{"id":12409,"date":"2017-12-15T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T02:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2017-12-15T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T02:20:20","slug":"gop-tax-scams-final-mile-tillersons-nk-flip-flop-packing-the-courts-trump-family-fail-bradcast-12152017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12409","title":{"rendered":"GOP Tax Scam’s Final Mile; Tillerson’s NK Flip-Flop; Packing the Courts; Trump Family Fail: ‘BradCast’ 12\/15\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, a spoonful or two of sugar where we can find it, along with much too much bitter medicine. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

Among the stories covered on today’s jam-packed ‘BradCast’…<\/p>\n

First up: The massively unpopular<\/a> Republican tax scam lurches toward the finish line after the last<\/a> of the pretend GOP hold-outs in the U.S. Senate now seem to be on board. They all know it’s a scam, of course, one that will not, as they pretend<\/a>, “pay for itself”. And most predict the tax bill will gravely hurt<\/a> the GOP’s chances of holding on to the U.S. House in 2018. But they don’t seem to care for some reason Moreover, they are openly admitting<\/a> publicly that they are coming for cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid almost as soon as the largest redistribution of wealth from the poor and middle class to corporations and the wealthy in the history of the nation is completed before Christmas.<\/p>\n

Then: Earlier in the week, Trump’s beleaguered Sec. of State Rex Tillerson had announced<\/a> that the U.S. was ready to meet with the North Koreans for peace talks without preconditions. By week’s end, however, that hopeful message of potential peace took a drastic u-turn, as Tillerson appears to have reversed course<\/a> at the last minute during his remarks at the U.N. on Friday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, even though they have, up until now, failed to enact any major legislation to date, Trump and the Republicans have been wildly successful<\/a> at ramming lifetime appointments of radical right-wing jurists to the federal bench through the U.S. Senate. Some of those appointees have been ridiculously unqualified<\/a>, though at least one Senate Republican is beginning to put the brakes on those nominees. We share part of the astonishing Senate Judiciary Committee colloquy<\/a> this week between Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Mark Spencer Petersen, Trump’s embarrassingly unqualified nominee for a lifetime post on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

Finally, we get to at least a spoonful of sugar with a musical tribute to the apparently failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama, plummeting approval ratings for the President<\/a>, the Vice-President<\/a> and the entire Republican Party, and the hilarious case<\/a> of pretty much every member of the Trump family in D.C. successfully suppressing their own<\/i> votes in last month’s New York mayoral election.<\/p>\n

All of that and much<\/i> more in today’s BradCast<\/i>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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