Coalition of state attorneys general sue to block Trump immigration policies

Update to The cruelty is the point: New Trump policy to detain migrant children indefinitely. The anticipated lawsuit challenging Trump’s unlawful action has been filed. The Hill reports, 20 states sue Trump administration over Flores rule: A coalition of 20 states led by California and Massachusetts on Friday announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s … Read more

And the children shall lead them: March For Our Lives’ ‘Peace Plan For A Safer America’

Last week, the students who survived the horror of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who ignited the grass-roots movement of “March For Our Lives” that has given youthful new vigor to the fight for gun safety, announced a bold gun-control proposal that aims to reframe the debate on gun policy. The Washington Post editorialized, … Read more

Run Joe Run; More good news for Democrats in 2020.

Yesterday, 87-year-old former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced that he would run to reclaim the office he lost to current Sheriff Paul Penzone in November 2016. In response to this news, Penzone and other Democrats should be chanting: “Run Joe, Run.” The convicted, and pardoned by his soulmate the 2016 Popular Vote Loser, former … Read more

UPDATED: Call the Republicans what they are on fiscal responsibility: Phonies

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama, the only two Presidents in the last 40 years to preside over falling budget deficits while growing the American Economy. Clinton left this country with a budget surplus.

The annual budget deficit for 2020 and beyond will, in all likelihood, surpass one trillion dollars.

This is while the country is not in a recession.

The reason for this increase in the deficit. It is largely due to the Trump Tax Cuts for the one percent that did not pay for themselves. Wasteful spending on defense, the trade wars that have not been easy to win, and no long term fiscal and investment strategy to move the country forward in a sustainable path are other causes for this ballooning deficit.

People familiar with the history and the recent political trajectory of the two major political parties over the last 40 years should not be surprised with Republican mismanagement, fueled by what Paul Krugman calls “Zombie” economic ideas, that has brought an over 22 fold increase in the national debt since 1981.

What should gall people more is the profound hypocrisy from Republicans when deficits occur on their watch.

When Ronald Reagan raised the national debt from one trillion which took 200 years to accrue to over four in eight years, where was the Republican outrage on deficits?

When first-term popular vote loser George W. Bush took an inherited surplus and blew it on two unpaid tax cuts, an unpaid war in Iraq and a partially unpaid Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, where was the Republican outrage on deficits?

When the current popular vote loser President and his allies passed the major tax cut without paying for it, that has led to trillion-dollar deficits for 2020, where has been the Republican outrage on deficits?

You can probably hear the crickets in the rooms where most of the right-wing pundits are working in silence.

Over the last 30 years, there have been two general reactions by Republicans when Presidents try to prudently manage the economy.

The first reaction on deficits is when they ridicule Presidents like George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barrack Obama when they pass tax increases on the rich to bring deficits down, saying it is the wrong strategy to combat the national debt because it will bring down the economy. Here is a quick history lesson. Economic expansion occurred after Bush, Clinton, and Obama tax increases (the Reagan ones too but Republicans seem to have a memory lapse when it comes to that inconvenient truth.)

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