With Kelly As CoS, It Is Worth Noting How Much Power We Have Given Military Men
m2c4
8 years ago
I know we kind of crossed this bridge back in the confirmation process last winter, but I think it is worth at least pointing out that, with...
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Monday, July 31, 2017
Politics
Politics
The Mooch Gets The Boot
m2c4
8 years ago
We all knew that Anthony Scaramucci would not last long but no one thought it would be less than a week. MSNBC reports that he is out at the...
Politics
Politics
Conservatives In Disarray While UK Sleepwalks To Brexit Nightmare
m2c4
8 years ago
While we were all focused, and rightly so, on making sure that millions of Americans would not lose their health insurance and hundreds of t...
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Politics
Politics
Is Moving Kelly To Chief Of Staff Part Of Larger Plan To Fire Mueller?
m2c4
8 years ago
I just heard an interesting theory on MSNBC this morning concerning the fate of Jeff Sessions. The idea is that, by moving Kelly into the Wh...
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The Deck View
Natural Weekends - Squirrels' Crabapple Feast
m2c4
8 years ago
The crabapples are just starting to ripen up and the squirrels have been up in the tree, choosing the right ones, and feasting on them. ...
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Politics
Politics
Wells Fargo's Illegal Activity Never Seems To End
m2c4
8 years ago
My favorite criminal financial services firm just can't seem to stop breaking the law. The NY Times reported today that Wells Fargo forc...
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The Deck View
Natural Weekends - Even More Clouds
m2c4
8 years ago
Friday, July 28, 2017
Politics
Politics
Where Do We Go From Here After Failure Of Healthcare Repeal
m2c4
8 years ago
Where do we go from here? Both Republicans and Democrats are asking that question this morning after the failure of healthcare to move throu...
Politics
Politics
As Failures Mount and Resistance Increases, Trump And Hard Right Will Rip GOP Apart
m2c4
8 years ago
There are signs that Republicans in Congress are finally beginning to stand up to Trump , intimating there are at least some red lines that ...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Politics
Politics
Absurdity Of GOP Repeal And Replace Reaches New Heights
m2c4
8 years ago
The Senate is apparently prepared to vote on the skinny repeal bill in the next 24 hours. There is no bill that anyone has seen yet. The bil...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Politics
Politics
Trump May Have Brought The Korean Peninsula To The Brink Of Destruction With Transgender Tweet
m2c4
8 years ago
While the media has focused on the obviously uncoordinated and botched rollout of Trump's transgender military ban, obsessing on the sta...
Politics
Politics
Daniel Nexon Reflects On Our Current Crisis - A Must Read
m2c4
8 years ago
Daniel Nexon over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money had a fantastic post the other day that captured so many things I've been trying to say a...
Politics
Politics
One Story Shows Fallacy Of GOP Approach As Senate Leaps Into the Abyss On Healthcare
m2c4
8 years ago
As Republicans in the Senate decided to willingly jump into the abyss of potentially passing an unknown bill that would potentially kill hun...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Politics
Politics
Trump Continues To Float Idea Of Replacing Sessions In Order To Fire Mueller
m2c4
8 years ago
With another day of Trump berating Jeff Sessions, it is now clear that Trump is laying the groundwork for firing the Special Counsel Robert ...
Politics
Politics
In A Metaphor For The GOP, Senate Republicans Will Vote On Unknown Bill Today
m2c4
8 years ago
So Republicans seem intent on voting to move forward on some kind of health care bill today, although no one has a clue what exactly the bil...
Monday, July 24, 2017
Politics
Politics
Kushner Decides To Save His Own Skin
m2c4
8 years ago
Jared Kushner's statement and testimony today is the beginning of the dissolution of unity among Trump's top advisers when it comes ...
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Politics
Antitrust Is Now A Pillar Of Democrats' "Better Deal" And Rightly So
m2c4
8 years ago
Last month I wrote a post saying that Democrats need to make antitrust enforcement a pillar of their economic strategy . In particular, I th...
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Politics
Politics
As GOP Agenda Fails, Right Wing Push For Article V Constitutional Convention Intensifies
m2c4
8 years ago
Back in November of last year, I wrote about the fact that Republicans need to win just one more state legislature in order to be able to ca...
Politics
Politics
Sports Roundup - British Open And Tour de France
m2c4
8 years ago
All the sports action was in Europe this weekend as golfers competed for the claret jug at the British Open and cyclists finally ended the t...
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Natural Weekends - And More Clouds
m2c4
8 years ago
Saturday, July 22, 2017
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Natural Weekends - Continuing With Clouds
m2c4
8 years ago
Politics
Politics
Senate Trumpcare Bill Shows GOP Incapable Of Governing, Only Lying To The Base
m2c4
8 years ago
If there was ever an example of the inability and unwillingness of the Republican party to actually govern, the Senate Trumpcare bill provid...
Friday, July 21, 2017
Politics
Politics
Europeans Have No UK Partner To Negotiate Brexit As Tories Are In Disarray
m2c4
8 years ago
We are already one-sixth of the way through the two year period allotted for Britain to reach a deal to exit the European Union. In these pa...
Politics
Politics
As Constitutional Crisis Looms, Republicans Act As Trump Co-Conspirators
m2c4
8 years ago
As Donald Trump test the waters and lays the groundwork for firing Robert Mueller, his Republican co-conspirators in Congress are largely si...
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Politics
Politics
NY Times Interview Questions For Trump Apparently Prepared By Fox News
m2c4
8 years ago
Donald Trump's interview with the New York Times and his threats against Mueller and almost every top official in the Department of Just...
Politics
Politics
Trump's Support Among Republicans Is Overstated In Polls
m2c4
8 years ago
A couple of days ago, I posted that Trump's support was slipping as the failures of the Republican agenda mounts . However, despite the ...
