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To: koan who wrote (358931)	12/29/2017 12:43:42 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542957

"In 2018 we take back the house and impeach Trump and start a zillion investigations into Republican criminality and start reversing the Republican destruction." Nope; just conduct investigations. We'll be in for 2 years of nothing. We'll repeal and replace the tax bill 56 times, and the Senate will filibuster. Obama wouldn't sign a bill repealing his programs, and neither will Trump. Trump is not gonna be impeached, except by the voters. Dems will make some feel-good noises, but, unless he steps down or is arrested for money laundering, he'll be on the '20 ballot, and this is still true...

To: koan who wrote (358931)	12/29/2017 1:47:15 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542957

Newt Gingrich Predicts 'Political Surprise' for 2018 He says Republicans will win big in next year's elections By Newser Editors, Newser Staff Posted Dec 28, 2017 1:30 PM CST Updated Dec 28, 2017 2:00 PM CST newser.com (NEWSER) – One common sentiment among political pundits is that Democrats are on track to deliver a political shellacking to Republicans in the 2018 elections. At Fox News, however, Newt Gingrich is predicting the "great political surprise" of the new year: Republicans will not only win, they'll win big. "After members of the elite media have spent two years savaging President Trump, lying about Republican legislation, and reassuring themselves that Republican defeat was inevitable, the size of the GOP victory in 2018 will be an enormous shock," writes the former House speaker. One key reason for his prediction is the newly passed Republican tax plan. Ordinary Americans have been told in the press over and over that the changes will hurt them and benefit the rich, he writes. But when people actually receive fatter paychecks next year, Gingrich argues, they'll see the truth. "In fact, the tax cuts will be the 2018 proving ground of media liberal bias and dishonesty," he writes. What's more, he predicts that Democrats who voted against the measure will pay the price in the midterms, particularly the 10 Senate Democrats up for re-election in states won by Trump. Click for the full column, in which Gingrich references another by Dilbert creator Scott Adams that offers up a list of 20 doomsday political predictions about Trump that Adams says failed to materialize.