May 30, 2017

The timetable for tax reform

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Sorry – my rant got messed up, with a sentence going haywire. Apologies. Here’s the corrected version:
My Morning Rant
Yikes- it’s 3 pm! Ok, it’s no longer morning but I’m doing the best I can – and still ranting!
My favorite New York Times story over the weekend carried this headline: One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/18/polls/trump-job-approval-news-attention.html)
In other words, the Times is furious that despite their very best efforts, a whole lot of the country is still supporting President Trump. What’s wrong with these people, the NYT editors surely wonder? Why aren’t they falling in line?
The Times pegs the president’s approval rating at 42%, citing their own New York Times/Siena College poll, worse than the Real Clear Politics average of 46% and Rasmussen’s 49% figure. The Times is unhappy their poll isn’t even more negative, but have figured out a good (narrative-friendly) reason. According to their diagnosis, people like Trump who are not following what he is up to.
What’s most entertaining is the two examples the Times gives of how not paying attention can skew attitudes towards Trump’s ratings. Asked about Trump’s handling of immigration, for instance, only 40% approve amongst the group that has heard about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Of the group NOT familiar with the alleged gang-banger from El Salvador who was in the U.S. illegally and deported back to El Salvador, you are more likely to be ok with Trump’s immigration actions.
If you haven’t heard about Garcia, you’ve missed out on some excellent political theater, as every progressive nitwit eager to make headlines – Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and others – have championed a guy credibly suspected of human trafficking and being a member of MS-13. Van Hollen actually traveled to ElSalvador to try to free Garcia, just before it became known that Garcia’s wife had twice asked for protection against her abusive husband. Never mind, to those panting to win the Democrat nomination for 2028, this is an excellent cause.
Along with progressive Democrats, the Times & other liberal rags beat this story to death, playing to the coastal elites who are their audience. Not surprising that Trump fans may not have been caught up in the Garcia’s totally unsympathetic story. The reality is that not one but two judges found in 2019 there was sufficient evidence to support Abrego Garcia’s gang membership. In addition, Garcia applied to avoid being shipped back to El Salvador because he feared persecution by Barrio-18, the main rival gang of MS-13. Hmmm (Read more here from the BBC www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4072e3nno)
So I’m running out of room – but the other NYT screen for liking Trump’s immigration approach, is whether people have heard about the Mahmoud Khalil case. This story revolved around a student activist who is a green card-holder and has been a ringleader of the anti-Israel disruptions at Columbia University.. He was arrested by ICE on March 8, 2025, with the stated reason being the revocation of his student visa, although he was then informed his green card status would be revoked instead. The government has been arguing that his arrest and detention are not reviewable under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
This is a perfect story for the pro-Palestinian NYT; they are apoplectic that a person who abuses their status as a guest in our country might be deported. Trump’s view: if you’re a troublemaker we get to toss you out.
My view- I’m sympathetic with wanting to toss out the bad guys and feel our government should be able to do that – but want the Trump administration to follow proper procedures. We don’t want them back again. … See MoreSee Less

