December 20th, 2017 - December 21st, 2017. 401-402 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 333-334 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
CNN panel mocks Pence’s blatant the rich asshole brown-nosing: At least he didn’t call him ‘broad-shouldered’ again
A CNN panel laughs at Vice President Mike Pence (Screen cap)
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A CNN panel was none too impressed with Vice President Mike Pence’s shameless flattery of President some rich asshole this week, as panelists roundly mocked him for going out of his way to stroke the president’s ego.
CNN host Alisyn Camerota started off the discussion by declaring Pence the “winner” in the contest for “who can heap the most praise” on the rich asshole in the wake of the Republican Party’s legislative victory in tax reform.
She then played a clip of Pence telling the rich asshole that his leadership had delivered a “middle class miracle” in a tax cut bill whose long-term benefits are tilted primarily toward the wealthy and corporations — as well as to Republican lawmakers themselves.
“Look at the president’s body language!” Camerota said through laughter of the rich asshole’s reaction to Pence’s praise. “Even he’s like, ‘Take it down a notch.'”
“Or maybe he was saying, ‘That’s not good enough,'” joked panelist David Drucker.
Panelist A.B. Stoddard chimed in at the end to say that Pence is the absolute master of sucking up to the rich asshole — and to point out that this isn’t even Pence’s most blatant suck-up attempt.
“There’s no one better at this than Mike Pence,” she said. “I was just relieved he didn’t use his favorite expression ‘broad-shouldered leadership’ again.
‘Thanks Obama!’ The internet hoses the rich asshole down with mockery for claiming credit for home sales
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President some rich asshole claimed credit for unexpectedly high home sales — and social media users hurled scorn and mockery at him.
Sales of existing homes hit their highest level in nearly 11 years, after nearly stalling earlier in the year, as the South continues to recover from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
the rich asshole suggested his administration had encouraged the jump.
But other Twitter users were quick to undercut the president’s boastful claims.
You have implemented absolutely no policy that would have caused the home price rise. This is Obama's doing.
On the other hand, your new tax plans will destroy the housing market. Give it 6-10 months.
You had exactly NOTHING to do with any of this, man.
You haven't even passed a budget yet.
I know you don't know... any thing really, so I'll tell you, correlation does not equal causation
Can't wait to use this as a data point to show the effect of the limitation on the mortgage interest deduction.
This moron thinks the high home sales numbers 10 years ago was a good thing. JFC.
Trump is an idiot. New tax law will hurt home sales. Why people are buying now. #IllegitimatePresident
And what did you do to that made this happen! Do you actually think that anything you did in the last year has suddenly improved home sales! Thanks to President Obama, the home market has gradually recovered over the years. You are taking credit for Obama's accomplishments.
Because we all know how well things went when home sales hit record numbers 10 years agotwitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Home sales don't make a country GREAT. Taking care of those that CAN'T afford a roof over their heads is what makes a country great.
Thanks @BarackObama , @POTUS44 for rescuing the country after the Real Estate Market bubble exploded#ImpeachTrump#LiarInChief
This tax bill will destroy those home sales numbers. When folks can't deduct their property taxes, they will be jumping ship. Itemized deductions are what saved me lots of money. I will be screwed with this new bill. You have caused more pain and suffering since your election.
the rich asshole accuses Democrats of trying to force shutdown
BY JORDAN FABIAN - 12/21/17 09:58 AM EST
President the rich asshole on Thursday accused Democrats of trying to force a government shutdown to stunt Republicans’ momentum from their victory on taxes.
“House Democrats want a SHUTDOWN for the holidays in order to distract from the very popular, just passed, Tax Cuts. House Republicans, don’t let this happen,” the rich asshole tweeted.
The president said lawmakers should pass a stopgap spending bill “TODAY and keep our Government OPEN!”
House Democrats want a SHUTDOWN for the holidays in order to distract from the very popular, just passed, Tax Cuts. House Republicans, don’t let this happen. Pass the C.R. TODAY and keep our Government OPEN!
the rich asshole’s comments come as Republican leaders struggle to cobble together the votes to pass a spending bill.
