And with that the American people will be screwed
Looks to me like the plan is to ram this thing through the Senate this week, and get through the reconciliation process in the House and get final approval in both the House and the Senate before the Alabama special election, just in case Doug Jones beats Roy Moore.
Which makes a lot of sense if they’ve barely got the votes. Can afford to lose two votes in the Senate versus can only afford to lose one vote in the Senate could be the difference between passage and failure.
Not since the presidency of William McKinley have the interests of the rich and already powerful ridden so gleefully over the poor and working-class.
These aren’t even really the interests of the rich and already powerful (or even of a tiny group among the rich), unless you include pitchforks and torches among their interests.
Can someone explain how a tax bill can be passed without the 60 vote threshold? I thought that was a big stumbling block with the Obamacare repeal? Any budgetary bills had to be passed with 60 votes. Maybe I’m misreading that?
Trump’s base suffers from the Stockholm Syndrome.
“Toto, I guess we’re all in Kansas anymore…”
Should this go through, and you know it will, Trump’s base will gleefully cheer the win.
They’ll cheer it until the damage hits them worse than it will hit most Liberals. His base has the most to lose out of this tax package, but they’re too stupid to realize it. All they want is to see Liberals cry.
So here’s a thought: no more whining, Liberals. Start laughing. Start laughing at the right wing nutjobs who have legitimately voted themselves into destitution. No pity. No compassion for the Walmart Nazis who wanted to stick a finger in the eye of wisdom, science and education. None. Just laugh at them. And remind them they have brought their destitution on themselves. Laugh.
In a word: reconciliation. It only requires a simple majority to pass as long as they hold to some simple rules.
I thought the reconciliation window for this year had passed? (Not that I totally understand the special theatrics of “reconciliation” to begin with)
Well, Republicans will own this; lock, stock and barrel. Right now, it’s all they really own (other than a Donald Trump Presidency and, maybe, Roy Moore’s Senate seat). Let’s see how all of that works out for them.
And that’s exactly what has to be used as a bludgeon over the heads of the morons who voted for these monsters. And the first one who says, well, we never thought it would go this far, gets the biggest whack.
I don’t know what it’ll take for these knuckleheads to understand that not one Dem is going to vote for this. The GOP will own this for a generation. All we can hope for is a sweep in 2018 and the first session of Congress in 2019 to un-do this travesty.
We gotta be ready to show up in November and not be swayed by purity folks. Being swayed last year is what has brought us to this precipice.
All legislation can be passed by a simple majority—the 60 vote threshold is to invoke cloture and end a filibuster.
This was seldom used, until Obama became president and Senatortoise Mc Connell began using the filibuster in an attempt to prevent Obama from being a successful president.
It has been difficult to feel sorry for these deplorable uneducated voters. Too bad we all have to suffer.
The Washington DC equivalent of the manure lagoon on the 10,000 head dairy farm breaching its dike.
Shit always flows downhill…
Senatortoise Mc Connell began using the filibuster in an UNSUCCESSFUL attempt to prevent Obama from being a successful president.
FIFY
It won’t be until 2025 that they start to understand why you are laughing.
Business Insider
Kansas’ experiment with tax cutting failed spectacularly — on its own terms
Forbes
The Great Kansas Tax Cut Experiment Crashes And Burns
Bloomberg
The Kansas Supply-Side Experiment Unravels
Etc., etc., etc.