Apparently I’m on a tear. This time I’m only mildly slamming the Post. The Washington Post’s second article today about Jared Kushner is “Senate panel plans to interview Trump son-in-law Kushner in Russia probe.” Remember how much Trump hates leaks? Let’s walk through the sourcing in the Post article: The Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to interview President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner…. Just […]
The Washington Post fails to learn from past experience. Yesterday The Washington Post published their article Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas, and it’s another confabulation. They got an exclusive announcement, which is fine, but they used the glossy descriptions in it as if the pretty words were their own reporting. What do I mean? Take the […]
Why won’t people admit it’s self-inflicted? And after writing the subtitle, I wonder if I need to say more? Start with Paul Ryan. Over the past seven years, Ryan spent cumulative man-centuries of government time repealing Obamacare. He swore he had a replacement plan, and now we know he lied. Ryan showed he was just a hollow phony. Trump strutted his ‘something much better’ line […]
It’s odd how liberty is such a strong Republican meme, given their practical hostility toward its practice. Republicans are the party of most social conservatives. That seems reasonable. Republicans have professed to be conservative for generations. Social conservatives don’t like abortion. Fair enough. Hell, I agree; I don’t like abortion, either. I don’t know anyone who does. I think that legal, safe abortion is necessary, […]
Accuse an enemy with your own sins, that they be distracted. I’ve come to the conclusion that the Republican Party of old is either dead, or kidnapped and replaced with a pod party. Time and again, I see Republicans either discard their core principles, or relegate them to third or second priority at best. I think ‘Republican’, and I think military hawk, fiscal conservative, social […]
I still live with the Zebra Myth. I’m pretty sure I’m still living in the past. I try to talk a good game, Â I pretend I know the score, I aspire to be sophisticated, and talk about perceptions, but I haven’t come to terms with modern life. Â I think I’m missing something critical. Even Time Magazine is wondering if we’re at the end of Truth […]
No good can come of this. (This is a 3D model of the hole in the ozone layer.) Trump pretended the TrumpRyanCare hadn’t happened, instead crowing that he’d signed the 2017 NASA Authorization Act. That act funds NASA, which is good, and even includes a $200M increase. Remember that nothing has been budgeted yet, and Trump’s draft budget had a $100M cut in NASA spending, […]
Really, you can’t make this stuff up. On Friday, after almost 17 days of part-time work, Trump got tired. Hey, two weeks is what, 20 months in Trump-years? He told the Republican party that the first draft of the Obamacare replacement bill — the one they’d cobbled together without any expertise or detail? — that was all they’d get. No fixes, no improvements, no filling […]

