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I wasn't asking who they are in terms of names.
I was asking who they are in terms of what kind of human beings are they.

The GOP’s New Budget Tries to Keep It Simple: Big Tax Cuts for the Rich, Not Much Else

Identification of the turkey by name would, I think, encourage a deeper level of honesty.

"Puerto Rico is an island, surrounded by water - big water... ocean water."(

Identification of the turkey by name would, I think, encourage a deeper level of honesty.

The mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, lashed out at acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke's comment that the Hurricane Maria relief efforts are a "good-news story," saying, that in reality, it's a "people-are-dying story."

Speaking outside the White House on Thursday, Duke said she is “very satisfied” with efforts to aid Puerto Rico in the wake of Maria, which devastated the island and has created a humanitarian crisis. Duke said, “It is really a good-news story,” an assessment that prompted San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz's strong rebuttal.

“Well, maybe from where she's standing, it's a good-news story. When you’re drinking from a creek, it's not a good-news story. When you don't have food for a baby, it's not a good-news story,” Cruz told CNN’s “New Day,” referring to the plight of Puerto Ricans, many of whom have received little or no aid thus far. “When you have to pull people down from their buildings — I'm sorry, but that really upsets me and frustrates me. You know, I would ask her to come down here and visit the towns, and then make a statement like that, which frankly, it is an irresponsible statement.

“Damn it, this is not a good-news story. This is a people-are-dying story. This is a life-or-death story. This is a 'there's-a-truck-load-of-stuff-that-cannot-be-taken-to-people story.' This is a story of a devastation that continues to worsen because people are not getting food and water,” she continued. “It is not a good-news story when people are dying, when they don't have dialysis, when their generators aren't working and their oxygen isn’t providing for them. Where is there good news here? ... I’m really sorry, but you know when you have people out there dying, literally, scraping for food, where is the good news?”

Price has resigned .

I'm not nearly that optimistic.

Apples to Oranges--the constitution vests the power to create an regulate executive branch offices, and to appoint the lesser officers in Congress.

In fact, the contemporary activist, conservative court has recently determined that the executive power of the President can be limited, and specifically in cases in which the President fires a lesser officer.

This goes back to FDR in 1933--see Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.

It goes back even further than that, though, to 1867 when Andrew Johnson attempted to fire Stanton, the secretary of war--but the Court upheld the tenure of office act.

In fact, were Congress not spineless, they could have prevented the firing of Comey.

Don't tell me what is usual on-line,

I have no respect for your intelligence, your knowledge nor you grasp on reality.

If you're going to shoot your mouth off about the constitution, you need to read and understand the document first; then you need to read and understand the history of judicial review.

You clearly do not understand any of those things.

I used to believe that white racism would be relegated to the dustbin of history. But it never will be because it's passed on from one generation to the next. The same is true of antisemitism and other kinds of bigotry.

The appointment, first reported Monday night by the Washington Post, was officially announced Tuesday by Trump's transition team. The email announcement called Price a "fierce opponent of government waste and devoted to limited government and lower spending."

Former United States Attorney Preet Bharara, who was removed from his post by the Trump administration last week, was overseeing an investigation into stock trades made by the president’s health secretary, according to a person familiar with the office.

Tom Price, head of the Department of Health and Human Services, came under scrutiny during his confirmation hearings for investments he made while serving in Congress. The Georgia lawmaker traded hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of shares in health-related companies, even as he voted on and sponsored legislation affecting the industry.

renovate their kitchen, they can buy a new car, they can take a family vacation, they can increase their lifestyle. That's what our tax plan has to do. Our tax plan is aimed to return more income back to hardworking Americans. That's what we're trying to do here.

blatham wrote:

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The numbers are in: Trump's tax plan is a bonanza for the rich, not the middle class

...The tax reform "framework" proposed by the Trump administration and Republican leaders in Congress would give the largest benefits to the top 1 and top 0.1 percent of households, according to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. The poor and middle class would get comparatively little. And the whole thing would leave a $2.4 trillion hole in federal revenue in the first decade.

Vox

And you expected what? Populist empathy with the millions of working stiffs of America?

His faithful will continue to believe, notwithstanding the numbers.