Politics, Politics, Politics

[Carl Franklin]

A nurse at one of the largest hospital systems in the nation who sparked an internal investigation after posting a controversial tweet reportedly "is no longer an employee" at Indiana University Health.

Taiyesha Baker, a nurse at the hospital, allegedly posted a tweet Friday under the account "Night Nurse," saying that white women are raising sons who are "rapists," "racists" and "killers."

In a statement Sunday, a spokesperson for the hospital said "A recently hired IU Health employee tied to troubling posts on social media this weekend is no longer an employee of IU Health," Fox 59 reported.

"Every white woman raises a detriment to society when they raise a *******. Someone with the HIGHEST propensity to be a terrorist, *******, racist, killer, and domestic violence all star. Historically every ******* you had should be sacrificed to the wolves b___," the tweet read.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/...o-are-rapists-and-killers-sparking-probe.html

 

[MacNfries]

Republicans' next poisonous priority

....Yes, this tax cut bill has been their priority for a long, long time. They just needed a president as greedy as the party, itself, to pass their plan. This is not even "trickle down" anymore ... its cutting taxes for the corporations & wealthiest Americans on the backs of the poor & middleclass ... period. Why even try to cover it up? And many Democrats in congress "gasp" aloud in 'fake surprise' but they know the cuts are for THEM as well; they'll do nothing but put on a fake surprise and let Republicans take the blame. The entitlement cuts to offset the revenue losses are coming from lots of areas the middleclass depend on just to keep themselves IN the middleclass of productivity. And NOW they are even looking at the mortgage interest deduction, large health care expenses, etc.
....The Republicans see the 'handwriting on the wall' for upcoming elections which is why they're wanting to make as many of these tax cuts permanent as they can; they know they won't get another chance for at least a couple election cycles; they're fighting off court orders to un-gerrymander their districts HERE in NC ... 3 times federal judges have told them to un-gerrymander the 23 districts they totally screwed up ... and 3 times the Republicans here just keep tossing out excuses and fake fixes. Voters here in NC are furious now as they cut Medicare, Medicaid, public school fundings, funds for infrastructure, etc.

 

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And many Democrats in congress "gasp" aloud in 'fake surprise'

not really a lot they can do right now anyway

and the right thinking they are saving their ass's on this tax deal....seems to me they might be cutting their own throats....some of those cuts may not hurt this year.....but certainly will by next Pres election time rolls around!


elections are right now showing that they are not doing well...hell our last 3 special elections here have all gone to the Dems....that's unheard of!

as for the gerrymandering...they are fixing it in SOME states...but not all

and then you have states like Kansas...I know pretty much always a red state since Dole and even before....that state so broke and yet still a rep as bad if not worse then Brownback is leading in the polls...go figure

and the real funny one...have you heard some of the comments from the voters where the baby molester is running?...him over a dem...some are just so sold on the right...

 

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right now and it's been that way for several years....all the middle class has is the Dems!

like I said on this thread a long time ago.....I'm not sold on the Dems......BUT they don't pass laws designed to hurt the middle class...intentionally
unlike the right....they may not help much...which is why we got trump to begin with...but the dems sure wouldn't even bring this tax law up let alone vote for it's approval!

although...it HASN'T passed yet....even some on the right are being hesitant

 

[MacNfries]

subhub, this is their ONE opportunity to get their TAX CUTS through; the environment will never be better than a trifecta in Washington. It'll PASS, I'd almost be willing to bet my right testicle on it. The fact that they're trying to make it irreversible is a good sign that they intend to pass it at all cost. I imagine, after passing it, they'll start looking for their perfect reason to can Trump, and install Pence ... that way they can go into the 2000 elections saying they did what the voters wanted. They rely on lying & cheating to stay in office, and their base is gullible to keep believing that "trickle down" ... THIS TIME ... is going to be the answer to their prayers.

 

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It'll PASS, I'd almost be willing to bet my right testicle on it

not so sure there are a few on the right not sold on it...with all the cuts it does elsewhere...they might be "persuaded" to come along but not doing so right now

sure hope they hold out!....surprised these conservatives aren't stepping up on the deficit part of it...although again they like the cuts to the social programs

The fact that they're trying to make it irreversible is a good sign that they intend to pass it at all cost.

