July 24, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Monday, July 24, 2017
Will is out of town celebrating his own birth, so I’m filling in. Here are some of the bigger headlines from the weekend:
- Georgia NAACP president steps down
- The police department that was eliminated by a city council will actually see its fate decided by voters
- Atlanta fined $1,000 for violating immigration law
- SnapChat is always getting people in trouble, but this is just plain stupid
- Lawsuit against rural hospital is driving Georgia policy on people with behavioral disabilities
- What a way to go…
- Vince Dooley publishes book on the Civil War
- You can try, but you’ll never fully seal off from the leaks
- 12-year low for gas prices
- Republicans control government, but not their Party
- App diagnosing depression
- de Blasio boots homeless from the subway
- Robots continue to threaten manual labor
- Will Mall of America survive the retail apocolypse?
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Trump’s newest lying sycophant, Mooch, yesterday stated of Trump on CBS’ “Face the Nation”: “He’s probably the most effective legislative liaison person in the world”, despite all evidence pointing to Cap’n Tinyhands being legislatively impotent.
Scaramucci gave the smirking John Dickerson clear professional answers, especially on Trumps health care bill position that the inept moderator tried to spin as confusing. Refreshing.
He’s sharp and intelligent, but clearly taking a turn at being a sycophant.
But can he do the Fandango?
Thunderbolts and lightning?
That dance and those fireworks will come, when Scaramucci has to choose between being an employee and being his own man.
Any of the choices would tough to explain.
1. Obamacare lite, unaffordable without big tax hikes
2.. repeal, chaos
3. Do nothing, crisis
4. Single payer, systemic pushback, 1,2,3 trifecta
Number one priority, the tax bill, then revenue might help reveal the health direction.
So the Dems new deal sounds really familiar… where have I read/heard this before… uhm… gosh, I know I’ve seen it someplace. Hmmmm.
I only wonder if the sucking up is to psychologically ply the Pres. into being more involved.
Sort of like having the daily WH press brief as audio only, since someone can’t DVR or watch it over lunch if the networks don’t televise it…
Trump to HHS Secretary Tom Price: “Are you going to get the votes? You better get them. Otherwise I’ll say, ‘Tom you’re fired.’”
Maybe he didn’t suck up enough. Or, as we are learning, you can never suck up enough. Sucking up doesn’t actually get you anything.
Agreed on Price. Here he is at last month’s Cabinet meeting that Trump called to find out who loved him most:
“Mr. President, what an incredible honor it is to lead the Department of Health and Human Services at this pivotal time under your leadership. I can’t thank you enough for the privileges you’ve given me and the leadership that you’ve shown. It seems like there’s an international flair to the messages that are being delivered. I had the opportunity to represent the United States at the G-20 Health Summit in Berlin and at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. And I can’t tell you how excited and enthusiastic folks are about the United States leadership as it relates to global health security.”