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MGB: Lipinski's status as a pro-lifer is not important. Abortion is not a real issue. Roe is settled law and no one is proffering a bill to move legal personhood from viability to earlier in the pregnancy. Until the pro-life movement realizes that personhood is that point where we can stomach women being sanctioned for abortion, being pro-life and pro-choice are meaningless terms. What is regrettable are his votes against both Obamacare and the Dream Act. When your district is one-third Latino, you are begging to be challenged. I hope he enjoys his new job as a lobbyist.
Kasich should veto the Downs bill. While I agree with such a measure, provided it is generous with both respite care for parents and life-long disability assistance (as well as a raise for everyone who gets disability, who need double to four times what they now get for a decent middle-class life), these are all federal matters. States are not constitutionally competent to recognize a new class of personhood among the unborn. This is a job for Congress, which should have the votes, including Lupinski for now. They won't next year.
The Tax and Job Cuts Act is not passed until we know that Cochran has returned to town and Collins has decided that cutting the Mandate in Obamacare is fine with her. I am not sure she thinks that and if they leave the Mandate repeal out, they will need to add some money back from corporate taxpayers. This bill will fire up progressives, but so will the idea of getting enough votes to impeach and remove Trump. The math on removal on Trump is hard, but it might not be once the Muller report is out, which will leave Republicans with the question of getting rid of Trump now or letting the Democrats do it later with Nancy or Hillary as Speaker. Note that anyone who dislikes the latter prospect should just register as a Republican. As for the Job Cuts Act firing up the economy, don't make me laugh. CEOs earn their bonuses by cutting labor costs and this bill gives them a huge incentive to earn that bonus.
The labor participation rate means that older Salvadorans have not yet come to the U.S. to join their children and that some workers have not yet sent for their families. I suspect that Trump feels justified in ending the program because MS-13 comes with these families. He is Trump so he is probably wrong about this, but I can see how it would play well with his racist base (not even calling them Alt-Right anymore).
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