Today, tomorrow and the day after are crucial to us democrats if we want to salvage what is left of our society. The senate republican tax giveaway to the rich and burden to the American working middle poor class is about to become law if we don't make it too hard as possible for some moderate republicans to vote for it. The moderate republicans in the past have helped us stay the destruction of Obamacare for the moment and now we need them to do the same for this horrendous economic redistribution to the wealthy. The koch brothers, longtime right wing donors, are threatening the republican party with withholding their massive annual funding for republican politicians. The kochs want this tax break so bad that they are willingly letting everyone know that if their lackey republican senators don't pass this bill that they will make it harder for any defecting senator to be reelected.
So the only way we democrats have as a path to defeat this bill is to make sure these republican senators will lose their reelection no matter what the kochs do if they vote for this bill. It is the only way we can make them understand that the people of the United States are in charge here, not the koch brothers. There are enough republican senators who are already reluctant to vote for this disgusting bill but we need to put all the pressure in the world on them to keep them from caving to the trumps and kochs. All we need are 3 votes to defect and the bill will go down to defeat. It is especially important because like the Obamacare destroying bill, republicans only have a small window left to them to pass this despicable bill with only 50 votes. I don't mind doing some tax reform in general but not under the conditions republicans have forced into being and not under the guise of a wealth redistribution to the top 1%.
Our focus has to be hard and continuous on the disreputable republican bill so that it is not passed in the dead of night while we were otherwise engaged. Stopping all things trump for now is all we can do until either the Mueller investigation disrupts our political landscape or until the next election in 2018 and we can wrest control of Congress from the current republican majority. Either way we need to stay on top of all that we can do through protest and resistance. We cannot allow distraction from keeping our vigil on blocking the trump agenda. We can do more than one thing at a time as so I have been reminded but I also know we liberals tend to get hung up on the outrageous while letting death defying legislation pass by without much obstruction. We have to keep tour priorities sharp and clear and with the short term crucial problems as well as the long term crucial problems. Either way we need to keep our nerves on edge for the next year unless the Mueller investigation changes that dynamic.
So the only way we democrats have as a path to defeat this bill is to make sure these republican senators will lose their reelection no matter what the kochs do if they vote for this bill. It is the only way we can make them understand that the people of the United States are in charge here, not the koch brothers. There are enough republican senators who are already reluctant to vote for this disgusting bill but we need to put all the pressure in the world on them to keep them from caving to the trumps and kochs. All we need are 3 votes to defect and the bill will go down to defeat. It is especially important because like the Obamacare destroying bill, republicans only have a small window left to them to pass this despicable bill with only 50 votes. I don't mind doing some tax reform in general but not under the conditions republicans have forced into being and not under the guise of a wealth redistribution to the top 1%.
Our focus has to be hard and continuous on the disreputable republican bill so that it is not passed in the dead of night while we were otherwise engaged. Stopping all things trump for now is all we can do until either the Mueller investigation disrupts our political landscape or until the next election in 2018 and we can wrest control of Congress from the current republican majority. Either way we need to stay on top of all that we can do through protest and resistance. We cannot allow distraction from keeping our vigil on blocking the trump agenda. We can do more than one thing at a time as so I have been reminded but I also know we liberals tend to get hung up on the outrageous while letting death defying legislation pass by without much obstruction. We have to keep tour priorities sharp and clear and with the short term crucial problems as well as the long term crucial problems. Either way we need to keep our nerves on edge for the next year unless the Mueller investigation changes that dynamic.
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