Day: July 1, 2025

Getting Closer To A Done Deal

That idiot sounding bill that has been all the rage in the MSM is this much closer to be a done deal….

Senate Republicans passed President Trump’s spending bill on Tuesday by the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session. Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 tie to push it over the top, per the AP. The outcome capped an unusually tense weekend of work at the Capitol, where the president’s signature legislative priority was at times teetering on the edge of collapse. The legislation still must return to the House for final approval. Trump wants to sign it by July 4.

  • Three nays: In the end, three GOP senators voted against the measure: Susan Collins of Maine joined Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rand Paul of Kentucky, per the Washington Post.
  • House uncertainty: Passage in the House is no sure thing. Speaker Mike Johnson had warned senators not to deviate too far from what his chamber had already approved. But the Senate did make changes, particularly to Medicaid, risking more problems as they race to finish by Trump’s holiday deadline.
  • Impact: An analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034 if the bill became law. Tillis in particular cited the impact on Medicaid recipients in his home state. The CBO said the package would increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion over the decade.

$3.3 trillion added to deficit….and soon the GOP will be screaming about those goddamn Dems and their spending….so please STFU.

Some will ask where were the Dems?  Well they got a big win with this as well….

Senate Democrats were unable to stop their Republican counterparts from passing what has been called the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” but they did score a symbolic victory by killing the name, reports the Washington Post. Democrats used parliamentary rules to ditch the Trump-centric “beautiful” label.

“Democrats are forcing Republicans to delete their farcical bill name,” said statement from the office of Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer. “Nothing about this bill is beautiful—it’s a betrayal to American families and it’s undeserving of such a stupid name.” Politico notes that such names often get stripped by the opposition party, but it doesn’t stop the party in power from continuing to use it. “So expect the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ to live on, if not in legislative text.”

Seriously?

That is the best they could deliver?

Useless and spineless…..Dems are the saviors waiting for their chance to shine. (Sarcasm)

I Read, I Write, You KNow

“lego ergo scribo”

Another Win For Big Money?

SCOTUS years ago gave a big win to corporate bribery by ruling on Citizen United….(if cannot remember that far back then try Google)….

SCOTUS is hearing arguments on another challenge but I think the outcome, to be announced next year, is already a sure thing.

The Supreme Court will take up a Republican-led drive, backed by President Trump’s administration, to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. The justices said Monday they will review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old, ignoring pleas from Democrats to leave the law in place, per the AP. The Supreme Court itself upheld it in 2001. But since Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court in 2005, a conservative majority has upended a variety of congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections. The court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.

Without the limits on party spending, large donors would be able to skirt caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate, supporters of the law say. The case will be argued in the fall. Richard Hasen. an election law expert at the UCLA’s law school, has predicted the court will strike down the limits. “That may even make sense now in light of the prevalence of super PAC spending that has undermined political parties and done nothing to limit (and in fact increased) corruption and inequality,” Hasen wrote on the Election Law blog.

The Justice Department almost always defends federal laws when they are challenged in court. But the Trump administration notified the court that “this is the rare case that warrants an exception to that general approach” because it believes the law violates free-speech protections in the First Amendment. The Republican committees for House and Senate candidates filed the lawsuit in Ohio in 2022, joined by two Ohio Republicans in Congress, then-Sen. JD Vance, who’s now vice president, and then-Rep. Steve Chabot. In 2025, the coordinated party spending for Senate races ranges from $127,200 in several states with small populations to nearly $4 million in California. For House races, the limits are $127,200 in states with only one representative and $63,600 everywhere else.

Are you confused yet?

Maybe this will help out if understanding is what you are looking for….

The Supreme Court is taking up another Republican legal case seeking to erode campaign finance law and give more power to the wealthy donors seeking to influence elections.

On Monday, the court agreed to hear a challenge to campaign finance restrictions w limit the ability of party committees to directly coordinate spending with individual candidates. The anti-corruption group Public Citizen argues that this provision was put in place to “guard against the corrupting effect of large campaign contributions.”  (I would say that it failed in that aspect)

The challenge was brought by the National Republican Senatorial and Congressional Committees, as well as the 2022 campaigns of two Ohio Republican congressmen: former Sen. JD Vance, who has since become vice president, and former Rep. Steve Chabot, who lost his re-election bid in 2022.

The case seeks to overturn rules implemented in the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1971, which put strict limits on the ability of party committees to spend money in coordination with specific candidates. The Democratic National Committee will defend the rule before the court after filing a motion to intervene.

The rules were put in place, in part, to stop wealthy donors from using parties to get around rules about coordinating individual spending with candidates.

Read on….

https://www.commondreams.org/news/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-gop-effort-to-further-gut-campaign-finance-law

Next year will will know what the Robert’s Court has to say about this…..personally I think believe it is a done deal and the bribery will be complete.

This Court will go down in history as the worse court ever and has done more to crap on the rights of the citizens and allowed bribery at the highest level….

Any thoughts on this POS?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

The Animals Turn On Each Other

Since Musk (Elmo) left the government he has been taking pot shots at Donny and now Donny has made his all telling statement about Elmo….Donny threatens to turn DOGE onto Elmo….

The Elon Musk-President Trump feud appears to be back on. After Musk lashed out at Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill’ on Monday, threatening to form a new political party if it passed, Trump fired back with a post on Truth Social early Tuesday. He suggested that the Department of Government Efficiency, formerly led by Musk, should take a look at the subsidies the billionaire’s company receives, reports Reuters.

  • “Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate,” Trump wrote. “It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!”
  • In a post on X, Musk replied, I am literally saying CUT IT ALL. Now.” In earlier posts, he called the spending and tax cuts bill “insane” and said lawmakers who “campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history” will “lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth.”
  • When Trump and Musk clashed over the bill in early June, Trump said the easiest way for the government to save money would be to “terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.” Musk countered that while it was “very unfair” for the bill to cut EV and solar incentives without touching oil and gas subsidies, he was was more upset about the bill’s “MOUNTAIN of DISGUSTING PORK.

I love it when the pricks turn on one another…..

I await the further developments….this could be the story of the years so far….at least it has the makings of a good slap fight.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”