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Just a spoonful or two of sugar today, along with much too much medicine. Among the stories we cover on today's jam-packed 'BradCast': the massively unpopular Republican tax scam lurches toward the finish line after the last of the pretend GOP hold-outs in the U.S. Senate now seem to be on board. They all know it's a scam, of course, one that most predict will gravely hurt their chances of holding on to the U.S. House in 2018, but they don't seem to care, for some reason.\xa0 Moreover, they openly admit publicly that they are next coming for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, almost as soon as the largest redistribution of wealth from the poor and middle class to corporations and the wealthy in the history of the nation is completed before Christmas. Earlier in the week, Trump's beleaguered Sec. of State Rex Tillerson had announced that the U.S. was ready to meet with the North Koreans without preconditions. By week's end, however, that hopeful message of potential peace took a drastic u-turn, as Tillerson appears to have reversed course at the last minute before remarks at the U.N. on Friday. Meanwhile, even though Trump and the Republicans have, until now, failed to enact any major legislation to date,\xa0 they have been wildly successful at ramming through lifetime appointments of radical right-wing jurists to the federal bench.\xa0 Some of them have been wildly unqualified, though at least one Senate Republican is beginning to put the brakes on those nominees. We share part of the astonishing Judiciary Committee colloquy this week between Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Mark Spencer Petersen, Trump's embarrassingly unqualified nominee for a lifetime post on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.\xa0 Finally, a musical tribute to the apparently-failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama, the plummeting approval ratings for the President, the Vice-President and the entire Republican Party, and the hilarious case of pretty much every member of the Trump family in D.C. successfully suppressing their own votes in last month's New York mayoral election...