Social Security and Medicare cuts are back on the menu Whatever “populist” impulse Donald Trump brought into the party didn’t take among hardcore conservatives: Former Vice President Mike Pence, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, said Thursday that he wants to “reform” Social Security and institute private savings accounts for recipients. “There are modest reforms in entitlements that can be done without disadvantaging anybody at the point of the need,” Pence told an audience at the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors summit in Washington, D.C. “I think the day could come when we could replace the New Deal with a better deal. Literally give younger Americans the ability to take a portion of their Social Security withholdings and put that into a private savings account.” Video of the event was obtained by the Democratic tracking group American Bridge 21st Century. The comments mark one of the first policy proposals from Pence as the field for the Republican nomination is fast taking shape.
Uncategorized
It’s not just the kids anymore Trump is trying to get to DeSantis’ right on the issue of transgender rights and it is very, very ugly. This is by Dave Weigel at Semafor: You’d be forgiven if you missed Donald Trump’s new plan to stop “left-wing gender insanity.” Other Republicans had talked like this for years, and far more media attention went to, say, Ron Desantis getting the College Board to take left-wing voices out of an African American Studies course. But to both LGBT advocates and social conservatives, Trump’s policy rollout was a watershed moment, one that signaled a hard right turn from debates focused on transitioning youth to a broader attack on the very concept of transgender identity itself. Trump had already supported efforts by red states to ban gender-affirming care for minors, discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and transgender student athletes.
The world is not enough “[W]hat’s been driving income inequality in the United States – and around the world for years – is that the very rich are getting even richer, rather than the poor getting poorer,” Fatema Z. Sumar, executive director of the Center for International Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School, wrote in November. “In every major region of the world outside of Europe, extreme wealth is becoming concentrated in just a handful of people.” Sumar brought a visual aid (above). Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) is famous for her visual aids. She brought one to her CNN appearance this week. Social Security adds nothing to the national debt, Porter’s white board insisted. There is, in fact, a more than $2.9 trillion surplus on the program’s books, she said. Why does Porter bring it up again? Because 70 percent of U.S. wealth is not enough for American oligarchs. On Thursday night, former vice president Mike Pence proposed privatizing Social Security. Just as George W. Bush tried before him. Pence supported that effort as a member of Congress.
I block their calls and they keep trying ♪ What’s the buzz? Tell me what’s a-happening ♪ Marcy’s right. If we called the Chinese inflatable a drone, it would be a very different conversation. While it’s not offically a drone, my buddy Barry Summers is on the case. It’s in the neighborhood this morning. No, I’m not going outside to look. Mark Hamill FTW.
How they spent their first week of business Following up on the post below, here’s Dana Milbank with a piece on the new House majorities first orders of business. I confess that I had not heard about the important vote to condemn the Russian Revolution, The Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields. Frankly, I’m surprised any of the Republicans had even heard of these things but I’m sure their leadership told them it would like, totally own the libs so they enthusiastically signed on: A CNN poll last week found that about three-quarters of Americans, including nearly half of Republicans, think House Republican leaders aren’t paying enough attention to the country’s most pressing problems. So this week, GOP leaders set out to rectify the situation. They approved a resolution condemning the Russian Revolution. Of 1917.
Those of you with gray hair certainly remember Dan Burton, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee during the Clinton years who famously conducted a “forensic experiment” in his backyard to prove that Clinton aide Vince Foster had been murdered (presumably by Hillary Clinton…) The experiment consisted of shooting a watermelon to see if it was feasible that Foster had actually committed suicide. Well, get ready for his heir, James Comer, the new Chairman of the House Oversight Committee: The man is giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a run for her money. The last I heard from these guys was that COVID is nothing worse than a cold and that it’s the vaccines that kill people. But whatever …
Now, if you you’re thinking–hey now, didn’t you already make the Greek Lamb Stew card? Well I did. But that was card 156. This is card 166. Greek Lamb Stew NOT in Eggplant Boats. Missing eggplant boats aside, the difference between the two seems to be black olives vs. okra/green beans and elbow macaroni. So,Continue reading 166. Greek Lamb Stew
De bermuda e chinelão, o ex-presidente cometeu crime gravíssimo contra a democracia ao participar de trama para espionar Alexandre de Moraes.
The post Presepada de Do Val é mais um roteiro dos Trapalhões no Brasil golpista de Bolsonaro appeared first on The Intercept.
Mike Pompeo is giving interviews showing once again just what a smarmy, arrogant prick he is: Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has cast doubt on President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, repeatedly praised Jan. 6 as an example of a “peaceful transition” of power in an interview Thursday. “We delivered a peaceful transition on January 6, 2021, exactly as our Constitution requires,” Pompeo, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, told Sky News. Pompeo was responding to questions about why his new book — “Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love” — does not focus more on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, because it reflects on his four years working in the Trump administration. Pompeo, who said the book was centered on “how we delivered security abroad,” condemned the violent aspects of Jan. 6 but defended the outcome in speaking with Sky News. “It’s terrible when folks commit these kinds of acts of violence, and I hope they’ll be prosecuted appropriately for doing that.