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Joan McCarter's Profile
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A lifelong Blue girl in a Red state, I'm now Senior Political Writer for Daily Kos. On any given day, I'd rather be horseback, but there's more demand for political writers than cowgirls.
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, Social Security Defenders, Social Security, Comics, Daily Kos Labor, VirtuallySpeaking, Transcripts and Documents, Daily Kos Economics, Five Questions
Twitter: @joanmccarter
Diaries published: 12969 (1 day since last diary on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM PST)
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It's been clear all year that Mitch McConnell's and the Senate Republicans' top priority is stacking the federal judiciary with wing-nuts, because they've directed all of their efforts at shutting down Democratic opposition to Trump judicial nominees....
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM PST
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Some Alabamians decided to have fun with this month's special election, won by Democrat Doug Jones, thankyouverymuch. To these voters’ credit, even if they couldn't vote for a Democrat, they sure as hell couldn't vote for a predatory scumbag...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 09:55 AM PST
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It's day 83 since the Children's Health Insurance Program and community health center funding expired. The Republican Congress kicked the can down the road a few months, providing temporary funding for them. That's better than nothing, but still a...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 09:05 AM PST
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Since Republicans took over the House in 2010 and began their mission of destroying government, the budget for the IRS has been cut by 17 percent, about $900 million. It's staff has been cut by 21,000, or 23 percent. Now this crippled agency is going...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 08:26 AM PST
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Republican Congress avoids a government shutdown, but punts on critical issues harming actual people Congress did what it does best Thursday, punt on the big issues until next month. That includes putting off resolving the limbo of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Already 12,000 DACA recipients have lost their protected...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Dec 22, 2017 at 07:06 AM PST
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This is pretty incredible, considering the enrollment period was cut in half, the advertising budget was slashed 90 percent, and popular vote loser Donald Trump spent the entire year declaring Obamacare dead. Take this, Trump:
And there are 10...
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