July 10, 2018 8:17 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, July 10
Good morning!
- Leadership turmoil in the NAACP branch in Columbus, GA.
- Insurance premiums will increase in Georgia, but not as much as last year.
- Feeding your baby formula is NOT bad. However, this U.S. stance on the U.N.’s breast feeding resolution is outrageous.
- IHOB was all a joke, and I feel like I just woke up next to Suzanne Plechette.
- Why did the Gates Foundation’s ambitious teacher reforms fail?
- Gin & tonics are not the most effective mosquito repellant.
- The “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is a “pro-Union, anti-slavery anthem.“
- Cargo Harrison hiked the entire western hemisphere, and you should read his story.
- “I didn’t have a day where I ever questioned what I was doing out there,” he said, “because I knew what the consequence was of quitting and I knew that I would just be miserable. So I told myself, ‘You know, no one said it’s going to be easy, dude. It’s your choice coming out here. Suck it up, buttercup. Let’s go.’ ”
- Care and feeding of your service peacock.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Teri, your byline is a little outdated on this site. You won your election last I checked.
Nice ‘Newhart’ ref. 20 points Hufflepuff.
Gin and tonics are quite effective as a mosquito repellent. At least with enough of them on board the mosquitoes don’t bug you at all. Besides that, the taste alone just screams medicinal.
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.”
“No one with lose coverage.”
“Nobody will be worse off financially.”
“Everybody’s going to be taken care of.”
“a lot less expensive” for consumers and for the government “
“People are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.”
“You will end up with great health care for a fraction of the price and that will take place immediately after we go in. Immediately! Fast! Quick!”
Trump MAGA!
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor…”
Barack Obama
That was then. This is now:
Health Insurers Warn of Market Turmoil as Trump Suspends Billions in Payments
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/us/politics/trump-risk-adjustment-payments-obamacare.html
In our march towards fascism one president can completely undermine their predecessors’ statements and actions with impunity. Consequences be damned. Both domestically and on the world stage. Other nations like Iran and the other signatory countries (UK, Germany, Russia, France, and China) now know that our treaties have the same veracity as they did with the Cherokee, Sioux, Apache, etc. in previous centuries. And of course there is NATO, the G7 (6, 8, whatever), climate change, or the many other commitments that seemingly blow with the wind from one man.
There are estimates of insurance going up around 50% on the individual market. Maybe even more.
Citing an Obama remark rebutting part of one of seven Trump quotations where Trump said people can have their doctors, but not even the remainder of that one remark about people negotiating great plans with lots of competition and having everything is the point taken. Bravo.
I’d hardly suggest this is the first instance where a sitting justice lined up their potential replacement. Its not necessarily quid pro quo, but it’d be naive to think this hasn’t happened before.
I think he’ll get confirmed and I don’t think this is the cross to die on politically for Democrats. Bluster away to keep the donors happy, but confirm and move on. Give McConnell this one so he doesn’t dig his heels in when he’s needed for impeachment proceedings. And that IS quid pro quo.
Jack. The number is 68. You gonna get 68 senators to vote to convict? You’re high…
I’m looking at this from the perspective of “he’ll get confirmed” so at least get something off of McConnell when the time comes. And I agree, I don’t think you’re actually going to get to a full impeachment trial. So you won’t need the 68 that Noway actually is correct about.
Mueller will produce something, and getting the sway of Senate Repubs to not provide Trump cover, he’ll pull a Cartman and say, “screw you guys, i’m going home.” He’s a child, and when he’s threatened with actually punishment to himself or his family, he’ll say “DC sucks, I tried America, but this place is a loser, I’m a winner, I’m outta here, come watch me on TV until I die”
I dont think McConnell is going to run for reelection. I think he will retire. I’m not convinced he can be reelected with everything he has done in the last couple of years
Laughable post. McConnell gets re-elected in Kentucky as long as he wants to stay. Which is hopefully a long long time. He has been a brilliant majority leader
If Mueller comes up with records of Russian money being laundered through the RNC then McConnell is done. If the GOP loses the senate or even loses some seats in 2108 and 2020 being a worse year for the GOP I think he’ll go ahead and resign because his at this point I don’t think he wants to go back to being minority leader.
