Progressives (Liberals)

Back in the 1980s, former first lady Barbara Bush referred to then-real estate mogul Donald Trump as the “real symbol of greed.”

...And President Trump’s eventual presidency did more than impact Barbara Bush’s health. In February 2018, the former first lady — and the matriarch of an entire generation of conservatives — told Page that she no longer considered herself a Republican.

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Republicans Really Hate Health Care
They’ve gone beyond cynicism to pathology.

...The point is that it’s no longer possible to see any of this as part of a clever political strategy, even a nefariously cynical one. It has entered the realm of pathology instead. It’s now clear that Republicans just have a deep, unreasoning hatred of the idea that government policy may help some people get health care.

Why? The truth is that I don’t fully get it. Maybe it’s anger at the thought of anyone getting something they didn’t earn themselves, unless it’s an inheritance from daddy. Maybe it’s a sense that a lot of gratuitous suffering is or should be part of the human condition, or God’s plan, or something. I try to understand how others think, but in this case I really do find it hard.

Whatever the reason, however, the fact is that whatever they may claim, today’s Republicans hate the idea of poor and working-class Americans getting the health care they need.

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...And President Trump’s eventual presidency did more than impact Barbara Bush’s health. In February 2018, the former first lady — and the matriarch of an entire generation of conservatives — told Page that she no longer considered herself a Republican.

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When you've lost Barbara Bush, dear Trump defending Republicans, this ought to give you a clue that you've entered padded-room territory.

You & the source you pasted here apparently forgot

The hectic life of a busy propagandist,

One glaring analytical error we’re seeing in the coverage of Robert S. Mueller III’s findings is the idea that we’re suddenly in a “post-Mueller” political world. The suggestion is that there’s been a sudden, clean break from a rapidly receding past in which the special counsel’s activity threatened President Trump, to a new future in which it does not.

The reality is quite different. In fact, while Mueller’s no-conspiracy finding does close one chapter of this affair, the Mueller probe and its spinoffs added substantial new material to the building case against Trump’s corruption, and they have spawned other investigations that will keep that process moving forward.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is hoping to seize this moment to redouble the focus on Trump’s corruption. As a top-tier Democratic presidential candidate, Warren is well positioned to try to ensure that this is central to the case against Trump’s reelection in 2020.

Warren has just introduced in the Senate a sweeping measure called the Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act, which requires the president, vice president and their close family members to divest in all financial interests that create conflicts of interest and place them in a blind trust.

The bill would also bar presidential appointees from participating in matters involving the president’s financial interests and would require the president and major-party presidential nominees to release three years of tax returns.

“Corruption has always been the central stain of this presidency,” Warren said in a statement emailed to me. “This bill would force President Trump to fully divest from the same Trump properties and assets that special interests have spent two-plus years patronizing to try and curry favor with this administration — all while lining the President’s pockets.”

GOP legislator prays to Jesus for forgiveness before state’s first Muslim woman swears in

State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz was on the ninth “Jesus” of her opening prayer in the Pennsylvania statehouse when other lawmakers started to look uncomfortable.

...“God forgive us — Jesus — we’ve lost sight of you, we’ve forgotten you, God, in our country, and we’re asking you to forgive us,” Borowicz said, followed by a quote from the Bible’s second book of Chronicles that implores God’s followers to “turn from their wicked ways.” Then she praised President Trump for his unequivocal support of Israel.

“I claim all these things in the powerful, mighty name of Jesus, the one who, at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess, Jesus, that you are Lord, in Jesus’ name,” Borowicz said.

By the time she said “Amen,” Borowicz had invoked Jesus 13 times, deploying the name between prayerful clauses as though it were a comma. She mentioned “Lord” and “God” another six times each and referenced “The Great I Am” and “the one who’s coming back again, the one who came, died and rose again on the third day.”

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Paul Ryan (now a bigwig at Murdoch's operation, what a surprise) and the rest of the Republicans have been promising this since the ACA came into being. It ain't going to happen. They are just flat out lying about it. Even though the ACA was built on a Heritage designed plan, and even though it had been put into place in by a Republican governor in Mass, the GOP tried to portray it as a "socialist" plan that, axiomatically, could not work. The ACA struck at the heart of modern conservative ideology and its desire to reduce citizen government to the size where they could drown it in the bathtub. That is what's going on.

There's no working with these people. They have to be crushed electorally.

Edit: Another factor in Trump's latest push is electoral. He wants to be able to say he kept his campaign promises. Would he actually kill healthcare for millions of Americans for no other reason than campaign speeches? Just ask yourself, what would a sociopath do?

Five Trump trips to Mar-a-Lago would cover Betsy Devos’s proposed Special Olympics cuts

As noted quite a few times earlier, I'd be delighted to have a careful discussion on what "propaganda" is and how it differs from "advocacy" but you won't go there. It is a cowardly position, george.

On March 2, former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker abruptly resigned from a new Justice Department position only two weeks into the job—after he learned that he would likely be fired if he refused to answer questions from the department’s Inspector General about his controversial tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement official.

As a result, investigators may never learn whether President Trump attempted to enlist Whitaker in an effort to impede a federal criminal investigation into whether the president himself conspired to violate campaign finance laws. And Whitaker most likely will no longer be compelled to answer questions on a wide variety of other issues by investigators for the Justice Department he once headed. The department’s Inspector General has no authority to subpoena or require testimony from former officials, whereas those who still work for the department are subject to severe disciplinary measures if they refuse to cooperate with investigators, most often resulting in their immediate dismissal. By resigning, Whitaker most likely will have evaded the IG’s questioning.

For the record, Jesus is a big deal for Muslims, considered a prophet most beloved by Allah, seen as the Messiah and therefore he is supposed to come back at the end of times to save the world...

He is mentioned in the Quran about 190 times, more often than anybody else, and called the "Spirit of God" (Ruh-Allah). Even Borowicz can't beat that level of reverence... :-)

I made very clear distinctions between advocacy and propaganda and you have simply ignored them.