June 28, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, June 28, 2018
On this date in 1902, Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
Peaches
- Well, that was sneaky.
- Laws set to take effect Sunday.
- GOP nominee probed by Feds
- TCSG filling in workforce gaps
- We’re 39th for family and child well-being
- Multimillion lawsuit against Albany reversed
- Study highlights housing crisis for those earning minimum wage
Jimmy Carter
- Ted Cruz says Mike Lee is best choice for SCOTUS
- Oil at 4-year high
- Doling out grant money once tied up in sanctuary city debate
Sweet Tea
- We’re in the Top 10 for something!
- More people are opting to die at home instead of at the hospital.
- Your ride share wait time depends on…race?
- We are creatures of habit. 25 habits to be exact.
- Debt for US corporations tops $6 trillion
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With the entire Socialist Movement getting boar hogged by Trump in the past couple of days, I have fallen down on my customary Maggot Missives. Please forgive me. Here ya go..:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wusa9.com/amp/article%3fsection=news&subsection=local&topic=virginia&headline=va-mom-shoots-intruder-who-flew-from-overseas-after-teen-broke-off-online-relationship&contentId=65-567868057
He just “forgot”…
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/investigation-former-official-used-city-credit-card-for-pricey-trip-to-paris-over-street-furniture/778448169
Folks who believe that the corruption of urban politicians is a pressing and vital issue strangely could care less about tax returns and emoulments when it comes to Trump. (Or Blackwater, Halliburton and the Carlyle Group under George W. Bush. Or similar financial shenanigans that went on under his father. Or, on a state level, the many ethics issues of Deal, the Perdues, John Oxendine, etc.) Funny how that works out.
On the other side of the same coin, lots of folks who believe that Trump’s financial dealings are impeachable offenses simply turn the other way, cover their eyes and ears and start whistling (maybe not whistling Dixie anymore but just the same) when the topic of auditing the financial and management practices of many a public school or transit system, or what public employee union benefits are doing to local budgets.
6 of one, half a dozen of the other. So I will start to care about what Reed and his cronies did when you start caring about what happened to all that Iraq reconstruction money that went out in no-bid contracts to political contributors during the Bush era. It was, er, a whole lot more than was spent on Solyndra and Obama phones. (Both of which were actually policies initiated and supported by Bush, not that Sean Hannity ever told you that). Sounds fair to me. What about you?
They all need to be held accountable. No argument here.
Thank you. Maybe moderates, independents, liberals and conservatives can somehow agree on the need for accountability. But unfortunately, we – by this I mean our country – most recently elected a person with a very checkered (to be kind) history based on his alleged ability to “drain the swamp.” Kind of like electing a goat as CEO of overeaters anonymous, with a bear as his chairman of the board. So we have a long way to go.
Karen Handel yesterday voted for the right-wing immigration bill that wasn’t right wing enough for right-wingers, tweeting that that “doing nothing perpetuates lawlessness at our border and results in de facto amnesty.”
And more importantly, the bill would really stick it to ’em.
Despite the furor over Ossof getting everyone’s hopes up, Handel is a Republican who represents a district that has been Republican since 1979. So as an alternative to flipping out whenever she votes to reflect the longstanding preferences of those who send her to office, and how the prior 4 politicians who held that seat would have voted as well, it would be better to simply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU
Handel votes the same way as the 9 GOP men in Georgia’s congressional delegation. Why they are exempt from the abuse that she regularly gets around these parts is going to have to be explained to me. I know that it isn’t because she is a woman – though if I was getting paid by Fox News or Breitbart I would happily claim so in return for the paychecks – so it has to be Ossoff fooling every Democrat in the country into thinking that it was just anything other than just another race in a Republican district in a Republican state that a Republican was going to win.
We have 10 partisan Republicans that always vote the GOP party line and 4 partisan Democrats that always toe the Democrat Party line. (Bishop and Scott used to attempt to position themselves as more moderate but that was awhile ago.) Same as it ever was – and has been since the state’s last high profile moderate from either party, John Barrow, lost – and nothing to see here.
Ahem.
No R Carter, Buddy GA 1st
No R Ferguson, Drew GA 3rd
Aye R Handel, Karen GA 6th
Aye R Woodall, Rob GA 7th
Aye R Scott, Austin GA 8th
Aye R Collins, Doug GA 9th
No R Hice, Jody GA 10th
No R Loudermilk, Barry GA 11th
No R Allen, Rick GA 12th
No R Graves, Tom GA 14th
I meant to post the link to this vote:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2018/h297
Thanks for the list. It’s evidence of how far the GOP has drifted to the right when its most centrist Georgians are the only ones that voted for right wing legislation that didn’t have a chance of passing.
