Originally published at: House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid - TPM – Talking Points Memo
In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key elements of Donald Trump’s fiscal agenda, enact tax cuts and raise the debt ceiling, House Republicans have placed themselves on a collision course with not just members of their own conference but also Senate Republicans.…
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I guess, so much for the old saw that Medicare, Medicaid and SS are third rails for politicians.
When you have the world’s richest man backing you, you can pretty much do anything, regardless of who or what you are.
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once again, in Adam Serwer’s iconic phrase, the cruelty is the point
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So I guess that’s a photo of Mikey talking to Republican Jesus, so he can verify to any skeptics that Christ the Lord totally signs off on slashing health care for poor, seriously ill and elderly people to the bone and beyond?
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Evil. Monstrous. Vile.
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Not only is the hope I had gone… it’s getting so I cannot read the various news sites anymore. Even TPM shocks too much. Musk…trump… it’s sickening
I fully expect my Social Security to be gone into trump or Elmo’s pocket
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These are not politicians.
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Elmo was not elected
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Smaller body count, at least.
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Mr Speaker, with reference to your tax cuts. Are they for the rich only or are you including poor folk at all? I get the feeling this is deliberate cruelty designed to do away with any health care for those less well off. Tell me I’m wrong Mr Speaker.
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The Republican electeds are not politicians either.
The thing that needs to be said, by everyone, if services and support are going to be cut so drastically, what is the alternative for those who need them. Where are all those jobs going to come from, hard numbers please. All those civil service folks suddenly out on the street. All those folks in need of medicaid and other assistance? What is the flip side. They have none and suggest none. So no leadership there, not even developing a path of weaning people away. Just cutting the legs out from underneath them. Har har har…
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Not even a vague gesture toward the supposed “thousand points of light.” Just nothing at all.
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Just as my father is applying for Medicaid. I hate these evil fuckers with the white hot heat of a billion billion suns plus a candle.
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I’m starting a rumor here and I have no evidence to backup my supposition, but here goes:
Chainsaw Trump had Elmo change the Treasury Department’s payment system software code to skim money off the top of payments and direct to him and Elmo. Kind of the like “Office Space,” but on a monumental scale.
Remember that Putin is one of the world’s richest men on his $140,000 annual salary, with an estimated net worth of $200B.
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Banana Republic, here we come! We can be the first Latin American country in North America! But no Spanish allowed of course. Our pathetic safety net gets even more pathetic …
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A million likes for this one!
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Originally I wrote that they were politicians, since it was the GQP House that has put forth the budget. They are still responsible for what happens to our money,
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