On the Trump-Schumer-Pelosi deal: Clearly a temporary alliance toward an immediate goal. 1/
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So Trump saw Fall slipping away in fighting with tax reform undone. Debt ceiling? They always raise it after much posturing. Just do it. 7/
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Hurricane relief? Let the conservative guys talk about offsets, Trump is going to want to shovel money out the door, fast. 8/
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So Trump entered into temporary alliance with Dems to get debt ceiling, spending off table, clear way for tax reform. 9/
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Doesn't mean it's gonna work. Trump's good friends Chuck and Nancy will fight him tooth and nail. But deal gives Trump, GOP time. 10/
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Then, come December, Trump's good friends Chuck and Nancy will slam him during next debt ceiling fight. 11/
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But for now, Trump has a window to get tax reform, and that's the big thing. For him and the GOP. 12/
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By the way, Trump knows if circumstances change, his new best friends Chuck and Nancy will be leading charge to remove him from office. 13/
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If that happens, Trump will need his former best friends Paul and Mitch to save him. 14/
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But that's next year. Right now, Trump saw a temporary alliance as the answer, and that's what he did. End.
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And they are only in session for 12 days in Sept!!
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or, y'know, not...
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How did that conservative malarkey work in Kansas? Or anywhere? Look at wage declines since 1980.
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Poor country club repubs. They made a deal with the devil & now their precious tax cuts are slipping away in GOP incompetence & unpopularity
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think there's little evidence to suggest cutting corp tax rate will increase jobs and wages
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sorry, this is laughable


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there will be no higher wages because the goal is cheap labor
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