The election was the culmination of years of voter suppression and voting roll purging by the GOP. Greg Palast documents.
That’s another reason for choosing Sessions as AG–so that voting rights can be further contracted.
We’ve got the anti-democracy brigade running the show.
Last week I was talking to a lawyer and told him that I thought the GOP had committed the radical and unprecedented step of refusing to respect the US judicial and governance systems by denying hearings to Merrick Garland. My opinion has been that Obama should and could have simply gone ahead and sat Garland on the court. “He can’t do that,” the lawyer said.
But, yes he can and he must.
As we’ve seen conclusively and ever-more graphically, Trump and the GOP have declared war on this country. There are no more rules. The GOP doesn’t observe any. It has become a scofflaw, seditious organization. Marquess of Queensbury decorum is not going to defeat American Fascism. Look at what we just saw them do with the FBI.
In the New Republic, David Dryden, argues that indeed Obama must go ahead and seat Garland in a recess appointment, which remains a more statutory approach than what I was urging.
“The fact that Democrats prefer to maintain governance norms, even while Republicans break them time and again, inescapably pushes the policymaking apparatus of the country to the right.”
Democracy in the U.S. is in for the fight of its life. As Dryden writes, “Democrats, in short, bring a butter knife to a gunfight. They may be correct on the merits that institutional norms allow the government to function properly. But as long as Republicans don’t care about such niceties, that respect is equivalent to surrender.”
Rather than attend state meetings in a complete violation of federal law and protocal. And btw, those high heels are hideous and you need to find something else to put on your feet–so stay away a long time.
I mean, why are so much of the rich now so styleless??
The past ten days have seen the Trump organization follow the Bolsheviks’ example and declare a decisive break with national norms that just eleven days ago would have seemed inviolate.
Trump’s cabinet is drawn from Dr. Strangelove and The Munsters. They’ve rounded up every superannuated freak, fiend, and half-wit they could find.
Trump has made us a global laughing stock and a pariah nation.
Will Attorney General Sessions call for a restoration of the Confederacy?
The political resurrection of Michael Flynn as Trump’s National Security Advisor promises the holy war that ISIS has been dreaming about. Flynn is so loony an extremist that legitimate security personnel are leery of working for him. The solution: hire more loonies to work under him!
Yes, Israel is becoming increasingly secularized, but the Israeli ambassador’s specific endorsement of Bannon tells us that in the aberrational force field of Trumpuniverse, weird, mind-boggling, indeed unholy alliances will be forged.
According to the contorted illogic of the Senate Finance Committee chairman, Medicare must be cut to make Trump’s policies fiscally sound. Those policies, of course, couldn’t possibly be the tax cuts Fearless Leader promised the patrons of 21 the other night as they chowed down their $58 steaks?
Democrats: don’t give an inch, just hold your sides.
That’s the question that the Democrats should pose to Trump and the GOP.
They clearly hate American poor, American students, American sick, American elderly, American African-Americans, American Asian-Americans, American Hispanic-Americans, American immigrants and immigrants in America, American Jews, American LGBT, American women.
Did I leave anyone out?
Paranoid, nationalist ravings, like what comes out of Trump advisor Frank Gaffney, serve to mask the real sedition of Gaffney and the people around him with whom Trump has hunkered down.
Just as Trump’s wailing about a rigged election let him slip the wool over James Comey’s unprecedently brazen act of election interference.
For a subversive Fascist like Gaffney, the loyalty oath is to Fearless Leader, not to the US itself.
