Years ago, James Carville said of the Paula Jones suit against Clinton, “If you drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you’ll find.” At the time I thought it was funny, now I think it’s offensive and the antithesis of what liberals should say and think about lower-income Americans who …
Swamps, All the Way Down
Good lord, this Trump-Russia thing is not necessarily developing to the shitgibbon’s advantage, is it? Here are three current WaPo headlines: Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia Nunes admits meeting with source of Trump surveillance documents on White House grounds 23 people ask the Justice Department to launch …
Keep an eye on Cassidy
I’ve been banging the drum that Cassidy-Collins is a plausible framework of a deal since January. It still is in play. Let’s start with a statement from Senator Cassidy (R-LA) from last week: “There’s a widespread recognition that the federal government, Congress, has created the right for every American to have health care,” he said, …
Collective action problems and races to the bottom
Insurers in a free, unregulated market with imperfect information and very expensive right hand tails of risk distribution will quickly converge to offering really bad coverage. This is a sub-optimal for everyone involved. It hurts people who need good coverage. It hurts society in general as risk is not distributed efficiently. It hurts hospitals as …
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Open Thread: Gimme Sanctuary
"Things really aren't going well and people have noticed. We should hate on brown people more." "Get Jeff Sessions on the phone." — phillip anderson (@phillipanderson) March 27, 2017 Cue the Malevolent Leprechaun, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III : Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces actions against sanctuary cities https://t.co/6OZtrfIwim https://t.co/xQolsUrtWY — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 27, …
On The Road
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their …
Open Thread: Trump & Russia – Fair Summary, So Far?
Pretty much anybody willing to get on the Trump train early should be assumed either a Russian agent or a spineless idiot now, I think. pic.twitter.com/zTKsrfmfPu — Schooley (@Rschooley) March 27, 2017 Spicer doesn't deny Nunes possibly received his information from sources inside the Trump administration "Anything is possible," he says — Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) …
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