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John McCain Holds The Keys To Tax Reform’s Fate
Anybody who was watching the July Senate floor vote on the Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace Obamacare will remember the audible gasps that John McCain elicited when he surprised his own party by voting against the plan. And now just four months later, he’s gearing up to do it again.
According to the New York Times, McCain may once again decide the fate of one of the Trump administration’s top legislative priorities.
The senator from Arizona has been tight-lipped about whether he will vote ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ on the bill, which was voted out of the Senate Banking Committee yesterday with the support of Bob Corker and Ron Johnson, who have both expressed reservations about the plan – Johnson had even said he wouldn’t vote for it.
As the NYT points out, McCain has staked his career on a platform of fiscal responsibility, and has bucked his party by voting against tax cuts in the past.
McCain’s skepticism of tax cuts stretches at least as far back as 1994. At that time, he was fretting about being fiscally responsible now that Republicans had seized control of Congress. ‘I think we would be making a terrible mistake to go back to the 80s, where we cut all of those taxes and all of a sudden now we’ve got a debt that we’ve got to pay on an annual basis that is bigger than the amount that we spend on defense,’ McCain said.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 29, 2017.
Trump Jr. To Meet With House Intel Committee Next Week
In a hearing that we imagine will provide much of the leaked fodder for CNN and MSNBC news coverage over the coming week (certainly once leaked copies of the testimony are distributed to the NSA’s favorite media outlets, WaPo and NYT), CNN reports that Donald Trump Jr. has agreed to testify before the House Intelligence Committee during a closed session.
This wouldn’t be Trump Jr.’s first meeting with one of the Congressional committees that are investigating Russian meddling in last year’s election: He met with Senate Judiciary Committee staff back in September, but angered Democratic lawmakers when he declined to testify publicly. Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal famously accused Trump of leaving ‘gaps’ in his testimony, and said the only way to remedy the situation would be for the president’s son to testify publicly.
Lawmakers who will be present at the Dec. 6 meeting are reportedly hoping to ask Trump more questions about the infamous ‘Trump Tower meeting’ with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and her entourage – a meeting that Trump admitted he took because he was promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. However, by all accounts, Veselnitskaya never had any intention of giving him any such information. Members of the committee recently interviewed several members of Veselnitskaya’s entourage, including Anatoli Samochornov, a translator who attended the meeting.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 29, 2017.
Convicted Croat War Criminal Dies After Drinking Poison In Hague Court
A Bosnian Croat wartime commander died on Wednesday shortly after he drank poison, seconds after U. N. appeals judges upheld his 20-year sentence for war crimes against Bosnian Muslims.
Slobodan Praljak, 72, a former wartime leader, tilted back his head and took a swing from a flask or glass as the judge read out the verdict. The man’s defense lawyer then told the court that the accused had ‘taken poison.’ The presiding judge stopped the proceedings and ordered a doctor to be called, Reuters reports.
‘I just drank poison,’ he said. ‘I am not a war criminal. I oppose this conviction.’
Praljak sat back down and slumped in his chair, a lawyer who was in the courtroom at the time said. The presiding judge suspended the hearing and called for a doctor. An ambulance was at the building and paramedics went to the courtroom.
Praljak was convicted of involvement in a campaign to drive Muslims out of Bosnia and create an ethnically pure Croat state during the Bosnian war in the 1990s sparked by the breakup of Yugoslavia. The conflict mainly saw Bosnian Muslims fighting Bosnian Serbs, but there was also deadly clashes involving Bosnian Muslims and Croats after an alliance fell apart. A total of 100,000 people died and 2.2 million were displaced in the three-year war.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 29, 2017.
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT BEARING HILLARY CLINTON’S SIGNATURE PROVES US-RUSSIAN FEDERATION URANIUM DEAL OCCURRED
Just like Intellihub’s Shepard Ambellas reported back in Jan. of 2016, Hillary Clinton sold 20% of the U. S. uranium supply to the Russians and here’s the proof.
WASHINGTON (INTELLIHUB) – A twelve-page ‘protocol agreement’ between the governments of the United States and Russia concerning the ‘management and disposition of plutonium’ bears former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s signature and dovetails several other agreements made in August and September of 2000.
This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on NOVEMBER 29, 2017.
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