January 22, 2018 6:00 AM
Monday Morning Reads — Jan 22, 2018
Happy Monday, everyone! Netflix released season four of Grace & Frankie. You’re welcome.
News by the Numbers
- $14 billion – The federal government gives Georgia billions to for its state agencies. Now that the government is shutdown, Governor Deal made it clear the state will not step in to fund those programs.
- 6 percent – Finally, we have statistics on teenage sex in Georgia! More teenagers are having sex today than they were 10 years ago.
- 2 days – The shutdown and you!
- 5 Republican candidates – Savannah hosted the first gubernatorial debate of 2018. Candidates expressed differences ranging from Georgia’s state income tax to Amazon to offshore drilling.
- 60 percent more meat – McDonalds, meet the King, Burger. That’s right, Burger King has announced its new quarter pounder. It’s a sizable increase from its already unusually large whooper. Fast food junkies rejoice!
- 1,000 poor souls – This might be the worst idea since landing the Hindenburg during a lightning storm. The city manager of a small town in Maine wants to segregate people by race and religion. And he refuses to resign.
- 24th SAG Awards – For those of you who enjoy good movies, here’s the list of winners from this year’s SAG Awards. My only complaint: Timothee Chalamet should have won Best Actor for Call Me By Your Name.
About Author
Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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“More teenagers are having sex today than they were 10 years ago.”
Well, let’s hope so! Ten years ago they were in kindergarten!
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Tax cuts have be time limited because of the impact on the deficit …. while Amnesty doesn’t have to meet the same criteria. Another example of Democrats Against Citizens of America (DACA).
I think you read your source incorrectly (and your grammar supports that theory). DACA SAVES money because if you take Dreamers that are currently working (a requirement) and revoke status they
1- cannot legally work (and pay taxes)
2- employers have to hire replacements and retrain for those positions in what is increasingly a tight labor market.
So in essence you are wrong.
Hey, Pope, congrats on your new role in American Pie 4 as Stiffler’s liberal little brother, Snifler!
Trolling 101: When you have nothing cogent to say, resort to name calling.
Says two of the biggest name calling trolls out there. “Nazi”, “Racist!” At least my descriptions of the two of you are correct! LMAO!
Those “missing” texts between the corrupt fbi agents? Still retrievable from the phone company itself. Awwwwwwwe, shucks!!! Lol! I do believe that be metadata! MAGA!
“Corrupt” meaning “anti-Trump”?
If they find messages that say things like “Trump is the best president evah!” should they reassign that guy too?
Meaning blatantly biased! Nexxxxxxxt!!!
These missing texts are exploding. Missing texts duting six months? Even B and Pope have to admit the horrid optics there! The phone companies have them. Appropriate agency subpoena will be issued forthwith!! Trump need to fire Comey ASAP! This cannot be tolerated by either side. Deplorables will not forget this. Turnout in November will dwarf that of 2016. Eiger, Mike…thoughts?
Drew, companies get subpoenas for individual texts all the time. Think divirce cases. Are you really this obtuse?
25 people were killed by police in the United States last week. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/01/21/killed-by-police-january-21/
The Problem With Courting Amazon
“When cities compete to attract big employers, the country as a whole suffers.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/amazon-hq2-20-cities/550790/
Except the big employers.
My prior oost seems have ended up in the same place as the FBI Text Messages … ie in the ether.. I will try to keep my points pithy and brief. Deportation of all illegal aliens and their children, whether born here or not, is a net positive for our nation and in fact the world. When the illegals go home:
1) schools will have more resources to educate American kids, especially those with those challenges.
2) employers will replace illegal with Americans that don’t have the ideal qualifications at the start but will grow into their jobs either through On-the-job training or real training.
3) employers will replace illegals with Americans that they might have never considered because of criminal histories. This will provide Americans who have fallen outside of society the opportunity to rejoin society as productive members.