Many Republicans have been clamoring for the rich asshole to become more vocal in the shutdown fight in order to calm GOP infighting over their spending plan.
Congress must approve a funding measure by Friday in order to avert a shutdown, which would be a damaging setback for Republicans following the passage of their sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax code.
the rich asshole and GOP lawmakers celebrated their first major legislative victory on Wednesday at the White House, but despite the president's claim, the tax bill remains unpopular, according to opinion polls.
House Republican leaders outlined a plan that would involve passing a “clean” spending bill without other measures attached that would fund the government through Jan. 19. They would vote separately on a $81 billion disaster relief package.
But the plan has run into resistance from conservatives and defense hawks, who are frustrated their priorities aren’t being addressed in the year-end bill.
GOP leaders are also unable to rely on Democratic votes because the bill does not include their demands, such as funding to address the opioid crisis and immigration.
"House Democrats are fighting to keep the government OPEN for children who need health care, DREAMers who need security, and those in need of disaster relief," the House Democratic Caucus responded on Twitter to the rich asshole.
Scott Wong contributed to this report, which was updated at 10:14 a.m.
the rich asshole has 'no intentions' of firing Mueller, White House says
BY JORDAN FABIAN - 12/21/17 11:20 AM EST
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Watch live: UN holds emergency meeting, new vote on the rich asshole’s Jerusalem decision
BY THE HILL STAFF - 12/21/17 09:17 AM EST
The United Nations General Assembly is holding an emergency session on Thursday to discuss President the rich asshole's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
At the meeting, the General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution calling on the rich asshole administration to withdraw that decision.
The vote comes on the heels of a U.N. Security Council vote seeking to nullify any move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The U.S., which wields veto power on the council, rejected that resolution, effectively killing it.
On Wednesday President the rich asshole suggested that the United States could withhold foreign aid for countries that vote in favor of the resolution calling on the U.S. to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
In a defiant speech ahead of the General Assembly vote, Riyad Al Maliki, the Palestinian foreign affairs minister, cast the rich asshole administration’s Jerusalem decision as an affront on regional peace and security that has isolated the U.S. from the international community.
“Does the United States not wonder why it stands isolated in this position?” he said.
In a blunt response, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley warned the international body that the U.S. would remember the vote as a betrayal by the U.N. and that the vote would do nothing to affect the rich asshole administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move its embassy there.
“America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. That is what the American people want us to do, and it is the right thing to do,” she said ahead of the vote. “No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that. But this vote will make a difference in how Americans view the U.N.”
Watch live in the video above.
Sarah Sanders: ‘For 1000th time, no intention of firing Mueller’ because ‘this hoax will wrap up very soon’
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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders insisted for what she said was the “1000th time” on Thursday that President some rich asshole had no plans to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller even though she described his investigation as a “hoax.”
Fox News host Bill Hemmer pointed out during an interview with the White House press secretary that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) had recently spoken out on the Senate floor about the possibility of the rich asshole firing Mueller. Warner noted that the president had fired former FBI Director James Comey after vowing not to.
Hemmer also wondered if the rich asshole agreed with Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) assertion that federal government employees should be investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly trying to undermine the rich asshole’s election.
“I think it’s something that certainly should be looked at,” Sanders opined, adding that she would “address Sen.
Warner’s concern — for the 1000th time, we have no intention of firing Bob Mueller.”
Warner’s concern — for the 1000th time, we have no intention of firing Bob Mueller.”
“We’re continuing to work closely and cooperate with him,” she continued. “We look forward to seeing this hoax wrap up very soon. We think it is just further evidence that the Democrats have no plan, they have no agenda, they have nothing to talk to about other than attacking this president.”
“While they’ve been focused on Russia, this president has been focused on America,” Sanders insisted. “And hopefully some of the Democrats will make some New Year’s resolutions to come back and talk about working with this president to help Americans instead of working to attack this president.”
Watch the video below from Fox News.
WATCH: Ex-the rich asshole evangelical adviser says he knew he was wasting his time after two meetings
A.R. Bernard, a former member of President some rich asshole's evangelical advisory board (Screen cap).
