Showing posts with label John Boehner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Boehner. Show all posts
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The U.S. Senate parliamentarian still has not ruled on the GOP's wacky current policy vs. current law baseline

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The current policy is the temporary Trump tax cuts from 2017.  The current law is the tax compromise worked out by Barack Obama and John Boe...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

House Republican Chip Roy (TX-21) says the current policy baseline tax assumption of Republican Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho is a load of crap

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Chip Roy is right. The expiring temporary tax cuts of Donald Trump had a cost in 2017, and if renewed they'll still have a cost, which i...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

David Brooks is not a serious person

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  David Brooks: Donald Trump Is The Most Consequential American Politician Since Ronald Reagan:   And the fact that he's reelected and n...
Friday, August 4, 2023

The US debt downgrades of 2011 and 2023 have one thing in common: Nancy Pelosi's record of the four most fiscally irresponsible years in the post-war

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Nancy Pelosi owns the record for the four most fiscally irresponsible years in the post-war, spending 316% of tax receipts in 2020, 276% in ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Grand total foreign holdings of US Treasury securities in May, 2000-2019

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Demand slowed from 2013 as stocks once again got a bid (permanent adoption of Bush tax cuts by Obama and Boehner removed uncertainty), bu...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

John DeStefano, in charge of Trump's 4,000 personnel appointments in 2017, was John Boehner aide

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White House personnel official described Trump GOP nomination as 'end of the world': Fear about a bias toward establishment pic...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Contra Dan Henninger of the WSJ, this is hardly the hottest job market in half a century when Obama's was actually better, which ain't sayin' much

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Story of the Year : This past weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories titled “Inside the Hottest Job Market in Ha...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Matthew Continetti is delusional, imagines Republicans after 2010 "overreached", thinks Democrats might after 2018

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Here , when in reality the so-called Tea Party Congress utterly capitulated. It continued to ratify the new level of Obama's spend...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

John Boehner joins board of marijuana company

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These people don't care about anything except cashin' in. Here .
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Do nothing US House begins 5-week vacation after Senate Obamacare repeal failure

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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner once infamously said that Democrat President Obama had the right to set the agenda. But now t...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

How to identify a member of the establishment

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Anyone who complains about the existence of alternative sources of information like Twitter, blogs, conservative talk radio, etc. In o...

The Laugh of the Day comes from a John Boehner leak: Trump should never get into a pissing match with skunks

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Mika Skunkski and Joe Skunkorough A guy who recognizes that the media are skunks can't be all bad. Here : “You never get i...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Making Monday Night Football great again: Bocephus to return . . .

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Obama and Boehner are gone. Hank Williams Jr. is BACK! Story here .
Thursday, May 18, 2017

Kevin McCarthy is the poster boy for stupid Republicanism, but I repeat myself

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No wonder Democrats run California. From the story here : “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,”...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

Mark Meadows: Ousted Boehner, voted against the original HR 3762 in October 2015, leads House Freedom Caucus against Obamacare repeal in 2017

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Clearly Mark Meadows is Trump's number one problem in the US House of Representatives. In view of the fact that Meadows was in t...

John Boehner must be laughing his ass off this morning

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John Boehner got Obama to sign the Bush tax cuts, but Paul Ryan can't even get a bill on Trump's desk. 
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Ross Douthat might as well write for The New Republic instead of The New York Times

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Here , sounding just like Brian Beutler: [R]ight now [Trump's] presidency is in danger of being very swiftly Carterized — ending u...
Friday, January 20, 2017

John Boehner at the Trump inaugural, tan as ever: Do you think he wishes he had remained and fought it out?

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Sunday, December 18, 2016

Obama didn't "decimate" the Democrat Party, Democrats did that all by themselves

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David M. Drucker here wants to blame Obama for all the electoral losses experienced by Democrats since 2009.  Good luck with that. ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Trump rewards Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for stonewalling Obama's Supreme Court appointment by picking his wife for Transportation

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I don't view this as "nepotism" per se as others have who are much too quick to criticize Trump's centrism post-election...