Republicans: continued

Post Reply
User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 07, 2023 2:25 pm

Anna Paulina Luna (FLA) was one of the McCarthy resistors. Party described in WP
"You should know the name Anna Paulina Luna. In two months, it will be etched outside a congressional office in D.C., a marker of a younger, more diverse, more online generation of Trump’s Republican Party. Soon it will appear alongside names you already know, like Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), on the rolls of the House Freedom Caucus, a hardline conservative group poised to push Trump’s agenda with even more power in a Republican House."
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:18 pm

MTG: 87 000 new IRA agents will be cut.
Quoting her and responding on Tribal:
Human ForHumanUnity@4humanhunity
Public
54 minutes ago
Politics
So, madam speaker, not surprise your 1st priority is helping the ultra-rich?

87,000 is a 10 year plan. Positions are mainly IT, retiring agents, & cutbacks by Republicans. Rettig, the commissioner of the IRS, stated that audits of households earning less than $400,000 will not be increased.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
L'Emmerdeur
Posts: 5700
Joined: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:04 pm
About me: Yuh wust nightmaya!
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:14 am

Mehdi Hasan: 'So much of the media, including sections of the so-called liberal media, bought into this narrative that because the opponents to Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the majority of House Republicans were far-right election deniers, that must make McCarthy and his majority some sort of center-right moderates. Never mind the fact that McCarthy voted to overturn the election both before and after the Jan. 6th insurrection.'


User avatar
L'Emmerdeur
Posts: 5700
Joined: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:04 pm
About me: Yuh wust nightmaya!
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Mon Jan 09, 2023 2:57 pm

Yee-haw! Saddle up and ride, buckaroos!

'McCarthy Pledges Repeal of IRS Funding Meant to Target Wealthy Tax Cheats'
Soon after the U.S. House reconvenes Monday to vote on the rules package containing many of the concessions House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made to secure to votes of far-right Republicans, the party is also expected to introduce what the new leader said early Saturday would be its "very first bill": a proposal repealing new Internal Revenue Service funding meant to help audit the wealthiest Americans.

About $80 billion was included in the Inflation Reduction Act last year, with IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig saying the funding would only be used to increase audits of households making $400,000 per year or more.

"The resources in the reconciliation package will get us back to historical norms in areas of challenge for the agency—large corporate and global high-net-worth taxpayers," Rettig wrote in a letter to the Senate in August.

The funding is supported by two-thirds of Americans, according to a 2021 University of Maryland poll, but McCarthy and his fellow Republicans have lambasted the Democrats' effort to better equip the IRS to confront tax evasion by those with the highest incomes, falsely claiming President Joe Biden has provided the agency with an "army of 87,000 new IRS agents" who "will be coming for you—with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75,000."

McCarthy's plan to repeal the funding, said ACLU communications strategist Gillian Branstetter on Saturday, would actually "incentivize the agency to target poor people," for whom audits are less expensive for the federal government because they lack the resources to engage in a legal battle with the IRS.

...

Social Security and Medicare have also been named as programs that the Republicans could push to significantly cut as the government seeks to raise the debt ceiling and pay for its existing obligations.

Addressing the House early Saturday after winning the speakership on the 15th vote, McCarthy also indicated his party will prioritize fighting so-called "woke indoctrination" in U.S. schools, fully embracing attacks on LGBTQ+ students, families, and teachers that have ramped up in state legislatures in recent years and efforts to stop educators from discussing institutional racism in the United States.

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Mon Jan 09, 2023 3:40 pm

Biden just gave me a raise. In SS.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Brian Peacock
Tipping cows since 1946
Posts: 37953
Joined: Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:44 am
About me: Ablate me:
Location: Location: Location:
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:04 pm

L'Emmerdeur wrote:Yee-haw! Saddle up and ride, buckaroos!

'McCarthy Pledges Repeal of IRS Funding Meant to Target Wealthy Tax Cheats'
Soon after the U.S. House reconvenes Monday to vote on the rules package containing many of the concessions House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made to secure to votes of far-right Republicans, the party is also expected to introduce what the new leader said early Saturday would be its "very first bill": a proposal repealing new Internal Revenue Service funding meant to help audit the wealthiest Americans.

About $80 billion was included in the Inflation Reduction Act last year, with IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig saying the funding would only be used to increase audits of households making $400,000 per year or more.

"The resources in the reconciliation package will get us back to historical norms in areas of challenge for the agency—large corporate and global high-net-worth taxpayers," Rettig wrote in a letter to the Senate in August.

The funding is supported by two-thirds of Americans, according to a 2021 University of Maryland poll, but McCarthy and his fellow Republicans have lambasted the Democrats' effort to better equip the IRS to confront tax evasion by those with the highest incomes, falsely claiming President Joe Biden has provided the agency with an "army of 87,000 new IRS agents" who "will be coming for you—with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75,000."

McCarthy's plan to repeal the funding, said ACLU communications strategist Gillian Branstetter on Saturday, would actually "incentivize the agency to target poor people," for whom audits are less expensive for the federal government because they lack the resources to engage in a legal battle with the IRS.

...

Social Security and Medicare have also been named as programs that the Republicans could push to significantly cut as the government seeks to raise the debt ceiling and pay for its existing obligations.