4) The return of the illegals to their home countries will lead to an economic boon there, an Economic Renaissance. Imagine 30 Million people who have been educated in America, speak English, and have witnessed Liberty and free markets being flooded into the Third World. This is the Peace Corps but on a YUGE scale. This will benefit us because as the economies of the Third World pursue free markets and Liberty, we will benefit as allies and trading partners.
I thought I was losing my mind. My previous response (ACP said it better than me though):
If we are talking about Dreamers, this is the only home they have ever known. You are talking about sending them to a place they don’t know, where likely don’t know anyone, have no job, or even a place to live. How is that ‘home’ to them?
This isn’t even really controversial. It’s not about politics, it’s about human beings and doing the right thing. 87% of Americans understand this. It’s only the small group of extremists who have a Pavlovian reaction to anything Dems like who can can’t control themselves enough to act like a human.
Also, Dems would be more than happy if Repubs would support DACA, and then those potential voters would be up for grabs, so Dems don’t support it to get the votes.
I negotiate international business contracts so my answer to your last paragraph is based on a real example.
I worked with a Salesperson in France. She was a French citizen and grew up in California. She decided to return home to France for personal reasons. She knew enough kitchen table French to get by at first then she became fluent in French. Her experience in the US has rocketed her career in France because she understands the US and can speak English. Her counterparts who did not live in the US are ….. let’s say “difficile”
So if I ran business, I’d do what it takes to hire the employee who lived in my main market and spoke my main market’s language.
Brit Hume Tweeted …. I doubted it was possible, but Dems have actually lost a shutdown fight. Schumer has agreed to end the filibuster in exchange for practically nothing. Make no mistake: Schumer & Dems caved. What a political fiasco.
MAGA!!!!
The dems folding like a cheap suit. Man they got completely torched. Not surprising in that the shut down was completely on them. But apparently the folks were not quite as dim witted as the dems were counting on. Chucky Schumer making McConnell look like freaking Tom Brady.
Let’s be clear here. McConnell did not even give Schumer a fig leaf to hide behind. I cannot imagine the dems Bolshevik base is gonna be very pleased.
The dems better be careful. Between the incredibly successful tax reform which they opposed and this shutdown theatre debacle, they just may punt away the coming blue wave they are counting on.
Dems got thrown over that mossy log worse than Ned Beatty!!!!! LM**AO! Sans lube!!! Their voice just got horse from squealing!!!!!!!!! MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lawd!! Lol! The dems got ROLLED, and everyone knows it. Even the lib press is admitting it.
Only a complete shill would try to say otherwise
Oh, and they miscalculated so badly, I now suspect the House pubs are gonna drive a much harder bargain on DACA than they would have previously. The dems leverage just took a huge hit. Lindsey Graham will not be leading the charge on this. More likely Tom Cotton now.
Nope. The dems will NOT go back to the matt again for “ illegals”. They just got smoked attempting that. And this new agreement guarantees them nothing.
So you are now telling me they are gonna shut down the government AGAIN over DACA when the House GOP refuses to go along with them?And now with even less leverage . Why should they? There has to be some repercussion for the stunt they just attempted to pull. And you just saw what that 80% support got the dems.
You are right about one thing. That is the dumbest thing I have read here in quite some time.
Your team blew it.
https://www.axios.com/republicans-won-the-shutdown-battle-but-may-lose-1516651739-329a1a3b-dfec-4a8e-8a8e-318f24b5ac8a.html
Keep in mind, Flake was promised a DACA bill in January for his vote on taxes. Collins was promised an ACA fix in January for her vote on taxes. If Mitch does not deliver on working out a DACA deal that will get 60 votes with WH involvement by 2/8/2018, he is on record saying bipartisan bills will go on the floor. Graham even pushed for on this.
If Mitch does not publicly live up it his word, 1.) He will lost all trading power with the GOP centrists on any future bill, and on Dem votes when he needs them. 2.) He will give the Dems firepower with the 3/4 of America who want DACA fixed leading into an election year.
