Republican idiocy

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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In case you've been living under a rock:

Don't be the voter who lets "them" figure out who should run in November. You are them.

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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Right Congressional action, wrong target:

That's right, Mark Meadows just might be a traitor himself. Trying to impeach the Deputy Attorney General because he refuses to do what the Attorney General *can't* do, fire the Special Counsel investigating Russian efforts to subvert the American electoral process. Good lord.

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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A heaping dose of truth for you this a.m.:

If I didn't have a VA Loan option, it would have been (at least) ten years later before I could have gone from renter to homeowner. We need to fix this. **added note: It's Vicki's birthday today, which I did not realize when I ran her to the top of the flagpole here. But she has earned that spot, for the countless hours she's spent at the General Assembly (and everywhere else) observing and reporting public policy.

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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Quite possibly the single most important thing we can do this year:

We simply must stop the GOP from undermining Governor Cooper's every effort to help citizens. Enough is enough.

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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I was wondering about this just last night:

Trump voters have been pretty resilient over his ham-handed leadership since he took office. By "resilient" I mean "blind," of course. Which proves to me they knew ahead of time he would be a disaster, but voted for him anyway because they hoped he would punish the people they don't like. And when your hatred runs that deep, even if you get punished some yourself, it might still seem worth it.

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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If this isn't in your top ten most important issues, you're part of the problem:

I don't usually play that "you're part of the problem" card, but there simply is no region/area where affordable housing isn't becoming a crisis. We all need to work on this.

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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Inducted into the hall of shame:

I seem to recall several folks telling me we shouldn't engage in opposition research during that campaign, that we should just present positives of our candidate because voters were tired of negative ads. Apparently they weren't tired enough...

Tuesday Twitter roundup

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No justice to be found here:

Burr hasn't had an original thought in his head since he made his first clay ash tray and it broke in half in the kiln. Both he and Devin Nunes consider several people refusing to testify as "no evidence," which makes both of them parties to the collusion itself.

Trump's steel tariffs undermine his "gleaming" infrastructure program

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Kind of sheds some light on all those bankruptcies:

The proposed steel and aluminum tariffs President Trump announced last week made domestic steel and aluminum mills very happy. But the potential shift in metal prices has many industries, including construction, expecting higher costs, and may also impact infrastructure spending across the nation.

In a study released yesterday, the D.C.-based Trade Partnership, an economic consulting group, projected that 28,000 jobs would be lost in the construction industry alone due to the tariffs.

Keep in mind, Trump's grandiose infrastructure plan relies heavily on state and local dollars, with the Federal government only pitching in 20% for these projects. Jacking up the cost of steel by 30% pretty much takes bridges completely out of the formula, since they were already too pricey to replace under normal annual budgets. But the same goes to a lesser extent for a lot of other infrastructure projects, like buildings and utility upgrades. You can definitely file this tariff idea under the "hideously false economies" category:

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