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Post by avordvet on Jan 26, 2017 13:47:40 GMT -5
'Disgusted' GOP Freshman: No More Safe Spaces for LawmakersBy Theodore Bunker, Thursday, 26 Jan 2017 12:29 PM Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., has set out to eliminate "members only" signs in the Capitol, seeing them as a "disgusting" way of separating politicians from the American people. "I was disgusted to find the 'People's House' complex littered with signage with the sole purpose of separating members of Congress from the people they work for," he said in a statement to the Washington Examiner released Thursday. Fitzpatrick, who was elected in November, has already proposed bills that would add congressional term limits, dock legislators pay if they fail to pass a budget, and end lifelong pensions for members. www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/brian-fitzpatrick-gop-safe-spaces-lawmakers/2017/01/26/id/770569/
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Post by avordvet on Jan 30, 2017 6:12:56 GMT -5
Start repeal of obamacare "on day one"... GOP says; whoa, not so fast. Start sealing the border and start deporting aliens "on day one"... GOP says; whoa, not so fast. Start getting rid of onerous 'personal' and 'corporate' taxes "on day one"... GOP says; whoa, not so fast. Tensions simmer below surface as Trump, Republicans map strategyBy Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell, Reuters, January 27, 2017 PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - When President Donald Trump was elected last November, Republican lawmakers enthusiastically joined his call to rewrite the tax code and dismantle Obamacare in the first 100 days of his presidency. But as congressional Republicans gathered for an annual policy retreat in Philadelphia on Wednesday, the 100-day goal morphed into 200 days. As the week wore on, leaders were saying it could take until the end of 2017 - or possibly longer - for passage of final legislation. Trump had a different idea when he spoke to lawmakers in Philadelphia, telling them: Enough talk. Time to deliver. www.yahoo.com/news/tensions-simmer-below-surface-trump-republicans-map-strategy-221638446--business.html
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 30, 2017 9:37:47 GMT -5
Republicans like their Democratic counterparts are fully vested in the system as it now stands and therefore will lose as much if indeed the President does indeed drain the swamp. globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2017/01/the-rollback-of-neoliberalism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FrzYD+%28Global+Guerrillas%29Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market StateWhat is Trump doing? Trump is rolling back neoliberalism and everything connected to it. To understand what this means, here's a narrative of Trump's insurgency. It explains what he is doing and what he is likely to do. It starts with the rise of neoliberalism. The rise of NeoliberalismNeoliberalism is an ideology of extreme free market capitalism that was popularized by Thatcher, Reagan, and Pinochet. By the end of the cold war in the 90's, it became the default economic ideology of the United States when both the Republicans and the Democrats adopted it. Neoliberalism improved the world. Unfettered access to US markets (the most valuable in the world) led to twenty plus years of rapid economic globalization that lifted billions of people out of poverty and made many countries rich. However, neoliberalism came at a cost to the US. Worse, it destroyed the only engine of prosperity and political stability in the US, the US middle class. It did this through: •Asymmetric competition. The US was, and still is, the only major nation in the world to fully embrace neoliberalism. Every other country or economic bloc, from China to the EU, has barriers in place to rig the market to create or protect good jobs at home (think: Germany, China, South Korea, Japan...). These barriers work and incomes in these countries has zoomed while US incomes stagnated. •The Neoliberal Trade (jobs out, wealth in). For decades, the US traded millions of good jobs in manufacturing and services for tens of thousands of amazing jobs on Wall Street (NY) and Silicon Valley (CA). This inflow of wealth at the topline created a sense of prosperity even though the median income and the quality of life of the middle class collapsed. •Non-cooperative elites. It didn't take long before the power and the wealth of the elites benefiting from unfettered globalization became immense. In fact, these US neoliberal elites became so powerful, they were able to completely opt out of the US system of taxation -- none of the elites, from Apple to Google to Wall Street banks/funds to the wealthiest American citizens pay taxes. With most of the wealth generated by the US immune to taxation, the US government quickly became a bankruptcy in progress ($20 trillion in debt and growing fast). Worse, this perpetual fiscal crisis eliminated any chance that government services (like in health care, retirement, etc. proposed by Bernie Sanders) could be formulated to cushion the damage done by neoliberal economics.