If DACA goes onto the floor of the Senate, creating a bill with no direct involvement from the President, and the House refuses to put it on the floor (or lets it die) after the March deadline, the Dems have fire power. If the Senate and the House finalize a bill by March and Trump refuses to sign it, after punting the issue to congress to solve in the first place, Dems have fire power.
REMINDER, the number of people who want to save DACA is 2 times greater than the Trump base. Trump still also has the power to address this himself, but handed it to congress so he didn’t make the 2/3rds who are not his base anger.
You can’t really blame a squirrel for having the attention span of an acorn. But most Senators and Reps know that the negotiations- and public reactions to them- will carry on longer than the instant moment, maybe even in over two weeks from now. The burden is now on Repubs to negotiate in good faith or they will look like liars. So, the chess match continues.
But most Repubs want a deal, too, but the 13% of Americans represented by Stephen Miller have sway over the Pres., so in my crystal ball, I only see one way to get a deal done while allowing the 13% to scream as loud as they want. And that is a veto override.
As soon as a Time cover or major fake news award winner come out with the’ Miller is Trumps brain’, or Trump is Miller’s Puppet front page article, the glow will start to fade.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-stephen-miller-immigration-dreamers-20180121-story.html
Does cnn count?
“Trump takes immigration cues from ‘Pres. Stephen Miller'”
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/22/opinions/immigration-stephen-miller-begala/index.html
Clearly guys like Paul Begala are trying to manipulate Trump.
I’ll vote your 80% statistic supporting Amnesty as the fake-iest stat on the intertubes, today.
Do you really thing 80% of Americans agree on anything, let alone making citizens at of foreign invaders? If 80% of Americans support DACA then why did the Dems need to tie it to a must pass piece of legislation? If 80% of Americans supported DACA, then we would need to give McConnell a parade and Schumer a pony for passing such a bill.
https://www.google.com/search?q=national+support+for+DACA&ei=OKVmWq-DI8e3zwKtr4qgCg&start=0&sa=N&biw=1536&bih=770
McConnell is more the pony type…
Don’t know if anyone’s started looking at their taxes yet, but I found an interesting nugget today. Turns out if you take the standard deduction on your 1040, you have to take the standard deduction on your Georgia IT-500. Dunno if you’ve checked lately, but the GA standard deduction is still a measly $3000 — vs. whatever it’d be if you itemized your federal deductions.
Congratulations, Georgia Republicans, you’ve passed a giant tax hike for Georgians who used to itemize but won’t in 2018. If 2018 looks like 2017 for me, my Georgia income taxes just went up $1500 – much more than my federal taxes are going down ($200).
Sucks for you.
Quit trying to confuse things by citing actual numbers. Adjectives like terrific and beautiful are all that’s needed in discussing tax legislation, believe me.
It’s quite terrific and beautiful for me. My wife and I will have $10,000 more a year in our pockets. Those are real numbers and they are beautiful.
Awesome sauce. We are all free so waste our hard earned money anyway we see fit. I’ll send my kid to a better school and put more savings into the booming stock market. Sorry, Obama’s booming stock market.
I don’t think so. Most of them were just for Monday. Capitol Lounge had some pretty good and funny drinks. Restaurant week will be fun. Alexandria is also having their restaurant week next week too. If you go into old town try Virtue Feed and Grain. It’s our favorite place.
Real question you two, Obama had a few corporate tax cut proposals that made it out of the administration into the congressional side. Granted they on had 28% cuts, and 20 % or so for repating funds. Why did they die or at least not get a look at when the economy REALLY needed them?
I’ve already said it. Republicans wanted it lower than 28%. In the most recent negotiations 25% was being pushed by some and even that wasn’t low enough. Many republicans felt like 20 was actually settling too high. There was an entire block of republicans in the House that were at 15% and not a percent higher.
The reason many had this firm stance is because they perceive this as their only chance to drastically change the tax code while they are in congress. Why settle for a decrease by a few percentage points under a democrat president when you can role the dice and get a republican to sign a 20% corporate rate?