The gap between “wish” and “probably” looks pretty small from just the right angle.
When do you think McCabe is indicted for lying? Weeks? Months?
Deflect much?
But why won’t he be? He’s lied on multiple occasions.
Will your answer be….”he didn’t intend to lie…”
or
“No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case for perjury…”
Trump lied on 4 income tax returns that we know of so far. Do you think he should be indicted?
The article is misleading. Gin & Tonic was never meant to be a mosquito repellent. Tonic contains quinine which prevents malaria (which you get from mosquitoes). It doesn’t prevent you from getting bitten; it might prevent you from getting malaria when you do get bitten.
Also can we drop the whole “you can keep your doctor” line of BS now? We all understand that Obama was wrong when he said that. But framing it as an intentional lie when we currently have the King of Lies in the WH is the height of hypocrisy.
If you drink enough gin and tonic you won’t care about mosquitoes.
Your tears are delicious this morning. I am enjoying them as I celebrate Justice Kavanaugh!
Both the 1st and 2nd amendments are safe from the liberals for another day!
I wonder when ole Coattails Casey is gonna mention Georgia dropping from 2 to 7 in the CNBC best state rankings. I mean its an arbitrary rating, but I’m sure he’s used it before to tout his bona fides.
Why is it that almost all CNBC “best “states to do business are Red States? Why are folks leaving the highly taxed, highly regulated, business unfriendly, liberal controlled states to go to places where it is so much easier to live and succeed? And as those citizens flee those socialist states, don’t the same states double down by raising taxes even more, making it more difficult for the remaining folks that live there?
Why is that highly complex issues are always boiled down to blue and red for you? Where red insists that all is cut and dry, but nothing actually is?
jic you missed it, those are rhetorical questions.
The top 10 is evenly split between “red states” and “blue states”, but I’m sure that doesn’t fit your narrative. So don’t let facts get in the way of your opinion.
Yes, businesses like getting free money from states. Call it what you want to call it, but if I’m a business owner and a state says “come here and we won’t tax you”, that’s not necessarily a “low tax” state. That’s a subsidized business via the other taxpayers in the state.
Again, top 10 is evenly split “red” v. “blue”. And if you want to add up the rankings, the Red States: 1,3,7,9,10 = 30 and the Blue States: 2,4,5,6,8 = 25. So by that logic, I could argue “blue states” are better to do business in.
Please break down further by defining “control” in terms of red v blue. Are we talking governors, or both chambers of legislature? Or supermajorities? Or judicial decisions?
Please, go downthemiddle of the path with the sign that reads: “Intellectual Frauds Enter Here.”
It is “mean” to say that ICE should be destroyed and disbanded, its agents are Nazi like guards and are the problem instead of the illegals? That seems to be the lib platform.
Who are you to constantly be putting words in the mouths of others?
The lies have been many from the Twitty Pulpit. Perhaps the most consistent being the denial of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Not just of his campaign’s possible collusion or subsequent obstruction from his administration but the findings of every branch of the intelligence community that the Russians not only conducted a concerted effort to denigrate Clinton and elevate Trump. And the conductor of that concert was Vladimir Putin.
In the beginning I thought perhaps his ego just couldn’t take the fact that this interference tainted his win. As time passes and the monkeyshines like flinging “Witch Hunt” with every other tweet along with both firing and threatening to fire his investigators, along with siccing his lickspittles on them, I’m thinking there is some fire behind all of that smoke. Methinks he doth protest too much.
The lies have been many, which is not entirely unexpected from either a politician or a salesman. From a jumped up salesman turned politician however the frequency and the obvious audacity employed are at Nigel Tufnel’s 11 on a 10 scale.
Random poll:
– Do you believe that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election? Simple yes or no.
The professional pollsters and other nerds on this site may not oblige you using “random” in a colloquial meaning, when truly random polling is a thing.
OK, call it an informal poll.
YES
I’m gonna say no just to get you to give me bullet points on what you think they actually did. Hacked Podesta? Hacked voting machines? Changed a vote from Hillary to Trump? Buy Facebook ads? What?
I’ve tried to type responses to this about 3 times and none of them are worth the effort, so forget it.
We’ve already been down this rabbit hole.
