The Evangelical Tax Heresy

Evangelical Nazi Leaders worked hard for this day. Radical End Time Neo-Confederate Traitors, put their Fascist Brothers in office so they can attack the North and the Poor. They have broken into Fort Knox.

As promised, I will lead the New Order of Knight Templars against them.

John G. Presco ‘Grand Master of the Knight Templars in America’

As a good portion of Americans were sleeping, Senate Republicans passed a $1.5 trillion tax bill in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

The bill squeaked through the Senate in a 51 to 49 vote, almost entirely along party lines. Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) was the only Republican who — along with all Democrats — voted against the bill.

Corker, who is not seeking reelection, expressed concerns over the bill contributing to the growing national debt. But to hear most GOP lawmakers tell it, the legislation was a victory to be cheered and, at last, an achievement to be flaunted heading into next year’s midterm elections.

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Democrats told a different story leading up to the vote — in part because, for much of the day, there was no bill to be seen.

Only “a few hours before the vote” was a draft of the tax bill distributed to lawmakers, according to Montana’s Sen. Jon Tester, one of the many Democrats who took to Twitter to lambaste the hasty process Friday night as the vote neared.

“Hey, happy holidays, everybody,” Tester said in a video posted just after 7 p.m. “It’s the night we’re going to be voting on the tax bill. I just got the tax bill 25 minutes ago.”

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In both hands he held a ream of paper several inches thick, then set it on his desk with a thud. From the top of the 479-page pile, he plucked a page that contained handwritten edits scrawled in the margin.

“I want you to take a look at this, folks. This is your government at work,” Tester said in the video. “Here’s the bill as it’s written. Here’s the modifications that are in it. . . . Can you tell me what that word is?”

The camera zoomed into a cursive word that looked, at first blush, something like “attributabnto.”

“This is Washington, D.C. at its worst,” Tester wrote on Twitter. “Montanans deserve so much better.” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) expressed his frustration on Twitter on Dec. 1 upon receiving a 479-page tax bill document only hours before the vote. (Senator Jon Tester) Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) expressed his frustration on Twitter on Dec. 1 upon receiving a 479-page tax bill only hours before the vote. (Senator Jon Tester) Many Democrats also zeroed in on the manual edits as evidence that Republicans were carelessly ramming the bill through the Senate without thorough consideration.

“ . . . if you are so intent on forcing middle class families to foot the bill so your donors can have a tax break, at least have the decency to find a printer,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) tweeted at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), appending her message with the hashtag #GOPTaxScam.

Shortly after receiving the draft bill, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) posted two pages that were crossed out and thus seemed to be irrelevant. Or were they?

“Okay this is absurd,” Menendez observed. “Is that a crossout? Is this page part of the bill? WHY AM I ASKING THESE QUESTIONS HOURS BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT??”