You are just focusing on the corporate rate, but everything I just said can be applied to the individual rate as well.
Also, don’t say that tax cuts help the economy. He will write 10,000 words on why he thinks you are wrong.
So to recap, because the then controlling house (which could have lowered the amount to say 24% and included other little goods to lower personal taxes and Obama would have most likely signed it), waaaaaaay back in 2011 or 2013, and with the help of centralist dems have it most likely ass through the house and senate, preventing a corporate rate (and most likely an Obama political win) 6 years ago.
The issue is if a tax cut is too extreme, congress has to either raise or create new taxes, or increase the debt. or stop funding important things, like rural healthcare and such.
24% would not have passed. I’m not making this up. Just telling you want happened. Also, there are those asshats (Cruz in particular) I mentioned in other threads that would never allow Obama to have a “win” on tax reform. This is the world we live in and this is why everyone hates politics. But be happy. You have tax reform now. It’s probably the only thing you will see out of this congress and president.
I full expect the Mark Meadows and his band of merry morons to completely botch the upcoming DACA debate.
It is hard to see a path to a productive resolution. Even if something passes through Congress (seems unlikely), will President Miller, err, I mean Trump, sign anything that’s less than 100% of what they want?
I suspect this could be a problem in many states. Often, states domesticate the federal changes. Anyone know of plans for GA to sync up with the new tax law this session?
It’s been 30 minutes with out Noway making a Byrd rule/KKK remark. Some one should make sure he’s okay.
Another racist charge, Sis? Really?
I didn’t say you were a racist or charge you as being one. I admit to calling you many other silly names and accusing you of equally silly actions. Like being over dramatic.
Let’s review. When someone puts out a comment about something like the Hastert Rule, you have a few congressional go to reply’s to point out a Democratic counter point… Anything to do with Sen. Byrd/KKK is one of your standards – normally accusing one of us of erasing history or some other thing… You also use both of the Clintons. And Ted Kennedy’s bad bridge driving skills, etc… Stuff like that.
I am a firm believer in never using the threat of a government shutdown to get an unrelated policy through the Senate. I didn’t support it in 2013 when Cruz wanted to do it and I certainly didn’t support it this time with DACA. I always worry that with a shutdown that republicans will lose because they are pretty terrible at messaging.
But…… In this case the democrats did all of this to themselves. The clear winners are the individuals on CHIP and the republican party. I promise you that the dems conducted polls in key senate battle ground states and realized that people thought the democrats cared more about illegal aliens than our troops and children on CHIP. That is why they caved so quickly. I figured this would be a two week shutdown. There is no way to spin this. The democrats got nothing they wanted. Nothing.
The democrats were guaranteed to pick up a senate seat or two and twenty or more seats in the house this November. If they keep screwing up this bad then republicans may increase their margin in the senate and only lose 10 seats. It makes me so happy to watch Warren, Harris, Booker and Bernie become the democrats tea party. Good luck with that. We lived through it now you get to experience the wonders of the incoherent far wings of your own party.
“I always worry that with a shutdown that republicans will lose because they are pretty terrible at messaging.” ???
“We lived through it…” No, you’ve embraced it.
I think the line about messaging is pretty straight forward. Democrats are better at getting all their people to stay on message. Luckily it was easy for us this time to paint democrats as caring more about illegal aliens over sick kids and the military.
How have I embraced it? Once it was guaranteed that the senate democrats wanted a shutdown I said what our message should be. That is all. I have never been and never will be for shutting the government down because the people who cause the shutdown never get what they want. It’s all about raising money or setting themselves up for higher office. (Cruz, Harris, Warren, Booker) It wasn’t about DACA for the dems or funding for the ACA for Cruz. It was about raising their profile with their base.
My comment was from longer, broader perspective. The GOP has been message masters for nearly 30 years. Current troubles are in part due to discarding of facade.
The far right wing has been embraced to the extent that the GOP has done nothing done for a few years that didn’t at least have the tacit indifference of the Freedom Caucus.