Roy Moore is a pedophile, a constant embarrassment to Alabama & the United States.
Doug Jones is relatively transparent. At least reliable for GOP. But Doug Jones could start a domino effect against McConnell.
“Bannon claimed establishment Republicans such as Mitch McConnell and Richard Shelby of Alabama were using Trump as a vehicle to pass a tax bill. ‘What they want him for is that corporate tax cut … As soon as they get that tax cut, watch what happens there.”
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THEGUARDIAN
Roy Moore battles bigotry claims on eve of Alabama vote: 'Our attorney is a Jew’
Tuesday 12 December 2017 02.13 EST
"The possible election of Doug Jones, a Democrat, in deep-red Alabama would alter the balance of power in the Senate and could dramatically change the GOP’s agenda in 2018.
A Jones win would put more pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to work with Democrats. Most significantly, it could scuttle efforts to replace ObamaCare and reform entitlement programs — a top priority for Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in 2018.
But it will also empower maverick conservatives such as Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who have threatened at times this year to derail the GOP agenda to win concessions.
In other words, a Jones win will make McConnell’s job a lot harder if he sticks to his strategy of passing major bills with party-line Republican support.
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THE HILL
"Now in a self-declared war on the Republican establishment, Bannon, once again Breitbart’s executive chairman, is returning to his outsider roots, using cultural resentment to stir up fury against the country-club elites of 'the permanent political class.'
But McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, charter members of the permanent political class that Bannon has in his sights, are the very same Republicans enabling, and even shaping, Trump’s business-friendly agenda.
'When I left the White House, I said I was going to war with the Republican establishment,”
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VANITY FAIR
Steve Bannon’s Culture War Just Got a Lot More Complicated
The Senate’s much ballyhooed tax bill appears to be a G.O.P. fantasy come to life—a boon to donors, the wealthy, and big business. The only Republican who got screwed, it seems, is Steve Bannon, the proprietor of the party’s insurrection.
Peter Hamby
December 4, 2017 6:15 pm
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