House majority whip Steve Scalise - 'This Is Our Moment to Make History'

[DonViejo]

‘This Is Our Moment to Make History’

March 20, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

House majority whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) send the following email to the Republican caucus:

These next few days could define us for years to come. We ran for Congress to do big things and save our country from leftist progressivism. We ran for Congress to seize the opportunity and achieve the promise that the American people have bestowed upon us…

I have told the President and the Speaker that the Whip team is all in. As you whip this bill and speak to our colleagues, remind Members that attacks from the Left are nothing new, and rarely accurate. Democrats and the media will distort, distract from, and deceive about any health care plan that seeks to relieve the American people from the crushing burden of Obamacare. We have heard it all before from the Left…

This is our moment to make history.

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/03/20/moment-make-history/

[dchill]

1. Indeed it is.

Historic failure, whichever way it goes.

[SHRED]

2. Truth!

[ProudLib72]

3. I hope it does define them for years to come

As sell outs to Russia. As people who put party over country. As people who refuse to listen to their constituents. As people who would rather kill millions of Americans than support a healthcare act created by a black man.

[Tanuki]

4. That's Steve "I'm David Duke without the baggage" Scalise.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/440133/steve-scalise-reportedly-said-like-david-duke-without-baggage

"In an article tracing how the political worldview of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has become mainstream in Louisiana, The New York Times dug up an interesting quote about Rep. Steve Scalise (R), who came under fire this week after it was revealed that he spoke to a summit of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Louisiana in 2002:

Stephanie Grace, a Louisiana political reporter and columnist for the past 20 years, first with The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and now The Advocate of Baton Rouge, recalled her first meeting with Mr. Scalise.

"He was explaining his politics and we were in this getting-to-know-each-other stage," Ms. Grace said. "He told me he was like David Duke without the baggage. I think he meant he supported the same policy ideas as David Duke, but he wasn’t David Duke, that he didn’t have the same feelings about certain people as David Duke did." [The New York Times]

Many conservative commentators, including Michael Brendan Dougherty at The Week, have called for Scalise to step down as majority whip of the House. Ryu Spaeth

[DreamGypsy]

5. Correct. Apocolypse now...

...the Day the earth stood still...
...and the End of the World as we know it.

Nice work, Mr. Scalise.

[SharonClark]

6. But "leftist progressivism" is a good thing!

He still doesn't get it.

[WhiteTara]

7. Here's my LTE about healthcare

Dear Editor,

This Thursday, March 23rd, the Republicons are voting to take away our healthcare and they will replace it with the “I Don’t Care and Die Quickly” plan.

At the same time, Trump has put out his budget that might make you want to die quickly. Every program that makes our lives bearable and pleasurable is being deleted and replaced with war and money for the Trumps. Melania gets $183Million a year for security so she doesn’t have to live with Trump; his children blew through $50,000 security in the first month for their business trips, and of course, Trump himself leaves the White House every Friday afternoon for his for profit hotel. That costs us $3.5Million to ferry him back and forth to Mar-a-lago each weekend. The people of Palm Beach absorb $60,000 for each of his visits because of local security and lost business.

In his first budget, Trump calls for $54BILLION more military spending to be added to our current $582.7 billion annual budget. His chief strategist, Steve Bannon, wants to build ships “for the coming war with China in the South China Sea.” Never mind that the world has moved to drones. And, of course, there’s $2.5Billion for a 30’ high wall between Mexico and the U.S. Remember when Mexico was going to pay for that wall? Well, they’re not and we are.

To pay for all these military expenditures, 80 agencies and programs will either be eliminated or drastically cut. Here’s some of what will go away. School lunches and after school programs for children, Meals on Wheels for homebound seniors, PBS and NPR, the Arts and Humanities, weather satellites, climate research, job training for displaced workers, legal aid, EPA, clean power, Energy Star, national forests, WIC, SNAP, low income heating assistance, National Institute of Health, low income college aid grants also known as PELL grants. These are only some of the ways our lives will be more difficult.

Our government was established to “promote the general welfare” of all citizens. Social programs have been embedded in our nation from the beginning. Public schools were set up in 1870 throughout the country because we need an informed electorate to have a healthy democracy. Soon, only the wealthy will be able to be educated, fed, housed and have healthcare. Where does that leave the rest of us? Dying quickly after a short and brutish life.