January 26, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, January 26, 2017
On this date in 1998, then-President Bill Clinton uttered the words, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
REST IN PEACE Mary Tyler Moore
Peaches
- The ‘hospital bed tax’ has a new name
- Democrat agenda in the state house is a 35-bill initiative
- President Trump can scratch Georgia off the list. No illegal votes here
- Republicans are here to protect you from yourself.
- UFO sightings in Georgia
- More bizarre than UFO sightings, Cagle named “Lawmaker of the Year.”
Jimmy Carter
- Affordable Care Act repeal on the back burner or just slowing down?
- Are restaurants the next sanctuary cities?
- I’ll take ‘Biased Headlines,’ for $1,000, Alex.
- Google has banned 200 publishers guilty of “fake news” so far.
- $2 trillion gain in stocks since Trump elected
- Wall will be built “within months”
Sweet Tea
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Finally…
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/trump-orders-weekly-list-crimes-committed-illegals-sanctuary-cities/
The UFO story has a nice picture of a cow, but by the scenery it’s not a Georgia cow.
I am really hoping this passes. http://media.ethics.ga.gov/search/Campaign/Campaign_ByContributionsearchresults.aspx?Contributor=MGM+Resorts&Zip=&City=&ContTypeID=0&PAC=&Employer=&Occupation=&From=&To=&Cash=&InK=&Filer=&Candidate=&Committee=
They really spread that money around. Even Ralston got some. I think it passes this year.
HB 188 Interesting
http://media.ethics.ga.gov/search/Campaign/Campaign_ByContributionsearchresults.aspx?Contributor=draftkings&Zip=&City=&ContTypeID=0&PAC=&Employer=&Occupation=&From=&To=&Cash=&InK=&Filer=&Candidate=&Committee=
or
http://media.ethics.ga.gov/search/Campaign/Campaign_ByContributionsearchresults.aspx?Contributor=fanduel&Zip=&City=&ContTypeID=0&PAC=&Employer=&Occupation=&From=&To=&Cash=&InK=&Filer=&Candidate=&Committee=
Interesting to see where that one goes.
And it didn’t even take a week. America is being made great again.
You realize that you and Andrew have now become the Harry and Saltycraker of this site?
That is true, but you lack Konop’s ability to argue with a fence post for hours without really saying anything.
Yes, and call me a hack or stupid or accuse me of being a part of some establishment group that is out to destroy the world.
You have to look at it in the macro.
John would have said, “you are just too dumb to see this from the macro perspective and I’m smarter than you.”
Lib version!
Interesting for Eiger to throw me in the same barrel with guys banned from this site as being declared obnoxious…….at least spell my name right….
I apologize and also understand that I often fall into that crowd as well.
I’m peanut gallery on most subjects here—not in the same league with Pope on the ideas and information he brings to this website, and that’s meant to be a high compliment.
On this date in 1998, then-President Bill Clinton uttered the words, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
Quite the lie for its day. The Great Trumpkin has been telling a big lie nearly weekly for 18 months, even if he has to recycle old ones when he doesn’t have a new one.
Mexican president declines to be publicly dissed, cancels meeting with DJT. Making friends one country at a time.
Entire State Department senior level resigns in mass. If no one wants to work for/with DJT, who runs the agencies?
This may be a first, but I agree with you one the Mexican President thing. I’m all for pissing certain people off, but there is no reason to go out of your way to piss off one of our largest trade partners and our neighbor.
The state department resignations are another thing though. It is normal for people with high level positions to resign at the beginning of a new presidency. I think you may be reading too much into this. The head of the CDC just resigned too. This happens often.
Ok. That is normal. Nothing to see here.
CC, been away from news. Did entire State leadership really resign?
Re updates: They were asked to resign. “Cleaning house”is how it was put by the WH.
No one in line for their jobs. Goodbye institutional memory.
on one hand, nothing wrong with realigning agency personnel to implement agenda.
otoh, the lack of continuity and loss of institutional knowledge is dangerous.
a lack of high-level diplomatic direction at a time of intense transition…
i’ll wager tillerson will fill the void, but a its like hitting the biggest pothole. damage to rims and axel likely. actually not sure if that makes automotive sense.
You aren’t going to lose a generation of institutional knowledge becasue 4 people left an agency the size of the state department. This is what is wrong with the federal government. Everyone thinks they are more valuable than they really are.
On the other hand, presumably those people weren’t dead weight either.
Let’s just hope there isn’t a crisis any time soon.
The Washington post has a story up that others are using as a source. ABC, CBS, NBC & family, and FOX & family sites have yet to post anything as of 2:15. The Post story is using quotes from former Powell, Rice and Kerry appointee staff. I find the hold out for NBC interesting, since Andrea Mitchell has decades old contacts in the department, and Richard Engel’s embassy contacts have been reliable in the last 14 years.
NBC Posted at 2:26
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/four-top-state-department-officials-ousted-trump-administration-takes-shape-n712611
Wow, Donald Trump has made me agree with you.
On twitter it has been said that Omarosa is already being talked about as a replacement.
Oh, FFS. This administration, taking someone with minimal experience and flailing and replacing them with someone with zero experience and expecting them to right this ship. It’s just a recipe for even further disaster. I warned y’all that electing him would tie the GOP to perhaps the most incompetent President in history (with disastrous electoral results to follow) but did you listen? Nope. Enjoy your midterm given that he’s already at Bush-2007 approval ratings at the moment, and it’s just the first week. If you’d elected HRC, you could have had 60 seats in the Senate next year.
Yeah, we’re going back to the days of (not so) good ol Hebert Hoover protectionism…
Complete with Warren Harding corruption, Nixon Paranoia, George Wallace’s domestic agenda, and Henry Wallace’s foreign policy.
Since we have seemingly seen more of them in the last 2 or 3 administrations, just how dictatorial can a president go with executive orders? Shouldn’t it require Congressional approval to pay for the bleeping wall?
Yes and he already has congressional approval from legislation that was passed in 2006. Once the democrats took control they simply didn’t fund it. Trump’s order says he wants to start building the wall and basically asked Congress to fund the 2006 authorization.
Executive orders can only go so far. Most of the ones Trump as signed far are to enforce current laws on the books or to direct federal agencies to do things like a hiring freeze. There are a few exceptions like asking for a study on enhanced interrogation. He didn’t bring back water boarding like some at CNN are reporting, but asked to see the effectiveness of past interrogations that used those techniques.