Today the Senate likely will vote to repeal The New Deal

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and the morning "news" shows lead with Matt Lauer.

It's 10 minutes into CBS and nothing. They're onto a rehash of the Access Hollywood tape.

God help us all

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1. MSM is often complicit and complacent. It's all about money. The majority of Americans

don't matter. Yet millions of Americans will vote in those that run over them and say thank you.

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2. The Senate will do a bad thing today, but it won't "repeal the New Deal"

That's just absurd hyperbole. The New Deal isn't whatever you want to think it is. It was a series of legislative actions taken in the early years of FDR's administration in response to the Great Depression. It's major components included the Glass Seagal Act and bills creating the following agencies or programs:

Social Security

The Federal Housing Authority
The Securities Exchange Commission
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Public Works Administration
The Works Progress Administration
The National Industry Recovery Act
The Home Owners Loan Corporation
The Federal Security Agency
The Civil Works Administration
The Civilian Conservation Corp.

Most of these agencies or programs were short-term and ceased to exist or function by the early 1940s. Glass Seagal was repealed in 1999. And others, such as Social Security, the FHA, the SEC, and the TVA are not "repealed" by the tax bill.

If we're going to fight the tax bill successfully, we need to do it with facts, not nonsensical hyperbole that is easily fact checked.