“The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) could become the world’s largest free trade zone, comprising 16 countries that account for a third of global gross domestic product and nearly half the world’s population.”
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“Your honor, my client could not have committed that crime. He is…”
https://www.businessinsider.com/lindsey-graham-trump-ukraine-too-incoherent-quid-pro-quo-2019-11
“What I can tell you about the Trump policy toward Ukraine: It was incoherent. It depends on who you talk to; they seem to be incapable of forming a quid pro quo,” L. Graham, Senator
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“Are you freaking kidding me?”, Michael Steele
Michael Steele, former RNC chairman takes on the threats of civil war if Trump is impeached.
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Congress needs to grow a backbone
https://time.com/5716616/congress-blame-syria-policy/
It has ceded way too much power to the president.
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Trump’s amazing twitter feats and troubling retweets
How in the hell does our president find time to actually tend to the job of president. incessant tweeting and retweeting, TV watching, rallies and golf.
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And while we are on the subject of tax cuts and debt, let’s take a peek at WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-make-inequality-worse-11572561280
The author has some economic “cred”. “Mr. Blinder is a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve.”
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No wonder the deficit and debt are through the proverbial roof
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-is-driving-the-economybefore-trump-and-now-11572449817
A slight bump of 4/10ths percent in GDP over Obama years is not enough to pay for tax cuts.
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When conservatives like Goldberg point the obvious…
A view from the right intelligentsia
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-impeachment-subverts-the-constitution-11572040762
The bona fides of the authors are pretty compelling, and their arguments are somewhat grounded.
I say somewhat, because they talk about “rules” for impeachment, not as written, of course, but just what they said happened in the 3 other times: Johnson, Nixon and Clinton. Continue reading “A view from the right intelligentsia”
Pompeo: Secretary of State or checking his life jacket, or both?
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article236638158.html
I thought the State Department also represented the other 49 states.
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