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1. I wouldn't immediately dismiss this...
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 02:52 PM
Apr 3

...first of all, it's starting out bi-partisan. And even though House Republicans have been more in line, the fact that Anna Paulina Luna(tic)'s discharge petition forced Moses Johnson to prevent votes at the end of this week shows leading the GOP conference is still like herding cats. There are a lot of red state reps whose farmers are going to take a beating, and there are auto plants in SC, TN, and GA that might have to resort to layoffs.

Tuesday's elections have to have been a wake up call for a lot of Republicans, and when you have the Wall Street Journal and Rand Paul saying very loudly "tariffs are taxes", that's going to make believers out of people who couldn't accept that fact from Kamala Harris. The truest of truisms in politics is people vote their pocketbooks, and these tariffs are going to hit those pocketbooks hard, as well as 401ks.

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