Addressing the House early Saturday after winning the speakership on the 15th vote, McCarthy also indicated his party will prioritize fighting so-called "woke indoctrination" in U.S. schools, fully embracing attacks on LGBTQ+ students, families, and teachers that have ramped up in state legislatures in recent years and efforts to stop educators from discussing institutional racism in the United States.
They're the real Anarchists.
Rationalia relies on voluntary donations. There is no obligation of course, but if you value this place and want to see it continue please consider making a small donation towards the forum's running costs.
Details on how to do that can be found here.

.

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice.
There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

Frank Zappa

"This is how humanity ends; bickering over the irrelevant."
Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
.

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:17 pm

MTG moves past Jewish space lasers
https://www.foxnews.com/shows/media-buz ... e-game.amp
to a more conventional "let's strip some benefits" from the white working class that voted for her. They don't need healthcare. They will die of gunshot wounds anyway.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 12, 2023 2:51 pm

Weaponized deep state in trouble now:
House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio gave an example of how Republicans will use the case of Biden’s documents to frame a broader political argument that will be a headache for the White House. He said on Fox News Thursday that “the double standard is obvious” and asked “where’s the raid?” His comment did not acknowledge the fact that the FBI search of Trump’s Florida resort last year took place on the basis of a court-approved warrant and came after the ex-president resisted handing over documents over which at various times he falsely claimed ownership.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/politics ... index.html
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Thu Jan 12, 2023 9:21 pm

Hunter Biden laptop committee to work on terrible deeds:
But Weiss, people familiar with the investigation say, appears to be focused on a less politically explosive set of possible charges stemming from his failure to meet filing deadlines for his 2016 and 2017 tax returns, and questions about whether he falsely claimed at least $30,000 in deductions for business expenses.

Weiss is also said to be considering charging Hunter Biden, who has openly acknowledged his years of struggle with drugs and alcohol, with lying on a U.S. government form that he filled out to purchase a handgun in 2018.

That October, Hunter Biden borrowed $2 million from a wealthy Los Angeles writer and lawyer named Kevin Morris, with whom he had become friends, and he paid the IRS the full amount that his accountants estimated he owed. His liens were similarly paid.

https://news.yahoo.com/hunter-bidens-ta ... 14839.html
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
L'Emmerdeur
Posts: 5700
Joined: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:04 pm
About me: Yuh wust nightmaya!
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Fri Jan 13, 2023 3:22 pm

Republicans can't get enough of that sweet, sweet Trump shoe leather. The flavor is irresistable!

'Expunging one of Trump’s impeachments is now on the table for GOP'
At a Capitol Hill press conference yesterday, a reporter reminded House Speaker Kevin McCarthy about some of his members’ interest in “expunging” at least one of Donald Trump’s presidential impeachments. Asked whether that’s something he’d support, the California Republican didn’t say no. The Washington Post reported:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he’s willing to take a look at expunging an impeachment of former president Donald Trump by the Democratic-led House. ... Asked at a news conference about the prospect of an expungement now that Republicans control the House, McCarthy said, “I would understand why members would want to bring that forward.”
It’s not just McCarthy. The conservative Washington Times reported overnight that several House Republicans want to “give serious consideration to exonerating” the former president.

“I would certainly be interested in it,” Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia told the newspaper. Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas added that he’s “definitely interested” in expunging both impeachments.

This is bizarre, of course, but it’s not coming out of nowhere. Circling back to our earlier coverage, Trump himself has helped fuel such chatter.

Just two days after his first Senate impeachment trial, the then-president told reporters, “Should they expunge the impeachment in the House? They should because it was a hoax.”

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:19 pm

Kevin McCarthy and his insurrectionists have first chance to throw a wrench into the economy.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/politics ... index.html
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:16 pm

Flawed Jan 6th investigation in secrecy!
https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status ... m7r-YsAAAA
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sat Jan 14, 2023 7:46 pm

MSNBC
One can expect that Republicans will spend the next several months talking in the most general of terms about the evils of deficit spending in order to gin up support for the debt ceiling showdown that is coming. It’s really the only way to justify what they will try to do — and there is little reason to take sudden turn to fiscal responsibility seriously. There’s little reason to believe that the Biden administration will openly negotiate with the GOP as they hold the American economy hostage to their demands. And there’s even less reason to believe that they will win public support for cutting Social Security and Medicare. To an extent, they likely haven’t realized, House Republicans have painted themselves into a corner on the debt issue. And if they do force a debt default they will almost certainly pay the biggest political price. In short, the first week of House GOP rule is off to a great start!
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:08 pm

She is a Colorado hillbilly, not sure why she keeps using the Southern term

Lauren Boebert
@laurenboebert
9h
Personal lawyers sifting through a former VP’s illegal stack of classified documents.
Not a peep from the FBI. No raid.
Liberal privilege at its finest, y’all.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

User avatar
Tero
Just saying
Posts: 47194
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
About me: 15-32-25
Location: USA
Contact:

Re: Republicans: continued

Post by Tero » Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:52 pm

But back to everyday politics.

Trump was a special case, in that he was difficult to deal with. The other party was reluctant to go with him as he would change his mind two weeks later.

Biden is more likely to deal with the GOP. Presidents are more likely to do deals, Clinton did it all the time, than other politicians. But you have to treat them nicely in the first term. The GOP is not doing that.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late

Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], L'Emmerdeur and 40 guests