Tax cuts, Round 2: GOP looks to punish Democrats in 2018 .....

[MMC]

Republicans are dreaming of passing another round of tax cuts this year — or at least making vulnerable Democrats squirm by voting against them.


GOP leaders are weighing a series of votes to make last year’s temporary tax cuts for individuals permanent, according to Republicans in both chambers. The strategy would portray the party as the guardian of Americans’ paychecks, Republicans say, and buoy the GOP during a brutal election year.


Republicans argue they win regardless of whether it culminates with a Rose Garden ceremony: Either Democrats support the legislation, giving the GOP a major legislative accomplishment in its scramble to save its majorities. Or, more likely, Democrats block the bill — allowing Republicans to paint them as opponents of the middle class......snip~


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/27/tax-cuts-gop-2018-midterms-482158


That's Right punish the Demos, and don't just kick them when they are down. Stomp their asses into mush.


Paint them out as corrupt, as deviates, as failures and worthless to the country.


Then lets talk about that colluding they do with the Lame stream for help and meddling in elections.


Oh and stop all that BS about they are friends across the aisle. Start calling them what they are. The enemy within.

[Tahuyaman]

That doesn't sound like something the Republicans of today would do. That takes a backbone to do this. Republicans are spineless.

[MisterVeritis]

Republicans are dreaming of passing another round of tax cuts this year — or at least making vulnerable Democrats squirm by voting against them.

GOP leaders are weighing a series of votes to make last year’s temporary tax cuts for individuals permanent, according to Republicans in both chambers. The strategy would portray the party as the guardian of Americans’ paychecks, Republicans say, and buoy the GOP during a brutal election year.

Republicans argue they win regardless of whether it culminates with a Rose Garden ceremony: Either Democrats support the legislation, giving the GOP a major legislative accomplishment in its scramble to save its majorities. Or, more likely, Democrats block the bill — allowing Republicans to paint them as opponents of the middle class......snip~
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/27/tax-cuts-gop-2018-midterms-482158
That's Right punish the Demos, and don't just kick them when they are down. Stomp their asses into mush.
Paint them out as corrupt, as deviates, as failures and worthless to the country.

Then lets talk about that colluding they do with the Lame stream for help and meddling in elections.

Oh and stop all that BS about they are friends across the aisle. Start calling them what they are. The enemy within.
IF this should happen between now and mid-September the Republicans could keep the House and Senate. So I tend to doubt they will do much of anything.

[MMC]

That doesn't sound like something the Republicans of today would do. That takes a backbone to do this. Republicans are spineless.

McConnell already doubt the House Repubs would support it. And he isn't willing to go with a simple majority. Yet he's suppose to lead.



If Republicans were serious about passing a second batch of tax cuts, they’d use the powerful tool that allows for passage by a simple majority, as they did last December.


But GOP leaders don’t even plan to try. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn’t believe his threadbare majority can agree on a budget, a requirement for deploying reconciliation procedures. That means Republicans would need at least nine Democrats to clear the chamber’s 60-vote threshold.....snip~

[MMC]

That doesn't sound like something the Republicans of today would do. That takes a backbone to do this. Republicans are spineless.

It's clear McConnell doesn't have one.

[Tahuyaman]

McConnell already doubt the House Repubs would support it. And he isn't willing to go with a simple majority. Yet he's suppose to lead.



If Republicans were serious about passing a second batch of tax cuts, they’d use the powerful tool that allows for passage by a simple majority, as they did last December.


But GOP leaders don’t even plan to try. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) doesn’t believe his threadbare majority can agree on a budget, a requirement for deploying reconciliation procedures. That means Republicans would need at least nine Democrats to clear the chamber’s 60-vote threshold.....snip~


Obama neutered McConnell and refuses to return his testicles to him.