Monday Morning Reading

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The Congressional Budget Office is sounding the alarm on the Senate Republican wealthfare bill:

The Senate Republican tax plan gives substantial tax cuts and benefits to Americans earning more than $100,000 a year, while the nation’s poorest would be worse off, according to a report released Sunday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. [snip] 

By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries, according to the CBO’s calculations.

(To which Republicans say, "And your point is?")

In the recent Virginia gubernatorial and state legislature election, a blue wave started to emerge in a most unlikely area:

In this bastion of Virginia-brand conservatism, dozens of Democratic women roared on a recent night as their organization’s leader crowed over their party’s historic electoral triumph. 

For the first time since 1961, Chesterfield County backed a Democrat for governor — and the driving forces in this Richmond suburb included women who defiantly trumpeted a political label their party has ducked for decades. 

“Are we done?” Kim Drew Wright asked members of the organization that she and her allies christened the Liberal Women of Chesterfield County after President Trump’s election last year. 

“Noooooo!” the women shouted back.  (our emphasis)

No, they're (we're) not done until we take back our government at all levels from the rotted out Republican Party.

Republican strategist Rick Wilson warns about Republican support for Senate candidate and child molester (allegedly!) Roy "Teen Spirit" Moore:

This week, just to prove that its response to hitting rock bottom is to bellow “Keep digging!” the Trump administration sent a clear signal it’s perfectly happy with Moore’s history of serial child sexual assault as long as he’s a solid vote on their tax bill. It started on the weekend politics shows with Mick Mulvaney of the White House Budget office and Mark Short, the White House legislative liaison, rolling out the Team Trump line of “We’ll leave it to the people of Alabama to decide.” [snip] 

For Moore’s defenders, enablers, and the crew of whataboutists, just remember: Some stains don’t wash out. Some actions can’t be forgiven.

Moore is far, far from the only stain on the Republican Party in the last 50 years. Enumerating the legion of others would take time, but not much digging.  However, he just might be the biggest stain so far in that party's decades- long descent into the swamps.

Finally, once again, Infidel 753 has the most comprehensive link round- up known to man (or at least us). Good reading.