So what if it only happens once? If I bought my kids a house that sure as hell would only happen once. Plus I get to just decide exactly what happens to the money at any time just as I would decide who I bought a taxable gift for.  I dont have to leave my kids a penny. I could donate the whole thing to charity, I…

That sounds good in theory, but in reality it won’t move the needle. McConnell is worth over $10 million, Corker is worth over $23 million, Ron Johnson is worth over $10 million, Greg Gianforte is worth over $135 million...these guys could care less about their government salary. I really don’t think cutting them off…

There’s no transaction/business taking place in case of inheritance.

Government shutdowns should be illegal.  Every budget needs to have a clause that says “after this budget expires, if a new budget is not passed, then this budget will continue to until one does.”

But its not the same money. If you define “same” as money that person X owns, it becomes different the second it passes to person X’s kids via inheritance. Its not different than when my money becomes the store’s money when I buy my coffee in the morning.

And no Splinter, I don’t need my flash player updated.

Before anyone makes any rash judgements, I really think we shouldn’t comment until we see every angle of the video and the Today show interview.

The reality is that he is the best the Democrats can get from a state that red.

I understand this. I’m questioning at what point is he essentially caucusing with the GOP, so whether or not he gets replaced by one is irrelevant.

Its tough to blame a Dem Senator in a red state for voting against the party some of the time, but at some point you have to wonder what the downside would be to cutting him off from the party.

Voting against re-opening the government isn’t leverage for her. It can only hurt her even if her vote wasn’t needed. Every republican, Trump included, can use this to attack her. There is no upside for AOC. Its an unforced error.

What happens when a budget bill or CR comes up when her vote is actually very much needed, but she says no because that bill funds something she has campaigned against? She either causes the bill to fail, or she’ll get ripped apart because she voted to fund something like ICE even though the rest of the bill funds…

Yes.  Yes he is.

You can definitely make that argument about DHS, although IIRC part of the reason it was mis-assessed was the lack of willingness to share intelligence between agencies. And even though the FBI has basically become a counter-terrorism agency I don’t think it helps them do their job to throw the 8 agencies under…

To answer the question about DHS...it literally started because those agencies by themselves couldn’t prevent a very preventable terrorist attack. That’s not to say DHS couldn’t use some major changes, but there is a need for the department itself.

I’m hopefully that these teacher strikes are the first signs that the pendulum is beginning to swing back towards a push for stronger unions.

The left, too, knows what it wants: No ICE—or CBP or DHS at all, really—and something close to open borders, if not the thing itself.

We choose to go to the Mars in this presidential term and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because of the fake news media; because that goal will serve to help my poll numbers and distract from the fake Russia thing, because that challenge is one that I am willing to accept, one I am unwilling to…

You really should re-examine your definition of ruining a life.

If every TSA worker and or every air traffic controller called in sick this shutdown would be over faster than you could say hamberder.