He Ain't Kiddin', Folks!

 Stan Collender / Forbes:

Will GOP Cut Social Security And Medicare Before Or After The 2018 Election?  —  The headline above is a serious question.  Assuming the Trump Family and Friends Tax Cut approved by the Senate by the Senate is enacted, big cuts to Social Security and Medicare will be the next target …

The schaden will freude itself when the streets, alleys, suburban lanes & rural roads are filled w/ aged, wretched, strung-out & homeless Trump voters dying of easily curable/maintainable medical conditions. Or exposure.

Notes From The Front Lines:

 Prynard / Iowa Starting Line:

Grassley Implies Working Class Spends Tax Cuts On “Booze Or Women Or Movies”  — Home- 2017- December- 3- Grassley Implies Working Class Spends Tax Cuts On “Booze Or Women Or Movies”  —  After pretending for a brief moment in 2016 that the Republican Party stood for working people …

Honkies, crackers, trailer trash & so forth should bear in mind that race war can expand to class war virtually overnight.

 Steve Benen / MSNBC:

During tax debate, Republican questions funding for children's health  —  Congress was supposed to extend the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by Oct. 1.  As regular readers know, that was the day current funding for the program, which has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, expired.

Discussion:

Anne Laurie / Balloon Juice:   Repub Horrorshow Open Thread: Sick Kids, Feh!

Dan Desai Martin / Shareblue Media:   GOP: “We don't have money” for sick kids because we gave it all to the wealthy

Sen. Hatch opens his yap, at The Rectification of Names

Trouble in Mind

Senator Hatch "has a rough time" with renewing the Children's Health Insurance Program.

& Crooks And Liars (in deed & word).

Orrin Hatch Bemoans 'Freeloaders' Threatening The CHIP Program

And the party line from the usual gang of commies at Think Progress.

Hatch claims poor people don’t deserve government help because ‘they won’t
help themselves’

His tax bill would explode the deficit and further endanger funding
for the children's health insurance he's championed.

Poor people may be "helping ourselves" sooner than the Sen. expects. Pitchforks & torches, citizens!