Bruce Bartlett
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Take Nixon in the deepest days of his Watergate paranoia, subtract 50 IQ points, add Twitter, and you have Trump today.
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I will not be able to vote for my old friend Ed Gillespie for governor. His pandering to racists & neo-Confederates is reprehensible.
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The stock market just noticed that an unstable lunatic is president of the United States.
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Rush Limbaugh left nothing behind. No one quotes him, no one references him, his vast fortune didn't go to support any of the causes he supposedly believed in. The various Fox News talking heads should remember this. They will leave nothing when they are gone.
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Should be noted that Sarah Sanders used her official White House press secretary Twitter account to try and hurt a private business and settle a personal score. If anyone in the Obama administration had done that she would have called for their immediate dismissal.
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Why is this news? When Brett Kavanaugh was deeply in debt and suddenly had his debts paid off, no one in the mainstream media cared.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez currently has less than $7,000 in savings, her campaign reported last week. via
@CNBCMakeIt
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I am not familiar with any period in American history when an entire political party was as frightened of its own leader as Republicans are of Trump. They are all scared little children without an ounce of honor, integrity or courage.
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The lesson of this election is that when the media normalize racism, sexism, fascism, lying & stupidity, it has political consequences.
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Literally the second the ink is dry on the tax cut, deficit hawks will emerge from their hibernation, where they have had nary a word of criticism about increasing the deficit by $1.5 trillion, to demand that SS & Medicare be slashed b/c the deficit has mysteriously increased.
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The New York Times should be ashamed of itself for describing Marco Rubio this way: "A longtime champion of the working class..." This is a total crock. No Republican gives a rat's ass about the working class. Their tax bill proves they only care about the ultra-wealthy.
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The real cost of a Treasury default isn't that the economy will crash and unemployment rise, it's that interest rates on Treasury securities will be higher FOREVER. This will cost taxpayers billions of dollars per year FOREVER. And for nothing.
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Biden was never my choice for the Democratic nomination. I supported Warren and would have supported several others before I got to Biden. But his election is literally a matter of life and death. I will do everything in my power to help him win.
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Here's how it works--the "liberal" New York Times has 3 right-wing columnists who each write 2 columns a week; the right wing Wall Street Journal has no liberal columnists. "Liberal" PBS just created a new show for conservatives, no liberals ever appear on right-wing Fox.
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The most racist statement I have ever heard from a sitting US congressman.
Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.
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Democrats are so stupid. The obvious thing to say about the Al Franken business is that he will resign the day Trump resigns.
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In other news, director of the Census Bureau was forced out today, giving GOP opportunity to do more gerrymandering.
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Trump has spent more than $70 MILLION of taxpayer dollars golfing. That would provide a lot of aid to Puerto Rico.
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Marco Rubio admits that the huge tax give-away for the rich he will vote for tomorrow just sets the stage for slashing Social Security & Medicare later. If only there were some elderly people in Florida who were concerned about this.
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Obama left Trump with fully-stocked warehouses full of pandemic supplies. When Trump says that Obama didn't, Trump is lying.
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I hereby pledge the same degree of loyalty to President Trump that his party gave to President Obama for 8 long years.
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Kansas raises taxes and its economy booms--the exact opposite of what Art Laffer, Steve Moore and other right-wing economists predicted.
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The funny thing is all the Republicans voting to increase the deficit by at least $1.5 trillion will switch 180 degrees to being deficit-hawks the second Trump signs the tax cut. They will blame the deficit entirely on spending & the media will let them get away with it.
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Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups: "If you had to guess, what percentage of American adults..."
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Did CBS radio hire Joseph Goebbels to give commentaries during World War II to provide balance for Edward R. Murrow's news reports? I think not. So why does CNN hire Trumpsters to propagandize its audience? It's not as if Trumpsters lack outlets for their bullshit.
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So Kavanaugh has a calendar from 1982 that does not show any rapes on his schedule and a list of 65 women who say he didn't rape them. Is this the sort of evidence he finds compelling in his courtroom?
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Huge difference--Clarence Thomas is one of the most powerful public officials in America, Hunter Biden is a private citizen with no power whatsoever. Conflating their ethics problems is "both sides" at its worst.
Hunter Biden and Clarence Thomas both show what happens when lax rules let unethical people get away with legal sleaze
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That argument didn't work at Nuremberg either.
ICE agents complain about Nazi comparisons, say they're only enforcing the laws
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I'm old enough to remember when firing weapons across the border into another country was an act of war.
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Has any Republican in Congress said a word about the crisis in Puerto Rico? Just asking.
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As predicted, CNN's lurch to the right cost it viewers on the left while gaining zero new viewers on the right.
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@Liz_Cheney
@CesarConda
@AOC
You monumental dope, concentration camps and death camps were two different things. What you support are concentration camps at the border, whether you like it or not.
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The Trump regime is the most corrupt in American history.
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If we don't starve people how can we force them to take shitty jobs?
Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan both agreed today on Fox news that the food stamp program needs to come to an end
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Prediction--the second the tax cut is signed, OMB will issue new projections showing the deficit is far worse than imagined. Bond market & Pete Peterson-funded groups will demand that entitlements be slashed.
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@DineshDSouza
Generally speaking, people who believe that Black people are inherently stupid or inferior to white people are considered racists in our society.
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@fawfulfan
Keep in mind that if you do report illegal income, all the usual tax deductions apply. For example, the cost of drugs, payments to distributors, bribes to cops etc. These are all legitimate business expenses.
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I don't think President Biden realizes how dismaying it is to his supporters to see him negotiating with a bunch of unserious clowns attempting to extort totally unjustified policies by threatening to blow up the world financial system unless their idiotic demands are met.
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I'm old enough to remember when the State Department protested this sort of thing, from 1945 to 1-19-17.
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White House says we don't have the money to pay for a trivial amount of disaster relief but we absolutely must raise the deficit by $1.5 trillion to give the Trumps of the world a huge tax give-away.
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The lesson of the last 8 years is that Republicans can do anything, no matter how undemocratic, without ever paying a political price.
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If Susan Collins believed her bullshit rationalization for the tax cut, she's stupid. I don't think she's stupid. I think she's a brazen liar.
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Strange how the media never tired of repeating Trump's baseless charges against Hillary, but seldom ever reports about the ongoing suffering in Puerto Rico, children going w/o care b/c Congress can't be bothered to renew CHIP, or the grossly excessive time Trump spends golfing.
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I don't care how far left the Democrats move, I will still vote for the Democratic nominee over Trump. The only question is what philosophy will gain the maximum number of electoral votes. Not yet clear to me what that is.
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Neville Chamberlain on Adolph Hitler, 1938: I believe him.
Donald Trump on Vladimir Putin, 2017: I believe him.
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If Joe Biden was smart (I know, I know) he would announce a federal maternal care program tomorrow that paid for all deliveries and other birth costs, months of maternal and postmaternal leave, and child subsidies until age 18. Dare Republicans to oppose it.
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I'm preserving this tweet because Dinesh will probably delete it. I would.
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Free article. The Supreme Court is an ethical cesspool, and Chief Justice Roberts does nothing about it.
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God help me. I'm now retweeting Bill Kristol not out of irony but because I actually agree with what he is saying.
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The issue is not whether charges against Franken are true; I assume they are & charges against Trump are also true. But I don't hear progressives demanding that Trump resign, only that Franken resign. It's the double standard that the left enforces on itself that drives me crazy.
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We don't allow foreigners to make campaign contributions because they are not eligible to vote here. So why can corporations make campaign contributions when they cannot vote?
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Complete nonsense. They never believed that lie for a second. The loss of revenue was always expected and a prime feature of the tax cut. The goal was to create a deficit so large that Social Security & Medicare could be slashed.
The striking thing is that nearly everyone in the party—from Mitch McConnell to Susan Collins, Paul Ryan to Jim Jordan—bought into the idea that the tax cuts would pay for themselves even as every credible analysis (including conservative think tank studies) said they wouldn’t.
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@MohanadElshieky
I am old enough to remember when conservatives opposed such Gestapo tactics because they actually believed in liberty. Good times.
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The stupidest, most incompetent Treasury secretary in history.
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Why was slavery racist when 100% of slaves were black?
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@TuckerCarlson
: "If the [
@NFL
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Trump is on track to spend $1 billion in 4 years housing his wife in NYC and vacationing in Mar-a-Lago virtually every week.
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The movement of the New York Times from the left to the right is the biggest untold media story of the last 25 years. It's disguised by the fact that the rest of the legacy media has moved further right.
Paul Krugman tells
@GregTSargent
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Baltimore Cops Carried Toy Guns to Plant on People They Shot, Trial Reveals
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Steve Mnuchin is the worst Treasury secretary in history. Alexander Hamilton is rolling over in his grave.
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@TheBudgetGuy
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Yet another example of a Trump appointee getting away with ripping off the taxpayer.
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Republicans plan to sell their tax bill as "revenue-neutral" using Laffer curve nonsense that bankrupted Kansas.
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The entire budget of Fox News should be treated as an illegal campaign contribution to Trump and the Republican Party.
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On Lawrence O'Donnell's show tonight I said that the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which lowered the corporate tax rate by 12 points, led real wages to fall for 10 years. Here is the data.
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I'm old enough to remember when Republicans were concerned about the mishandling of classified information--3 weeks ago.
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Martha Stewart went to jail for it.
Just got off a MSNBC panel in which Alan Dershowitz argued it is not a crime to lie to the FBI about a meeting with the Russians if the meeting itself was not a crime. Sheer nonsense. Lying to the FBI is a crime.
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Your daily reminder that Trump's stupidity, incompetence, corruption and criminal malfeasance made the virus far, far worse than it had to be. He has blood on his hands.
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This is what real fascists do. No hyperbole. This is fascism.
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If only there was some way Congress could pass a law without the president's signature.