I know they want to shove it through no matter what....there was an article last week on several different companies don't need and it won't change the way they do biz...but they will take it!

I imagine, after passing it, they'll start looking for their perfect reason to can Trump, and install Pence ...

I agree with you there...they know Trump is a loser and costing them...next year Mueller should be done and they can tie it all together and dump him.....although pence no better!
and the real problem is voters have a very short memory.....a year from now they will not tie all their woes on the right!

They rely on lying & cheating to stay in office, and their base is gullible to keep believing that "trickle down" .

agree with you on that

 

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California Republicans Pay the Price of Trump
Bloomberg

Representatives Darrell Issa and Dana Rohrabacher bailed on the House tax bill, and why wouldn’t they? The general theme of the bill is to transfer trillions in wealth from the poor and middle class to the very wealthy and leave so much federal debt behind that spending is constrained for years to come. So far, so good, for Republicans. But the wealth transfer takes a U-turn for many residents of affluent, high-tax, real-estate-rich, blue-state enclaves like the Southern California districts that the two Republicans represent in Congress. When constituents are about to be hit with a sizable tax increase, Rohrabacher said, “I’m supposed to represent their interests.” Democratic House leader Nancy ...
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/e70eb2c0-1f54-391b-8add-15c3a7af2180/ss_california-republicans-pay.html

 

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Here's Why 20 House Republicans Voted Against a Key Step on Tax Reform


The Republican tax reform bill squeaked through a key vote Thursday, as 20 GOP lawmakers objected to the elimination of a popular deduction and other parts of the still nascent plan.

The 216-212 vote to approve a budget framework set the stage for the Senate to pass a tax bill with only 51 votes, a threshold it can meet with only Republican votes.

But the narrowness of the vote shows that GOP leaders still have a tough fight ahead as they turn the White House’s nine-page proposal into actual legislation and fill in more details.

Eleven of the Republicans who voted against the budget were from states like New Jersey and New York, where residents will get hit harder by a part of the tax reform bill that would end a popular deduction for state and local taxes.

Don’t make us give our money to other parts of the country and then tax us like it’s still in our pockets,” Rep. Tom MacArthur, a New Jersey Republican, told reporters shortly after voting against the budget. “That’s what the effect of eliminating the state and local tax deductibility would be.”

He stressed that the controversial measures within the tax plan were still up for debate. “I voted no because we don’t have a deal yet — we’re seven to eight innings into this and we don’t have a deal,” he said. “Twenty people voted no and dozens of others voted yes holding their noses. Leadership knows if we don’t get this resolved, we can’t move forward on tax reform. This isn’t over.”
http://time.com/4998765/tax-reform-budget-vote/

 

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GOP leaders in advanced talks to change tax plan in bid to win over holdouts

Senate Republicans are seriously considering several last-minute changes to their tax legislation in an effort to mollify wavering members, four people familiar with the discussions said, as GOP leaders seek to keep their members from defecting ahead of crucial votes this week.

The lawmakers attracting the most concern from leadership and the White House are Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., who say the current version of the bill favors corporations over other businesses.

There are numerous members demanding changes, and their needs don't all overlap. Together, the requests put Republican leaders in a difficult position, as they attempt to accommodate individual holdouts on a one-off basis without losing other members or creating a situation in which the bill collapses under the weight of disparate demands.

Adding to the leaders' difficulty, the total size of the tax plan cannot be more than $1.5 trillion over a decade, so adding new benefits could ******* Republicans to find ways to raise additional revenue. Presently, they have only roughly $80 billion in wiggle room to use, a small sum because many of the changes would be spread out over 10 years.





The four people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the internal discussions.

Johnson and Daines want changes to the bill they believe would help certain companies that file through the individual income tax code. These companies, often known as "pass-throughs," can be small businesses but also include larger firms with many employees. There are millions of such companies in the United States, and they account for the bulk of U.S. firms.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-gop-tax-plan-20171126-story.html

 

[Carl Franklin]

A U.S. Senate Republican tax bill strongly backed by President Donald Trump faced potential opposition on Monday from two Republican lawmakers who could prevent the sweeping legislation from reaching the Senate floor.

