McConnell says the federal government can’t do much about school shootings – that’s a lie!

McConnell says there isn’t much the federal government can do about school shootings – that’s a lie! That’s what you say when your party gets millions from the NRA.

“I don’t think at the federal level there’s much that we can do [to address school shootings] other than appropriate funds” ⁦@SenateMajLdr⁩ – –
Wrong!
Universal background checks, CDC research, support smart gun tech., prohibit assault weapons… https://t.co/amHFZDEsfs

— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) July 3, 2018

from the father of a Parkland student killed in the mass shooting:

Senate Majority Mitch McConnell, you are demonstrably wrong. You are either lazy, do not care, or simply evil. You can't do anything when you do not try and you have failed. Based on these comments, YOU SHOULD RESIGN!!!#OrangeWaveInNovember.https://t.co/RY0E1NqOt0

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) July 3, 2018

Six month anniversary of the Trump tax law

The Trump tax law is a failure.

“Trump/Rs argued that cutting corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, allowing companies to write off more of capital spending would unleash frenzy of business spending. So far, that hasn't happened. surveys of business leaders don't indicate it's likely” https://t.co/E3cAwGYhEk

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 29, 2018

FUN FACT: When you give a millionaire a tax break, they don't share it. #RepealTheTrumpTax https://t.co/Oj1SOB4ury

— Tax March (@taxmarch) June 29, 2018

.@realDonaldTrump now celebrating tax cuts but most economists including Republicans say his tariffs will soon wipe out the benefits to the economy of the tax law spelling trouble for the economy

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) June 29, 2018

Trump/GOP leaders said tax-cuts would lift economy out of long-term rut, boosting growth to 3-4% and preventing deficts from rising

new CBO projections: deficits rising rapidly, long-term growth of 1.9%

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 26, 2018

Companies in the S&P 500 spent more than half of their earnings on stock buybacks, inflating the cost of their stocks, but sidelining investment in employees or new products.

How did we get here? Watch Explained on @netflix for more: https://t.co/XMktthK7Sl pic.twitter.com/VesRITv5Qf

— Vox (@voxdotcom) June 27, 2018

“The White House promised '70 percent' of the tax cut would go to workers. It didn't.”https://t.co/BENcB1drDy

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) July 1, 2018

Paul Ryan is a hypocrite

You didn’t say jack when Steve King RT’d a Nazi Paul https://t.co/oXLUgwyvQl

— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 26, 2018

Republicans in Congress remain silent after Steve King retweets Nazi sympathizer https://t.co/tFnLvweNJR

— Salon (@Salon) June 14, 2018

Oh by the way, sitting US Congressman and member of the GOP in good standing, Steve King retweeted Nazi propaganda last week . #civility

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 25, 2018

It blows my mind that the reporters are not bombarding Ryan’s office for comment on a GOP member tweeting Nazi propaganda https://t.co/ocLCNRYAce

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 26, 2018

Trump’s threat to Maxine Waters

Lots of people disagree with Waters but only Trump threatened her. He is such a scumbag. He also slammed her IQ but I bet she can spell better than he can.

I can see both sides of comments on Waters. On the one hand, you don’t want to stoop to Trump’s level and it will turn some people off.

On the other hand, Trump’s team lives in a Fox News bubble and they need to know their policies are wrong and not popular. I would not want to eat in a restaurant that served a Trump cabinet member.

There is certainly room for civil disobedience. Don’t forget American history.

The President just issued a thinly veiled physical threat to a sitting member of Congress. pic.twitter.com/3A3W221GAa

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 25, 2018

Maxine Waters didn't call for violence against anyone but Greg Gianforte personally attacked a reporter for asking a straightforward question and was cheered on for it by many of the same people who are now claiming that she did.

— Joshua Holland 🔥 (@JoshuaHol) June 25, 2018

Maxine Waters did not say something dumb like folks should use their Second Amendment rights to deal with you.

But you did that.

Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton #MondayMotivation https://t.co/1oX2sUKeYG

— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌊 BWCS (@AynRandPaulRyan) June 25, 2018

"White journalists condemning Waters refuses to confess that their whiteness inoculates them from his bigotry and that it compels them to prioritize the humanity of the abuser over the discomfort of the victims who face Trump’s abuse," @Russian_Starr https://t.co/DYMHfJ40bU

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 25, 2018

Just a thought: Maybe if the U.S. President hadn't called Nazis "very fine people" and his administration wasn't putting immigrant children in cages, then his appointees would be getting asked to leave restaurants and Maxine Waters wouldn't be calling for people to confront them.

