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It's good that you're PO'd at these people. We all should be. But we also know some of these buffoons will win their next re-election campaign with 70 percent of the vote.

 

The bill the Senate passed is different from the House bill, so who knows how it will end up as they will still have to pass a final bill.

 

I don't know this. Did the AMT repeal make or fail to make the final Senate bill? It was in-out-in for awhile this week.

 

I didn't pay that much attention is not the same as "The reporting on the bill was bad."

Vox has been all over the reporting on the bill for weeks/months. So has Dave Weigel, who coveres Congress for the Wash Post.

 

I’m no political scientist, but it doesn’t seem inherent that tax breaks that favor the wealthy is politically tied to an anti-abortion position.

But here we are.

 

Edit: that was from last month.

Reuters says this: In another change, the alternative minimum tax (AMT), both for individuals and corporations, would not be repealed in full. Instead, the individual AMT would be adjusted and the corporate AMT would be maintained as is, lobbyists said.

 

Sure. But the average person outside our realm isn't interested in that. They want to be able to trust "the media." Each time you have a fuck up like ABC's yesterday that further erodes trust. And now that you have a president railing against "fake news" daily, our industry can't be mostly right. No room for error.

 

The coverage is inevitably skewed toward narratives. It's typical lazy coverage designed to get maximum reaction. But I'm willing to listen to how Vox is covering the tax bill objectively and actually informing the average American about the pros and cons.

 

Let me know what you think the pros are of 52 senators voting against letting everyone read the bill before voting on it.

 

Different issue and you know it.

 

He still has to set up the transportation bill $$$$$$$$$$$

 

Passing a hastily written bill, in the middle of the night, with no democratic votes isn’t perfect, but the flood of liberal tears does take a lot of the sting off of it.

The overreaction is going to drown out any legitimate concerns.

This is the best one I’ve seen so far.