Trump is digging in. He thinks the shutdown helps him with his base. Get ready for a long fight. The adults in the room are beside themselves. "We all look silly," Sen. Shelby said. w/
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After 10 years of being treated like dirt by Republicans and doing absolutely nothing to fight back, Democrats are finally developing a spine. Don't back down now!
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Whenever I see stories about Chipotle's financial problems I think about the executive who got a big bonus some years ago for cutting the food safety budget to increase profits. He probably works for OMB now.
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Keep in mind that no matter how "moderate" the Democratic nominee is, he or she will be painted by Fox and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber as far, far left. I think someone who is actually a lefty might be better at parrying these charges than a moderate.
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The article says deficit hawks are dead. It's completely wrong. Deficits hawks will reemerge more powerful than ever the second Democrats regain control of Congress. GOP will assert that deficit reduction is the Number 1 issue and the mainstream media will agree.
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Why Watergate was a walk in the park compared to the Trump disaster--in 1974 there honorable Republicans in office who put country above party. Now there are none. Zero. Nada. Not a single patriot among all the Republicans in Congress. Just cowards and toadies.
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No later than 10am tomorrow, every Republican now questioning the firing of Comey will recant and be on board 100%.
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I have said for years that if Fox News existed during the Watergate era, Nixon would have finished his term easily, never resigned. Not one Republican would have dared to suggest that he resign. Not one.
In December, I suggested that Fox News gives Trump an advantage in his battle with Mueller that Nixon never had, potentially enabling Trump to survive:
Incredible to learn now that Trump's lawyer represents Fox's top propagandist in this regard.
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Key differences between Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler--Hitler served honorably in the military, Trump didn't; Hitler was faithful to his wife, Trump cheated on all his wives; Hitler wrote a book, Trump's were all ghostwritten.
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Being White House press secretary is a very prestigious job, very easy to hire the best. Trump hired the worst. No contest. The. Worst.
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Here's another idea for Biden--a federal child support law so that fathers MUST provide 50% support for any children they father out of wedlock. A lot of guys will suddenly become pro-choice.
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When Republicans and media scolds talk about the budget deficit reaching $1 trillion, remind them that in 2001 the government was on track to literally pay off the national debt if policy just stayed on autopilot. GOP blew it up with tax cuts & wars.
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@mattklewis
What a shock! Someone on the center-right supports two pillars of the center-right! I am shocked, shocked! The only thing shocking is your gullibility.
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Any worker who supports the Trump tax bill is an idiot. It is nothing but a give-away to the rich, will do NOTHING for workers. Wise up.
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Of course she does. Her whole campaign was part of Putin's plan. Anyone who voted for her should be ashamed of themselves.
Jill Stein Downplays Russian Meddling: Media and DNC Interfered in 2016 Election Too (VIDEO)
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I'm old enough to remember when Republicans opposed executive orders in principle as unconstitutional legislating by president.
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Peter Navarro is an idiot--fact, not opinion.
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Every Catholic Republican shrugs their shoulders in unison. They care far more about what St. Trump thinks than what the Pope thinks.
Pope Francis denounces "inhumane detention camps" for migrants in Christmas message
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I hope the essential fact about the government shutdown is never forgotten--Trump engaged in extortion to get his way, and he was aided an abetted by the most amoral person ever to hold the position of Senate Majority Leader. Had the House given in to these extortionists...
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I have considerable experience working for and with politicians who weren't that bright. But they all had the wisdom to keep their mouths shut on subjects they knew nothing about, hire good staff, and let their staff speak for them as much as possible.
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I wish Democrats would understand that every time they make a concession to Republicans, Republicans don't view this as compromise, but as a sign of weakness. That's why every Democratic concession brings forth new Republican demands, rather than Republican concessions.
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Truth is the best defense against Trump.
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I wonder how many Trump voters plan on taking in their elderly parents when these cuts go through?
Double whammy of massive cuts to Medicaid in both Trumpcare & Trump budget would be a disaster for nursing home patients & their families.
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Why isn't the DNC running national ads replaying McConnell's statement on Monday that the GOP tax giveaway will require cuts in Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid? Seems like a no-brainer to me that would help every Democrat running for office.
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Some reporter should interview Jill Stein so she can explain once again why there is no difference between Hillary and Trump.
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My guess is that Scott Pruitt resigned because of some new, as-yet-unknown scandal that is about to come out. Maybe the worst one yet.
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Republicans hate higher education because it trains people to think for themselves.
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What happened to me in 2017 is I became even more of a misanthrope. Now whenever I am in a crowd of people at the airport or the mall I can't help thinking that probably half the people I am among voted for Trump. It makes me sick.
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Why don't we just take all the weapons we were going to give to Saudi Arabia and give them to Ukraine? And don't refund the money. Tell Ukraine it's a gift from the Saudis.
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Five years ago today I had the seizure that told me I had a brain tumor. When the tumor was removed, I was paralyzed for a while, lost my career & still have physical problems. But in the process I reconnected with the woman who became my wife. On balance, I came out way ahead.
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