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) June 25, 2018

.@thefix: Before Trump warned that Maxine Waters had ‘called for harm,’ he told supporters he’d like to punch a protester https://t.co/OlsF4QxnI6

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 25, 2018

All the times Trump was more explicit than Maxine Waters https://t.co/lipyrFWdxK

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 25, 2018

Maxine Waters is not sorry. "First of all I am very, very upset and concerned. I’ve had sleepless nights. Because I believe in peaceful, very peaceful protest. I have not called for the harm of anybody this President has lied again…This Don the Con man will say anything."

— Alan He (@alanhe) June 25, 2018

What? She said people should be screaming in the streets. That is not inciting violence nor is it calling for the harm of Trump supporters. If yelling at the opposition is harming people you are guilty at every rally you hold.

— Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) June 25, 2018

The only I.Q. you have is called an ignorant quotient. You hate smart women and especially, black ones, too. And lay off Twitter. Use their spell check. And try reading a book. https://t.co/HaFPeX7ZKu

— Terry McMillan (@MsTerryMcMillan) June 25, 2018

Congress’s failure on immigration reform

Congress’s repeated failures on immigration reform

Each time the bill passed the Senate with a bipartisan 60+ majority & each time the House R majority refused to vote on it even tho it likely had > 218 votes. Worth noting again that 85% of House Rs now hold districts with fewer immigrants than the national average: restoration https://t.co/inJky79kb3

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 23, 2018

Trump lied about his meeting with Republican House members last night

Liar!

All of the reporters who covered the meeting, including @kathrynw5, @AlexNBCNews and @jdawsey1, say they were told the room responded to the Sanford jab with boos, silence and groans, not applause and laughter. pic.twitter.com/svO40Dbygl

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2018

This is flat-out not true, according to people who were actually in the room. https://t.co/bEncFIaNgE

— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) June 20, 2018

There was awkward silence and some boos. See story here. https://t.co/7vb12Xcqej https://t.co/ORR3qU4U25

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 20, 2018

House Republicans had front row seats to @POTUS’s dazzling display of pettiness and insecurity. Nobody applauded or laughed. People were disgusted. https://t.co/FvmDCxElgv

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 20, 2018

Sanford on this Trump tweet: "Another day running of dancing on the grave, or shooting the dead guy? I don't quite get what's going on. It's certainly entered the twilight zone." https://t.co/qAnAdbJcOl

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 20, 2018

Mark Sanford weighs in on the last few days and Trump calling him a "nasty guy" pic.twitter.com/Lr0nXXtXsF

— Lauren Fox (@FoxReports) June 21, 2018

(This is not a controversial statement) https://t.co/bG4vCb21OU

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 21, 2018

Sanford: “Do we give a pass to the highest officeholder … who is constantly saying things that aren’t true? We are at an inflection point in American politics in how far we've gotten from Washington’s notion in we cannot tell a lie to it being the way things are done.”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2018

Sanford also acknowledged he was “living a lie” in 2009 when he lied about his extramarital affair but said he was caught and acknowledge the lie – which he said Trump should do too. “It’s a problem because in a free and open political system, objective truth matters"

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2018

Update:

It gets worse. Now many Republicans who were there won’t admit what happened – they’re afraid to cross Trump.

Trump lied about how Republicans reacted to his jab at Sanford in a private meeting. A few call him out; Rep. Walter Jones says Trump “makes up a lot of things.” But WaPo finds a bunch of others unwilling to challenge even a lie about them personally: https://t.co/Ugchm5Emb9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2018

The Trump Tax law is not popular

The Trump tax law is not popular. Remember, in the recent race for the House seat in western Pennsylvania, Republicans stopped running ads based on the tax cut because they weren’t working.

From the Monmouth Poll article: “The poll also finds that 34% of the public approve of the tax reform plan passed by Congress last December and 41% disapprove. Another 24% are not sure how they feel. These results have shifted in the past six weeks. Approval is down 6 points from 40% in late April and disapproval is down 3 points from 44%. The number who give no opinion on the plan has risen 8 points from 16%. Polls earlier this year had shown a more evenly divided public – 41% approve to 42% disapprove in March and 44% approve to 44% disapprove in January – with a smaller percentage of undecided opinion.”

Note that the #TrumpTax has only 41% approval in districts that Trump won by 10+ points.