Take it up with Mueller. He said the Russians said “Trump and Sanders” were their guys and they were supposed to be helping those two. I have a feeling that when we all find out what was going on that even those of us who already are keeping up with what is going on with regards to the GOP and Russia/Putin are going to be surprised as to how much worse it really is.
I think the point I was going to try to make was this: If we could at least agree that Russia was trying to interfere in the election, then Mueller’s investigation is appropriate. But the Protectors of The President are fearful of where that investigation might reach so they continually try to de-legitimize the whole investigation, causing some to then go so far as to deny any Russian interference at all.
If we could agree on the FACT that Russia tried to interfere in the election, then we could theoretically discuss what the appropriate avenues of inquiry are, but what’s the point?
That and then there are those that see Putin as a good guy as someone we should ally ourselves with and so what if Putin wanted Trump elected. White evangelicals and Putin apparently have a lot in common. Even Franklin Graham went over to Russia and praised Putin.
I respect the effort, but I don’t expect you’ll find that common ground. You could lay out every detail, but there will always be a way to disagree, even if it’s an unprovable conspiracy theory. Because even if some folks do agree- and they very well may- it’s not in their interests to admit it. They may be OK with acknowledging it if/when things take a wrong turn, but you won’t find the overt agreement until it’s in the party’s interest to acknowledge it.
Regardless of the actions from Trump lapdogs Jordan and Nunes in the House the Senate Intelligence Committee in a bipartisan (majority Republican of course) action last week reaffirmed the Intelligence Community assessments released last January. I guess it wasn’t controversial enough and played to little fanfare compared to Jordan’s attacks on Rosenstein, et al. At least some Republicans see the value of acknowledging the obvious regardless of the President’s myopia and I am taking some hope that a bipartisan panel can at least off their opinion that the ICA report is a “sound intelligence product”. I still have my reservations with Trump sitting down with Putin again. This is better stated in a Washington Post opinion piece yesterday which concludes with:
“Mr. Putin has repeatedly and disingenuously denied that Russia intervened. Rather than accept these protestations, Mr. Trump ought to forcefully warn the Russian ruler against further interference in U.S. politics when they meet in Helsinki next week. Unfortunately, the pre-summit signs are not good. At a rally in Montana last Thursday, Mr. Trump breezily dismissed concerns about Mr. Putin. “Putin’s fine,” Mr. Trump said, adding that getting along with Russia is a “good thing.”
It is a good thing for adversaries to talk to each other, but it is not wise for Mr. Trump to remain in denial about the Kremlin’s active measures during the 2016 election. The Senate report reaffirms that the U.S. election was the target of a Russian operation directed by Mr. Putin. It is time for the president to unambiguously accept this bipartisan conclusion.”
Given the circumstances, it wouldn’t surprise me if the IC isn’t telling Trump the details of any classified intelligence they have supporting the conclusion of Russian interference because they can’t trust him not to blab it to any and everyone. (Having another private meeting with Putin would justify their wariness.) So he may deny their interference because he hasn’t seen the evidence.
Wouldn’t surprise me if they also use a fake ‘nuclear football’ for him.
Cue “Twilight Zone” music…
I am going to give this a whirl by borrowing from the modern day Renaissance Man, Willard Carroll Smith, Jr.:
Now this is the story all about how
America got flipped, turned upside down
And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there
I’ll tell you how foreign cash bought the election of Mr. Comb-over hair
In Citizens United the issue was born and raised
With PACs is where corporations can spend most of their bank
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting wads of cash to buy some tool
When a couple of guys, they were up to no good
Started making trouble with our nationhood
The Court settled one little fight and the FEC got scared
And said “We’re gonna deadlock because we don’t care”
The people whistled for a tab and when a vote came near the
Politicians said “nyet” and “you have nuthin’ to fear!”
If anything I could say that this Vlad was rare
But I thought nah, forget it, our homes to foreign players!
I pulled up to the White House about seven or eight
And I yelled to Vlad “Yo, homes smell you later!”