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A.R. Bernard, the pastor of the Christian Cultural Center Megachurch in Brooklyn, New York, went on Samantha Bee’s TBS show this week to talk about why he walked away from President some rich asshole’s evangelical advisory board.
During the interview, Bee asked Bernard when he knew that he’d made a mistake in signing up as a rich asshole evangelical adviser.
“Meeting two,” Bernard replied.
Bee then asked him what he thought he could possibly achieve by being a member of the rich asshole’s evangelical advisory board.
“I thought that I would be a voice, a minority voice, at the table,” he said. “To help influence policy, ideas, initiatives.”
However, Bernard says he quickly realized that he would not have any such influence over any kind of administration policy.
“Fast forward to May 27, I’m sitting in the [White House] Blue Room next to [the rich asshole], having dinner,” he explained. “I seized a good 15, 20 minutes to talk about the inner city… It was like a person so fascinated with being where they are, that that was the most important thing.”
Even though the rich asshole didn’t listen to any of his ideas, Bernard said that the rich asshole’s presidency might still prove useful in that it’s forcing America to confront its problems with racism in a way that it hadn’t done in years.
“So this is ripping off a very healthy and lovely band-aid to reveal the rot at the core of humanity?” Bee asked.
“Mm-hm,” Bernard confirmed.
Watch the video below.
Tone Deaf the rich asshole: Congrats Rep. Scalise On Losing Weight After You Almost Died
some rich asshole just signed the GOP tax scam into law. Of course, that meant that he invited all of his craven, cruel GOP sycophants down from their perches on Capitol Hill to celebrate in the Rose Garden at the White House. Now, that part is bad enough – celebrating tax cuts for a bunch of rich hedge fund managers and huge corporations at the expense of everyday Americans. Of course, the rich asshole is beside himself with glee, as this represents his first major legislative win since he started squatting in the White House almost a year ago. Thanks to said glee, in true Trumpian style, he gave a free-wheeling address, and a most curious subject came up as the rich asshole was thanking the goons from the Hill. Somehow, the rich asshole veered away from tax cuts, and started talking about the Congressional baseball shooting that happened over the summer.
In that shooting, Rep. Steve Scalise, who is also the House Majority Whip, was shot and almost lost his life. Thanks to this tragic and stunning act of political violence, Scalise had a long recovery; in fact he is still in physical therapy. But, of course, vain and looks-obsessed the rich asshole decided that he would congratulate Scalise, not on his survival and on his miraculous recovery, but on the massive amount of weight Scalise lost while he was practically dying. And make no mistake – Scalise is VERY lucky to be alive. According to doctors, when he arrived at the hospital, Scalise was actually, quote, in “imminent risk of death.” Here is the quote, via Twitter:
How stunningly tone-deaf does one have to be to say something like that? I never thought I’d say this about a Republican that I, by all reasonable accounts, absolutely loathe, but I feel sorry for him. I am sorry he got shot, and I am even sorrier that he now has to stand there and listen to that orange buffoon talk about him like that.
I am sure that Scalise is a much tougher man than the rich asshole, though. I am equally sure that he also knows that the rich asshole is an international embarrassment and a crazy man who never should have been allowed anywhere near the White House.
Back in June, President the rich asshole allowed almost his entire Cabinet to speak, one by one, in praise of him. And praise him they did, with each being more effusive than the last. They called it an “incredible honor” and a “blessing” to serve him. They said they were “humbled” and “privileged” to be part of his team. They talked about how much Americans loved the rich asshole.
At Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, Vice President Pence decided he'd just handle praising the rich asshole for the entire team.
Over nearly three minutes, Pence offered plaudit after plaudit after plaudit, praising the rich asshole's vision, his words, his strategy and his results in light of the passage of tax cuts. By the end, Pence offered 14 separate commendations for the rich asshole in less than three minutes -- math that works out to one every 12.5 seconds. And each bit of praise was addressed directly to the rich asshole, who was seated directly across the table.
Here's the full list:
1. “Thank you for seeing, through the course of this year, an agenda that truly is restoring this country.”
2. “You described it very well, Mr. President.”
