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Minutes after the most dramatic political defeat of his presidency, Donald Trump made two things clear: (1) he was actually relieved (rather than angry) that the repeal/replace bill was dead and, (2) was basically giving up on the issue that conservatives had hammered on for the last seven years.
President Trump may know a thing or two about hotel deals, but he totally flubbed the art of the deal with Republicans in Congress as they tried to replace Obamacare. So did his quarterback in the House, Speaker Paul Ryan.
The debacle of the GOP health care bill reveals a hard truth for Donald Trump. There is a strongman in D.C. he will have to work with if he wants to get anything positive done. Her name is Nancy Pelosi.
“Wonkology” is my term for ideology + buzzwords, and there’s no bigger believer in it and its toxic detachment from everyday human reality than Wisconsin GOP Congressman and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The promise that elected ever-more Republicans in four straight elections after Obamacare’s passage eight years ago turned out to be a chimera. Lucy pulling the football.
Paul Ryan becomes the latest victim of the American right’s fundamental dysfunction, The inability to face reality is not a bug in conservative politics — as Paul Ryan just found out; it’s a feature
People who haven’t been working notice that when they take a job, they start paying taxes and they also lose public benefits they’ve been receiving. The combination of new taxes and lower benefits can make it economically unattractive to take a job. The solution to this problem is the EITC, which offsets some of the taxes imposed and benefits lost when people start working.
Regardless of how one aligns politically there is agreement that some changes to the process of how government operates would be a benefit to all. One such idea is being advanced in Wisconsin to prohibit legislators from becoming lobbyists for at least a year after they leave office.
After all these years the pro-butter folks appear to have won their battle against those dastardly oleo people.
The WisOpinion.com Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, debate the value of the DNR magazine slated to be shuttered under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Political author Thomas Frank’ most famous book — “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” — published in 2004, was prescient in foreshadowing the rise of Donald Trump populism.
Trump and Paul Ryan want to pull so-called essentials out of health insurance coverage requirements in the name of ‘choice.’
Non-partisan spring election may not be a good test of public’s political anger.
Repeal of ESSA means legislature must take role.
With his proposed cuts in federal research and development spending, President Trump risks harming a priority he puts at the top of his own list – national security.
A tariff wall will just force companies like mine to raise prices.
Right Wisconsin Editor Charlie Sykes explores what it means to be a conservative judge, and why that term can have different meanings.
State’s top justices ignore voter concerns about campaign donations they get.
DNR staff are no longer protectors of the environment
Our bill guts the failing law and enacts conservative reform without pulling the rug out from under anyone.
Minutes after the most dramatic political defeat of his presidency, Donald Trump made two things clear: (1) he was actually relieved (rather than angry) that the repeal/replace bill was dead and, (2) was basically giving up on the issue that conservatives had hammered on for the last seven years.
President Trump may know a thing or two about hotel deals, but he totally flubbed the art of the deal with Republicans in Congress as they tried to replace Obamacare. So did his quarterback in the House, Speaker Paul Ryan.
The debacle of the GOP health care bill reveals a hard truth for Donald Trump. There is a strongman in D.C. he will have to work with if he wants to get anything positive done. Her name is Nancy Pelosi.
“Wonkology” is my term for ideology + buzzwords, and there’s no bigger believer in it and its toxic detachment from everyday human reality than Wisconsin GOP Congressman and House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The promise that elected ever-more Republicans in four straight elections after Obamacare’s passage eight years ago turned out to be a chimera. Lucy pulling the football.
Paul Ryan becomes the latest victim of the American right’s fundamental dysfunction, The inability to face reality is not a bug in conservative politics — as Paul Ryan just found out; it’s a feature
People who haven’t been working notice that when they take a job, they start paying taxes and they also lose public benefits they’ve been receiving. The combination of new taxes and lower benefits can make it economically unattractive to take a job. The solution to this problem is the EITC, which offsets some of the taxes imposed and benefits lost when people start working.
Regardless of how one aligns politically there is agreement that some changes to the process of how government operates would be a benefit to all. One such idea is being advanced in Wisconsin to prohibit legislators from becoming lobbyists for at least a year after they leave office.
After all these years the pro-butter folks appear to have won their battle against those dastardly oleo people.
The WisOpinion.com Insiders, Chvala and Kanavas, debate the value of the DNR magazine slated to be shuttered under Gov. Scott Walker’s budget. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
Political author Thomas Frank’ most famous book — “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” — published in 2004, was prescient in foreshadowing the rise of Donald Trump populism.
Trump and Paul Ryan want to pull so-called essentials out of health insurance coverage requirements in the name of ‘choice.’
Non-partisan spring election may not be a good test of public’s political anger.
Repeal of ESSA means legislature must take role.
With his proposed cuts in federal research and development spending, President Trump risks harming a priority he puts at the top of his own list – national security.
A tariff wall will just force companies like mine to raise prices.
Right Wisconsin Editor Charlie Sykes explores what it means to be a conservative judge, and why that term can have different meanings.
State’s top justices ignore voter concerns about campaign donations they get.
DNR staff are no longer protectors of the environment
Our bill guts the failing law and enacts conservative reform without pulling the rug out from under anyone.