Senators Ron Johnson and Bob Corker, both members of the Senate Budget Committee, said they could vote against the tax package at a Tuesday hearing that Republican leaders hoped would send the legislation to a full Senate vote as early as Thursday. Each senator is seeking different changes to the legislation.

Their opposition could create the first major hurdle for the Republican tax overhaul in the Senate, where political infighting killed the party's effort to overturn the Obamacare healthcare law earlier this year.

https://www.newsmax.com/Headline/bob-corker-tax-reform-bill/2017/11/27/id/828360/

 

[Carl Franklin]

Poland’s parliament has voted to slowly begin the process of abolishing Sunday shopping to allow workers to spend more time with their families.
The law has been passed by the sejm — equivalent to the British House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives — but must be approved by the Senate and the president, both of which could veto the decision.

Although the major change — which reverses decades of movement on turning Sunday from a holy day of rest into an ordinary day of shopping and work — has been criticised as putting jobs at risk, the government hopes it will improve quality of life for ordinary Poles.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/201...c-government-votes-phase-out-sunday-shopping/

 

[subhub174014]

hate to think 2bi might miss out on reading this..but he is still probably working on gun control



How the Senate tax bill affects rich and poor, in three charts
The Online NewsHour


Just in time for a potential full Senate vote, we now have significantly more data about what exactly the Senate tax overhaul would do, and whom it would affect. In particular, we want to look at the latest numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO report, which came out Sunday, was unusual because it does not just look at the Senate bill’s impact on people’s taxes. It also analyzes spending cuts the GOP tax plan would trigger, and how those cuts would affect the rich and poor. As you will see, our analysis of the new data shows the Senate Republicans’ bill would move resources away from lower-income Americans and toward upper and upper-middle class Americans. How much each family ...
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/0b390836-9229-3140-8b5d-48205ce819b4/how-the-senate-tax-bill.html

 

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GOP's new scheme to save Trump's tax plan reveals the scam at its core
Washington Post

Amid the final push to pass the Senate tax plan, which is at a make-or-break moment today, Republicans have now hatched two separate schemes, each designed to win over a different bloc of undecided senators. But the two maneuvers could contradict each other — and the contradiction would neatly reveal the big scam at the heart of this whole enterprise. Several deficit-hawk senators, such as Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), are demanding that some kind of “trigger” be added to the bill, which would raise taxes later if the plan’s tax cuts end up adding to the deficit. The bill would boost the deficit by $1.4 trillion in the short term. Some ...
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/00495981-ca93-36a8-b10d-7e3bdcd456db/ss_gop's-new-scheme-to-save.html

 

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[Carl Franklin]

The sexual harassment charges dogging Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) are splitting House Democratic leaders scrambling to contain the fallout.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is said to be working with other Democrats to nudge Conyers into retirement.

But that effort is too abrupt in the eyes of other Democratic leaders, who say they want to await the outcome of a House Ethics Committee investigation into the series of sexual harassment allegations lodged by four former Conyers staffers.



“I don’t know all the facts, I don’t know the specific allegations,” Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), vice chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, told reporters in the Capitol Wednesday.
“It appears there is more than one complainant, which does heighten my sense there may be something there. But again, I can’t sit and judge a member and call for their resignation unless I’ve been party to hearing all of the evidence and hearing the defense of the evidence.”

That position is shared by other top Democrats, including Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joseph Crowley (N.Y.), who stressed the party’s push for an expedited Ethics Committee investigation.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/362359-dem-leaders-break-with-pelosi-over-conyers

 

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Trump Sells Tax Plan With False Claims

At a Wednesday afternoon rally in Missouri, President Trump played up what he called the “biggest tax cuts in history” and boasted about economic growth “in a nonbraggadocious way.”

“In fact, they’re going to say Trump is the opposite of an exaggerator,” he said of his rosy projections, in a speech full of exaggerations and falsehoods. Here’s an assessment.

He is wrong that “for years, they haven’t been able to get tax cuts, many, many years since Reagan.”

