You Know You're Saying This Out Loud, Right? Mick

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You Know You're Saying This Out Loud, Right?

Mick Mulvaney and Kellyanne Conway forgot to use their inside voices.

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By Charles P. Pierce

Nov 20, 2017

Tragically, the Republicans who are running the country have misplaced their interior monologues and are saying the quiet parts out loud.

For example, on Monday morning, Kellyanne Conway dropped by to chat with Fox News Channel’s Three Dolts On A Divan about the rapidly approaching Alabama senatorial election. From The Hill:

“Doug Jones in Alabama, folks, don’t be fooled. He will be a vote against tax cuts. He is weak on crime, weak on borders. He is strong on raising your taxes. He is terrible for property owners," Conway said on "Fox & Friends."

“So, vote Roy Moore?” host Brian Kilmeade interjected.

“I’m telling you that we want the votes in the Senate to get this tax bill through,” Conway said.

Yes, it is indeed a profound tell that Conway spewed this fact-free bafflegab while Leigh Corfman was telling CBS about how Moore allegedly molested her when she was barely a teenager, but we already knew that Conway was reckless, and we’ve known that for years, ever since she burst onto the scene during the Clinton wars of the 1990s, when Conway (nee Fitzpatrick) was of the same opinion to which Kirsten Gillibrand has come to only recently.

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But Conway also has a lot of damn gall to call Doug Jones “soft on crime.”

Doug Jones fought like a wolverine to send to prison the last of the murderous racist bastards who bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, one of the signal crimes committed by the defenders of American apartheid in that bloody era.

She should ask Thomas Blanton, Jr. or Bobby Frank Cherry how “soft on crime” Doug Jones is. Of course, she’s going to need a medium to talk to Cherry, who croaked in stir. In 2016, Jones testified against Blanton’s effort to be paroled. Blanton’s still in prison.

But Conway and her boss—and the political party in which she has been nurtured her entire adult life—need a lascivious bag of theocratic walnuts to be elected so they can shove more of the country’s wealth upwards. What an awful person.

Over the weekend, Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a man who is no more an economist than I am LeBron James, made the rounds of the Sunday Showz. On Meet The Press, Mulvaney let the kitty go screeching out of the burlap, via NBC News:

Under the GOP tax plan, tax cuts for corporations would not have an expiration date, but the cuts for individuals expire after ten years—a fact Mulvaney admitted on Sunday was a “gimmick” to ensure the legislation adheres to the Senate’s strict rules that allow them to pass it with 50 votes instead of 60. “In order to do that, the certain proposals can only have certain economic impact,” Mulvaney said on “Meet The Press.” “One of the ways to game the system is to make things expire," Mulvaney said. "The Bush tax cuts back in early 2000 did the same thing. They supposedly would expire after nine years. What we tell folks is this is if it's good policy, it will become permanent. If it's bad policy, it will become temporary…A lot of this is a gimmick. Obamacare was a gimmick to get through these rules in the Senate. And what you should really be looking at is the policies themselves. And we think these are excellent policies."

One policy got health insurance to millions of Americans who previously couldn’t afford it. The other “gimmick” will not allow union members to deduct their dues, but still allow corporations to deduct expenses accrued by union busting, and will not allow schoolteachers to deduct the cost of supplies they pay for with their own money, but will allow the owners of private jets to deduct those expenses. Plus, as Conway pointed out, this tax plan is so important that the voters should install an alleged pedophile in the United States Senate to ensure its passage.

Over the weekend, Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a man who is no more an economist than I am LeBron James, made the rounds of the Sunday Showz. On Meet The Press, Mulvaney let the kitty go screeching out of the burlap, via NBC News:

Under the GOP tax plan, tax cuts for corporations would not have an expiration date, but the cuts for individuals expire after ten years—a fact Mulvaney admitted on Sunday was a “gimmick” to ensure the legislation adheres to the Senate’s strict rules that allow them to pass it with 50 votes instead of 60. “In order to do that, the certain proposals can only have certain economic impact,” Mulvaney said on “Meet The Press.”

“One of the ways to game the system is to make things expire," Mulvaney said. "The Bush tax cuts back in early 2000 did the same thing. They supposedly would expire after nine years.

What we tell folks is this is if it's good policy, it will become permanent. If it's bad policy, it will become temporary…A lot of this is a gimmick. Obamacare was a gimmick to get through these rules in the Senate. And what you should really be looking at is the policies themselves. And we think these are excellent policies."

One policy got health insurance to millions of Americans who previously couldn’t afford it. The other “gimmick” will not allow union members to deduct their dues, but still allow corporations to deduct expenses accrued by union busting, and will not allow schoolteachers to deduct the cost of supplies they pay for with their own money, but will allow the owners of private jets to deduct those expenses.

Plus, as Conway pointed out, this tax plan is so important that the voters should install an alleged pedophile in the United States Senate to ensure its passage.

Jesus, these really are the fcking mole people.

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