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Post by avordvet on Feb 2, 2017 5:18:31 GMT -5
Lying MFers... But then again, who really didn't see this coming? Republicans Rebrand Obamacare Strategy From ‘Repeal’ to ‘Repair’by Anna Edney, Billy House, and Zachary Tracer, February 1, 2017, 5:10 PM EST Some Republicans in Congress are starting to talk more about trying to “repair” Obamacare, rather than simply calling for “repeal and replace.” There’s good reason for that. The repair language was discussed by Republicans during their closed-door policy retreat in Philadelphia last week as a better way to brand their strategy. Some of that discussion flowed from views that Republicans may not be headed toward a total replacement, said one conservative House lawmaker who didn’t want to be identified. www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-01/republicans-rebrand-obamacare-strategy-from-repeal-to-repair
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Post by avordvet on Feb 6, 2017 5:51:05 GMT -5
Who is surprised by this list? Not many... 12 top Republicans backed by Soros in 2016Everyone knows about millions to Hillary, but here are GOP names George likesWND, 05 Feb 2017 WASHINGTON – Everyone knows about the tens of millions of dollars various George Soros front groups poured into Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential efforts in 2016, but the Republicans he supported – from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and his predecessor, John Boehner, have received less attention. Republican presidential candidate John Kasich was also a big recipient of Soros largesse – to the tune at least $202,700. That makes Soros one of the Kasich presidential campaign’s top funders. While the Soros Fund Management, just one of the Hungarian billionaire’s political tentacles, spent $224,300 on Democratic Party congressional campaigns in 2016, it also spent $31,400 on Republicans, including $10,800 on Ryan – the most of any member of the GOP, the same as it invested in Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat. Other GOP congressional recipients of Soros contributions include Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ($2,500); Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. ($2,700); Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev. ($2,700); Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio ($2,600); Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. ($2,500); Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla. ($1,000); Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa ($1,000); Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. ($1,000); Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. ($1,000); and Rep. Dan Donovan, R-N.Y. ($300). www.wnd.com/2017/02/12-top-republicans-backed-by-soros-in-2016/
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Post by avordvet on Feb 8, 2017 17:00:00 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Feb 15, 2017 4:55:20 GMT -5
F-ing lying traitors, but really; who didn't see this coming? well the GOP and Dems did! Why have you not seen the Dems in a continuous fit over the 'repeal'? Because they know its not happening either... Unless the lazy ass GOPbots get off their butts and push it home, but then again, I'm not holding my breath. Paul reportedly leaves meeting with House Republicans on ObamacareBy Edmund DeMarche, Published February 14, 2017 FoxNews.com Trump has been edging away from the promise to quickly eliminate the entire law. Still, annulling its taxes would be a partial victory and is irresistible for many GOP lawmakers and the conservative voters at the core of their support. "We should do full repeal," said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a leading House conservative. "And full repeal means not taking the taxes" from people. Yet voiding those levies erases a mammoth war chest Republicans would love to have - and may well need - as they try replacing Obama's law. It's a major rift GOP leaders face as they try crafting a health care package that can pass Congress. www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/14/paul-reportedly-leaves-meeting-with-house-republicans-on-obamacare.html
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Post by avordvet on Feb 27, 2017 16:30:32 GMT -5
How Angry Will You Be If The Republicans In Congress Do Not Repeal Obamacare?By Michael Snyder, on February 23rd, 2017 Top Republicans are now publicly saying that Obamacare will never be fully repealed. In fact, many Republicans in Congress are already using the term “repair” instead of “repeal” to describe what is going to happen to Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law. Without a doubt, the Republicans in Congress are eventually going to do something, but strategists in both parties are now suggesting that most of the key elements of Obamacare are going to remain once everything is all said and done. It will be put into a more “conservative” package, but it will still be Obamacare. On Thursday, former House Speaker John Boehner made headlines all over the country when he said that a complete repeal of Obamacare is “not what’s going to happen”. Instead, Boehner said that Republicans are going to “fix Obamacare” and that they will “put a more conservative box around it” in order to keep their constituents happy. Of course this isn’t what we voted for. For years, Republican politicians all across the country have been promising that Obamacare would be repealed once they got control of Congress, but now Boehner is telling us that all of that was just “happy talk”… theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-angry-will-you-be-if-the-republicans-in-congress-do-not-repeal-obamacare
