âI think the point the president-elect was trying to make wasâŚâ
What to say when your guy says the unbelievable.
Bet McCarthy doesnât have the balls to fight him. Guess what McCarthy, he is all yours.
The thing is trump thinks he can levy taxes independent of Congress.
Article 1 section 8 âTo regulate commerce with foreign nationsâŚâ
That is a Congressional power as is taxation and spending any money.
My guess is that elected Republicans are going to miss Obama just as much as we areâŚ
This loser is trying to humiliate you, Trumpie. Not to mention that awful, horrible Susan Collins. Time to fire up the olâ Twitter machine!
Trump: Kevin McCarthy is an idiot. He is an absolute failure, a disaster. What has he accomplished since he was born. Nothing. I will put him in Jail.
âŚwaive Constitutional rights on a whim, ignore existing Federal laws, make up new laws on the fly without CongressâŚ
Although I think McCarthyâs âideaâ is half assed (using the honor system with CorporationsâŚhahahahaha) Iâm amazed to see him sort of standing up, wellâŚat least disagreeingâŚwith ANY Republican.
This is the part that I think is genuinely interesting about the coming administration. Trump is used to business deals, relatively straight-forward negotiations which have only minor attachments to other dealings and limited ramifications if they succeed or fail.
Basically, the exact opposite of US Tax policy.
When you do something like shake Chinaâs cage by calling Taiwan, you throw an hand grenade into a complicated spiderweb of international policy entanglements that has maintained balance across the world. In the same way, retaliatory tariffs are likely to destabilize these dealings.
This isnât like pissing off a bank, so they wonât lend to you again⌠millions of jobs depend on our export trade relationships, to say nothing of the prices of goods we import from China.
And these people have a Navy, Donald. This isnât a spurned business partner you can sideline after milking them on a deal. This isnât a world where there are infinite other suckers for you to grift after the current lot catch on to the fact you donât fulfill your promises⌠Youâre playing a game where in your tone of voice on a phone call is going to have ramifications, to say nothing of your actual words.
And the guy on the other end has a nuclear arsenal and a large share of the current US debtâŚ
MoreâŚ
Theyâll miss the reasonable opposition party (now that they have to fight one another instead) and theyâll miss the convenient dog-whistle straw man they can blame all the countryâs faults onâŚ
There are some serious statesmen in the GOP, men and women with whom I disagree on nearly every issue, but can at least respect as well-informed, passionate, and deliberate servants of their constituents.
But a lot of those people are being replaced by right-wing zealots the last decade, and their replacements have been making a good living doing nothing and blaming the Democrats.
Iâm curious as to how they will cope with actually having the power (and the associated responsibility) to run things.
Trump will soon learn that there is no âIâ in CONGRESS. So when he said âIâ am the only one who can fix it, he was sorely misinformed.
At least I hope some of the GOP will come to their senses and block Trumpâs craziness to protect the country.
Well ya ! What do you think tin pot dictators do, abide by the rules and make nice?
Donald has a mandate (less 2.5 million votes) doncha know.
If itâs OK with Hannity it must be legal
Aww CâmonâŚCongress is waaaay too slow. Who needs âem? Not modern, Not tweetable. Laws? We donâ need no stinkinâ laws.
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I think having this shitgibbon as POTUS is torture for us and our country. Same as being waterboarded for 4 yearsâŚdaily.
Kevin McCarthy is, and will always be, a dim bulb.
This is how it plays out. Any policies not embraced by the GOP will die, and we will be left with the standard âscrew the poor and adulate the richâ policies the GOP has been lusting after for a half century.
But after hearing McCarthy try to speak several times over the years did he really disagree with Herr Trump?
Well, there is t hatâŚ
Exhibit 1 is this:
Instead, McCarthy favored lowering the corporate tax rate in the U.S. to ensure companies wouldnât be leaving in the first place instead of hitting companies with tariffs if they leave.
Companies have already learned how to hide the profits overseas to avoid taxes. The jobs go overseas to save money on wages, benefits, worker health and safety, environmental safeguards, etc.
The GOP plan is to cut taxes on all corporations, including those that canât move many of their jobs overseas. The benefits will be dwarfed by the cost. The budget strain will require cuts to entitlements and to benefits for government employees. Long live the cycle.
Edited to add: I just discovered that commiedearest already covered this in fewer words above:
Trumpâs idea of imposing 35% tariffs and cutting off welfare for companies that move American jobs should be embraced by the Democrats. They should move on this right away under President Obamaâs remaining term. It will create jobs and force companies to innovate in the United States. There is increasing evidence that the free trade agreements donât create jobs and lead only to more corporate welfare and offshore tax fraud.
Remember Kevin McCarthy is a Loser, an incompetent fool whose entire legislative record consists of renaming two post offices in his district and banging fellow congresswoman Renee Ellmers on the taxpayerâs dime. He is one of the few people in Congress who "have visited Poland, Hungria, Estonia,â and also âvisited in our, uh, the allies in the Arab Gulf.â His assessment of the economy was âIf you look at every rate where you go through, America is the second highest where they go. If you look at how the jobs are departed, you find that statistically we are too highâ