Fighting an enemy free of shame

[Moral Compass]

We live in perilous times. Trump is in the White House and the Republicans are slavering to finally virtually destroy the Federal government. Yes, they failed at repealing Obamacare, but now they are working on a massive tax reduction bill that will screw the little people and make the rich even richer. Oh, and the corporations will see the top marginal rate (which none of them pay) drop from 35% to 20% with no loopholes closed.

They can smell success.

Standing in their way is not so much the Democrats but themselves. Trump, Roy Moore, McConnell, Ryan, the election debacle in Virginia, Charlottesville, the Russia thing...

None of it looks good. Poll numbers for Trump suck and the numbers for the Republican House/Senate are even worse.

But, and this is a big “but”, the Republicans have their hands firmly on the levers of power.

The Nation’s only defense is a united front and unity with the people. The Republicans have to fear the results of their votes on this tax bill or it will pass and Trump will sign it. The Republicans have no sense of shame.

So, it really pissed me off when word of Al Franken’s indiscretions came out and I watched the Democratic unity rupture and the circular firing squad form up.

All of a sudden it was women against men. I got into a fight with my wife about this not because I thought what Senator Franken did 10 years ago was excusable or trivial, but because I don’t see a unified approach to capping this off and getting all eyes back on the tax bill.

That is all that really matters right now.

I’m confident that Al Franken can weather this storm (which may or may not have been engineered by Roger Stone the famed Republican dirty trickster).

But, as a nation, we cannot afford this tax give away.

It is dispiriting to see us get played like this and respond with the same self defeating acrimony and disunity that has led us to our current position as the party out of power.

Kirsten Gillibrand’s self serving speechifying gives the opposition exactly what they want—the nation’s eyes on anything other than this monumental fraud of a tax bill.

[rzemanfl]

1. K&R

I am really sick of the "People with ovaries are always truthful" folks here, along with the bots and comrades who echo them and stir the shit.

[MFM008]

2. We dont like to see

women with real issues and one that has a political agenda.
She had a picture, looked at it and thought ...how can I make this work for US/ME.
I dont believe she has anything but that.Roger Stone/Bannon set up.
If this holds Franken weathers it.
Remember the Barney Frank mess in the 90s?
He survived it.

[BoneyardDem]

3. So true...Republican have no shame

and absolutely no reluctance in openly publicizing their hypocrisy on every single partisan issue. Its always a no holds barred reaction from them, while Dems try to navigate the moral compass.