Author: Gary Bentley

Republicans are hoping to push through a new version of their “repeal and replace” legislation, and this time they’re hoping to sweeten the deal by including a massive giveaway to lawmakers in the form of a tax cut.  Even though the bill cuts special education funding, defunds Planned Parenthood, and cuts Medicaid by 25%, I’m sure these lawmakers will follow their selfish instincts on this one. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript: As Republicans in Washington, D.C. prepared a vote on Trumpcare 3.0, the real third attempt that they’ve had to repeal and replace Obamacare in...

According to a new report by the International Business Times, it isn’t as expensive as you’d think to buy the loyalty of a member of Congress.  In some cases, donations of just $1,000 were enough to change the outcome of a vote. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: According to a new report published in the International Business Times, it’s actually not that expensive, if you have the money, to buy the loyalty of a member of Congress. Specifically, it’s not that expensive to buy the loyalty of a member of Congress...

According to reports, Ivanka Trump welled up with tears over her father’s non-apology for the remarks he made about grabbing women by their genitals.  While that may be true, we cannot act like Ivanka is anything but complicit about her father’s behavior, and we can’t make a saint out of a sinner. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: According to a new report, when Donald Trump issued his non-apology for the statement he made on tape in 2005 about how he liked to grab women by the genitals, when he issued that...

Representative Mo Brooks from Alabama told CNN this week that it isn’t fair that people who “lead good lives” have to help subsidize the insurance of people with pre-existing conditions.  In Brooks’ mind, only bad people get sick. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: Farron Cousins: On Monday of this week, Representative Mo Brooks from Alabama went on CNN to talk with Jake Tapper about the third incarnation of the Republican healthcare bill and how it was different than the previous incarnations; what it was going to do for Americans. Take a...

Donald Trump is furious about the recently-struck budget deal, where all of his pet projects were left off the table and the programs he wanted to cut actually received more money, so he’s open to the idea of shutting down the entire federal government until he gets his way. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.   Transcript of the above video: Donald Trump has finally reached peak. I’m going to take my ball and go home if I don’t get my way. This past Sunday, Congress finally comes to a deal on the budget. They finalize it. They’re like,...