I thought that you only couldn’t call other posters that and that calling someone like Ryan that would be OK.
Fail to be a Ryanwit. Let us have our fun.
If the Republicans have their way, we’ll all be Ryaned in the ass and covered with santorum.
Ryaned in the Cruz?
In the t-rump
To be fair, Ryan is a Ryanryaner.
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You’re all just a bunch of Ryanheads.
Because the economy of the country you live in will collapse. Unless you are rich enough to retire to Belize; then it’s because you are a decent person.
Depends on whether you care about people other than yourself.
This is a feature, and not a bug, for the Republicans.
They know, and have known for decades, that if you simply come out and say that you’re going to slash and burn social welfare programs and broad-based government subsidies that benefit a significant portion of the population, you will be nuked out of political existence in short order. Dwight Eisenhower recognized that New Deal programs and postwar government expansion were broadly popular among the American people and he commented at one stage during his presidency:
But that was during the broad liberal consensus of the postwar era, before the Southern Strategy and the rise of the fundamentalist right and its shaky but important alliance with the libertarian right.
They get around that now by selling everything as a tax cut. When the massive tax cuts blow the budget to smithereens, and there’s no money left for anything once the rich have plundered the economy, then they can just throw their hands up and say “Hey, we’re really sorry, but we simply don’t have the money to keep funding those extraneous things like Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, Pell grants, and all those other pesky liberal programs.” They’re definitely not going to be cutting back on defense spending.
And then all the people who cheered at the extra few hundred bucks they got in 2019 have to find tens of thousands of dollars extra in 2025 or 2040 to pay for health insurance, or to buy food without government help, or to send their kids to college, or fix the car that was broken by the potholes of the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.
Looks like they’re determined to live in a parallel universe and pass the thing. I’m guessing their mega-donors told them in no uncertain terms, either they pass tax cuts for the rich or they’re not getting a dime of support. This might be a way to fend off Bannon, too. They can go around next year claiming to have given the job creators a lot of Christmas money. If they can’t pass this bill then they really are in trouble next year. But they’ll probably pass it, regardless of what it does to the rest of us.
The donors? They’re mad as hell, and not going to give it any more!
Congressman Blake Farenthold used $84,000 of government money to pay off a sexual harassment allegation
Republican Congressman Blake Farenthold.
Now that is how I want my taxes used. At least he will vote for the tax bill and my taxes will not be wasted on layabouts, slut-baby-factories and terrist-training-mosques.
But they will take solace in blaming the culprits for their bad circumstances; Obama and Hillary.
Trey Gowdy used $150,000 of taxpayer money to settle a wrongful termination suit from a former staffer whom he fired for refusing to spend his time digging up dirt on Hillary.
Mitch McConnell is backtracking on his call for Roy Moore to drop out.
Why does no reporter follow that non-statement up with “If you lived in Alabama, how would you vote?” or “Do you want Roy Moore to be one of your colleagues?” or something with an actual point to it?