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Liz Peek

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My Morning Rant
Yikes- it’s 3 pm! Ok, it’s no longer morning but I’m doing the best I can – and still ranting…
My favorite New York Times story over the weekend carried this headline: One Thing Helping Trump’s Approval Rating: Some People Are Not Paying Attention. (www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/18/polls/trump-job-approval-news-attention.html)
In other words, the Times is furious that despite their very best efforts, a whole lot of the country is still supporting President Trump. What’s wrong with these people, the NYT editors surely wonder? Why aren’t they falling in line?
The Times pegs the president’s approval rating at 42%, citing their own New York Times/Siena College poll, worse than the Real Clear Politics average of 46% and Rasmussen’s 49% figure. The Times is unhappy their poll isn’t even more negative, but have figured out a good (narrative-friendly) reason. According to their diagnosis, people like Trump who are not following what he is up to.
What’s most entertaining is the two examples the Times gives of how not paying attention can skew attitudes towards Trump’s ratings. Asked about Trump’s handling of immigration, for instance, only 40% approve amongst the group that has heard about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Of the group NOT familiar with the alleged gang-banger from El Salvador who was in the U.S. illegally and deported back to El Salvador, you are more likely to be ok with Trump’s immigration actions.
If you haven’t heard about Garcia, you’ve missed out on some excellent political theater, as every progressive nitwit eager to make headlines – Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and others – have championed a guy credibly suspected of human Salvador to try to free Garcia, just before it became known that Garcia’s wife had twice asked for protection against her abusive husband. Never mind, to those panting to win the Democrat nomination for 2028, this is an excellent cause.
Along with progressive Democrats, the Times & other liberal rags beat this story to deathtrafficking and being a member of MS-13. Van Hollen actually traveled to El
, playing to the coastal elites who are their audience. Not surprising that Trump fans may not have been caught up in the Garcia’s totally unsympathetic story. The reality is that not one but two judges found in 2019 there was sufficient evidence to support Abrego Garcia’s gang membership. In addition, Garcia applied to avoid being shipped back to El Salvador because he feared persecution by Barrio-18, the main rival gang of MS-13. Hmmm (Read more here from the BBC www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4072e3nno)
So I’m running out of room – but the other NYT screen for liking Trump’s immigration approach, is whether people have heard about the Mahmoud Khalil case. This story revolved around a student activist who is a green card-holder and has been a ringleader of the anti-Israel disruptions at Columbia University.. He was arrested by ICE on March 8, 2025, with the stated reason being the revocation of his student visa, although he was then informed his green card status would be revoked instead. The government has been arguing that his arrest and detention are not reviewable under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
This is a perfect story for the pro-Palestinian NYT; they are apoplectic that a person who abuses their status as a guest in our country might be deported. Trump’s view: if you’re a troublemaker we get to toss you out.
My view- I’m sympathetic with wanting to toss out the bad guys and feel our government should be able to do that – but want the Trump administration to follow proper procedures. We don’t want them back again. … See MoreSee Less

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Your rant is too long. A reader’s digest version is needed

Liz Peek

2 days ago

My Morning Rant:
I am alternately peeved and sympathetic with Chip Roy, Ralph Norman and the others who torpedoed Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. But after reading the fine print this morning and realizing that reforms to Medicaid don’t kick in until 2029 !!!! I am disgusted. I get that states need some time to adjust to a change in rules regarding Medicaid eligibility – maybe a year or 18 months — but do they really need four years? No, they do not. The extended timeframe is an obvious play to put political repercussions off until after the midterms. Legislators from swing districts fear losing their seats because able-bodied adults lose their free ride. They want to put off any change as long as possible.
On the other hand, those vulnerable legislators will almost certainly get canned if the 2017 tax cuts don’t get extended and Trump’s agenda crashes. We need both to get the bill passed, and to make it tougher.
The conservatives calling for bigger spending cuts are completely correct. Just ask Moody’s, which in recent days downgraded U.S. debt. Imagine, the United States of America has lost its triple-A status. (The other two major ratings agencies had already made this downgrade.) This would be a wake-up call except that most of our country is asleep, lulled into a false sense of complacency by hours spent on Tik-Tok or watching the NFL. We all need downtime, for sure, but we also need to pay attention to what’s happening with our country’s fiscal outlook. It isn’t good. Even the Fed, no friend to the Trump administration or to fiscal austerity, has announced it will cut staff and overhead. Of course, why the Fed has a headcount of 24,000 is a mystery. How can they employ so many people and still get it wrong most of the time? This is the group that never spoke out against Biden’s reckless spending; it’s quite the switch.
Simply put, the country endorsed a huge surge in government spending to compensate for the wrong-headed directives during Covid that shut down schools, businesses and churches. The government under Trump wanted to keep Americans employed and the economy ready to rebound, which it did. Biden kept the spending at max level, refusing to let a crisis go to waste. Democrats in Congress and the Fed went along, spurring the highest inflation in decades.
Now we have to go back to the trend-line pre-Covid spending; the bill on the table doesn’t do that. Republicans must do better if they want to keep the majority. … See MoreSee Less

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Right on, as usual! Thanks for all your clear-headed messages.

Excellent analysis! Couldn’t agree more.

Just sick of BOTH parties. Neither are there for the Working Americans. BOTH parties responsible for the theft going on. Repubs should have read the bills that gave away money..

Nailed it

We need a balanced budget amendment! Deficit spending needs to end!

Liz Peek Well written, my friend!

Convention of States is looking better everyday.

Honestly you should be somewhere in Trumps administration Liz.. Just sayin

As much as I want a win on the BBB, I’m torn. I find it very difficult to believe that they can’t find more to cut spending

Is TERM LIMITS in this big beautiful bill? Everything else is.
If not, why not?
Past time to cut the deadwood and get “servants” of We the People seated who will do the job more responsibly..

Following.

CUT MORE SPENDING!!!

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