“Let them eat cake”

“These guys talk about states’ rights all the time, except when it comes to poor people,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, one of the biggest anti-hunger advocates in the House.

Republicans launch opening salvo against food aid By MEREDITH LEE HILL and GARRETT DOWNS

By MEREDITH LEE HILL and GARRETT DOWNS

House Republicans are taking their first shot at slashing federal spending on nutrition programs for low-income Americans. It won’t be their last.

Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), is introducing a bill Tuesday, shared exclusively with POLITICO, to expand current restrictions on who qualifies for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. It’s the first of what is expected to be a wave of GOP efforts this year to set limits on SNAP, the country’s largest food assistance program, which grew significantly during the pandemic. But while Republicans have telegraphed their desire to curb nutrition spending, House Democrats have yet to mount a coordinated response, raising concerns in the caucus about whether they can fend off likely GOP attacks on the program during the negotiations over the debt limit, budget and 2023 farm bill.

Johnson’s bill would expand the age bracket for able-bodied SNAP recipients without dependents, who have to meet complicated work requirements. The legislation would also limit the federal government’s ability to waive those work requirements for states he says are abusing loopholes in the system.

Republicans Are Consigning the Poor to Disease and Death

Trump’s Dead-Enders: here’s how they roll

When you come across comments, statements, or declarations by Trump’s dead-enders, you know there’s a pile of bullshit on display . They rail against Joe Biden, they whine, carp and complain about Hunter Biden, they babble about a myriad of fanciful transgressions committed by Democrats which is predictable, but — what really defines them — is what they don’t complain about.

Donald Trump falsely claimed that the 2020 election was rigged against him and there wasn’t a hint of outrage from his supporters. Donald Trump actively engaged in a treasonous effort to negate the votes of the 81.5 million people who voted for Joe Biden — or against the Donald — and there wasn’t a mouse-squeak of protest from his followers.

I think it’s fair to conclude that the many of folks who ignored Trump’s lies, and quietly sloughed off his effort to overthrow the legitimately elected government of the United States, supported his goal of becoming president for life. And now they think they can distance themselves from his treasonous behavior by ignoring it.

On September 24, 2020, Forbes magazine published the article, “Here’s Everything Trump Has Said About Refusing To Give Up Power.” you can look it up online, check out the URL: https://tinyurl.com/55st8apf or — if you’re a Trump dead-ender — dismiss it as “fake news”.

The bottom line is: engaging these folks is an exercise in futility. They’re woefully ignorant — by choice,– preferring instead, to wallow in the outright lies provided by FOX News. Eventually, they’ll realize that they were duped — and they’ll deal with that fact by rationalizing their failure and setting themselves up for the next bullsjit artist that tells them what they want to hear. It’s how they roll.— wfw

A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’

Opinion | I Helped Write the Jan. 6 Committee Report. Here’s What Tucker Carlson Left Out.

Republican senator refuses to discuss new footage of MAGA rioters smashing up his office

Don’t call Trump Dead-Enders fans! They’re members of the MAGA-Cult.

Don’t waste your time trying to reason with MAGA-Cultists.They know he didn’t win the election. They know he instigated an insurrection against a legitimately elected government of the United States — they don’t care — they’re willfully ignorant and proud of it. They think they’re entitled to rule this country. — wfw

Trump’s ‘evident emotional issues’ aren’t scaring off his fans – and that’s dangerous — by Tom Bogging

The hero’s welcome that greeted Donald Trump at this past weekend’s CPAC gathering in Maryland — despite the fact that he tried to subvert the 2020 presidential election while inciting a riot at the Capitol — should be a cause for concern over what it will take for his fans to abandon him? READ MORE

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit

“Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the General Fund to reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security Trust Fund. So Social Security has nothing to do with balancing a budget or erasing or lowering the deficit.” — President Ronald Reagan 7 October 1984

Washington teeters on the brink of a Cold War over Social Security By BURGESS EVERETT

Amending entitlements is a tall order for a Congress that disagrees on nearly everything. Lawmakers are still wading into the mess, hoping to recreate a famed bipartisan deal that shored up the programs four decades ago.

ongress, whose members struggle to accomplish simple tasks like funding the government and raising the debt ceiling, is suddenly talking about changes to Medicare and Social Security.

There’s plenty of reasons to be skeptical that any of that big talk will pay off.

Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, for one, has a unique seat at the table as a bipartisan group of his fellow senators meet quietly about potential solutions to shore up Social Security’s long-term fiscal health. Coons, a close ally of President Joe Biden who’s sat in on meetings of the bipartisan Social Security gang, openly admits that changing the popular entitlement “is one of the most difficult things for Congress to do.”

Elise Stefanik, Lier, Trump Toady, and Traitor

Stefanik speaks at CPAC, makes false claims about the FBI (BY EMILY RUSSELL (ADIRONDACK REPORTER)

North Country Rep.Elise Stefanik spoke last weekend at CPAC , the annual conference for conservative lawmakers and activists. Stefanik attacked the Biden administration and celebrated the work of her Republican colleagues.

“I am so excited to be here with you as the conference chair of the new House Republican majority,” said Stefanik, smiling as she took the stage on Saturday.

Stefanik was notably the only member of the Republican congressional leadership at this year’s CPAC. Missing from the event were House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, and former vice President Mike Pence.

This year’s CPAC was more a celebration of Trumpism than it was a broad spectrum of Republican speakers and ideals.

Stefanik spent her speech attacking President Biden and the Senate Democrats. “They want a blank check to continue to spend our hard-earned taxpayer dollars on wasteful, woke programs,” said Stefanik.

She blamed inflation and crime rates on Democrats. She also made three false claims about the FBI and the Department of Justice.

