seig decided to give my face a bath and licked off my glasses, good thing I didn't have the contacts in, he'd have sucked them off my eyeballs.

Anti-Hero of the Hour - American Freedom Caucus

So, Trumpcare failed.  I was expecting there to be a Twitter overload around 3 AM, and there wasn't...  Cynical me says they new the ultimate outcome on Thursday and delayed the actual announcement until Friday to keep the stock market from going into a death spiral.  And the reason there was no Twitter Storm?  The Idiot in the White House did what he's always done in the face of losing battle:  he walked away.  That's right, in his mind he filed it under legislative bankruptcy and it has joined the other bankruptcies of his past, in a dirty closet.  And the Anti-Heroes of the hour were not some fine, upstanding congressmen who realized what a disaster this legislation was, rather a group of self-centered, ultra conservatives were the ones who gave the Idiot a one finger salute.  You see the legislation, as it stood, didn't go far enough.  People... human beings with pre-existing conditions were still going to be covered, and prenatal care, among other things.  These conservatives hate that their tax money is going to be spent for these things.  You see, the American Freedom Caucus is really, really greedy.  If you think Golum had a thing for the Ring, you should try and get between members of the American Freedom Caucus and their money.
In fact, this group has become the Achilles tendon of the the GOP, they will hobble every piece of legislation that doesn't kiss their greedy, social conservative asses.  That's right, these are the people who totally hate Planned Parenthood among a litany of other things.  They are uncontrollable.

And if the Idiot in the White House wants to push any legislation through Congress, he's going to need to bend to their will... or else get remove them from power.  In fact, if the GOP had any intelligence (which doesn't seem likely) they should have already started working with possible candidates who are less... strident in their political beliefs.  Of course we know that ain't going to ever happen.  The Republicans are too desperate for their votes in order to stay in power.

So, for right now, the American Freedom Caucus members are Anti-heroes.  Isn't it nice to know that they might actually be good for something?

Let's look at some fails

Before I head off to work, I thought I list a few failures that are happening, both in politics and in the land of carpet specialty.
Probably the biggest Fail approaching rapidly is that of Trumpcare.  DOA.  Those Tea Party Conservatives, the ones the GOP spoon fed to get their votes, are never, ever going to vote for any sort of health care package.  Let's be honest hear, when it comes to spending money, Conservatives are cheaper than hell.
Then there's the coming Budget of the Idiot in Chief.  DOA.  For the reason listed above.
And how about the Russian Connections?  A doesn't go by when there isn't some new revelation, some new dirt.  I'm beginning to wonder if there wasn't single soul, just one individual, on the Trump Team who wasn't chatting with the Ruskies.  Nope.  Nada.  No one.  Holy Shit, it now seems as though they were involved with Guccifer himself.

And speaking of Russians, I sold some carpet to a Russian woman who is going through a divorce.  She chose a really, really cheap carpet and really, really cheap padding because she's selling the house and wants to get as much as she can while at the same time spending as little as possible.  She called the Flooring Department last evening.  The installers didn't put new carpet in the upstairs hallway.  So, I pulled out her handy dandy plan and told her she had said she didn't want that area carpeted.  Evidently now it looks shitty.  She actually said to me, "well, you would think you would take care of people who make mistakes."  Well, we are going to take care of her.  We'll get that area carpeted... but she's going to have to pay extra because now the installer is going to have to make a 2nd trip.  Total fail going on there.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that 2 of the 3 times I've talked to her I'm pretty sure she was hitting the potato wine.

Anyway, I'm off to work.  Have fun!