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They would be acknowledging how dangerous the home-grown brand is, and not trying to provoke more from the Middle East by ramping up demonization of Muslims. They are trying simply and soley to generate Islamophobic hysteria in order to gain support for the war of civilizations that the deranged fanatic Steve Bannon is planning. The squishy little criticism of Trump mewled by a few GOP just does not let them off the hook.

We’ve got to confirm racist, anti-democracy Sessions because his wife is so nice.

Her feelings might be hurt if we didn’t.

It’s the oldest GOP trick in the book.

Naturally, Sean Spicer is giving it a go.

No, it’s not Trump, Inc. who is to be blamed for the botched commando raid, because critizicng its planing would be criticism of the unfortuanate oldier who died in it.

As Dan Froomkin tweeted: “This may be the single most repulsive and dangerous thing this moron has ever said and that’s a saying something.”

The GOP demonstrates no interest in civilian casualties unless they can be used as a casus belli.

For all the invocation of God that they ply, where is their respect for the sanctity of human life?

is why it is targeting the meager federal funding for the arts.

The New York Times does the math:

“Annual funding for the two endowments [NEA & NEH] lags behind where it was in the early 1990s after controversies over money for provocative arts projects like Andres Serrano’s urine-immersed crucifix created a climate that led to budget cuts. The two endowment agencies each receive about $148 million a year now. The budget for public broadcasting, currently $445 million, has been more consistent over the years.”

has now munificently allowed two white male Democratic Senators to read Coretta Scott King’s letter on the Senate floor.

and his caucus of Fasicsts and Fascist appeasers shoo-fly Coretta Scott King’s words off the Senate Floor.

And of course, once again, it was McConnell who broke the rules.

As Sen. Murphy tweeted:

“Rules against criticizing other Senators cannot apply when you are DEBATING THE NOMINATION OF A SENATOR!”

It is McConnell who should be rebuked.

Well, she’s hit the ground running.

W/o any media scrutiny, she introduces a bill to limit public involvement in the Bureau of Land Management.

It’s all of a piece: Cheney and her Party do not believe in democracy and they hate Planet Earth.

The GOP is pushing us into Armageddon.

Tom Engelhardt at Tom Dispatch:

“So those, including our new president and his administration who are focused on suppressing both scientific knowledge about climate change and any attempt to mitigate the phenomenon, and who, like Rex Tillerson’s former colleagues at the big energy companies, prefer to suppress basic information about all of this in the name of fossil fuels and personal enrichment, will be committing the most basic of crimes against humanity.”

David Leonhardt in The New York Times terms him “Dr. Personal Enrichment.”

Dr. Price represents everything that’s wrong with the U.S. medical profession.

Bannon/Trump & the GOP could not state more explicitly their contempt for the American people than by selecting Price for HHS secretary.