Hypocrisy is dead. Seize the politics

by **traderdave** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 16:44:59

I just checked her Twitter feed and she retweeted that York article yesterday, while retweeting the following from Sahil Kapur the day before:

If this bill passes, Trump-GOP will have:

•Repealed the ACA individual mandate
•Cut taxes by $1.5 trillion
•Opened up ANWR to oil drilling
•Put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court
•Confirmed a dozen appellate judges
•Killed a lot of regulations

This is not a trivial agenda.

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 16:45:41

pacino wrote:
JUburton wrote:This VA House of Delegates race recount is crazy. One vote at the moment.

https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/ ... 8665499648

Now it's tied apparently.

they apparently have no mechanism to work out ties on votes, either. the Senate has the Lt Gov break it but the House doesn't.

No, that's tied votes in the Senate over bills. No, there's no tiebreaker in the House though.

This is a tie in the election. We think it would go to the House for certification, but no one is sure whether that's the current House or at the start of the next session.

by **RichmondPhilsFan** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 16:46:44

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:
JUburton wrote:This VA House of Delegates race recount is crazy. One vote at the moment.

https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/ ... 8665499648

Now it's tied apparently.

My post about this got bottom-paged.

Simonds (D) is up by one, and it appears to be over. Not one point, one vote.

ONE. VOTE.

#everyvotematters

This will likely stay up in the air until tomorrow, when the VA Supreme Court panel will meet to verify the recount tally.

by **JUburton** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 16:50:50

pacino wrote:
JUburton wrote:
traderdave wrote:Although we sit on opposite sides of the aisle, these folks deserve props and ours thanks for trying to do the right thing:

These are the Republicans who voted against the tax bill:
Rep. Dan Donovan, New York
Rep. John Faso, New York
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Rep. Darrell Issa, California
Rep. Walter Jones, North Carolina
Rep. Peter King, New York
Rep. Leonard Lance, New Jersey
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California
Rep. Christopher Smith, New Jersey
Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York
Rep. Lee Zeldin, New York

Do the right thing by trying to save their ass in high property tax states while assuring the plan passes.

Costello, Meehan, Fitzpatrick, Smucker and Dent all voted yes. suburban Philly Rs

They will all burn in 2018.

I hope.

by **pacino** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 16:52:27

JUburton wrote:
pacino wrote:
JUburton wrote:
traderdave wrote:Although we sit on opposite sides of the aisle, these folks deserve props and ours thanks for trying to do the right thing:

These are the Republicans who voted against the tax bill:
Rep. Dan Donovan, New York
Rep. John Faso, New York
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Rep. Darrell Issa, California
Rep. Walter Jones, North Carolina
Rep. Peter King, New York
Rep. Leonard Lance, New Jersey
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California
Rep. Christopher Smith, New Jersey
Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York
Rep. Lee Zeldin, New York

Do the right thing by trying to save their ass in high property tax states while assuring the plan passes.

Costello, Meehan, Fitzpatrick, Smucker and Dent all voted yes. suburban Philly Rs
They will all burn in 2018.

I hope.

idk, the perfectly normal and natural groupings of their districts may prevent such metaphorical burnings

by **JUburton** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:04:32

pacino wrote:
JUburton wrote:
pacino wrote:
JUburton wrote:
traderdave wrote:Although we sit on opposite sides of the aisle, these folks deserve props and ours thanks for trying to do the right thing:

These are the Republicans who voted against the tax bill:
Rep. Dan Donovan, New York
Rep. John Faso, New York
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Rep. Darrell Issa, California
Rep. Walter Jones, North Carolina
Rep. Peter King, New York
Rep. Leonard Lance, New Jersey
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California
Rep. Christopher Smith, New Jersey
Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York
Rep. Lee Zeldin, New York

Do the right thing by trying to save their ass in high property tax states while assuring the plan passes.

Costello, Meehan, Fitzpatrick, Smucker and Dent all voted yes. suburban Philly Rs
They will all burn in 2018.

