May 14, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where President Trump’s administration is unraveling President Obama’s legacy. David Harsanyi analyzes. Will the tax cuts last? Jim Pinkerton, former co-chairman of the RATE coalition, looks to recent history and warns that the left will try to undo the Trump tax cuts. Plus: Kelsey Harkness shares how LGBT activists are trying to force all adoption providers to place children with same-sex couples, even when birth moms want their kids to go to a mom and a dad, and we have your letters on Kelly Clemente, the birth mom Harkness profiled last month.
“Birth mothers already sacrifice so much,” says Kelly Clemente. “I don’t think that they should have to sacrifice their faith, too.”
Former President Obama is now watching his much-celebrated two-term legacy be systematically demolished. This, in many ways, tells us that American governance still works.
“Whatever happens in November 2018 with the midterm elections, whatever happens, the Democrats and the left are coming, in a bad way, for the tax cuts,” says Jim Pinkerton, a former Reagan and Bush White House official.
Using a procedural tactic know as a discharge petition, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., joined 17 other Republicans and one Democrat to sign onto a plan that could give amnesty to those brought here illegally as children under President Obama’s DACA program.
“We can have children later,” my then-boyfriend said.
“We are taking the American taxpayer dollars and giving them to an anti-American dictator, who oppresses his own people and seeks to undermine the national security interest of our own country,” says Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
To lower drug costs, a greater number of generic drugs should be approved and the process for approval should be faster.
“To make the choice to allow a child to be born is a lot more difficult than to make the choice to end this child’s life before it can begin. That choice shows responsibility and respect for life,” says Robin Boyd.
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