A part of me thinks Trump and the GOP might fail ironically because of their most important victory of the year: tax reform. If the bill is as bad as some experts are saying, we will probably all get a taste of this beginning early next year, assuming the law is passed and goes into effect then. The Republicans won’t be stopped until people can get it in their minds that they’re not the working class party. The tax bill might be the dose of reality we all need.
Still, the Republicans are increasingly looking for ways to rig the system and ominously seem unconcerned about how they’re perceived.
I posted a cartoon on a friend’s FB page, showing a Middle Class Man with a gigantic screw in his chest. A Republican Elephant is holding a giant screwdriver and a document that says ‘Tax cuts for rich’. The Republican Elephant is saying, ‘It’s no use rushing to the doctor. I raised your taxes AND took your health care…’
My friend is a staunch supporter of Loser Donnie, and so are most of his followers/friends. One of these replied, ‘Buuuuut… My taxes are going down and I just checked my wallet and my Kaiser card is still there.’ (He also ‘Haha’d’ the cartoon.) I replied, ‘Wait…’
The thing is, and I want to post this in a date-stamped forum so I can take a screen shot of it later, that when his taxes go up thanks to the Republicans’ tax-cut-for-the-middle-class expiry time bomb and his insurance premiums rise faster than they have been because of Republican sabotaging of the ACA and their repeal of the individual mandate, he won’t remember that it was the Republicans who did this to him. One hundred percent of the blame will be placed on Democrats.
Sadly, there will be a great way to blame it on the Democratic Party (unless they take back Congress).
There will be mistakes and ‘gotchas’ in the tax bill. Fixing those must be done via normal legislation, not reconciliation, requiring bipartisan support.
Asked whether Donald Trump agrees (with Roy Moore) “that Muslims should not be allowed to serve in Congress” the W.H. Press Secretary SHS had no answer — she’d not discussed this with her boss.
Yes, yes, boring “business as usual” in this White House, but a stark reminder of how far we’ve come. Can anyone imagine the Press Secretary in any previous White House, when asked whether POTUS was a blithering bigot, needing to say “I’ll get back to you on that”?
I wonder whether that’s hatred of Mitch or just that he thinks married women should not do that. I notice Sarah Sanders has stopped being called Huckabee very often now.