Could it be that the only people who really wanted a giant corporate tax cut were giant corporations? https://t.co/kUPPLtZGtr

— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) June 18, 2018

Approval of GOP tax law:

January: 44%
April: 40%
Now: 34%https://t.co/qXQ4VsC319

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 22, 2018

Another new poll shows weakening support for Trump's tax cuts (https://t.co/RS7mk5aYxT). Interesting polling history on this one – it was hugely unpopular before it passed, then got much more popular soon after it passed, and then started reverting back to unpopular. pic.twitter.com/1vWfJ5V2GS

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 27, 2018

‘Not what we expected’: Trump’s tax bill is losing popularity, @byHeatherLong https://t.co/387wlSN6z8

— John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner) June 29, 2018

update 10/6/18

Republicans and Democrats continue to be at odds in their views of the 2017 tax law https://t.co/vnMSEe0rhX pic.twitter.com/44RDCkzJ6t

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) October 5, 2018

Three branches of government – a cartoon

I found this on Twitter.

There are three branches of government. Can you name them? pic.twitter.com/kMFp3FLbjr

— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) June 10, 2018

Republicans are silent

Trump trashes American allies and the only Republican who speaks up is John McCain. They, as well as Trump will be held accountable for the failures of this administration. They spoke up a little against Trump’s tariffs and “spygate” but have been mostly silent on his lies and bigotry. Disgraceful!

The silence of Cong GOPers not named McCain is obviously not surprising anymore but is there any limit for them? It’s a fight with Canada and the rest of the G6, only the most important allies of this country. Is the rest of the GOP using “stunned silence” as their “comment”?

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) June 10, 2018

Worst are the Republicans in Congress. Will sell out all American fundamental values for a tax cut and judges. Will sit back while we destroy our standing in the world and promote our enemies. Will confirm crooks and liars. Beyond disgraceful, starting w Ryan and McConnell https://t.co/T2xqzumCXT

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 10, 2018

The silence from GOP leadership, unwilling to stand up to Trump, for our alliances, tells us all we need to know.

The @GOP leadership would rather help Putin achieve his goals, than keep Trump in check.

If they won't stand up to him on Putin, they won't stand up to him for you.

— VoteVets (@votevets) June 10, 2018

GOP strategist scorches Trump over G7: He "beclowned himself" and disgraced the US https://t.co/qGPhHwdfkI pic.twitter.com/XHjhNAdBbc

— The Hill (@thehill) June 10, 2018

"Very nearly every elected member of the Republican Congress has chosen Trump and party over our country. It is shameful." https://t.co/VhG6zYD7dU

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 10, 2018

God help us. Their silence is damning enough. But the Senate Majority Leader calling this the best time ever for conservatives is vile. History will be brutal in its telling of their cowardice. https://t.co/S1KPkyv6Um

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 10, 2018

Do not forget the racism: the proposed banning of all Muslims from America, the defense of white supremacy after Charlottesville, calling Hispanics “breeders”, Mexicans “rapists”, all majority black countries “shitholes.” Mitch calls this conservatism at its best?
Really, Mitch? https://t.co/OUXggsETk9

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 10, 2018

GOP aide-turned-MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace: 'This Republican Party is unrecognizable to me’ https://t.co/YooosOAobf pic.twitter.com/7Ddcln28Ya

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) June 10, 2018

Considering the silence from your fellow GOP'ers, seems like it's exactly who you are. https://t.co/HKGNvqQYlh

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) June 10, 2018

Trump's buffoonery is by now baked into the cake. The real threat to the international order is that GOP is becoming Trumpized: https://t.co/uyTSY0sKfk

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) June 10, 2018

update:

Spoiler: yes.

They will allow him to burn the world to ashes. https://t.co/IWAIpT8tFv

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 10, 2018

Today feels like a turning point – the Western alliance and the global trading system are coming under the same intense strain that Trump has created for our domestic institutions. Will Congressional Rs continue to stand by, paralyzed by fears of their base?

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 10, 2018

This IS your party. And it's a culmination of years of the GOP exploiting racism and playing to extremists. Trump is not your problem. Your base is the problem. And your pleas for decency & common sense are not enough to change this. https://t.co/mfgF1gozU8

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 10, 2018

Our president has been compromised by Russia. Every Republican that sits back and watches him bend over backwards for them has also been compromised by Russia. I understand voting 4 change. I don’t understand how anyone in this country is ok w/ our president kissing Putin’s ass.

— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) June 9, 2018

Nope. They'll say absolutely nothing. pic.twitter.com/MUlZ2q0mPQ

— Silly Conservatives (@Silly_GOP_) June 10, 2018

How often do members of Congress vote with Trump?

How often do members of Congress vote with Trump?https://t.co/neZjsISxGT

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) June 10, 2018