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Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

No republicans are pushing all the big cuts off till after 2027.

This is the game they have played for decades....implement these bills and have them explode on the dems and then blame the dems for their irresponsible spending.

I believe Congress will reverse the spending cuts. Those provisions are needed right now to get enough R votes to extend the tax cuts. Down the line Republicans will be able to work with Democrats to prevent those spending cuts from taking effect.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

No republicans are pushing all the big cuts off till after 2027.

This is the game they have played for decades....implement these bills and have them explode on the dems and then blame the dems for their irresponsible spending.

GOP Senator Rand Paul: “Once this bill votes, and this debt ceiling goes through, the debt is owned by the GOP, and there is no more campaigning and saying ‘This is the Democrats.’ It will be owned by the Republicans”

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

No republicans are pushing all the big cuts off till after 2027.

This is the game they have played for decades....implement these bills and have them explode on the dems and then blame the dems for their irresponsible spending.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

No republicans are pushing all the big cuts off till after 2027.

This is the game they have played for decades....implement these bills and have them explode on the dems and then blame the dems for their irresponsible spending.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

No republicans are pushing all the big cuts off till after 2027.

Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

Anonymous wrote:I hope they leave for break without voting on it. Please please please. If they pass this thing, it’s career suicide. So much in it that is bad for us. The only option is delay the measures until 2030 so it can be overturned.

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Anonymous wrote:The Byrd rule is destroying the BBB. So many of the fancy-pants end-run stuff they packed in to the reconciliation bill are getting nixed.

When the BBB finally comes up for a vote, it may end up being a minimal basically-a-CR.

The upcoming vote (or not-a-vote) on the rescissions package is one to watch. If they don't vote on it by the 18th, the package fails and the administration must spend the money. We'll see.

You can’t change the law with only 51 votes.

That is just the filibuster rule. It is a senate rule. The rule needs to go. Whoever is in majority should be able to pass laws with a simple majority. The senate is already slanted to small, under populated rural states.

Everyone always said that the Democrats couldn’t scrap the filibuster because than as soon as the Republicans got power they would use that to run roughshod over everything that’s been done to improve regular people’s lives over the last hundred years. These guys are governing like they’ll never lose power again, I don’t think it’s out of the question.

They aren't going to lose power again. Or by the time they do, the party will be almost as unrecognizable then as it would be to a Republican who had been frozen in time circa 1968 and awoken today.

The country is already under minoritarian rule and the minoritarians have been steadily chipping away at the fairly weak safeguards that existed to bar the most egregious voter suppression. It's perfectly legal for the majority party to rig voting through gerrymandering to keep themselves in power. Republicans fought for months to steal a state Supreme Court seat in North Carolina, and while they eventually caved, they are only getting bolder. The Supreme Court routinely twists facts or language to produce the results it wants or flat out invalidates laws it doesn't like by creating standards for Congress out of thin air. And Congress has thoroughly abdicated its power.

No one should be surprised in 2028 if we end up with JD Vance as President even though he loses the popular vote AND the Electoral College vote. A couple swing states will simply appoint electors that will give their state's EC votes to Vance and I predict the Supreme Court will rule from its ivory tower that it's perfectly legal and Constitutional.

The American decline has been gradual but steadily accelerating for the last 40-ish years. We are moving very quickly down the hill now. The crash won't come for awhile, but Gen X and perhaps elder millenials will be the last to experience increasing wealth and abundance throughout their adulthood as they work and invest. The age of American greatness is coming to an end.