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Post by avordvet on Mar 8, 2017 6:48:54 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Mar 13, 2017 4:50:09 GMT -5
Proof of what conservatives have always known... George W. Bush: A newfound hero of the leftBy Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times - Friday, March 10, 2017 Democrats and the mainstream media are longing for President George W. Bush — romanticizing him in a way they never would’ve considered eight years ago. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, praised Mr. Bush several times during a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor Friday. “President George W. Bush, he was a great president on immigration,” Mrs. Pelosi said. “When we won the majority, I remember being in an early meeting with the leadership … with President Bush and he said ‘now we can pass an immigration bill,’ but he couldn’t persuade his party to come along, and that, I think, was a disappointment to him.” She continued: “So I’m hopeful. Again, as I say, President George W. Bush — we were closer to him in that attitude than his own party was. Even now, President George W. Bush has spoken with great dignity about treating people, immigrants and the immigration issue with treating people with respect and dignity. Bless him for that.” www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/10/george-w-bush-newfound-hero-left/
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Post by avordvet on Mar 15, 2017 5:32:24 GMT -5
Exclusive — Audio Emerges of When Paul Ryan Abandoned Donald Trump: ‘I Am Not Going to Defend Donald Trump—Not Now, Not in the Future’by Matthew Boyle, 13 Mar 2017 On a never-before-released private October conference call with House Republican members, House Speaker Paul Ryan told his members in the U.S. House of Representatives he was abandoning then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump forever and would never defend him ever again. In the Oct. 10, 2016 call, from right after the Access Hollywood tape of Trump was leaked in the weeks leading up to the election, Ryan does not specify that he will never defend Trump on just the Access Hollywood tape—he says clearly he is done with Trump altogether. “I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan says in the audio, obtained by Breitbart News and published here for the first time ever. Now, Ryan—still the Speaker—has pushed now President Donald Trump to believe his healthcare legislation the American Health Care Act would repeal and replace Obamacare when it does not repeal Obamacare. Ryan has also, according to Trump ally Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), misled President Trump into believing that Ryan’s bill can pass Congress. Paul and others believe the bill is dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate since a number of GOP senators have come out against it, and there are serious questions about whether it can pass the House. This is the first major initiative that Trump has worked on with Ryan—and the fact it is going so poorly calls into question whether Speaker Ryan, the GOP’s failed 2012 vice presidential nominee who barely supported Trump at all in 2016, really understands how Trump won and how to win in general. www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/13/exclusive-audio-emerges-of-when-paul-ryan-abandoned-donald-trump-i-am-not-going-to-defend-donald-trump-not-now-not-in-the-future/
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Post by avordvet on Mar 20, 2017 5:16:25 GMT -5
Big Government Republicans Rebuke Trump Budgetby Neil W. McCabe, 16 Mar 2017 Kentucky Republican congressman Hal Rogers, who has spent more than three decades on the House Appropriations Committee, including six years as the chairman, rejected President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget as Congress begins consideration of the president’s rearrangement of priorities. “While we have a responsibility to reduce our federal deficit, I am disappointed that many of the reductions and eliminations proposed in the President’s skinny budget are draconian, careless and counterproductive,” said Rogers, one of the so-called “cardinals,” the nickname for the lawmakers controlling how federal money is spent. Rogers said he was concerned about cuts to programs in Kentucky. “In particular, the Appalachian Regional Commission has a long-standing history of bipartisan support in Congress because of its proven ability to help reduce poverty rates and extend basic necessities to communities across the Appalachian region,” he said. “Today, nearly everyone in the region has access to clean water and sewer, the workforce is diversifying, educational opportunities are improving, and rural technology is finally advancing to 21st Century standards. www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/16/big-government-republicans-rebuke-trump-budget-after-president-takes-hits-for-their-ryancare-bill/