3. “You've restored American credibility on the world stage.”
4. “You've signed more bills rolling back federal red tape than any president in American history.”
5. “You've unleashed American energy.”
6. “You've spurred an optimism in this country that's setting records.”
7. “You promised the American people in that campaign a year ago that you would deliver historic tax cuts, and it would be a 'middle-class miracle.' And in just a short period of time, that promise will be fulfilled.”
8. “I’m deeply humbled, as your vice president, to be able to be here."
9. “Because of your leadership, Mr. President, and because of the strong support of the leadership in the Congress of the United States, you're delivering on that middle-class miracle.”
10.“You've actually got the Congress to do, as you said, what they couldn’t do with [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska] for 40 years.”
11. “You got the Congress to do, with tax cuts for working families and American businesses, what they haven’t been able to do for 31 years.”
12. “And you got Congress to do what they couldn’t do for seven years, in repealing the individual mandate in Obamacare.”
13. “Mostly, Mr. President, I’ll end where I began and just tell you, I want to thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank you for speaking on behalf of and fighting every day for the forgotten men and women of America.”
14. “Because of your determination, because of your leadership, the forgotten men and women of America are forgotten no more. And we are making America great again.”
Pence paused from praising the rich asshole only briefly to also praise the other people seated around the table. But in doing so, he made clear that it was because the rich asshole would want him to — and that these were members of a team that the rich asshole was savvy enough to have assembled.
“I know you would have me also acknowledge the people around this table, Mr. President,” Pence said, calling them “your outstanding team” and “your great legislative team.”
Then he got back to the most important bit of business: praising the rich asshole more directly.
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On Wednesday, the House voted again to approve the Republican tax bill, sending the legislation to the president’s desk.
Then things got weird.
President the rich asshole celebrated passage of the Republican tax cut bill with a cabinet meeting that felt more like a gathering of the cult of the rich asshole.
After the rich asshole bragged about doing “a job like no administration has done,” the president asked HUD Secretary Ben Carson to say a prayer. But before Carson started, the rich asshole addressed reporters, telling them to stick around because they “need the prayer more than I do, I think.”
“Maybe a good solid prayer and they’ll be honest, Ben, is that possible?” the rich asshole asked.
Carson proceeded to offer a prayer where he thanked God “for the unity in Congress that has presented an opportunity for our economy to expand, so that we can fight the corrosive debt that has been destroying our future.” The tax bill approved by congressional Republicans will add at least $2 trillion to the national debt.
the rich asshole then asked Vice President Mike Pence to say a few words. Pence responded with a prayer, of sorts, to the rich asshole.
Pence effusively praised the president and thanked him “for seeing through the course of this year an agenda that truly is restoring this country” and for spurring “an optimism in this country that’s setting records.”
“Because of your determination, because of your leadership, the forgotten men and women of American are forgotten no more, and we are making America great again,” Pence added, while the rich asshole sat scowling with his arms crossed.
the rich asshole then wrapped up the meeting by blasting the United Nations, saying of countries that don’t vote with the United States, “let them vote against us, we’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”
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U.S. President some rich asshole on Wednesday threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favor of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care," the rich asshole told reporters at the White House.
The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday — at the request of Arab and Muslim countries — to vote on a draft resolution, which was vetoed by the United States on Monday in the 15-member U.N. Security Council.
The remaining 14 Security Council members voted in favor of the Egyptian-drafted resolution, which did not specifically mention the United States or the rich asshole but which expressed "deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem."
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that the rich asshole had asked her to "report back on those countries who voted against us."
She bluntly echoed that call in a Twitter post: "The U.S. will be taking names."
Several senior diplomats said Haley's warning was unlikely to change many votes in the General Assembly, where such direct, public threats are rare.
Miroslav Lajcak, president of the General Assembly, declined to comment on the rich asshole's remarks, but added: "It's the right and responsibility of member states to express their views."
A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also declined to comment on the rich asshole's remarks on Wednesday.
"I like the message that Nikki sent yesterday at the United Nations, for all those nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the Security Council, or they vote against us potentially at the assembly," the rich asshole said.
