Invite ye felawes and frendes desirous in gold to enter the gates of Shrewd'm, for they will thanke ye later.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 10
The Senate adjourned today without agreeing to the continuing resolution the House passed to fund the government until November 21. The Republicans refused to include the Democrats in any of their negotiations, and the Democrats, whose votes the Senate needed to pass the measure, said they would not agree to a continuing resolution unless it included a fix to extend the premium tax credits that support healthcare insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. While Republicans extended the 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, they let the premium tax credits run out at the end of this year. Without that support, healthcare insurance premiums will skyrocket.
“We are shutting down,” Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said tonight, “because Donald Trump thinks he’s a king. This was totally avoidable, but Donald Trump told Republicans, ‘Don’t negotiate with Democrats.’... We didn’t shut down when Joe Biden was president. Why? Because Democrats, when they were in the majority, took their responsibility to govern seriously, reached out across the aisle, and built bipartisan funding agreements with the Republicans…. We aren’t asking for the moon. We are simply saying, we don’t want health insurance premiums to go up by 75% on the American public. That’s what Republicans have engineered as a means to pay for their giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations. We aren’t asking for some big new healthcare program. We’re simply saying, if we’re gonna vote for a budget, we want that budget to not increase premiums on families across this country by 75%, bankrupting American families. You know what else we want? We want this president to start acting… lawfully.”
Heather Cox Richardson
No. of Recommendations: 1
baaaaaaa ...sheeple on topic as predicted yesterday :)
Still no original thought about it but hey, copy and paste is a start.
The Leader approves.
No. of Recommendations: 1
We aren’t asking for some big new healthcare program. We’re simply saying, if we’re gonna vote for a budget, we want that budget to not increase premiums on families across this country by 75%, bankrupting American families. You know what else we want? We want this president to start acting… lawfully.”
We rubber stamp the farm workers, keep track of them, and use the tariff money to promote health care and insurance. We go to Europe and come to new agreed terms on immigration, something we can live with legally. Europe is not liking the immigration problems either, and, let's face it, there will always be problem countries with people escaping whatever. I know we won't agree on it, but we should at least try.
We need to get back to sanity. We've got 3+ years left of Trump or Vance - and that means Miller. Three more years of this. Every time Trump screws up he will stir the pot, but remember-
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
No. of Recommendations: 2
While Republicans extended the 2017 tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, they let the premium tax credits run out at the end of this year. Without that support, healthcare insurance premiums will skyrocket.
Misleading. Premium tax credits do not run out and end of this year.
Enhanced premium tax credits will run out, the ones brought in by Democrats as a temporary measure during COVID. The premium tax credits will revert to those previously put in place by Democrats.
The enhanced premium tax credits were introduced as part of the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 to make health insurance more affordable during the COVID-19 pandemic. These credits increased the financial assistance available to individuals purchasing health insurance through the ACA marketplaces, allowing many to pay lower premiums.
My family uses the ACA, so I'd like the enhanced premium tax credits to continue.
No. of Recommendations: 20
The Republicans are in the majority in both houses of Congress. They do not need a single Democrat to vote for the continuing resolution. The Senate makes its own rules. All it takes is a majority vote to end the filibuster. The Republicans did this just a few days ago to push through 48 Trump nominees. If the Republicans didn't want a shutdown they have the power to do it. Since they aren't exercising the power they have. They must want the shutdown.
No. of Recommendations: 2
All it takes is a majority vote to end the filibuster. The Republicans did this just a few days ago to push through 48 Trump nominees. If the Republicans didn't want a shutdown they have the power to do it.
Very succinct. I haven't heard anyone else make this argument, not even Schumer or Jeffries. All I've heard them say is that republicans control all three branches, with Senate repubs repeatedly saying that they need a few more dems to vote with them to pass the CR, implying that it's "Schumer's Shutdown™"
No. of Recommendations: 1
No. of Recommendations: 3
If the Republicans didn't want a shutdown they have the power to do it. Since they aren't exercising the power they have. They must want the shutdown.
Or perhaps they don't want the shutdown, but they don't want the precedent of ending the filibuster even more.
We've had this conversation from time to time - the difference between the desired consequences of an action or policy, and the undesired consequences of the action or policy. It's usually wrong to just assume that because a policy decision has a particular negative consequence that the people making the policy decision are doing so because they want that specific negative consequence, rather than wanting some other effect of the policy.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Which is what I said. They want the shutdown more than they want to do anything that they have to use to stop it.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Which is what I said. They want the shutdown more than they want to do anything that they have to use to stop it.
When do the Thought Police confiscate all copies of "The Shock Doctrine", along with all copies of "1984"?
The Shock Doctrine
In this strategy, political actors exploit the chaos of natural disasters, wars, and other crises to push through unpopular policies such as deregulation and privatization. This economic "shock therapy" favors corporate interests while disadvantaging and disenfranchising citizens when they are too distracted and overwhelmed to respond or resist effectively.
it argues that several man-made events, including the Iraq War, were intentionally undertaken with the goal of pushing through these unpopular policies in their wake.
Steve...HBTT
No. of Recommendations: 7
Which is what I said. They want the shutdown more than they want to do anything that they have to use to stop it.
Well, that's a little different than just saying "They must want the shutdown." They might vigorously not want the shutdown but loathe the idea of destroying the filibuster even more. In that case, they don't want either of them.
That's in contrast to an argument that they actually might want to have a shutdown - not that it's the lesser of two unwanted options, but one they affirmatively want to have happen. One can certainly make that argument, and some have. But I think there's a differentce.
To give an example, Democrats want due process rights to be followed in the criminal justice system. An unavoidable consequence of due process rights being followed is that more guilty people will escape punishment for their crimes - at least one person will escape justice on a technicality that wouldn't otherwise if we ignored due process rights. But I think we would all push back on a claim that "Democrats want some criminals to escape justice," even if the person making the claim agreed that they just want the criminals to get off scott free more than they want to do anything to stop that from happening.