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Post by avordvet on Mar 29, 2017 4:36:24 GMT -5
The GOP knows that 'republicans' will continue to vote for them no matter what unconstitutional and unethical behavior they let slip... behavior just like the radical obamabots ignored to keep their boy in power. GOP Leaders May Drop Wall Funding to Win Democratic Approval for Other Prioritiesby Neil Munro 28 Mar 2017 Amid Democratic opposition, Republican leaders are retreating from President Donald Trump’s very popular campaign promise to build a border fence to block illegal immigration, drug smugglers, and criminals. A top GOP leader, Sen. Roy Blunt, told reporters on Tuesday that GOP leaders do not want to include Trump’s spending for the border wall in the spring budget, which is due by April 28. “All of the committees, the leaderships of the House and Senate, are working together to try to finalize the rest of the FY17 [budget spending] bill,” he added. “My guess is that comes together better without the [border] supplemental,” he told The Hill. But GOP leaders may include some border spending in a separate 2017 budget for the military, Blunt suggested. The tacit retreat comes only a few days after GOP leaders staged and lost a fight to push their own business-friendly version of an Obamacare reform, and amid GOP calls for Trump to help pass their hoped-for tax cut. www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2017/03/28/gop-leaders-may-drop-wall-funding-to-win-democratic-approval-for-other-priorities/amp/
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Post by avordvet on Apr 13, 2017 4:51:43 GMT -5
Your Republicans in action...
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Post by avordvet on Apr 23, 2017 7:47:27 GMT -5
IRS anti-fraud program plagued by delays, costing taxpayers millionsBy Adam Shaw Published April 20, 2017 FoxNews.com The rollout of an IRS program meant to catch fraudulent tax returns has been plagued by delays and cost overruns, according to a government watchdog – and one Republican lawmaker is demanding answers. Citizens Against Government Waste slammed the "wasteful" and "ineffective" program in a report timed with the tax-filing deadline earlier this week. At issue is an IRS effort to replace the Electronic Fraud Detection System (EFDS) – which dates back to 1994 -- with an update called the Return Review Program (RRP). In 2010, the IRS described the EFDS “too risky to maintain, upgrade or operate beyond 2015.” However, despite the program being in development since 2009, the replacement is not expected to be completed until 2022. And that time is money. www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/20/irs-anti-fraud-program-plagued-by-delays-costing-taxpayers-millions.html
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Post by avordvet on Apr 25, 2017 5:24:41 GMT -5
It's pretty much 100% that the Republicans will fold... as they always do. Democrats: Trump Must Surrender On Funding For A Border Wall To Avoid A Government Shutdown On His 100th Day By Michael Snyder, on April 24th, 2017 Is Donald Trump going to unconditionally surrender to the Democrats and completely give up his dream of building a border wall in order to avoid a government shutdown on his 100th day in office? As I have warned before, the Democrats are perfectly willing to force a government shutdown if the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress do not let them win all of the key battles in this funding bill fight. It is being reported that the Trump administration wants 3 billion dollars for extra border security and for construction of a border wall, and the Democrats are insisting that they will keep any bill that includes money for a border wall from ever getting through Congress. And of course the Democrats are also taking a very hard line on funding for Planned Parenthood, federal support for key Obamacare provisions, and resistance to increased defense spending. If the Trump administration and enough establishment Republicans in Congress cave in to the outrageous demands of the Democrats, a government shutdown will be avoided. If not, a government shutdown will begin on April 29th (Trump’s 100th day in office), and it could easily turn out to be the longest government shutdown in the history of the United States. If Trump gives up on his border wall now, it is quite likely that he will never get it. Emboldened by this success, the Democrats will simply threaten to block any new bill that contains funding for a border wall in the future. At some point Trump is going to have to stand up for himself if he ever wants to see his number one campaign promise become a reality, and the longer he waits the less leverage he is going to have. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/democrats-trump-must-surrender-on-funding-for-a-border-wall-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown-on-his-100th-day-in-office
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Post by avordvet on Apr 28, 2017 4:50:15 GMT -5
Cowards and Traitors...
