No, the corporate tax cuts in the GOP bill will not create jobs or raise wages. How do we know? The CEOs tell us so
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ceos-keep-contradicting-republican-tax-plan-promises
CEOs keep contradicting Republican tax plan promises
More: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1719495
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/29/840394/
James Hohmann reports the promises that allowed the GOP tax bill to make it through the Senate Budget Committee are very fragile. . . .
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/the-wheels-are-coming-off-the-tax-bills-promised-deficit-trigger
The Republican tax bill sailed out of committee Tuesday after former hold-out Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) secured a “verbal promise” from President Trump to include a “trigger” mechanism in the bill that would undo some of the bill’s tax cuts if they—as predicted—balloon the federal deficit in the coming years. . . . At least four senators – Dean Heller (R-NV), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and John Kennedy (R-LA) – say they’re opposed to the idea of a deficit trigger. Grassley told TPM on Tuesday that it would inject uncertainty into the economy. On the House side, several lawmakers have also come out against the idea, and powerful conservative advocacy groups are mobilizing as well. . . . Neither group addressed the question of why, if they are so convinced the tax cuts would create plenty of economic growth and wouldn’t grow the deficit, they oppose a backstop measure that would only kick in in the event that fails to happen.
What happens if the Senate does pass a tax bill? There's still a long way to go
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16703034/republican-tax-bill-process-senate
The House and Senate have to pass the same bill for it to become law. Despite months of negotiations between top House and Senate Congress members and members of Trump’s administration — a working group dubbed the “Big Six” — Republicans in the House and Senate came out with two drastically different bills. That means if the Senate passes its bill, two things can happen: 1) the House can take up the Senate’s bill and pass it outright, or 2) the House and Senate have to come together and hash together a hybrid of the two bills in what’s called a Conference Committee. With such a slim margin in the Senate, it wouldn’t be unheard of for the House to just try to pass the Senate’s bill. But that would break a lot of good will with House Republicans, many of whom took a difficult vote on a promise of more negotiations once the Senate was done with its work. Senators, too are expecting a conference with the House.
As Vox’s Andrew Prokop explained, conference committee is the formal process by which the House and Senate can bring together different versions of the same bill:
The gist is that after the House and Senate both pass some version of a bill, each chamber will name designate some of its members to be their negotiators — the conferees. Sometimes these are members who have expertise in a particular issue area, and sometimes they’re members handpicked to do leadership’s bidding. And this is a bipartisan process — the minority party gets to appoint conferees too, in proportion to how many seats they control in each chamber.
There are some rules: Those on the committee “may not change a provision on which both houses agree, nor may they add anything that is not in one version or the other,” according to the Congressional Research Service. The final product is a “conference report,” passed by the majority of the members in the conference committee, and then sent to the full House and Senate floors. Both the House and Senate have to pass the conference report outright for it to be sent to the president’s desk.
The GOP leadership had a plan to try to get Democratic support on some budget issues and avoid a government shutdown -- then Trump took a crap in the pool and ruined it for everybody
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/29/trumps-tweet-blew-gop-strategy/
Trump, for his part, seems to assume that a govt shutdown is inevitable and wants to be sure the Dems are blamed for it. It may not work out that way
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/29/republicans-government-shutdown-brand/
More: https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/the-chilling-proof-trump-is-treating-the-presidency-just-like-the-apprentice_partner/
CNN anchor Erin Burnett narrated a mashup of President Donald Trump's Tuesday press stunt with Republican leadership and his previous hit reality show "The Apprentice." . . . “President Trump — always the showman — an executive producer at heart, did not waste an opportunity to turn this situation into political theater . . . "
Trump offers a deal: accept the end of Obamacare's individual mandate, and we can talk about a health care market stabilization bill like Alexander/Murray. Here's why that's a terrible deal
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/repealing-aca-mandate-now-for-stabilization-later-a-bad-deal.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16715394/cbo-obamacare-repeal-tax-collins-murkowski
Trump gives a speech on the tax bill, and it is really just one lie after another
https://crooksandliars.com/2017/11/trump-falsely-claims-there-have-been-no
Trump said, "I don't mention the word reform because people don't know exactly what we are talking about. You know for years, they have not been able to get tax cuts. Many, many years, since Reagan and the problem was they talked about tax reform, not tax cuts."
