John Boehner got Obama to sign the Bush tax cuts, but Paul Ryan can't even get a bill on Trump's desk.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Real GDP forecast for 1Q2017 from the Atlanta Fed: 1.0%
Watch how fast that great Obama economy becomes Trump's awful economy.
Friday, March 24, 2017
HR 3762 should have been on Trump's desk on January 20th, but Republicans were too full of themselves for that
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We'd be long into tax reform by now.
Day One repeal of Obamacare my sweet German-American ass.
Mark Levin is a jerk . . .
P.O.S. is Mark Levin.
We don't need no stinkin' new bill: Obamacare repeal H.R. 3762 passed the Senate on Dec. 3, 2015 52-47
The roll call vote is here.
Senate Republicans passed the repeal of Obamacare despite two defections, from liberal Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and Mark Kirk of Illinois.
Pass H.R. 3762 again and dare Trump to veto it.
House Freedom Caucus' Meadows was one of just 7 Republicans to vote against the 2015 Obamacare repeal
Meadow's leadership against the current repeal bill, which is in fact a crummier bill, obscures his isolation previously.
The roll call vote is here. Buck, Dold, Hanna, Jones, Meadows, Salmon, and Walker voted No. The majority of the Freedom Caucus voted for the bill, including leaders like Justin Amash and Jim Jordan.
Unlike Meadows, Americans for Tax Reform here also supported the bill at the time, as did the broader Republican Caucus in the House (it passed 240-189). ATR acknowledged the difficulty of repealing Obamacare's policy provisions without 60 votes in the Senate, which remains the problem now in 2017.
Jim Jordan is right. Repass H.R. 3762 and send it to Trump.
From ATR:
H.R. 3762 repeals most of the heart of Obamacare. The individual and employer mandates and their attendant tax penalties are gone. The medical device tax is repealed. The “Cadillac plan” excise tax is prevented from coming into effect (more on that later).
On the spending side, H.R. 3762 repeals some unaccountable Obamacare slush funds, shutters IPAB (the Medicare rationing board that Sarah Palin called a “death panel”), and ends Obamacare auto-enrollment. Importantly, it also defunds Planned Parenthood for the fiscal year.
At a markup for the bill, liberal Congressmen went apoplectic at the effect H.R. 3762 would have on Obamacare. Top House Ways and Means Democrat Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) said that the bill ”effectively guts [Obamacare].” Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.) said, “this bill really is pulling the legs from under [Obamacare]. It is a deliberate, systematic attempt, not just to repeal, but to destroy [Obamacare].” ...
When the Republicans took the Senate in the 2014 elections, there was a lot of talk about moving bills from Capitol Hill to the President’s desk to force showdowns with the White House. That hasn’t happened, largely because Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has bottled up the Senate in 60 vote purgatory.
The one area he cannot do that is on a privileged budget reconciliation bill like H.R. 3762.
The Wall Street Journal lies: No alternative to AHCA could pass the House and Senate
Here:
No one has offered a better policy alternative to the American Health Care Act that could pass the House and Senate.
Lies! The 2015 repeal bill already passed both the House and the Senate and Obama vetoed it in early 2016.
Republicans knew Obama would veto it, so nothing was really at stake for them at the time.
But now that there is, they won't send that bill to Trump, either because they're afraid Trump might sign it, or because they're afraid he'll veto it too. Instead they've crafted a bill they know can't pass the Congress.
What a contemptible lot are the Republicans, the Democrats, both presidents Obama and Trump, and The Wall Street Journal.
And your mother wears Army boots.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
If the Republicans had any balls they'd send the 2015 repeal bill which Obama vetoed to Trump and make him veto it
Jim Jordan of Ohio supports this.
Trump turns tables on Republican Congress, demands vote on healthcare bill that won't pass
Scorched earth politics, making the Republicans humiliate themselves.
In other words, "You're fired!"
From the story here:
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, a member of the whip team, said he believed Trump's ultimatum is "credible" and predicted the bill's passage during Friday's vote.
Mickey Kaus had the House Freedom Caucus figured out in 2015: Preeners, and open-borders lunatics just like Paul Ryan
Aka libertarians. You know, that motley crue 100 of which in the same room can never all agree about any one thing of importance.
Here.
AP finally runs story detailing Treasury's leadership of Trump-Russia investigation
Gee, how does the Treasury Dept. "collect a vast repository of records" in order to "piece money trails together and identify leads for criminal investigators", huh?
You don't suppose they ever wiretap anybody, do you?
Here:
U.S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned.
Information about Manafort's transactions was turned over earlier this year to U.S. agents working in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network by investigators in Cyprus at the U.S. agency's request, a person familiar with the case said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss a criminal investigation. ...
Manafort, who was Trump's unpaid campaign chairman from March until August last year, has been a leading focus of the U.S. government's investigation into whether Trump associates coordinated with Moscow to meddle in the 2016 campaign. This week, the AP revealed his secret work for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago. ...
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, was established in 1990 and became a Treasury Department bureau soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. It collects a vast repository of records that financial institutions are required to report under the Bank Secrecy Act, such as suspicious activity reports and currency transaction reports, and assists law enforcement agencies in helping analyze complex data.
The agency is a part of an international network of so-called financial intelligence units that share information with each other in money laundering and terrorism financing investigations. Its work has been critical in helping officials piece money trails together and identify leads for criminal investigators.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Like Michael Savage, Scott Adams has succeeded despite anti-white racism
From the story here:
At both the bank and the phone company, Adams has said, his professional advancement was thwarted by diversity hires. “There was no hope for another generic white male to get promoted any time soon,” he wrote in Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert. (Later in the book, he noted that his Dilbert TV show was canceled after “the network made a strategic decision to focus on shows with African-American actors.”)
Laugh of the Day: Black Susan Rice Pot calls Trump kettle black
This woman LIED for weeks on every news show out there, saying the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous event caused by an anti-Muslim video. Now she lectures the Trump Administration about twisting the truth. Ya, sure.
Tea Party Patriots' Jenny Beth Martin just robocalled me to ask me to tell my congressman I support his opposition to Ryan Care
Did that already.
The full-court-press is on to stop this bill.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
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