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Post by avordvet on May 11, 2017 4:27:07 GMT -5
F-ing GOP traitors continue their obstruction... Senate rejects repeal of Obama drilling ruleBy Timothy Cama and Devin Henry - 05/10/17 10:29 AM EDT Three Republicans joined Senate Democrats on Wednesday to reject an effort to overturn an Obama administration rule limiting methane emissions from oil and natural gas drilling. Only 49 senators voted to move forward with debate on legislation to undo the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule, short of the 51 votes needed. Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Susan Collins (Maine) and John McCain (Ariz.) joined all 48 members of the Democratic caucus in rejecting the resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). Graham and Collins had previously publicized their plans to vote against the legislation. But McCain’s vote came as a surprise. McCain said that he voted against the resolution because he fears that it would have prevented the BLM from writing an improved regulation in the future. “While I am concerned that the BLM rule may be onerous, passage of the resolution would have prevented the federal government, under any administration, from issuing a rule that is ‘similar,’ according to the plain reading of the Congressional Review Act,” he said in a statement. thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/332721-senate-rejects-repeal-of-obama-drilling-rule
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Post by avordvet on May 17, 2017 5:13:21 GMT -5
As usual, we find out the GOP knows all the dirt, yet still refuses to act upon it... name one clinton/obamabot that has been brought to justice for their crimes, even AFTER eight years of non-stop Republican investigations into obama's corrupt admin the tally is STILL zero. Trey Gowdy Stops Just Short Of Calling Collusion On The Clintons And The DOJ Amber Athey, 8:58 PM 05/16/2017 Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News Tuesday night that the Clintons’ “entanglements” with the Department of Justice run much deeper than the average viewer may know. On Fox News’ “The Story,” Gowdy cryptically told host Martha McCallum that he believes “history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were.” “I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy he’s not gonna disseminate classified information (though God knows everybody else is)…so all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac,” he explained. dailycaller.com/2017/05/16/gowdy-clinton-doj-connections-run-deep-video/
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Post by avordvet on Jun 18, 2017 6:57:14 GMT -5
No Obamacare Repeal, No building of 'the wall', No Tax-Reform, No 'draining of the swamp', No reversal of DACA, No mass removal of the illegal aliens flooding our country, No slowing of the radical muzzys being imported, No action disbanding the Federal Reserve... the list could continue of course, but I tire of repeating myself today. Ann Coulter’s fury with Trump growing daily — no punches pulled in latest rebukeJustin Haskins Jun 17, 2017 10:32 am “I thought with Trump we’d finally have a president helping OUR country,” Coulter tweeted. “So far: Syria, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy, China, N Kor. Today: Cuba.” “At least Cuba’s in our hemisphere,” Coulter wrote. “How long can it be before he gets to America?” www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/17/ann-coulters-fury-with-trump-growing-daily-no-punches-pulled-in-latest-rebuke/
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Post by avordvet on Jun 26, 2017 4:12:53 GMT -5
Honor, Courage, Commitment... McCain should try it on for size sometime. John McCain & John Kerry... although from 'different' political persuasions, both are cut from the same globalist cloth, both support one world government and even the management and use of international terrorist to reach that goal. Both are as unamerican and traitorous as you can get without being thrown in prison. EXCLUSIVE: Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain InstituteRichard Pollock, 10:53 PM 06/19/2017 Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership. The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain and “is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom.” It is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University. Conservative and liberal critics, however, believe the institute constitutes a major conflict of interest for McCain, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. dailycaller.com/2017/06/19/exclusive-soros-clinton-linked-teneo-among-donors-to-mccain-institute/
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Post by avordvet on Jul 12, 2017 4:57:04 GMT -5