More: https://www.npr.org/2017/11/29/567357435/fact-check-president-trumps-tax-speech-in-missouri
"This is going to cost me a fortune, this thing, believe me. This is not good for me," Trump said. "I have some very wealthy friends, not so happy with me. But that's OK." [read on]
Trump keeps retweeting, and promoting, extremist web sites
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/donald-trumps-unhinged-islamophobic-tweetstorm-shows-hes-completely-divorced-from-reality/
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN'S TWITTER VIDEOS! DONALD TRUMP HIMSELF HAS RETWEETED THESE VIDEOS AND HAS AROUND 44 MILLION FOLLOWERS! GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA! OCS
More: https://thinkprogress.org/what-is-magapill-1fb18b6f2ed0/
By the way, there are numerous reports that at least one of the videos was actually staged. The WH response? It doesn't matter if they are real or not
https://thinkprogress.org/sanders-defends-trump-racist-videos-britain-first-451dee7952fe/9
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/white-house-defends-trump-reposting-islamophobic-videos
More: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/trumps-anti-muslim-retweets-shouldnt-surprise-you/547031/?utm_source=feed
Whenever the president starts losing control politically, he looks to incite rage in his base. [read on]
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/its-not-an-act/547010/
Trump’s hypocrisy, bigotry, and dishonesty are not an act. He means it all. . . . [read on]
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/29/trump-veers-past-guardrails/
“Again and again, Trump veered far past the guardrails of presidential behavior. But despite the now-routine condemnations, the president is acting emboldened, as if he were impervious to the uproar he causes.”
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/29/extra-bonus-quote-day-105/
“Something is unleashed with him lately. I don’t know what is causing it. I don’t know how to describe it.”
https://www.axios.com/the-white-house-expects-trump-to-get-even-more-outrageous-2513737853.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic
Exhausted by the Trump presidency? Brace yourself: White House officials expect Trump to be even more outrageous and cocksure in coming months. What we're hearing: Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office. . . .
You are actually hearing people In the White House use the word "delusional"
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/new-reports-trump-not-a-liar-is-truly-delusional.html
http://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/why-trump-is-feeling-newly-emboldened-1106328131846
http://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/who-in-the-white-house-will-challenge-trump-s-alternate-realities-1106330179747
More: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/11/anti_islam_videos_show_donald_trump_s_utter_disregard_for_reality.html
https://politicalwire.com/2017/11/29/donald-trump-madman/
[NY Daily News] After his latest spasm of deranged tweets, only those completely under his spell can deny what growing numbers of Americans have long suspected: The President of the United States is profoundly unstable. He is mad. He is, by any honest layman’s definition, mentally unwell and viciously lashing out. . . .
Here's a bit of speculation about Trump's unusually reckless and irresponsible recent behavior -- even for him
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1719611
Trump's spectacularly unhinged day is now making sense: Flynn may have flipped
The latest on Trump-Russia
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16707224/trump-russia-investigation-news
More: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/29/jared-kushner-michael-flynn-270498
Kushner questioned about Flynn, Associated Press reports
The new opioid czar is a familiar face
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/kellyanne-conway-is-now-americas-opioid-czar.html
How Trump will try to help Roy Moore win
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-considering-campaigning-for-moore
Why some cases of sexual harassment get taken seriously and others don't
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-skates-but-its-not-the-presss-fault
Another one
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/29/trump-goodfriend-federal-reserve-governor-270494
Trump nominates Fed critic to board
All eyes on Justice Kennedy in upcoming Supreme Court cases
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/11/anthony_kennedy_s_equal_rights_rulings_prior_to_cakeshop_should_have_been.html
Bonus item: We need a stronger word than "hypocrisy"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmel-calls-out-trumps-blatant-matt-lauer-hypocrisy
Jimmy Kimmel Calls Out Trump’s Blatant Matt Lauer Hypocrisy
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmel-calls-out-trumps-blatant-matt-lauer-hypocrisy
Jimmy Kimmel Calls Out Trump’s Blatant Matt Lauer Hypocrisy
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