Today, Rep. Keith Ellison removed one of the barriers to his bid to become DNC chair: He said he’d step down as congressman if elected: WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison will vacate his congressional seat if he wins the chairman job at the Democratic National Committee, he told the Star Tribune Wednesday morning. Ellison …
Moral Action in Trump’s America
I’m way deep in a big project, and rather significantly behind on it too, so my blogging for the next few months is going to be quick-hit stuff rather than anything thought through. I’ll try to make up for that by making it as regular a practice as I can to toss good reads your way. …
Seema Verma and Medicaid
Seema Verma is the projected next head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). She is a perfectly plausible nominee with views that I will seldom agree with. She is the consultant that led to Indiana to develop the HIP V.1 health savings account based Medicaid build-out that was tweaked to become HIP …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Two Americas
54% of us voted against Donald Trump. https://t.co/4fDbNV1DVG — Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) December 4, 2016 Nixon 1960: 49.55%Gore 2000: 48.38%Kerry 2004: 48.26%Ford 1976: 48.01%Romney 2012: 47.15%Trump 2016: 46.17% — David Frum (@davidfrum) December 2, 2016 Another way of visualizing the difference, by the Brookings Institution, as reported in the Washington Post: … According to the …
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Reminder: The unpopular stuff was needed
Via TPM, Senator Corker (R-TN) is stating an impossibility: “You really do have to have 60 votes to replace and you know reconciliation can create some hangover effects as we’ve seen with the health care bill itself and with the Bush tax cuts and all of that so are you better off going ahead and …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Red(state) Princess Ivanka
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) . So she can be in the room where it happens to be closing a deal for her business. https://t.co/zvHzTJ1DyV — Schooley (@Rschooley) December 5, 2016 A concept imported from China, like Trump’s campaign hats: the “Princelings” eliding the line between political machine and business empire. Neither of her adult brothers …
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Late Night Open Thread: An Inconvenient Trump
Al Gore says meeting with Ivanka, Donald Trump was an "extremely interesting conversation" https://t.co/IReutjhpQD pic.twitter.com/UlSzWiCSoD — Talking Points Memo (@TPM) December 5, 2016 Of course “extremely interesting” is frequently a diplomatic euphemism for “completely bonkers”, but let’s look on the brighter side, shall we? … Mr. Gore, who starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary “An …
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