Exposing the Bums and Frauds of the GOPWayne Allyn Root, Posted: Jul 10, 2017 12:01 AM "What's in it for them?" Start thinking of the answer to this important question as you read this column. Remember the famous Las Vegas advertising slogan, "What happens here, stays here." Well it doesn't. Las Vegas is the crossroads of America. The tourist capital of America. The convention capital of America. The fastest growing big city in America. The retirement capital of America. The melting pot of America. What happens here is symbolic of the corruption, fraud and "rot" happening in the GOP across America. Our own Nevada GOP U.S. Senator Dean Heller wants to fight to keep Obamacare. And our own Nevada GOP Governor Brian Sandoval (who was the first GOP Governor to embrace the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare) now says repealing and replacing Obamacare would harm the Nevada economy. Really? townhall.com/columnists/wayneallynroot/2017/07/10/exposing-the-bums-and-frauds-of-the-gop-n2352630
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Post by avordvet on Jul 24, 2017 5:21:05 GMT -5
They screw this up and it will be an eternity before I ever vote for another so called Republican again... OK, GOP: No More Excuses!If Republicans don't get their act together now, they may not ever get another chance to prevent socialized medicine in this country.David Limbaugh, Jul 22, 2017 Until now, I haven’t been too concerned about the Republican Party’s difficulties in passing a health care reform bill because delays have resulted in improvements to the proposed legislation. But enough is enough. No more games. It’s time to quit the finger-pointing. Neither congressional leaders nor President Trump have done enough to whip votes and sell the bill. A major overhaul of Obamacare, whether a full repeal or a repeal and replacement, is imperative for Trump and congressional Republicans. More than any other, Obamacare is the issue that has galvanized grassroots conservatives since 2010, and the Republicans’ failure to act now will be devastating on multiple levels. Excuses like “we had a few renegade senators on the Left and the Right” won’t work. Then-President Obama had no problem getting a majority to support Obamacare and was even able, albeit through deceit and legislative bribery, to cobble together a filibuster-proof margin. So why can’t Republicans get their act together? The differences are that Obama wanted this more than anything else and thus almost willed it into existence, and Democrats are far more monolithic than Republicans and stick together. Republicans must show the same fierce determination Obama showed when he crammed his monstrosity down our throats. patriotpost.us/articles/50330
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Post by avordvet on Jul 28, 2017 15:27:21 GMT -5
The Republican traitors don't even try to hide these days... GOP lawmakers openly defy president as frustration mountsBy Mike DeBonis July 27 at 8:19 PM They passed legislation to stop him from lifting sanctions on Russia. They recoiled at his snap decision to ban transgender Americans from the military. And they warned him in no uncertain terms not to fire the attorney general or the special counsel investigating the president and his aides. Republican lawmakers have openly defied President Trump in meaningful ways this week amid growing frustration on Capitol Hill with his surprise tweets, erratic behavior and willingness to trample on governing norms. But at the same time, they’ve worked to advance legislation they want him to sign. In the latest signs of a backlash, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday he would not hold hearings on a replacement if Trump dismissed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Thursday he would pursue legislation that would prevent Trump from summarily firing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. “Some of the suggestions that the president is making go way beyond what’s acceptable in a rule-of-law nation,” Graham said. “This is not draining the swamp. What he’s interjecting is turning democracy upside down.” www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-lawmakers-openly-defy-president-as-frustration-mounts/2017/07/27/2ddb8a2e-72e7-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html
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Post by avordvet on Jul 31, 2017 4:28:59 GMT -5
The Republicrat feed trough party continues unabated... Debt ceiling returns, creating new headache for GOPBy Sylvan Lane - 03/16/17 12:00 AM EDT The legal limit on how much the United States government can borrow returns on Thursday, potentially setting up an intense political battle in Congress. Lawmakers will have until sometime this autumn to raise the debt ceiling before the Treasury runs out of ways to make essential payments, putting the nation at risk of its first-ever debt default. The debt limit is a major test for the Trump administration and Republican congressional leaders who’ve sought major spending cuts before previous increases in the debt ceiling. The White House and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are pushing lawmakers to raise the ceiling as soon as possible, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that Congress will “obviously” increase the limit. But the highly charged political atmosphere, demands from fiscal conservatives, record high debt levels and the perpetual wild card that is Trump all make a quick and easy increase in the borrowing limit unlikely. Democrats have warned that Republicans shouldn’t count on their votes. thehill.com/policy/finance/324197-debt-ceiling-returns-creating-new-headache-for-gop
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Post by avordvet on Aug 29, 2017 5:16:02 GMT -5
Bill of particularsCF, August 29th, 2017 Which would explain why they’re all so damnably resistant to draining it, of course. As I’ve said so many times: no, we don’t need a third party. What we DO need is a second party, to stand in true opposition to the Government Party, the Beltway Bandit Party, the Business As Usual Party. coldfury.com/2017/08/29/bill-of-particulars/
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Post by avordvet on Sept 28, 2017 5:33:32 GMT -5
ForAmerica: 'Senate Republicans Have Delivered Nothing,' McConnell is 'Politically Toxic'By Michael W. Chapman, September 27, 2017 2:05 PM EDT (CNSNews.com) -- Given the latest failure of the Republican-dominant Senate to repeal and replace Obamacare, the national grassroots organization ForAmerica, which has more than 9 million members, said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) "is politically toxic to everything he touches, even his party's signature campaign promise." ForAmerica President David Bozell, in a statement, added, “Republican Leaders have been given all the leverage they need by voters, and yet Senate Republicans have delivered nothing – effectively ending its majority." In the Sept. 26 statement questioning the Senate GOP leadership, Bozell said, “This current Republican leadership team is responsible for one GOP failure after another to deliver on its promises." www.cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/foramerica-senate-republicans-have-delivered-nothing-mcconnell
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Post by avordvet on Sept 29, 2017 4:55:44 GMT -5
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Post by avordvet on Oct 9, 2017 4:56:48 GMT -5
The Republicrat uniparty trods along... In a switch, GOP deserts its budget-cutting mantraBy Damian Paletta October 7 at 6:12 PM The Republican Party has largely abandoned its platform of fiscal restraint, pivoting sharply in a way that could add trillions of dollars in federal debt over the next decade. Cutting spending to balance the budget was almost religion to the Republican Party for much of the past eight years. But all year long, despite their control of the White House and Congress, Republicans have not taken steps to balance the budget, to overhaul entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, or to arrest the growth of the country’s $20 trillion in debt. www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-a-switch-gop-deserts-its-budget-cutting-mantra/2017/10/07/5a62b8be-a943-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html
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Post by avordvet on Oct 18, 2017 5:10:01 GMT -5
The swamp denizens continue to resist... Trump Warns McCain: 'I Fight Back -- And It Won't Be Pretty'By Michael van der Galien October 17, 2017 On Monday, fake Republican Senator John McCain gave a speech in which he criticized "half-baked nationalism," which he associated with President Trump. It was a sad attack by a man who has been little more than a Democrat for dozens of years now, but of course, Trump felt forced to fight back. And he did so in typical Trump style. Appearing on WMAL in Washington, D.C., the president was asked what he thought of McCain's attack on the "half-baked, spurious nationalism" that's "cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems." Well, Trump said, McCain better be careful. "People have to be careful because at some point I fight back," the president explained. "You know, I’m being very nice. I’m being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty." pjmedia.com/trending/trump-warns-mccain-i-fight-back-and-it-wont-be-pretty/
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