Awful lot of contacts the Trump family have with both Russia and China officials.
The warning bells at CIA should be ringing by now.

Jared Kushner Is China’s Trump Card
How Jared Kushner, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became China's primary point of contact.
"It was a dream come true. They couldn't believe he was so compliant."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card

Not much chance of the bill passing when 4 Republican Senators voted against it.

Republicans are going to have to do better than this, if they want to be still in control next year.

Inconvenient Fact:

The Senate needs 60 votes and there are only 51 Republicans.

Therefore, if all the Republican Senators voted Yea. Nine Democrats would have to vote Yea to stop a shutdown.

Where is the compromise from BOTH Sides?

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

.... girthers."

Witty! I like a good wordplay so thank you. :^)

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Not much chance of the bill passing when 4 Republican Senators voted against it.

Republicans are going to have to do better than this, if they want to be still in control next year.

I saw this today and thought it was cute.

"There's a group of people disputing the veracity of the President's recent medical examination. They're called.... girthers."

AP Headline........"Senate Democrats Derail Bill To Avert Shutdown"..........http://www.keloland.com/news/article/politics/senate-democrats-derail-bill-to-avert-shutdown

Apparently the lamestream media (AP)is even starting to blame the Dims............Sen Orrin Hatch put it best today...."Some really stupid people are sent to Washington(sic)"......

To put it in the phraseology of the Schumerlosis "Poor Children will die because they've lost their health care insurance".....9 million children......."Doggy-doo with a Cherry on Top" will be the slogan used to defeat the Dims in the next two elections.

Thanks Nancy, and I mean that sincerely.

[edit] what the Dims should fear the most is the People discovering just how much government they can live without in the next few weeks. 1/2 the IRS on furlough.............what a tragedy!

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

I see the Republicans have shut the government down again. Simply won't allow DACA after tRump said send me the bill, I'll sign it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/more-blame-republicans-than-democrats-for-potential-government-shutdown-post-abc-poll-finds/2018/01/19/c4fce2f6-fd32-11e7-ad8c-ecbb62019393_story.html?utm_term=.32ed341196a6

By a 20-point margin, more Americans blame President Trump and Republicans rather than Democrats for a potential government shutdown, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

A 48 percent plurality says Trump and congressional Republicans are mainly responsible for the situation resulting from disagreements over immigration laws and border security, while 28 percent fault Democrats. A sizable 18 percent volunteer that both parties are equally responsible. Political independents drive the lopsided margin of blame, saying by 46 to 25 percent margin that Republicans and Trump are responsible for the situation.

Making America Great Again:
Now that there isn't net neutrality, and there are surcharges for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. there is a mad rush to levy taxes on the surcharges.

More Republican Regressive Tax Increases! Make it great!

What is regressive?

All sales taxes are regressive.

Making America Great Again:
Now that there isn't net neutrality, and there are surcharges for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. there is a mad rush to levy taxes on the surcharges.

More Republican Regressive Tax Increases! Make it great!

What is regressive?

They Doubled the Standard Deductions and Child Credits that most, who do not have high income or expensive houses use.

BTW: A couple of days ago, a friend who one would consider a lower middle-class worker. Told me that his Take Home Pay was just increased $300 per month because of what you have described as "Regressive Tax Increases".

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

Now that there isn't net neutrality, and there are surcharges for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. there is a mad rush to levy taxes on the surcharges.

The oligarchs have convinced the idiocracy this is a good idea. Corporations are people and Citizens United rule.

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Making America Great Again:
Now that there isn't net neutrality, and there are surcharges for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. there is a mad rush to levy taxes on the surcharges.

More Republican Regressive Tax Increases! Make it great!

And exactly how is Doggy-Doo different from the expletive used by President Trump?

It's feces picked up by the clean end. har...

+1

A 'Rose' by any other name.............

Although accurate. I would not use, nor encourage your use of the word you used to describe Pelosi.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

And exactly how is Doggy-Doo different from the expletive used by President Trump?

It's feces picked up by the clean end. har...

+1

A 'Rose' by any other name.............

Yep, unable to process the difference between vulgarity and civility.

And exactly how is Doggy-Doo different from the expletive used by President Trump?

It's feces picked up by the clean end. har...

+1

A 'Rose' by any other name.............

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

SCOTUS *IS* an entrenched dictatorship / oligarchy.

Dictatorship maybe, oligarchy methinks not.

