Unsurprisingly, Scott Pruitt was confirmed for the EPA today on a mostly party-line vote. He’ll arrive in office with a ready-made scandal waiting in the wings. By court order, he has to release potentially damning correspondence that he’s been illegally withholding for years.
Trump held a long press conference today that was notably surreal. I’m not point to a highlight (lowlight?), but it’s telling. This was right after being asked about whether he’d meet with the Congressional Black Caucus (he didn’t recognize the name and appeared uncertain about who they were). He asked the (black) reporter if she knew them, and if she’d set something up.
Last night, a court ordered Oklahoma state Attorney General (and Trump EPA nominee) Scott Pruitt to release thousands of emails from the time he was acting in ways that appeared deeply corrupted by the oil industry. Those emails have been illegally withheld for two years. District Court Judge Aletia Timmons gave Pruitt until Tuesday to release the emails and records of state meetings. The Senate […]
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me . . . – Emma Lazarus (1849-1885) “The New Colossus” I was reading LookingTowardPortugal just now. It’s a good blog by a friend who writes better than I do (not a high bar, I know). He started his […]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak Concerns. U.S. intelligence officials have withheld sensitive intelligence from President Donald Trump because they are concerned it could be leaked or compromised, according to current and former officials familiar with the matter. With so many press reports about deep, possibly illicit Russian connections into the Trump campaign, and now with the […]
Rachael Maddow makes a good case that the Trump administration has a surprisingly high number of sexual abusers and wife beaters. Trump leads from the top, of course, with what, a dozen accusers so far? But then there’s Steve Bannen, and Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder, wife beaters both.
Interesting Fox News interview: Sen. Rand Paul On John McCain Saying Armed Services Committee Will Investigate Trump Admin’s Link To Russia: I Think That Might Be Excessive Unexpectedly long-winded title, but accurate. When Brian Kilmeade asked Sen. Paul about McCain’s call for investigation of Trump’s deep Russian connections, Sen Paul replied: I think that might be excessive. I think it looks like the President has […]
Honestly and truly, I do miss them. I long for the real Republican Party, when they called themselves the party of ideas and weren’t completely wrong. It was back before President Jimmy Carter and Watergate, but yes, they existed. I disagreed with them back then, too, but I had to work at it. Not that all their ideas were golden, but at the bottom, under […]
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