Michael Linden of the Roosevelt Institute writes—Trump's immoral budget is 'dead on arrival' in Congress:
President Trump’s budget request, with its cruel and counterproductive cuts, its magic growth assumptions and its fantastical ability to make a negative six turn into a positive two, will be dead on arrival in Congress, as it very much deserves to be. But don’t give congressional leaders too much credit. Speaker Ryan’s (R-Wis.) famous budgets from several years ago had many of the same warts, though Ryan was, perhaps, better at hiding them than President Trump is.
Soon, Republicans in the House and Senate will have to craft budgets of their own. They might be just as bad at budget math as President Trump, but one type of math, at least, they should understand: A majority of Americans oppose these kinds of policies. Seventy-four percent of voters oppose cuts to Medicaid, while 82 percent support raising taxes on the rich.
After all, it was only a few weeks ago that 125,000 Americans in over 200 communities marched to demand a fairer tax system, one that doesn’t skew toward the wealthy. Let us hope that congressional Republicans pay attention to the American people and decide to chart a more responsible, decent and arithmetically sound course than the president has.
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At on this date in 2009—Torture: This should need to be said:
Let's put this straight right off the bat: favoring the use of torture is not a political position, it's a mental illness.
Any further discussion of torture should be unnecessary. However, since our our national media seems to be enthusiastically pimping depravity as a governing principle, we might as well point out that the guys that have been there, done that, seen the elephant show and lived to come home? They say it doesn't work, isn't worth it, and they want nothing to do with it.
If you need further evidence, check out Mike Ritz, a former SERE instructor who worked with our servicemen and women to prepare them for harsh interrogations torture, and who went on to found his own private "stress laboratory" where he could "use just about any technique" he had read about to "see what kind of results he could get." Tony Lagouranis, a former Army interrogator who questioned prisoners in several locations, including Abu Ghraib. In other words, these are two people who have tortured other people, neither of them is shy about that fact, and they are willing to talk about that experience. Both men appeared on NPR's Tell Me More (audio link). The guys who have really done this stuff to actual human beings do not exactly back up the words of American's biggest Dick.
First off, they discussed the difference between what service people in the intelligence field had been trained to do, and what they were then asked to do by the Bush administration.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Trump thinks Yad Vashem is totes amazeballs. Now that “alt-right” types are murdering black students, maybe don’t Nazi speakers? A dispatch from CO on the Bradley Foundation & the world of how interlocking right-wing “charities” shape your world.
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