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Making America Great Again ...
http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-cfpb-payday-lenders-20180119-story.html

In what would be a laughable move if it wasn’t so incredibly tragic, the Trump administration’s newly emasculated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week sided with payday lenders over consumers.

You heard right. The CFPB, now led by an appointee of a businessman-politician whose companies have gone bankrupt a half-dozen times, has decided to back off from a planned crackdown on one of the financial sector’s most blood-sucking industries.
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On payday lending, the bureau said in a terse statement it will “reconsider” the first federal rules providing oversight of short-term loans, including car title loans.

This is a nearly $50-billion industry, preying on millions of low-income people living paycheck to paycheck.

Say a customer borrows $400. He or she would be obligated to repay the loan within two weeks, plus $60 in interest and fees — the equivalent of an annual percentage rate of more than 300%.

If the loan can’t be repaid — and all too often it can’t — the borrower’s obligation gets rolled over into a new loan, resulting in a never-ending cycle of high-interest debt.
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Clearly there’s a role for short-term loans in uncertain economic times. The CFPB’s rules were intended to prevent people from falling into inescapable debt traps.

They require lenders to check up front whether borrowers are capable of repaying loans within 30 days and still meet basic living expenses. They also limit how many loans a borrower can receive within a certain time period.

Most of the rules aren’t set to go into effect until August 2019.

But the payday loan industry, sensing the demise of thousands of bottom-feeding lenders if they can no longer keep people on the hook for months or years, wasted no time in lobbying aggressively to keep the CFPB at bay. That lobbying is now paying off.
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Advance America, the country’s largest payday lender, issued a statement saying the CFPB’s move “signals a welcome return to the agency’s central mission of serving as an independent, nonpartisan government agency that protects and empowers consumers and advances evidence-based rulemaking.”
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“President Trump came into office promising to remember the forgotten people that are struggling throughout middle America,” said Christopher Peterson, a senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of America. “Instead, the administration has taken the side of predatory payday lenders that collect triple-digit interest debts from our most vulnerable families.”

Underlining that point, the CFPB also announced Thursday it was dropping a lawsuit against a group of payday lenders that allegedly duped customers by failing to reveal annual interest rates of nearly 1,000%.
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The bureau is currently overseen on an interim basis by the White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, who once called the bureau a “sick, sad joke.” The former director, Richard Cordray, stepped down in November.
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Now the bureau says it “helps consumer finance markets work by regularly identifying and addressing outdated, unnecessary or unduly burdensome regulations.”

Apparently rules that prevent predatory lenders from taking advantage of people who are financially vulnerable or unsophisticated fall into the category of “unnecessary or unduly burdensome.”
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Actions speak louder than words. What Mulvaney is really saying on behalf of Trump is that there’s a new consumer sheriff in town, and this sheriff is perfectly content to hang around the saloon and let the town look after itself.

We’ve all seen that movie. It never ends well for townsfolk.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/011818zr1_b97c.pdf
Does SCOTUS support entrenched dictatorships?

SCOTUS *IS* an entrenched dictatorship / oligarchy.

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https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

#Texit

Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.

And exactly how is Doggy-Doo different from the expletive used by President Trump?

It's feces picked up by the clean end. har...

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And now we will, in a few hours, know if the Schumerlosi Dims will block funding of Children's Healthcare Insurance Program(affecting an estimated 8 Million children) to make a Political point regarding DACA (an illegal fiat), affecting 800 Thousand Dreamers.

We'll see how many of those Senators(on both sides of the 'aisle') will choose funding the Children(some of which runs out this month) over making a point regarding legislation that's not even presented on a program not scheduled to expire until end of March.

This will be laid directly at the feet of the Dim Leadership where it rightly should. The People will make heads roll in November. To quote Her Majesty Leader Pelosi "this is a bowl of 'Doggie-Doo' with a cherry on top", referring to the funding of CHIPS in the CR.

That coupled with her "crumbs" statement clearly indicates her disdain for those not in the 1% like herself. I think another great aristocratic ruler once put it "Let them eat Cake".

And exactly how is Doggy-Doo different from the expletive used by President Trump?

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/011818zr1_b97c.pdf
Does SCOTUS support entrenched dictatorships?

Support what the Democrat Party and the Republican Party does. In addition what other Major Parties in history have done?

Yes... SCOTUS usually steps aside from what they have always believed to be a Partisan and Political Fight for Power.

BTW: Only two Justices voted against the 'Stay'.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton