Conservatives In Revolt Against GOP Draft ACA Replacement

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We all know how this ends: 1) Paul Ryan will cave in to the GOP "hardliners" who want to repeal the ACA outright without a replacement in place. 2) Millions of people will be screwed in the process, 3) At their moment of maximum electoral peril Democrats will bail the GOP out by hacking together some abysmal "compromise" and 4) The GOP will salvage a win at the ballot box by claiming that the entire problem was created by Obama and the Democrats.
Question of the Day

Question of the Day

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The Republican president said yesterday, "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated." What are some other complicated things that the Republican president is encountering?

Carper and Coons both voted to confirm Trump’s money launderer

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Your representatives in the US Senate just blithly voted to confirm Wilbur Ross as secretary of commerce despite the fact that Ross appears to have recently been involved with laundering hundreds of millions of Putin's money through a Cyprus bank that caters to wealthy Russians. Ross and his Cypriot bank is also connected to a $100 million cash payment to Trump for a distressed Florida estate the Republican President purchased at auction for $40 million two years ago. That wealthy Russians use Trump to launder money is one thing. Cheaters are going to cheat. But that Carper and Coons care so little about their "advise and consent" role in the Senate is truly disgusting.
Ka-Boom Goes the Tip Line – Carney’s 10% Across the Board Budget Cut, Police held harmless?

Ka-Boom Goes the Tip Line – Carney’s 10% Across the Board Budget Cut, Police held harmless?

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This is an unconfirmed tip, but if true, reveals the depth of Carney's perfidy.
Carney's budget director has--this past week--sent out a notice to ALL state departments to send in budget plans based on both a 5% and 10% cut for the next year, along with a statement of the impact on services. Law enforcement is using its clout to be held harmless. District Superintendents are pushing to have one if not two complete branches of DOE eliminated in order to avoid the 5 to 10% budget cuts to public education. Carney is being duplicitous at saying there is no money to improve education funding when his own staff is saying that there's not even money to keep the current level of services intact.

SD10 Special Election Predictions

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If the last election taught us anything, it is to be wary of predictions. But what kind of political blog would this be if Saturday rolled around and we didn't post our best guesses on the outcome of Saturday's MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION SINCE THE LAST ONE (c), special election in SD10? I'll get the ball rolling with...