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Republicans: continued

Post by BarnettNewman » Sat Jan 19, 2019 3:53 pm

JimC wrote:If you're not the mother of the Brady Bunch, then you are an evil, socialist perverted bitch!
The dad was gay.
ETA and slept with the oldest son.

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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Animavore » Sat Jan 19, 2019 8:20 pm

Christian conservatives are outraged at that the cover of Parents magazine this month will feature a gay couple and their children.
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Post by Tero » Sat Jan 19, 2019 11:40 pm

Mitch thinks he is destroying Big Government:
It’s easy to see the shutdown as another symptom of Trump’s instability and hatred of Mexican immigrants – and it is. The lack of alarm from his Republican peers is, just as importantly, revelatory of another disturbing truth: the rightwing, anti-government forces which first took root in the GOP more than 40 years ago are now in full bloom and Trump is their willing avatar.

Republican party leaders have long talked about slashing the size of government, reducing the social safety net, and privatizing whatever they can. Paul Ryan, the former House speaker, called social security a “Ponzi scheme”. It has long been the dream of movement conservatives to bring to the knees a federal government that grew dramatically in scope under the Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B Johnson’s anti-poverty programs.
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Post by Animavore » Sun Jan 20, 2019 2:38 am

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Post by Tero » Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:52 pm

Republicans turn into big spenders with little tax income.
Fuck the balanced budget! GOP proposes 70 billion homeland security, the wall and some token Democrat causes.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/ ... te-1116068
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Post by Tero » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:31 pm

Republicans still backing wall, no DACA and spending recklessly while cutting tax for rich:
Trump Down a net of 10 points among Republicans, from 90-to-7 percent approve to 83-to-10 percent.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/17/68553920 ... -with-base
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Post by Tero » Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:10 pm

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Post by Tero » Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:40 pm

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Post by Animavore » Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:03 pm

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Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:42 pm

I'll be watching to see how long the Republican party tries to drag its feet on this one.

'Dithering GOP Stalls House’s New Trump-Russia Probe'
The new leadership on the House intelligence committee is eager to revive the panel’s probe into the connections between Donald Trump’s camp and Russia, an urgency underscored by the latest indictment of a Trump associate accused of lying to its investigation. But three weeks into the Democratic-controlled Congress, House Republicans haven’t taken a critical step necessary for the committee to begin any work at all.

The House Republican leadership has yet to name the intelligence committee’s Republican membership for the new Congress, with the exception of retaining Devin Nunes as ranking Republican. Without doing so, the committee is stalled—no hearings, no internal business meetings. Democrats announced their membership roster on Jan. 16, adding Val Demings, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Sean Patrick Maloney, and Peter Welch to their ten extant members. (This Republican intransigence was first noted by The Rachel Maddow Show.)

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Democrats on the panel have spent two years seething at their GOP colleagues, formerly a majority, for obstructing the committee’s Russia investigation to protect Trump. Under Nunes, the committee declined to issue subpoenas, including for documents, communications records or other material that investigators typically require to vet witness testimony and assess its truthfulness.

Nunes turned the panel’s attention instead to scrutinizing the Justice Department and FBI officials investigating Trump, and subpoenaed them instead. Quigley, last January, pointedly questioned Nunes about whether he or his staff were still working with the White House after the California Republican was caught working with White House staff to intimate the Obama administration had improperly surveilled Trump associates. “As far as I know, no,” Nunes replied at a Jan. 30 2018 hearing.

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Post by L'Emmerdeur » Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:47 pm

Some Republican Representatives apparently have decided that the Trump Environmental Protection Agency's single-minded drive to deregulate and reverse environmental protection efforts may not be all that great when it comes to poisoning their constituents.

'EPA’s chemical decision worries Republicans'
Key congressional Republicans voiced concerns Tuesday about the prospect that EPA will not set drinking water limits for two toxic chemicals — an issue that raises new hurdles for acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s bid to permanently lead the agency.

POLITICO reported Monday that Wheeler has signed off on a still-unpublished decision not to regulate the chemicals under the Safe Drinking Water Act. The chemicals, known as PFOA and PFOS, are linked to dangerous health effects, including kidney and testicular cancer, and have been found in millions of Americans’ drinking water after being used for decades in products such as Teflon and military firefighting foam.

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In the House, some lawmakers are already calling for Congress to step in and force EPA to set a drinking water limit if the Trump administration does not act.

"If the EPA refuses to do its job, Congress must intercede," said Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), who co-chairs the bipartisan congressional task force on the chemicals.

Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), whose district uncovered a significant contamination from the chemicals this summer, told POLITICO that “doing nothing is not acceptable.” He added, “We’ll have ample opportunity to grill EPA.”

The drinking water decision is included in a chemical management plan that EPA sent to the White House for review in December, as POLITICO reported based on sources familiar with the matter. Wheeler told lawmakers the plan was poised for release this month before the partial government shutdown delayed it.

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Controversy around the same class of chemicals already helped derail one Trump EPA nominee. In 2017, North Carolina’s two Republican senators came out in opposition to Michael Dourson’s nomination to head EPA’s chemical safety office, forcing his withdrawal.

Dourson, a toxicologist with a reputation for minimizing chemicals’ risks, had led a panel that in 2002 recommended a safety threshold to the state of West Virginia that was 150 times higher than chemical company DuPont's own internal limit for its employees. It was also thousands of times higher than the standard EPA later endorsed in 2016.

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Post by Seabass » Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:08 am

:funny: The Republican Party, always lookin' out for the little guy...

Top GOP senators propose repealing estate tax, which is expected to be paid by fewer than 2,000 Americans a year
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Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Svartalf » Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:13 am

well, they know which side their bread is buttered.
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