'BULLYING'
The rich asshole abruptly reversed decades of U.S. policy this month when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, generating outrage from Palestinians and the Arab world and concern among Washington's Western allies.
He also plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The draft U.N. resolution calls on all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.
A senior diplomat from a Muslim country, speaking on condition of anonymity, said of Haley's letter: "States resort to such blatant bullying only when they know they do not have a moral or legal argument to convince others."
A senior Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, described it as "poor tactics" at the United Nations "but pretty good for Haley 2020 or Haley 2024," referring to speculation that Haley might run for higher office.
"She's not going to win any votes in the General Assembly or the Security Council, but she is going to win some votes in the U.S. population," the Western diplomat said.
A senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, agreed Haley was unlikely to sway many U.N. states.
"We are missing some leadership here from the U.S. and this type of letter is definitely not helping to establish U.S. leadership in the Middle East peace process," the diplomat said.
Israel considers Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based there. Palestinians want the capital of an independent Palestinian state to be in the city's eastern sector, which Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed in a move never recognized internationally.
"The first name that she should write down is Bolivia," Bolivia's U.N. Ambassador Sacha Sergio Llorentty Solíz said of Haley's message. "We regret the arrogance and disrespect to the sovereign decision of member states and to multilateralism."
Reporting by Roberta Rampton; writing by Doina Chiacu; editing by Jonathan Oatis and David Gregorio
Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal pulled editorial detailing the rich asshole’s mob ties: report
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corporation (World Economic Forum/Flickr)
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Billionaire right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal delayed and then killed an editorial revealing some rich asshole’s mob ties, Esquire reported.
WSJ editor Paul Gigot, delayed an editorial by Ted Cruz supporter James Freeman until after the rich asshole was the presumed nominee. Freeman’s article supposedly detailed ties between the rich asshole and organized crime.
The piece was never published and Freeman became a rich asshole supporter, writing, “America managed to survive Mr. Clinton’s two terms, so it can stand the far less vulgar some rich asshole.”
As Vanity Fair reported that Murdoch’s American newspaper has suffered a significant brain drain due to the editorial page embarrassing the paper’s journalists.
New York magazine scribe Jonathan Chait noted “the rich asshole’s Mafia connections are the sort of scandal that would have killed an ordinary candidacy but barely even register on the outsize scale of the rich asshole scandals.”
“On the subject of the president’s authoritarianism and contempt for governing norms, the Journal
ESPN’s Jemele Hill stands firm: the rich asshole is white supremacist who bullies reporters of color
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Sports commentator Jemele Hill reiterated her stance on President some rich asshole in a podcast interview with former Houston Texans’ running back Arian Foster, saying that the president is a white supremacist who intentionally bullies journalists of color.
“You were a target,” said Foster, “by a sitting president. That’s f*cking insane. The president of the United States had something to say about you.”
“That’s going in the obit, for sure,” Hill replied.
Hill was suspended from ESPN after she said on Twitter that the rich asshole is a racist white supremacist.
When asked to explain what happened, Hill said, “I fired off some tweets that I probably shouldn’t have.”
She explained that she was in a “back and forth” with a rich asshole voter who was “trying to justify his voting decision with things that I thought were kind of inaccurate.”
“I thought everybody knew. I thought water was wet,” said Hill regarding the idea that the rich asshole is a white supremacist. “I didn’t think I was saying anything that was shocking. It had been said before and unfortunately people comb through your replies now and especially one person in particular who, you know, is kind of drumming this anti-ESPN, liberal ESPN, banging that drum that was like catnip for him. Right, catnip. And I refuse to say his name cos he don’t deserve the publicity.”
Hill was referring to Clay Travis, the Fox Sports reporter who whiffed his first major media appearance — and earned an icy blast of internet ridicule — by declaring, “I love boobs!” in the middle of a CNN appearance, prompting anchor Brooke Baldwin to cut the segment short.
“I’m done, I’m sorry, I’m done,” Baldwin said. “This conversation is over, yanking mics, bye, see ya. That was entirely inappropriate.”
Later in the interview, Hill said, “Obviously, I’m not the only journalist to be attacked by him.”