We can debate how well she’s representing the preferences of a district she won with less than 52% of the vote in a low turnout election by voting in favor of right wing. Handel may not have even carried Dunwoody.
She’s going to need to get her incumbency entrenched by 2020, by she’ll otherwise be a goner without a seat that could be shored up in 2022 redistricting. That would be tough anyway, as by then Woodall may be needing help.
Handel is such a hack. No more in evidence was it when she tried to shut Ted Lieu down in the house.
A logical progression, I suppose…Why did it take this long?
http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/27/ron-jeremy-sued-sexual-assault-battery-washington-radio-model/
I saw that and was laughing because the only people who have been advocating as having reporters murdered is people on the right like Milo. I guess Hannity doesn’t know the difference between protesting and murder. Even Trump called them “the enemy of the people”.
I’m not laughing at people being murdered but I am laughing at the idiocy of Sean Hannity.
Oh wait, did Hannity say these hateful idiotic things? Did he say the same things these Hollywood fruit loops are saying much less the millions of pussy hat wearing idiots that went to Washington to demand his impeachment BEFORE he took office?! Did Hannity pull the trigger on the republican softball team? Do all republicans snivel and moan and call anyone they disagree with is a Nazi or Hitler? Isnt that inspiring hate and violence? Your blind rage is dangerous and unhealthy. You might try group therapy. Oh, by the way, do you think the behavior of these liberals is inspiring and bringing in the masses or will these fruit loops be fodder for every campaign commercial over the next 2 1/2 years?
You are threatened by women wearing pink hats? Snivel and groan? You obviously don’t ever listen to what Trump says then if you think that. You must not know about what Sarah Sanders said about the press or how Milo was just advocating for journalists to be killed or Trump calling the press the “enemy of the people”. This was reporters that were murdered. Apparently criticism of Trump is something you just cannot tolerate. You probably think North Korea has an ideal country then too.
Well, the Trump apologists had to eat some crow today at the hearing with Rosenstein and Wray.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1012433538006777858
Are you kidding? If this group of biased hacks didn’t break laws and protocol, why in the hell are the apologizing for not doing their jobs and having to fire dozens of folks? I have no idea what you are smoking.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Do you honestly think keeping the fact that Trump was colluding with the Russians under wraps helped anybody but Trump? The GOP made fools of themselves today. Just today another story broke about Trump having Russians at the White House during inauguration in places they should have never been.
Oh, goodie!!! Where are these double secret probation places in the WH that Trump shouldn’t have had his guests see! Bill Clinton’s study near the Oral Office?
You can’t get over Bill Clinton can you? LOL. I guess living well is the best revenge after all. I understand your issues. Bill Clinton has a best selling book and you’re stuck with Trump.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/394637-mueller-investigating-russian-billionaires-invited-to-trump
Sentencing set for Papadopolous in September.
What’s the going rate for pleading guilty to a process crime to avoid being bankrupted by government thugs? Six months? Danbury?
I guess it depends on how much evidence he was able to provide against Trump and others. He’s the one that set off the Russian investigation and told the Australians that he had stolen emails from the Russians. Kind of funny that the GOP’s obsession with Hillary’s emails are probably going to be their own undoing. What a bunch of idiots.
Caroline is gonna be all in a twitter when she finds out Trump has invited Alex Ovechkin to the White House. Probably an impeachable offense.
Is Trump laundering money for him too?
More suprises by the day:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/us/politics/trump-anthony-kennedy-retirement.html
Anthony Kennedy’s son was Trump’s bag man at Deutsche Bank. For those of you who don’t know DB has had a problem with laundering money for Putin. The corruption reaches all the way to the supreme court it seems.
Well, there are older ones than him still on the court. However , it seems that McConnell must see the GOP losing the senate if he’s in such a rush. I’m not sure nominating a right wing Republican to the court is going to do much to motivate Republicans. It seems to me it would make them more complacent. Frankly playing to a base of 40% of the country doesn’t seem like much of a winning strategy either.
John McCain said the investigation of Trump is like a centipede with 1,000 shoes to drop. It could be that McConnell is afraid another shoe is going to drop at any time. Another reason why he might be in a hurry.
I don’t think Tillis or Collins are going to be off the hook in 2020 if they vote for a bad supreme court pick. Might even extend to Perdue if GA continues on trend.
Far be it from me to agree with you, Drew, but damn, you gotta get control of your new girl here. Humorous, to be sure. But she’s just plain stupid.
LOL! You are a hoot, my maybe friend! Glasnost is over. Back to it!