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Of course, he still stinks.
Great God almighty,
Trump stinks!
Today, the *resident is saying that when he stunk in an interview with Lester Holt, it wasn’t him, but Holt or NBC, creating the odor of "fudge".
Around my house, I often blame a dog.
Demonstrating once again how the "fine-tuned" Trump
WhiteClown House operates:Also read that 3 Deputy Counsels have already left, one more has a last day tomorrow — leaving ONE Deputy Counsel in place. Overall number of attorneys working has dropped from 35 to 25.
So, when on-his-way-out McGahn leaves, 83% of the leadership will be gone in less than 2 years. "Only the best" will remain, I guess.
Well, if Kris Kobach loses the Kansas gubernatorial race, guess who Trump might hire given his crack legal history?
I hope Michael has a nice, enjoyable vacation as Republicans continue to appoint more radical and incompetent judges throughout our system of justice.
So what happened, Sappy? Yesterday, it was the Democratic leader whom you blamed for the lousy deal with McConnell. At least you were accurate then.
BTW, I'm sure SNL Michael Bennet will have a pleasant vacation.
And now we learn that Caribou Barbie has also been left off the invitation list for John McCain's funeral. They are determined to make this a dignified and freak-free ceremony.
Maybe she can spend the weekend at Camp David with You-Know-Who grousing and tweeting about how poorly they are being treated.
Frankly, not inviting Palin to the funeral is a bit churlish. She never wavered in her support of him and helped re-elect him to the Senate. Palin also sent a gracious note to the family upon his death.
Did you get a chance to see Game Change, V?
And speaking of books, I just started reading First in Line which is the modern history of the vice presidency (from Nixon in the '50's through Pence today).
As scary as Mike Pence is, he's not the one we really need to fear. Much of his religiosity is derived from Karen who is the bigger holy roller of the two.
I read the book, mike. Obviously, Palin was a lightweight. But she was mccain's lightweight and stayed loyal to him when his re-election was in doubt. Dumping on her now just seems a bit churlish.
She did come through for him in 2010 when JD Hayworth was challenging McCain from the right. Palin provided him with cover.
I have a hunch she can manage the churlishness. Isn't she just a pit bull with lipstick? In her defense I did sit at a lunch table with her at a renewable energy conference in Anchorage pre-2008 and in that setting she was a very congenial table mate (she was pregnant with Trig at the time).
Other scores are being settled this week, too……….
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/30/john-mccain-funeral-campaign-aides-no-invite-804162
WOTD from Eschaton: "Nobody Who Works Full Time Should Live In Poverty"
This, or a version of this, has become some sort of crazy left idea (the real crazy left idea is "nobody should live in poverty") to the right. But how can this be some sort of crazy idea? We can argue about how to ensure it happens, or why it too often doesn't happen, but we're the richest damn country in the world (close enough) and if you work full time and still can't manage to eke out a basic stable existence then something is wrong with our grand economic model.
I have a slightly different crazy left idea: no-one who works full time should need to resort to our governmental social safety net. If we are paying to subsidize employment then our economic model is broken.
And that probably means recognizing healthcare as a basic right and not a safety net issue, because I don't see low wage jobs offering full healthcare. Medicare for All would be a massive boon.
Here's the cost to us taxpayers just due to Walmart:
And that is a permanent, annual expense to taxpayers before any local government tax incentives/subsidies granted to get Walmart to put up a store in their neighborhood.
And Republicans like all the ones currently in office or running for office in Colorado gladly gave Walmart and corporations (and their stock holders) a $1.5 Trillion tax cut to boot? Talk about the ultimate Takers!
We're subsidizing the nation's richest family, but let's remember: it's not welfare if it's going to the rich.
Does Pear have a letter from his alphabet to describe this scenario?