“And they’re mostly colored people,” said Foster.
“There seems to be a commonality about all of them,” responded Hill.
In the year that he has been president, the the rich asshole administration has leveled vicious attacks at Univision’s Jorge Ramos, American Urban Radio Networks’ April Ryan, CNN’s Don Lemon and other black and Latino reporters, public officials and athletes.
Listen to Hill talk about the rich asshole, embedded below:
‘A shit sandwich’: Republicans already bracing for the aftermath of their big tax win
Paul Ryan, some rich asshole and Mitch McConnell
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The Republican Party’s elation over the successful passage of their wildly unpopular tax bill is likely to be short-lived say GOP strategists and researchers, according to a Wednesday dispatch from Politico.
Obstacles loom for the party, including a possible government shutdown and Democrats’ determination to keep government subsidies flowing to enrollees in the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA). Among Republicans in the House of Representatives, the fear is that Democrats will insist on the subsidies in order to keep the federal government from shutting down, an act that could have disastrous political consequences for the president and the GOP.
“It’s kinda like leaving a hospital finding out you’re cancer free and getting run over by a Mack truck,” said Republican Study Committee Chairman Mark Walker of North Carolina. Walker said he’s pleased about the passage of the tax bill but horrified that Republicans would even entertain the notion of enacting the subsidy payments.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) originally floated the idea of offering the subsidies as part of a deal to avert a shutdown on the Friday before the Christmas holiday. House Republicans have rejected the idea outright.
“That’s to say nothing of January,” wrote Politico’s Rachael Bade and Seung Min Kim, “when Congress is expected to raise strict spending caps without equivalent cuts and potentially offer deportation relief to Dreamers. Both could repel the conservative base even more.”
So while Republicans may get a temporary high from yanking millions of Americans’ healthcare away and adding more than a trillion dollars to the deficit, their “fantasy world” will soon come up against the hard realities of governing in a second year with a weak, ineffective president who could lash out at his purported allies at any time.
“Republicans throughout Washington have begun calling the January legislative agenda the ‘shit sandwich,’” Politico said.
Paul Ryan reportedly warned members of the House Republican caucus on Wednesday that the tax win may be sweet, but they may have to cave to Democrats on Obamacare subsidies, which rankled the ever-obstreperous, far right-wing House Freedom Caucus.
“It’s going to take a lot of the win away and a lot of the momentum away if we go back on our principles, and to me that’s why the [Obamacare] payments are toxic,” said Freedom Caucus member Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH).
The Freedom Caucus’ sworn enemy McConnell is reportedly anxious to do whatever is necessary to avoid a shutdown, which is making the ultra-conservative House caucus boiling mad behind the scenes.
Even if lawmakers manage to avert a shutdown, wrote Bade and Kim, January is going to be difficult for Republicans because they will need Democratic votes to pass bills on spending and immigration, concessions that Democrats may be unwilling to offer, still smarting from the draconian tax bill.
“That means it’s only a matter of time before Republicans cut loose their right flank,” Politico said. “But perhaps when that happens, and the intra-party bickering reaches a new crescendo, they’ll look back to the day tax reform passed with fond memories.”
WATCH: the rich asshole just inadvertently ruined one of the major GOP talking points on tax reform
President some rich asshole celebrating the passage of his tax plan. Image via screengrab.
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While celebrating the passage of the GOP’s tax bill, President some rich asshole admitted that tax cuts for businesses were the driving factor behind the bill his party sold as one meant to help the middle class.
“The plan also lowers the taxes on American businesses from 35 percent all the way down to 21 percent,” the president said during a press conference Wednesday. “That’s probably the biggest factor in this plan.”
He went on to claim that the plan “is really, above all else, a jobs bill,” echoing the faulty logic of trickle-down economics. For conservative proponents of this bill and many other plans like it, wealth will “trickle down” from wealthy CEOs to middle and lower class employees because, if provided a stimulus like a massive tax break, they will use their money to create jobs. But former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and many others have said that plans based in this logic never work as intended, and executives end up pocketing the money supposedly meant to boost the middle class’ spending power.
