Condoleezza Rice is unequivocal that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. #MarchForTruthhttps://t.co/5bd6nNdwyA pic.twitter.com/pzMUOdMfRY
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) May 7, 2017
Who could have known? Politico, last night:
…After the White House’s biggest legislative victory yet with the House’s narrow passage Thursday of the American Health Care Act, momentum will slow as the Senate settles in to rework the bill — potentially from scratch. The White House is also heading for a political buzzsaw as Russia’s election interference takes center stage in congressional hearings.
Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates heads to Capitol Hill on Monday to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador and her efforts to warn the Trump administration about Flynn’s changing story. The ex-adviser was already in the headlines after The Washington Post and Associated Press reported Friday that Flynn had been warned by transition officials about speaking to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Meanwhile, the health care bill that the White House spent the weekend celebrating appears destined for the trash can on the other side of the Capitol…
I came across Oliver Wendell Holmes’ 1858 poem when I was nine or ten, reading a leftover late-1940s high school textbook. Per Wikipedia:
… In the poem, a fictional deacon crafts the titular wonderful one-hoss shay in such a logical way that it could not break down. The shay is constructed from the very best of materials so that each part is as strong as every other part. In Holmes’ humorous, yet “logical”, twist, the shay endures for a hundred years (amazingly to the precise moment of the 100th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake shock) then it “went to pieces all at once, and nothing first, — just as bubbles do when they burst”. It was built in such a “logical way” that it ran for exactly one hundred years to the day.
In economics, the term “one-hoss shay” is used, following the scenario in Holmes’ poem, to describe a model of depreciation, in which a durable product delivers the same services throughout its lifetime before failing with zero scrap value…
In his cunning grasp of every bad American get-rich-quick scheme, the President-Asterisk seems to have constructed a 21st-century One-Horses-Arse Shay, a fractal creation where every bolt and join is forged in equal strength from lies, BS, and bad faith. May it collapse as abruptly and thoroughly as the two-wheeled conveyance in the original story…
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What’s on the agenda, as we start another week?
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Once again, Eric Trump says the quiet part out loud. https://t.co/L5bB8U7n6o
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 7, 2017
Eric Trump on how the Trump Organization got capital to finance its golf courses https://t.co/u5eDdOH8K5 pic.twitter.com/4o9tXO1lUS
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) May 7, 2017
and if Eric's admission was that summer, also about when MH17 was shot down. Which Trump has given Putin the benefit of the doubt on.
— Amateur Intel Pr0n (@ZeddRebel) May 7, 2017
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