Funny story: I caught a Republican Senate majority leader suspiciously dumping all his stock in the country's biggest hospital chain 15 years ago (which his family ran), but he was let go with no accountability other than not getting to run for president https://t.co/IBAOycYsNN — Jonathan Myerson Katz (@KatzOnEarth) March 20, 2020 It's almost as …
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Spiraling Decompensation Open Thread
White House aides right now offering no explanation for why President Trump believes he can “hereby order” American companies to do anything. Also, officials have no information about what the president may or may not be announcing this afternoon, per his Tweet. https://t.co/QbGwBnfduE — Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) August 23, 2019 when you're running for reelection …
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Yup, We’re Doomed
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) . Like earthquakes, wildfires, and floods, recessions are recurring problems. And as with those (other) ‘natural’ catastrophes, it’s easier to prepare for them in advance and survive them afterwards if we’re not dependent on grifters, political cultists, and soggy-brained showboaters… Trump just now on the economy: “I don’t see a recession. …
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Smart Money, Scared Money. Plus, Bonus Tikka
First the reward (no sing-for-your-supper spiritual joylessness here!). Here’s one fat cat that is Warren-curious: Tikka has views on the e-book vs. book-books debate. E-books…nah. Yup. Books it is! (I find myself more and more on the opposite side of this divide; I spend more than half of my reading time on my Kindle …
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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Nobody Could Have Predicted
New @SaintAnselmPoll shows big NH bounce for @KamalaHarris, @JoeBiden still leading, @ewarren & @PeteButtigieg rounding out top 4 #FITN #nhpolitics #WMUR pic.twitter.com/SBFyUiBRKB — Adam Sexton (@AdamSextonWMUR) July 15, 2019 More immediately important: Pelosi says the House of Representatives would not raise the debt ceiling unless it is part of a broader budget deal https://t.co/9E8dOsZM5q …
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Open Thread: Duncan Hunter, GOP Poster Boy of the Week
So this latest DoJ file reveals that Duncan Hunter had an affair with at least three different lobbyists, one of his own staff members, and an aide to a member of the GOP leadership team. — Sam Stein (@samstein) June 25, 2019 And here I thought Rep. Duncan was just a California-gated-community version of Jared …
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We Can Always Use Some Bitter, Cynical, Gallows Humor, So Here’s A Kudlow Post
Larry Kudlow is the pure distilled essence of a Trump appointment, the type specimen of the breed, and the perfect expression of the state of Republican “thinking” on not just economics, but any matter in which actual knowledge and a respect for empiricism might help. Via Wikipedia, we find he is barely educated, at best, …
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