‘We Used to Be Called Moderate. We Are Not Moderate.’

Early this summer, the federal government will, in all likelihood, exhaust the “extraordinary measures” it is now employing to keep paying the nation’s bills. As the country careens toward that fiscal abyss, Congress will face a now-familiar stalemate: Republicans will refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agree to cut spending. Democrats will balk. Markets will slide—perhaps precipitously—and the economy will swiftly turn south. When that moment arrives, the most important people in Washington won’t be those who work in the White House, or even the party leaders who…

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Medicare Savings Should Be Used for Improving Medicare, Not Funding Obamacare

Attention, seniors!   Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction. Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether bulking up Obamacare subsidies, funding “climate change” initiatives, promoting taxpayer funding of abortion, or whatever narrow ideological obsession happens to be captivating congressional “progressives” at the moment. Now get this. In their frenzied attempts to…

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Where Things Stand: Greene Tiptoes Up To The Line Of Arguing That Guns Should Be Used Against Dems

<p>It may be the 21st century, but the QAnon congresswoman is urging folks to take up arms against their sea of troubles.</p> <p>During a <a href=”https://www.sebgorka.com/video/marc-elias-is-the-architect-of-the-fake-insurrection-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-with-sebastian-gorka-on-america-first/”>podcast interview</a> with none other than the bombastic former Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) loudly nodded at the &#8220;Second Amendment&#8221; as a solution to the far-right&#8217;s problems &#8212; in this case the &#8220;tyrannical government,&#8221; aka (for her) Democrats. Greene suggested Democratic lawmakers are currently doing exactly what the founders feared when James Madison proposed the inclusion of Second Amendment rights in…

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US Congress chips away at law used to justify Soleimani strike – Al Jazeera English

US Congress chips away at law used to justify Soleimani strike  Al Jazeera English Bipartisan group of Texans in the U.S. House support ending president’s authority to use military force in Iraq  KSAT San Antonio House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq War authorization as Senate prepares to take action  CNBC House Vote Tees Up Congress To Revoke Iraq War Authorization  HuffPost View Full Coverage on Google News “us congress” – Google News

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