Stupidest take possible: His constituents are running out of ventilators because of DeSantis’s “brand” https://t.co/YUwN9Xe5me— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 10, 2021 It’s weird to talk that way about someone who had to beg for 300 ventilators for his state today for a preventable illness Maybe even reprehensible.— Jay Weixelbaum (@JayWeixelbaum) August 11, 2021 If Charles Manson were still alive and running for office as a Republican, you can bet his populist/libertarian, white nationalist message would be leaving Team DeSantis in the dust where fundraising is concerned.You folks might want to reexamine your interpretation of 'proof'.— Steve F. (@backyardsage) August 10, 2021 Can he get the nomination once the COVID19 dust settles? Also, can he really win if he loses Florida? And for sure, if he loses Florida, he will lose many other swing states.
Oh yeah, Republicans broke it but Dems should own it… how would this be worded differently if it was an internal RNC memo instead of a reporter’s tweet? https://t.co/rA3RLmt9ax— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 16, 2021
More on Winning the pandemic: "With Covid-19 surging across the state, Texas has requested five mortuary trailers from FEMA in anticipation of an influx of dead bodies.The mortuary trailers will be stationed in San Antonio and sent around the state at the request of local officials."https://t.co/d5EzfAXMbV— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 17, 2021
The private jet in the picture is not really helping his case— Matt Severn (@Matt_Severn) August 17, 2021
How does this guy still have a job in MSM? Crappy headline after reading the article, let me edit it: “Nutcase cries for Attention” 😎— Nick Schroers Apartment, Spkr Tim Jones Nightmare (@STLOmegaMan) August 18, 2021
But we need to hear both sides of the argument! Your scientific informed knowledge vs their YouTube conspiracy infused rants!!! New Massachusetts poll shows just how widespread - and bipartisan - support for school mask mandates is. Remember that next time loud anti-mask parents dominate news coverage (and shape state policy) https://t.co/oV9etk32oo pic.twitter.com/qzjaqCismE— Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) August 19, 2021
Exhibit # 3567 that Politico is utter garbage. To be fair, Axios is giving them a tough competition. The bashing of former President BARACK OBAMA'S birthday bash is having a chilling effect on the D.C. party scene as (especially Democratic) pols and their staffers scramble to figure out when and where — or even if — they can party again. More in Playbook: https://t.co/Fh5HivK9YK— POLITICO Playbook (@playbookdc) August 20, 2021
I've seen his twitter feed, and read plenty of his articles. Maybe he didn't write the headline, but that level of content-neutral snark is very much his brand.
Axios doesn’t plan to fire anyone over this tweet.https://t.co/Pp22Pivdy9— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) August 23, 2021
If I had $10,000,000,000, you know what I’d do? well, lots of things. I’m sure you all can imagine. But one thing I would do is start an online politics journal with the motto “Like Axios, Politico, and Punchbowl, but without insulting your intelligence”
Parte tres: DeSantis has turned Florida into a global Covid epicenter Biden has called him out CNN: who’s winning this battle?? https://t.co/5jacsMXEX4— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 25, 2021
But his bytes: The Biden family dog was a bit more of a problem pooch than the White House initially acknowledged, according to Secret Service emails obtained by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch. https://t.co/uu1umq3Z96— NBC News (@NBCNews) August 28, 2021
After all, most of the MSM perceives the news as a horse race, and most of the GQP perceives themselves as victims... The way he worded it is so telling. Translation: “We don’t tell the truth now, and we’re certainly not going to start anytime soon, but we want people to THINK we’re telling the truth.”— Eileen 🌻 Antifa Croquet Team (@Percysperson) September 9, 2021
Insert comment about those nice Nazi uniforms... Did Kim Jong Un write this? https://t.co/Qdpqe6EkY2— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) September 10, 2021
Opinion | The double standard for GOP vs. Democratic budget bills - The Washington Post I honestly did not know this. When the Republicans passed their tax cut in 2017, the dollar amount of it was reported in net terms. The Dems' spending plan is being reported in gross terms, without accounting for the other side of the ledger. The MSM has a conservative bias. "In recent years, there has been something of a budgeting double standard in the framing of Republican and Democratic economic proposals. Consider Republicans’ signature achievement during the Trump era, their 2017 tax cut. This bill was usually referred to as a "$1.5 trillion” tax cut because that was the initial estimate for its net cost over a decade. A bill’s net cost refers to the price if you add up all the provisions that raise money, subtract all the provisions that lose money and then see how it all washes out. For the 2017 tax bill, the net result was forecast as a $1.5 trillion increase in deficits over a decade. (This was later revised upward, to nearly $2 trillion.) if, however, we had counted only the law’s gross costs (i.e., without offsetting revenue-raisers, such as the cap on state and local tax deductions), its price tag would have looked multiple times more expensive. But that’s exactly how most politicians and journalists are tallying the “cost” of Democrats’ safety-net-and-climate legislation. As Republicans did in 2017, Democrats are trying to pass their legislation through “reconciliation,” a process that requires only a party-line vote. Most references to the Democrats’ package describe it as costing $3.5 trillion. That number reflects the gross costs of Democrats’ agenda items, such as paid leave, health-care expansions, universal pre-K and child tax credits. In other words, the $3.5 trillion headline refers to only one side of the ledger. However, Democrats plan to pay for at least some of these priorities with various offsets, such as higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy. Once you include the offsets, the net cost will be lower."
Both have to do accounting tricks to get it past the CBO. Republicans made the taxcuts on lower brackets temporary so they would not count on the 10 year deficit. Democrats are postponing some of the extra expending for 6 to 8 years, that way only a fraction of their cost will be taken into account by the CBO. I believe the dental plan to medicare is one of those things. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/c...ts-to-medicare-but-not-until-2028-11631205184