Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, represented a Colorado billionaire’s companies and lower-ranking business executives. CreditAl Drago/The New York Times Back on February 12, following the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant Supreme Court
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The Problem With Television News: Politicians, Pundits and Reporters
Let’s all just agree for a moment that television news is no longer about the news. It is about television ratings and advertising dollars. We all saw how irrelevant they had become during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Hundreds of
Congressional Republicans Manage the Federal Workforce the Exact Same Way Their Big Monied Corporate Contributors Manage Theirs
Even in light of the prospect of a 1.9 percent pay increase (whoopee) for federal employees, morale is low. It is not surprising in light of some of the other draconian steps regarding their wages, hours, and working conditions currently
What It Could Be Like if Republicans and Democrats Got Along
Not without a little spat or annoyances here and there, but overall consensus. Enjoy.
Have a good weekend–and don’t get sick.
Like Julie Andrews sang in “Mary Poppins”, Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down . . . ” the Republican redoux of the Affordable Care Act will make health care much more affordable . . . for the
Mobilize Your National Network with FiftyNifty.org
From every corner, from all sorts of activists, I’m hearing the same thing: Call your representatives! Forget email, forget postcards and letters. If you can’t meet with the representative or his or her staff personally, calling them is the most effective
Forget Russia! Let’s Investigate Obama!
In what has become the height of absurdity, the Republican Party has decided there is no need to appoint a special prosecutor or to conduct further investigation of the Russian hacking of the United States’ election in 2016, because there
Bernie’s Response to the Tangerine Tyrant’s Speech to Congress
View Bernie’s Response here. https://www.facebook.com/senatorsanders/videos/vb.9124187907/10155681411947908/?type=2&theater
Substance? NOT
Maybe this is just the way it’s going to be for the next four years. Presidential soundbites and aides scurrying around trying to make coherent sense of them. Or to create policy. The Tangerine Tyrant has actually gotten good at
In With the Old . . .
While it wasn’t exactly a clash of titans, it was a clash of ideologies. Tom Perez, who was largely backed by the political establishment including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and Keith Ellison (the first Muslim member of Congress) who