As The Washington Post noted, the rich asshole’s admission offers proof that the GOP “deceptively sold” the bill as one meant for the middle class. The White House’s own Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the bill’s focus was “primarily, and priority number one, is middle-class Americans,” and Republican leaders echoed that claim.
‘Send him knee pads for Christmas’: Internet hilariously roasts Mike Pence’s ‘ass-kissing’ cabinet speech to the rich asshole
Mike Pence speaking in Cabinet meeting (Photo: Screen capture and Defense Intelligence Agency)
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During another White House cabinet meeting, President some rich asshole’s team seemed to play “dear leader.”
Vice President Mike Pence gushed over the president, his family and the accomplishments of the ich asshole White House.
“I want to thank you, Mr. President. I want to thank you for speaking on behalf of and fighting every day for the forgotten men and women of America,” Pence said after the rich asshole touted the corporate tax rate being lowered.
Shades of Reince from VP Pence as he praises Trump at today's Cabinet meeting: “Congratulations and thank you. Thank you for seeing through the course of this year an agenda that truly is restoring this country."
Here’s a clip of the bizarre camera angle looking over Pence’s white head at the president:
The internet was in rare form, despite the religious holidays typically sparking niceties. You can see the best below:
@ananavarro does Pence lay at his feet and kiss his toes? Hope Trump could get his big head through the door. twitter.com/ananavarro/sta…
When our President and the Cabinet form for these TV moments, I feel the overwhelming need to take a hot shower. Pence is a putz too.— Shawn Duffy (@sk_duffy) December 20, 2017
Do you think Pence's lips are chapped? twitter.com/PhilipRucker/s…
.@VP to @POTUS: "Congratulations and thank you. Thank you for seeing through the course of this year an agenda that truly is restoring this country." pic.twitter.com/fQRppuUGgF
Mike Pence just left me ill and ashamed after his public ass kissing. Disgusting.
.@VP to @POTUS: "Congratulations and thank you. Thank you for seeing through the course of this year an agenda that truly is restoring this country." pic.twitter.com/fQRppuUGgF
Listening to @MikePenceVP lick @realDonaldTrump 's boots from a first person perspective is deeply unsettling.
Seriously @mike_pence how do you do this? I feel like I need a shower after that.
And now Pence is blathering on, sucking up to Trump like never before. Good God, man. Have some dignity. twitter.com/kaitlancollins…
MIKE PENCE: Because Trump can’t kiss his own ass! How embarrassing that Cabinet meeting was. An ego is a dangerous thing @realDonaldTrump @VP #Sad
Pence is kissing ass masterfully right now! It’s disgusting and awkward to listen to! My god man have some self respect!!!
Alan Dershowitz cheers attacks on Mueller: ‘He’ll lean over backwards to make close calls for the rich asshole’
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Attorney Alan Dershowitz encouraged Republicans to keep undermining special counsel Robert Mueller, because he said their efforts to influence the investigation were working.
The Harvard Law School professor emeritus appeared Wednesday morning on “Fox & Friends,” where he argued President some rich asshole would be foolish to get Mueller removed.
“I would play the refs, I would keep the pressure on Mueller,” Dershowitz said. “Mueller is very concerned about his reputation.”
Republicans — with the help of Fox News — have attacked Mueller’s credibility by accusing him of conflicts of interest, political bias and improperly obtaining evidence, and Dershowitz said that could tilt the investigation in the president’s favor.
“They have him where they want him,” Dershowitz said. “He’ll probably want to lean over backwards now to make any close calls in favor of the rich asshole, so I think it would be now foolish to try to fire him, which would create a political scandal, probably move toward impeachment — although there’d be no justification for that.”
“They should leave it be,” he added. “If they want to keep the pressure on, keep the pressure on.”
Host Steve Doocy agreed the president’s allies were working the refs, so to speak, and Dershowitz said the strategy was working brilliantly.
“He’s playing right into their hands,” Dershowitz said. “I have to tell you, I had an enormous amount of respect for Mueller having seen him up close when he was in Boston and in the government. He is not playing this effectively, he is being sloppy.”