I hope.

idk, the perfectly normal and natural groupings of their districts may prevent such metaphorical burnings

I think cook has them all at Lean R which is doable. Deck is stacked against us though.

by **JFLNYC** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:09:07

traderdave wrote::lol:

I just checked her Twitter feed and she retweeted that York article yesterday, while retweeting the following from Sahil Kapur the day before:

If this bill passes, Trump-GOP will have:

•Repealed the ACA individual mandate
•Cut taxes by $1.5 trillion
•Opened up ANWR to oil drilling
•Put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court
•Confirmed a dozen appellate judges
•Killed a lot of regulations

This is not a trivial agenda.

I’m glad someone is keeping a checklist of all the things which will have to be undone once Trump is gone.

by **Doll Is Mine** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:20:10

traderdave wrote:Although we sit on opposite sides of the aisle, these folks deserve props and ours thanks for trying to do the right thing:

These are the Republicans who voted against the tax bill:
Rep. Dan Donovan, New York
Rep. John Faso, New York
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Rep. Darrell Issa, California
Rep. Walter Jones, North Carolina
Rep. Peter King, New York
Rep. Leonard Lance, New Jersey
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California
Rep. Christopher Smith, New Jersey
Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York
Rep. Lee Zeldin, New York

Issa and Rohrabacher can kiss my ass.

by **thephan** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:20:53

Newly-released statistics show taxpayers paid more than $342,000 to settle workplace discrimination disputes at House lawmakers' offices between 2008 and 2012, including nearly $175,000 for eight settlements related to sexual harassment and sex discrimination accusations.

Batten down the hatches.

by **thephan** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:22:05

Aren't Grassley and Gowdy busy today trying to fire McCabe because he likely voted for his Democrat wife?

by **traderdave** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:24:38

Well this CNN tax calculator says my taxes are going to go down 4.2% in 2018 and 2.4%, on average, from 2018 through 2025. However, the calculator does not specifically account for my K-1 income so I am somewhat in the dark until I can pow-wow with my accountant.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/ ... index.html

by **Gimpy** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:39:08

JUburton wrote:
traderdave wrote:Although we sit on opposite sides of the aisle, these folks deserve props and ours thanks for trying to do the right thing:

These are the Republicans who voted against the tax bill:
Rep. Dan Donovan, New York
Rep. John Faso, New York
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Rep. Darrell Issa, California
Rep. Walter Jones, North Carolina
Rep. Peter King, New York
Rep. Leonard Lance, New Jersey
Rep. Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California
Rep. Christopher Smith, New Jersey
Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York
Rep. Lee Zeldin, New York

Do the right thing by trying to save their ass in high property tax states while assuring the plan passes.

LoBiondo announced a while ago that he isn’t running next year.

A special fuck you to Tom MacArthur, the only NJ member of the house that voted for it. I donate to Andy Kim’s campaign every time I see his fucking commercial talking about how much the bill will help NJ.

by **slugsrbad** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:39:14

House has to re-vote because the Senate, two provisions fail the Byrd test, so Senate will vote after they are struck and house will re-vote based on that.

by **slugsrbad** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:44:46

VA GOP concedes the loss in the re-count, state legislature split 50-50.

by **traderdave** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 17:54:39

slugsrbad wrote:House has to re-vote because the Senate, two provisions fail the Byrd test, so Senate will vote after they are struck and house will re-vote based on that.

This kind of stuff happens when you are trying to beat some arbitrary clock rather than taking the time to do the job correctly.

by **slugsrbad** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 18:46:00

Pelosi and Schumer are cowards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/ ... ssion=true

by **TenuredVulture** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 18:54:51

traderdave wrote:Well this CNN tax calculator says my taxes are going to go down 4.2% in 2018 and 2.4%, on average, from 2018 through 2025. However, the calculator does not specifically account for my K-1 income so I am somewhat in the dark until I can pow-wow with my accountant.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/ ... index.html

So, assuming your income is level, does your take home go up every year under the plan? That is, in 2018 I see a 5.3% increase in take home pay, then in 2019 a 4.8% on top of that, and so on?

And so does this also mean that the nice folks who do payroll and stuff for the university are going to spend the next couple of weeks updating everything? And so instead of getting the next week and a half off they'll be working?

by **JFLNYC** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 19:26:45

They probably outsource it to a payroll company.

by **JUburton** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 19:34:08

Plugging in brackets and new exemptions should be easy. It's all the obscure stuff that's going to be a bitch.

by **TenuredVulture** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 19:38:24

I don't think they do.

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