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Open thread Dec. 20, 2019

Dan Crawford | December 20, 2019 5:30 am

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  • EMichael says:
    December 20, 2019 at 2:38 pm

    He is mentally ill. And controls the most powerful military in the history of the world.

    WHAT’S TO WORRY?

    “An Evangelical Magazine Called for Trump’s Removal From Office. He Reacted With Characteristic Calm.

    Just kidding! He freaked the f!ck out! But it’s worth reading this argument from Christianity Today.

    Needless to say, Trump reacted to the Christianity Today development with beauty and with grace on the Tweet Machine.

    ‘A far left magazine, or very “progressive,” as some would call it, which has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years, Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather………have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President. No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!’

    In fairness, any kind of Evangelical defection would be curtains for Trump’s reelection prospects no matter how many foreign governments he convinces to attack the election. His freakout has a logic to it. But by now, it should be clear that anyone who questions the president is a member of the radical left who wants to take away your religion and your guns. That even goes for Evangelical Christian magazines! If you don’t believe in Donald Trump, you don’t believe in God. Just ask Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who during the House impeachment debate compared the president’s treatment unfavorably to what Jesus got from Pontius Pilate. Very normal stuff here! Very healthy political party. It was nice of Trump to make his argument to Evangelicals so explicit, however: it doesn’t matter how crooked and dishonest I am, the Democrats will take your guns!

    Also: “ET”? The brain is doing swell. Merry Christmas.”

    https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a30295355/christianity-today-calls-for-trump-removal-evangelical/

  • EMichael says:
    December 21, 2019 at 7:20 am

    Have a nice day, Susan Sarandon. Your “activism” is a large part of the reason our judicial system will be screwed for decades.

    “This One Footnote Proves the Latest Obamacare Ruling Is Pure Partisan Hackery

    Partisan judges who impose reactionary policies from the bench often try to elevate their reasoning beyond the prattle of fringe-right talk radio. Not Jennifer Walker Elrod and Kurt D. Engelhardt of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Both judges ruled on Wednesday that a key component of Obamacare—and perhaps the entire law—is now unconstitutional. Elrod (a George W. Bush appointee) and Engelhardt (a Donald Trump appointee) bashed the Affordable Care Act by parroting urban legends about its supposed threat to the republic. In the third footnote of an opinion that Engelhardt joined in full, Elrod suggested that the ACA’s passage was a “fraud”:

    ‘Some opponents of the ACA assert that the goal was not to lower health insurance costs, but that the entire law was enacted as part of a fraud on the American people, designed to ultimately lead to a federal, single-payer healthcare system. In a hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for example, Representative Kerry Bentivolio suggested that Jonathan Gruber, who assisted in crafting the legislation, had “help[ed] the administration deceive the American people on this healthcare act or [told] the truth in [a] video … about how [the Act] was a fraud upon the American people.”’

    his tangent is extraordinary for four reasons. First, it’s utterly gratuitous, wedged into an overview of the ACA as if to tip off lower courts that they should evaluate the law with a jaundiced eye. Second, it credulously peddles a conspiracy theory with no basis in fact—that Democrats sought to use the ACA as a Trojan horse for single-payer health care. Third, Elrod cites a former Tea Party congressman, Kerry Bentivolio, who is best known for supporting the impeachment of Barack Obama without evidence of an impeachable offense and promising to hold a hearing on “chemtrails.” (If you have to quote a guy like Bentivolio to support your claims, you might want to rethink your argument.) Fourth, Elrod exaggerates Jonathan Gruber’s role, asserting that he “assisted in crafting the legislation.” In reality, Gruber ran economic models but did not help to draft the bill.

    And yet Elrod wasn’t finished. In case readers didn’t get the idea, she tossed in another footnote on the next page that says “opponents of the ACA” argue that it “goes too far in limiting individuals’ freedom to choose healthcare coverage.” To bolster this proposition, Elrod cited former Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who “argued that one of the ‘false claims’ that the Obama administration made in passing the Act” was that if you like your doctor or health care plan, you can keep them. Elrod and Engelhardt aren’t just hostile toward the ACA. They view it as a power grab, achieved under false pretenses to strip away “individuals’ freedom.” Is this a judicial opinion or a Breitbart comment section?”

    https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/fifth-circuit-obamacare-footnote-fraud.html

    Your incredibly stupid actions have doomed progressive policies for the next couple of decades.

    Medicare For All? Dead as a doornail.

    Wealth tax? Dead as a doornail.

    Any progressive legislation at all? Dead as a doornail.

    You should stay as far away from politics as you can. You’ve done enough damage for a lifetime.

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