He again cited purported improprieties hyped by Fox News in recent weeks, including politically charged text messages from an FBI agent removed from the probe, and the obtaining of transition team emails from the General Services Administration and then from the rich asshole’s lawyers.
“You wear belt and suspenders when you are going after the president, you get a warrant,” Dershowitz said.
Ted Lieu snaps at Sarah Sanders: ‘I wish the rich asshole administration would admit their errors’
Ted Lieu (D-CA) and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Photos: Screen capture)
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) took to CNN Wednesday to respond to the Tuesday Twitter feud that broke out with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The exchange erupted after The Hill misquoted the White House press secretary after the briefing. The erroneous tweet cited Sanders saying that the White house “begged Democrats” to get involved in tax reform. Lieu responded to the tweet and @PressSec saying she was a liar. Sanders told Lieu to stop tweeting and go to work.
Speaking with CNN Wednesday, Lieu said that because The Hill tweet wasn’t correct, his response also wasn’t. “I’m totally fine admitting errors,” Lieu told Alisyn Camerota. “I wish the rich asshole administration would also admit errors when that happens. And I would urge the press secretary to give her own advice to me, also to her boss.”
Camerota clarified that Lieu meant that the rich asshole should also spend less time tweeting and more time doing his job.
“Oh yes, I would love if the president did that,” Lieu said.
Watch the full exchange below along with Lieu’s comments on the GOP’s tax bill:
‘End of History’ author predicted the rich asshole would be a failed autocrat — here’s how his forecast holds up so far
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Earlier this year, “The End of History” author Francis Fukuyama predicted that President some rich asshole would try — and fail — to become an American-style strongman.
During a Slate podcast with Yascha Mounk, Fukuyama said that it was entirely possible for a rich asshole-like figure to permanently destroy American democracy — but he didn’t believe that the rich asshole himself was capable of doing so.
Part of the problem, Fukuyama argued, is that the rich asshole has always lacked the kind of legitimacy that most aspiring dictators have when they take power. He lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million votes, and he entered office with an approval rating in the mid-40s, which was unprecedentedly low for an incoming president.
Additionally, noted Fukuyama, the rich asshole seemed to burn what little goodwill he had in office with a bungled attempt at implementing a travel ban and a botched push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
“He’s made big strategic mistakes that a smarter future demagogue may not,” he said. “The way he could have become Erdogan or Putin is if he had really tried to reach out to people other than the narrow base of his fanatical supporters after the election… What really creates a tyrant is popular support, where your opponents are afraid to oppose you.”
Even though the rich asshole is on the cusp of getting a major win with his party’s tax cut legislation, Fukuyama’s prediction that he would not be effective at consolidating power seems to have held up.
the rich asshole has a special counsel investigating whether his presidential campaign colluded with Russia and whether the president himself obstructed justice to block the FBI’s investigation into potential Russian collusion. the rich asshole’s party has recently suffered a string of electoral defeats, most embarrassingly in Alabama, where Democrat Doug Jones scored an upset by defeating the rich asshole-endorsed Republican Roy Moore.
And finally, the rich asshole’s approval rating remains mired in the 30s, which is unprecedentedly low for a president at the end of just his first year.
Ted Cruz: Democrats killed my giveaway to homeschoolers because they are against people being ‘really happy’
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday accused Democrats of killing a special tax deduction for homeschoolers because they are against happiness.
While appearing of Fox & Friends, Cruz said that Democrats were to blame after it was determined that his amendment allowing the deduction of homeschooling expenses violated Senate parliamentary rules and would have to be removed from the Republicans’ tax bill.
“It’s because the Democrats have an enormous antipathy towards homeschoolers,” Cruz told Fox News. “The main argument the Democratic staff made against this is they said, ‘Well, gosh, 529 plans are really, really popular — people like them a lot. And if you extend them to homeschoolers, well, people are going to be really happy. That’s going to make a difference in their lives. And we, the Democrats, don’t want to see that happen on this bill so it needs to be cut out.'”
“Too popular,” Fox News host Pete Hegseth agreed.
“The [Senate] parliamentarian bought that bogus argument,” Cruz concluded.
Watch the video below.
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