“America is seeing Joe Biden’s corrupt DOJ and FBI fully weaponized as they label parents domestic terrorists,” said Stefanik.

The Justice Department said it’s never used that term to describe parents. The term ‘domestic terrorists’ was instead used in a letter written by the nonprofit National School Board Association to the DOJ.

Stefanik continued her speech with another false claim about the DOJ and FBI, saying that “they conducted an unprecedented and illegal raid on President Trump’s home”

The raid was legally authorized by a federal judge. Stefanik provided no evidence to support her claim. The FBI also searched President Biden’s home and personal property.

Stefanik also falsely claimed that the FBI “illegally paid Twitter $3 million to suppress stories, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story all for the political benefit and purpose of electing Democrats.”

The FBI did pay Twitter $3.4 million, but according to USA Today, it was for records requests, not to suppress stories on the social media site.

Separately, the FBI has flagged Twitter accounts it says violate the company’s terms of service. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, Stefanik’s staff has done the same, making regular requests over both the Trump and Biden presidencies that Twitter moderate its content.

Down Home with Marjorie Taylor Greene

The Sickening History of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Hometown (The Daily Beast May. 17, 2022)

When Marjorie Taylor Greene, the new congresswoman known for her racist and anti-Semitic rants, was a senior at South Forsyth County High School in 1992, a few dozen Black marchers made their way through the Georgia county’s rain-slicked streets singing old protest songs and carrying signs reading “We Shall Overcome” and “Black and White Together.” The route was flanked by hundreds of snarling white racists waving Confederate flags and shouting ″Go home, n—ers.”

The marchers had been marking five years since the 1987 “Walk for Brotherhood” drew international condemnation to all-white Forsyth County. Newspaper accounts describe protesters being pelted with so many “rocks, bottles and mud thrown from a crowd of Ku Klux Klan members and their supporters” that they were forced to abandon the two-and-half mile route. Forsyth County had maintained an unwritten whites-only policy dating to 1912, when white vigilantes lynched a black man and drove out nearly all of the African American residents. The county’s reputation as too dangerous for Black folks to even drive through—a courthouse lawn sign in the 1950s and ‘60s warned “N—er, Don’t Let the Sun Set on You” — was well earned. ”I have been in the civil rights movement for 30 years,” Hosea Williams, an acolyte of Martin Luther King Jr and organizer of the Forsyth County march, told the New York Times in 1987. “I’m telling you we’ve got a South Africa in the backyard of Atlanta, Georgia.”

It’s time to tell the GOP to fuck off!

Progressives Urge Senate Dems to Ditch Tradition That’s Allowing GOP to Veto Biden Judges

“Senate Democrats should eliminate every barrier possible” to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, said Indivisible

With Democrats hoping to confirm dozens more federal judges following President Joe Biden’s milestone of appointing 100 new members of the judiciary, progressives on Friday said the party has no choice but to eliminate a tradition they say has been exploited by Republicans to block the president’s nominees.

Advocacy group Alliance for Justice said Democratic leaders, particularly Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) must make a choice: They can “transform our federal courts by confirming so many more judges with a respect for the rights of all of us,” or they can allow Republicans to continue the tradition of using so-called “blue slips” to reject nominees.

The Senate “can’t do both,” said the group.\

GOP will ‘suffer’ because it’s led by ‘freaks’ like Marjorie Taylor Greene’: analyst

Arizona Republicans slammed for broadcasting ‘parade of ever-more dubious conspiracy theorists’

Trump dead-enders in a race to the bottom

Updated February 23, 2023

It’s obvious that the Republican Party has morphed into a real-life “Idiocracy. underscored by a reverence for stupidity that cannot be denied — and run by a clique of misfits akin to MTG who rails against the “Gazpacho police,”(1) who “fragrantly (2) and horrifically” violate our due-process rights. You can’t make this up… — wfw

Greene blasted for ‘parroting Kremlin talking points’ after Biden visits Kyiv

Marjorie Taylor Greene shredded for saying Black people should be ‘proud’ to see Confederate monuments

‘Freak show’ Marjorie Taylor Greene is too powerful to be ignored: conservative author

How ‘vile’ MAGA Republicans are painting Ohio’s environmental nightmare as a ‘war on white people’

‘Stay in Hollywood’: Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests movie ban in ‘national divorce’ rant

‘Incredibly insulting’: Marjorie Taylor Greene slams Biden’s Ukraine visit

‘People in the asylum have taken control’: Michigan GOP operative sounds alarm about party’s new leader

MTG says US should be ‘bombing Mexican cartels’ and ‘Antifa BLM rioters’ instead of ‘aiding’ Ukraine

Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Ashli Babbitt to George Floyd

Rep. Lauren Boebert raged against historic performance of ‘Black national anthem’ at the Super Bowl

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written as a poem by the NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson in 1900 and used as a rallying cry for Black Americans during the civil-rights movement.

‘The party of a yowling Marjorie Taylor Greene’ is going to hand Biden a second term: conservative columnist

‘A tightwire act’: GOP committee head saddled with keeping Marjorie Taylor Greene and Boebert under control

Dingbat, Lauren Boebert, Deconstructed

Updated February 25, 2023

‘”She lives in some sort of weird, you know, firearms Disneyland where everybody has guns and everybody shoots everybody all the time, It’s insane, it’s just insane.”

— Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson

Trump’s dead-enders are at each other’s throats

“An Enemy of the People” – New Hampshire Republicans Offer Resolution to Censure Mitch McConnell

New Hampshire Republicans are offering up a resolution at the state’s convention on Saturday to censure Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

McConnell made funding Ukraine his highest priority this past year. Mitch not only forgot about funding Republican senate candidates, he openly badmouthed Republicans while he funded horrible Independent candidate Lisa Murkowski in Alaska. Mitch truly is the enemy of the people.

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