“over the last year”, …wow. Must be the start of a trend; a new era of prosperity is upon us…and the Trumpster hardly did anything to achieve that result _ a few tweets, a few promises, lots of golf. Imagine how the numbers would look if he had actually done something. Mindboggling.

What I can’t help noticing is the ability of deniers to delude themselves about trends based on very short periods. Totally meaningless, of course. But when you’re so desperate for good news, or so desperate for your non-existent science to disprove the consensus, e.g., the temperate has dropped for a couple of years _ it’s a pause! AGW is a hoax! it’s global cooling! Conservative idiots and their delusions, eh?

Of course. I’ve said the same here many times, that collusion is not criminal but it is impeachable.

Even if one accepts that McCarthy’s analysis of the legal issues is correct, it doesn’t get Trump off the hook, as you seem to imply:

Any powers can be abused. When executive powers are abused, Congress retains the constitutional authority to impeach and remove the president. Obstruction of an FBI investigation may not be realistically prosecutable in court, but there is congressional precedent — in the Nixon and Clinton situations — for obstruction to be a “high crime and misdemeanor” triggering impeachment. Undoubtedly, abuse of the pardon power would also be an impeachable offense, even though it is not reviewable by the courts.

I continue to believe that this is the real danger for President Trump: A report by the special counsel, either through the grand jury or some other vehicle, concluding (a) that the president had obstructed the FBI’s investigation of Flynn and of Trump-campaign collusion with Russia, and (b) recommending that the matter be referred to Congress for consideration of next steps, potentially including impeachment and removal.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454311/mueller-strategy-obstruction-justice-investigation-leading-impeachment

Fair enough. Only the rich who are benefiting and complaining should pay up, though really asking the lower income people saving a few hundred shouldn’t be hard.

Haven’t we been down this path before? Most people pay a few hundred dollars less in federal taxes at most while a tiny minority find their burden eased by much, much more.

Here’s a complaint about the Senate tax bill for you: the senators aren’t even getting to read and discuss it. That’s a new take on representative government for you. Not even a sham consideration of the merits of the bill except to decide how much money of their onshore money should be rebated to the already-rich. It would not surprise me if the GOP tax bill and amendments thereto were written by and for corporate lobbyists and/or their conservative ramoras, then just passed on to the GOP senators for passage.

“Get that money” indeed.

Not my point at all. Only that the people who complain about the tax cut should not be benefiting from it, and this could be a boon for Democrats who are currently trailing in fundraising. Get that money!

So your solution is that it’s fine for the rich to pillage ever more from the poor, as long as the subset of progressive rich hand their (relatively small) portion of the extra loot back to some of the poor.

Do you see the many problems inherent in your way of thinking?

Robert DePaolo, you say that my comment is wrong. Please point explicilty to the bits that are “wrong.”

As for your “real story”, it is a real story – just not the sort that you think it is.

Let’s come back to this thread in 5-10 years time and reflect on who was the more accurate in presenting facts: me in pointing out that Flynn currently remains in serious jeopardy, or you for insisting that under Trump “people’s live [sic] [will be] made infinitely better than under Barack, and America will flourish”.

So will these wealthy liberals who are complaining about Trump and the tax bill be setting aside the extra money they get from the tax cut and giving it to causes to help the poor? Every liberal group should be demanding every last dime go to charity or at least an anti-Trump or anti-Republican group. We need audits to make sure there are no hypocrites.