Looked at Trump’s kingdom we were finally there
Sitting on his throne as the prince of the Swampy Lair
Here’s a quote from James Comey’s book in a description of an intelligence briefing conducted almost two weeks prior to the inauguration (yanno, the one attended by more people in history…), it has an almost identical description in James Clapper’s book as well:
This was to be the third and final briefing session by the leadership of the intelligence community—referred to inside the government as the IC—to describe the classified findings of an intelligence community assessment (ICA) of Russia’s actions during the presidential election. At President Obama’s direction, analysts from the CIA, NSA, and FBI, coordinated by senior analysts from ODNI—the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—had spent a month pulling together all sources of information to offer government officials, as well as the incoming Trump administration, a complete picture of the level of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. A watered-down, unclassified version of the ICA had been prepared for public release. But this was the meaty stuff. This was about sharing the most sensitive information, including sources and methods—precisely how we knew what we knew—spelling out in great detail why we had achieved the unusual state of a joint high-confidence opinion that Russia had intervened extensively in an American presidential election.
The four agencies had joined in the assessment, which was both stunning and straightforward: Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an extensive effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. That effort, which came through cyber activity, social media, and Russian state media, had a variety of goals: undermining public faith in the American democratic process, denigrating Hillary Clinton and harming her electability and potential presidency, and helping Donald Trump get elected.
But wasn’t Peter Strzock (sp.?) the real puppetmaster behind all these agencies?
The best reply (ever): No, you’re the puppet.
That made me laugh at Trump. Of course, Trump always accuses everyone of being what he himself is so he’s the puppet. The fact that he’s Putin’s puppet is pretty much obvious in everything he’s done. Now the senators that went to Russia came back and said we need to get rid of sanctions on Russia. Putin bought the party of Reagan for rubles. The communists were so stupid. They wasted all that money on military machinery. Don’t forget now Trump says the KGB is a-0kay.
No snark: how did they denigrate Hillary?
You are the one with the links to RT, many of which denigrated Hillary Clinton. Are you implying that you only subscribed for the pictures and didn’t actually read the articles?
Again, in what way was she “denegrated?”
Being deliberately obtuse won’t work this time either.
Don’t mention Hillary Clinton! You know how he is obsessed with her.
Hillary is coming!
Chelsea is coming!
Vince Foster isn’t really dead and he’s coming too!
All I gotta say is the GOP should keep defending the odious behavior of ICE. I mean there have been at least one case of pedophilia and numerous other horror stories about ICE.
Meanwhile under polls are for strippers scenario for the Senate… (for the statics dweabs among us the tabs are accessible from a link in the story.)
https://www.axios.com/poll-democrats-2018-midterms-senate-5eb4075f-4325-46aa-bda5-699b814d9dd7.html
I didn’t read the tabs but wasn’t that a poll of registered voters? If so, that’s even more ominous for the donks.
Survey Monkey is rated D- in polling. So frankly I would take those results with a grain of salt.
Ole Chucky Schumer just going thru the motions now. He knows he is holding a dead hand. Justice Brett gonna take everyon’s health care away! Gotta luv it!
I guess he has to keep his brain dead base engaged so the checks keep coming in.
53-46 sound about right for confirming Justice Brett?
Sort of like voting over and over and over and over to repeal the ACA between 2011 and 2016, knowing it wouldn’t make it out of the senate or be vetoed. Show and tell for the base, and getting them to the voters box.
He’s going on a decision Kavanaugh made regarding preexisting conditions. Manchin is saying he is considering voting against Kavanaugh because it would cost 40% of his constituents in WV healthcare. So yeah, if you want to celebrate people losing their healthcare go ahead and celebrate. I certainly don’t want to hear another word about Carter Page though and people spying on him. Kavanaugh supports increasing the “surveilance state”. He’s an easy no vote even for red state dems.
Can you write anything without sounding like a middle school boy? I would guess not but such is the state of the GOP these days with a toddler for president a middle school child sounds like a grownup or a possible date.
Says the boards resident fact averse troll.
Not fact averse but yes, alternative fact averse which is what most Republicans seem to deal in these days. Sheesh do you get your new from anywhere other than State Media or Russia Today?
The senate voted 97-2 in support of NATO and in an attempt to make Trump quit doing the work of Putin and to defend NATO against Putin. Well, good luck with that one guys and gals. I do wonder who those 2 voting against the resolution were though.
Just found out Rand Paul and Mike Lee were the two who voted against the NATO resolution.