President Ronald Reagan, who enacted a major tax cut in 1981 and lowered tax rates again in 1986, was hardly the last president to have done so. President Bill Clinton signed the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. President George W. Bush enacted two major tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. The stimulus passed under President Barack Obama included hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts, and Mr. Obama later extended the Bush tax cuts with the American Tax Payer Relief Act of 2012.

He inaccurately suggested the plan wouldn’t help the wealthy.


Mr. Trump insisted that the tax bill is “not good for me” or the wealthy. Referring to Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, the president said: “I keep hearing Schumer, ‘This is for the wealthy!’ If it is, my friends don’t know about it.”

That is not supported by most analyses of the tax plans being considered in Congress.

Under the Senate plan, every income level would receive a tax cut in 2019, but people earning $20,000 to $30,000 annually would face a tax increase the next year, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. By 2027, most people making under $75,000 each year would see a tax increase, while those making more would continue to receive a tax cut.

Under the House plan, every income group would see tax cuts through 2027, but the richest one-fifth of Americans would receive 56 percent to almost 75 percent of the cuts, according to the Tax Policy Center.

Based on his 2005 tax return, Mr. Trump himself could save more than $1.1 billion under the White House tax framework, according to an analysis by The New York Times, and the same amount under the House plan, a tax expert at Marcum L.L.P. told NBC.

He falsely called the current plan as the “biggest tax cut in the history of our country, bigger than Reagan.”

Mr. Trump has repeated this claim at least a dozen times since October, but it has not been true of any of the tax plans released in Congress or outlined by his administration.

A 2013 Treasury Department report assessed the size of major tax bills either as a percentage of the economy, by the reduction in federal revenue or in inflation-adjusted dollars. The 1981 Reagan tax cut is the largest under the first two metrics. It was equivalent to 2.9 percent of gross domestic product and reduced federal revenue by 13.3 percent. The 2012 Obama tax cut amounted to the largest cut in inflation-adjusted dollars: $321 billion a year.

For Mr. Trump’s tax cut to exceed the Reagan cuts as a share of G.D.P., the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates it would need to cost roughly $6.8 trillion over 10 years. To have a larger effect on revenue, it would need to cost $5.7 trillion. No version of the current tax cut plan meets those benchmarks.

 

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The CBO just released a report that should worry Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office dealt what should be a crushing blow to the tax bill: The deal that was crafted to win key senators who objected to the bill’s provision that would leave millions uninsured won’t actually stanch the loss in coverage. Still, this report probably won’t change much. With moderates expressing concern over a provision that would repeal Obamacare’s individual mandate — leaving an estimated 13 million more uninsured by 2027 — Republican leadership hatched a plan to simultaneously pass a bill to stabilize the Obamacare marketplaces, a proposal negotiated by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA). But this proposal hit a major snag Wednesday
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/0b383823-d7ef-364a-9095-ec1d6a0089a7/ss_the-cbo-just-released-a.html

 

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Deeply unpopular Congress aims to pass deeply unpopular bill for deeply unpopular president to sign
Washington Post

Something odd is happening on Capitol Hill. It’s not odd that Republicans are pushing for a tax bill that’s tilted toward business and the wealthy. It’s a return to the argument that benefits at the top trickle down to workers in the form of more jobs and better pay. (Whether this would actually happen is a question of its own.) Republicans control the House, they control the Senate, they control the White House. This tax bill is the Republican agenda, and advancing political priorities when you have the majority is how representative democracy works. It’s just that everything about it is so unpopular. That’s the odd thing. There’s the legislation itself, which evolves constantly ...
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/effa5d83-60af-369d-8c4e-47ca5bd5363a/ss_deeply-unpopular-congress.html

 

[Carl Franklin]

Busted: Clintons Hid Donations from Firm Connected to Russian Nuclear Company

 

[Carl Franklin]

Leading from Behind: Paul Ryan Follows Nancy Pelosi’s Call for John Conyers’ Resignation
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) followed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s leadership on Thursday, calling on Rep. John Conyers (D-WI) to resign for his sexual assault allegations after Pelosi urged the Michigan congressman to step aside