I have a question for you…First off, it’s clear that if/when Trump fires Mueller and pardons people, conservative media and elected Republicans will stand by him. Bobo telegraphed that a few months ago: But even if you took a paragon of modern presidents — a contemporary Abraham Lincoln — and you directed a democratically unsupervised, …
Apropos Of Not Much
So I read the latest over at Talking Points Memo on the slow-rolling Republican “moderate” cave on the tax bill to Trump and the GOP’s I Got Mine/Tongue-Bath-A-Billionaire Caucus. That led me to a Twitter rant born of despair and rage. The TL:DR is that dominant-power decline has happened before, will happen to whoever comes …
Seattle Meet-Up: Venue Suggestions?
From Seattle party planner Casey L: Ruemara is coming to Seattle, so of course we’d love to do a meetup in her honor. I’ve been emailing her some ideas for where to eat in downtown Seattle, and there are too many choices. She has suggested I try to poll the Seattle BJ community for preferences, …
The DPRK Has Conducted Another Ballistic Missile Test
I’m sure Cheryl will be along with greater details once we have them, but in the meantime: BREAKING: North Korea launches unidentified missile eastward, Yonhap news agency reports, citing South Korean military officials — NBC News (@NBCNews) November 28, 2017 This is a little unusual for this time of year. The typical pattern is that …
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There’s no such thing as an original sin
I don’t hear it much around here, but I hear a lot of people say that the Trump era is fundamentally different from the Bush era, that Trump’s outright lies have no precedent. Bullshit. This is from the WH White House: The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based …
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World’s Greatest Negotiator
Twitler thoughtfully provided foreshadowing this morning on his trip to Capitol Hill today: Meeting with “Chuck and Nancy” today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal! — Donald J. Trump …
ACA and Health Policy 101
Charles Gaba has put together a 17 minute Youtube video on ACA and more generally health insurance works: