@lynnventura
It may be doable but the point is pay-as-you-go only comes up for spending on social programs. It started as a Republican talking point to block legislation, like Med4All. It never applies to the pentagon budget, much of which is classified so the public never knows what it's being spent on. My point here is that, from a progressive POV, Pelosi is a liability.
It's the same kind of logic that says it's OK to spend $29 trillion on a bank bailout but
Recently, a pair of PhD students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City tried to assess the total size of the Fed’s commitments—not just loans made, but asset purchases as well. The bottom line: a Federal Reserve bailout commitment in excess of $29 trillion. https://www.cnbc.com/id/45674390
....we can't spend $1.7 trillion to forgive student debt, which is a 21st C form of indentured servitude, a form of class oppression imposed by the banking system.
The future is progressive but not because political opinion has shifted or because Bernie/AOC won the argument. It's because policies like those that Pelosi supports are what got us in this mess in the first place.
I don't agree with pay/go, and I know it's just a right wing talking point invented to squelch the progressive agenda, I was just trying to make the point that even with it everything we want to have as a society we can have right now. It takes the argument away from the other side, that's all.
I disagree about Pelosi being a liability. I think she operates more in the realm of the possible. Yes, the future is progressive, but that's if the youth get out and vote. Also, remember that the progressive youth we have now is a new thing. I was a young adult in the 80s and everyone I knew (but me) was all into Reagan's "revolution." Pelosi hasn't had the necessary constituency, but either way, were in agreement that progressive polices are the future. I've been waiting my whole life for them. :)
I just saw the schedule of people to testify this week. John Bolton is scheduled for Thursday Nov. 7th, Turning point?
I have my doubts that Bolton will actually appear on that day. We'll see.
However, Schiff is going to start releasing all of the transcripts from the witness depositions done so far to the public sometime this week. That will be major in terms of public perception.
Has anyone heard anything about when the public hearings will begin? I'm assuming they'll be broadcast live.
The whistleblower who filed the complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is willing to respond under oath to questions from Republicans with written answers.
The whistleblower’s attorney, Mark Zaid, said he reached out to Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, to offer to have his client respond to GOP questions “in writing, under oath & penalty of perjury.”
Zaid said he and his client are ready to cooperate with Republicans and to “ensure facts ― rather than partisanship ― dictates any process involving the [whistleblower].”
The part I like of all of it is under oath & penalty of perjury. I can’t wait to see. I think this will backfire on them.
Those transcripts seem to be worse than the opening statements we have been given. Trump came out a few hours ago and said the GOP should release their own transcripts of the testimony because Shiff will manipuulate them. Obviously, thatcannot happen, as he has no control over them, but whatever was said has to more damning than we have been led to believe because that statement is over the top, even for Twitler.
@lynnventura
Agree! There are so many GOP who are caught up in this and are being blackmailed. I've thought for a long time that most of them have just been paying lip service to the idea of democracy. You can make a lot more money being a traitor.
I hope it all breaks soon. Our country is being held hostage by these treasonous slimeballs.
Trump again lost his appeals for turning over his taxes and of course his lawyers will appeal it to the Supreme Court
The three-judge panel wrote in their decision that "any presidential immunity from state criminal process does not extend to investigative steps like the grand jury subpoena at issue here," affirming the lower court's ruling on that question.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1076061
Trump and his attorneys have 10 days to appeal to the Supreme Court. He we go folks, in 2 weeks, they will appeal to the Supreme Court.....Our Nation of Laws will fall firmly in Chief Justice Roberts lap. Will the vote go down partisan lines with Roberts making the final call?
The intuitives say Roberts will side with the Constitution (and the left leaning justices).
How will his Free Will play out?
Word just hit that Kushner gave the ok to Saudi Arabia to go after Jamal Kashoggi. If the report is true, Kushner signed off on the ordeal and that call was intercepted by Turkey. It was then used by Turkey to blackmail Trump and force him to remove the troops in Syria. Reports have it coming from other whistleblowers from intelligence community and that there were 7 whistleblowers in all-2 we know about with Ukraine, Vindeman and Morrison, who testified recently, and 3 others we dont know about but the House does.