‘The House of Representatives wasted no time Tuesday in setting up schemes that are designed to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.
House Republicans approved on late Tuesday a resolution of operating rules that include several pretty outrageous provisions, such as an authorization to keep beating the dead horse of Benghazi, the effort to smear the Obama administration’s response to the 2012 Libya Embassy attack. But one of the most outrageous will allow Republicans to get away with claiming that tax cuts on the wealthy in effect defy gravity by increasing revenues and lowering deficits, thus making them easier to slip through Congress.
At the same time, a sentence in the rules resolution puts in jeopardy Social Security disability benefits for millions of people by deliberately making it harder for the government to cover their cost.’
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