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 […]
Life in the post-truth landscape. I chose a busy time for my vacation. Thank god. I didn’t miss it at all. Look, this is what kind of week it’s been. Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal had a huge scoop: Michael Flynn, while working as both Trump’s National Security Advisor and a secretly paid agent of the Turkish government, plotted with Turkish government […]
Jeeze, what a putz! I swore I was going on a Trump vacation, but with the London attack, I looked anyway. What a waste of my time. Trump spouted some new lies trying to distract us from his real dealings, in this case, his deeply corrupt Russian connections. For the new lie to work, he has to be shrill enough to drown out his last […]
Sorry I’ve been so quiet recently. I’ve been out of town/state/country, and I’ve taken the opportunity to go on a Trump break. I’ll resume when I get back.
Arithmetic for Americans. First, local, state and federal governments spend about $21,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. That’s the baseline. I’m always surprised when people get frosted about the US spending their hard-earned dollars (their emphasis) on that.. (and they’ll sputter for a second) art. When people in America are starving! (Somewhere, they’re sure, although they never really cared enough to […]
Pay no attention to the Reform behind the curtain. Don’t forget: Republican ‘reform’ is another lie, trying to get you to blink and turn away. They’re not talking about reforming anything. I’m reading about the Republican Party looking toward Tax Reform. A Google search for ‘Tax Reform 2017’ returns 15 million hits. Here are some typical headlines this month: Fox News: McConnell hits brakes on […]
Is the State Department just under-priced real estate? The Trump Administration has removed dozens of State Department people, and more are streaming out. First, the entire senior administrative team resigned, and there have been dozens more since then who’ve left or not been requested to stay. Most of these are career positions, not political appointees. As former Ambassador Daniel Fried said on Rachael Maddow, it’s […]
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