It’s not just Trump who’s going straight to hell.
McCarter at Daily Kos reminds us that when McConnell mugged American democracy in 2016 and stole a Supreme Court seat, he did so on behalf of the National Rifle Association.
“I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm in a lame duck session a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association,” McConnell confessed.
Trump has done everything he can to incite and encourage the kind of violence we just saw in Nevada.
And the GOP has followed him every step of the way.
The Republican House rolled back Obama’s rule keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill.
Joan McCarter at Daily Kos reminds us.
Remember when the Republicans voted against an assault weapons ban?
Barbara Morrill at Daily Kos reminds us about that, too, and underscores the brazen opportunism that allows these selfsame GOP senators to tweet their condolences.
As Senator Murphy tweets, “the thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference.”
It really doesn’t matter where it is, but he’ll take North Korea.
Anything to distract from RussiaGate.
And he’ll send us over the cliff with it.
In a saner time, he and his administration of second-story men and women would have been run out of this country by now.
Once again, he reaches a new low for his presidency and for the history of electoral politics in this country.
The latest outrage, the unmoored diatribe against the United States citizens of Puerto Rico, following his repeated attempts to blame them for this catastrophe so that he can strip their assets, should be the tipping point.
If only so many tipping points hadn’t already come and gone and left White House, Inc. still in operation.
That leaves you both super-saturated and rapacious.
That was my experience of Costco in Yonkers. I’d only been to the one in Northern Westchester and that was a decade ago.
Of course I felt really exclusive when they asked for that membership card and I was waved in! I was with someone who’s a member of far more prestigious clubs. I now threatened to out him as a card-carrying Costco clubbie.
Lines for the check-out registers seemed to stretch across county limits. It took so long to process each shopper’s haul it was as though we’d reached a new time zone.
Well, I thought as I surveyed the football-field-sized warehouse, at least we’ll have some suitable shelters when the hurricanes start moving north.
Since everything is sold in such mass quantities, you wind up with more than you need, enticed by the deceptive allure of economies of scale. The Costco downtown at least makes you pay for your parking, so you might be discouraged from bingeing.
The worst thing was that it too so long and was so exhausting that I just didn’t feel like braving the Stew Leonard’s across the road!
In order for America to heal, will Costco have to close?
Lifelong welcher Donald J. Trump has been giving unseemly and inappropriate lectures on debt service to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, thus setting in place, Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo warns us, the blueprint for him to insist PR sell off its public assets–to Trump himself, his billionaire friends and campaign contributors, no doubt. But one thing we know for sure: if and when PR is sold off, it will be to the lowest possible bidders.
At Daily Kos, Walter Einenkel itemizes Price’s every frightful sabotage of the Affordable Care Act.
Dr. Price does not believe in affordable health care.
AlterNet is one of many independent news sites and aggregators that is suffering because as it states in an editorial, “Google and Facebook—which are not media companies, do not have editors or fact-checkers, and do no investigative reporting—are deciding what people should read, based on a failure to understand how media and journalism function.”
In the name of rooting out fake news, they are stomping on real news.
Truly, these gigantic companies are like lumbering, untethered Big Foots.
Got to grasp every penny in those six hundred millions, right?
This may be Trump & the GOP’s most audacious con yet.
On the Senate floor, Senator Wyden takes apart their windfall for Trump, Cohn, and the “parade of millionaires” surrounding White House Inc.
Ransack the national treasury and bloat the wealthy’s coffers on the backs of the working poor and middle class. Trump, Cohn and all the rest lie about it like nobody’s business.
It’s echt GOP all the way.
