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Does at least one tantrum a day suffice to keep his insecurities at bay?

Like Mike Pence, Betsy DeVos is a theocrat. She wants to use American’s children as means to that end, subsidizing parochial schools with your tax dollars and mine. Her policies demonstrate that she is against freedom of religion, against separation of church and state, against American education serving the needs of all children equally. And against so much more that makes us America.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, who is somehow portrayed in the media as a good-faith operator when it comes to alleged ACA replacement, again showed his actual repressive colors by restricting senators to one five-minute round of questions for DeVos, reports the Washington Post.

“I think we’re selling our kids short by not being able to ask follow up questions,” said Sen. Al Franken.

But isn’t that what DeVos is all about?

Manu Raju at CNN reports the damning, while hardly surprising news about the bad Dr.,who “last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited the company, raising new ethics concerns for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary.”

What the GOP is floating are short-term stopgaps to attempt to curtail midterm election losses they are likely to sustain due to their frightful make-America-sick-and-dead crusade. After the midterms, we will see them revert to standard issue GOP nostrums like tax credits and savings accounts.

The New York Times warns about the gaggle of stealth attacks launched by a craven and corrupt GOP to sandbag rules that protect the public.

I loved the Victoria & Albert on my first visit to London in 1978!

And now it’s even more happening this February when it’s commemorating LGBT month.

As part of that month’s programming, Alison Child will discuss Norah Blaney and Gwen Farrar the one-of-a-kind music hall duo of the 1920s.

Watch/listen to them on youtube and you’ll instantly want to hop over to London.

Alison is writing a book on them–it’s sorely needed!

The irony of Trump’s atrocious treatment of CNN at his whatever-that-was the other day is that they practically secured for him the GOP nomination via their fawning, wall-to-wall coverage of his campaign.

But Trump demands unabiding, unquestioning, perpetual submission; otherwise he goes beserk. What you did for him a day ago doesn’t matter a bit. How low did you grovel today?

Sen. Alexander tweets: “One way to think about #Obamacare is as a collapsing bridge — because that’s just what’s happening with Obamacare.”

Yes, you duplicitous scoundrel, Obamacare has been a bridge to accessible health care for millions of your fellow Americans who don’t have it paid for by their employer, as you do,  and, yes, you and your nefarious brethren are collapsing that vitally important, life-saving bridge.

Juan Cole is astonished at how lightly Pompeo was questioned at his confirmation hearing as CIA head.

Radically truth-adverse as well as partisan, Pompeo should fit right in, however, with Trump’s bevy of nominees.