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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #315 on: March 23, 2017, 06:19:00 pm »
Will Our Democracy ::) Survive the Right-Wing Takeover?


Agelbert NOTE: The USA is NOT a democracy; it's an oligarchy. However, the question has merit BECAUSE the oligarchic excesses are driving our economy to a collapse.
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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #316 on: March 23, 2017, 06:45:08 pm »

NYTimes: Trump "Lies in Ways That No American Politician Ever Has Before"


Published on Mar 23, 2017

In this week's DumpTheTrumptyHive Roundup rant, I peruse the mainstream media for more reasons we need to kick our new Liar-In-Chief to the curb.



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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #317 on: March 23, 2017, 09:04:58 pm »


Henry A. Giroux | The Culture of Cruelty in Trump's America

 Wednesday, March 22, 2017 

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed

This story was published thanks to readers like you. Donate now to support Truthout's fearless, independent coverage.


SNIPPET:

For the last 40 years, the United States has pursued a ruthless form of neoliberalism that has stripped economic activity from ethical considerations and social costs. One consequence has been the emergence of a culture of cruelty in which the financial elite produce inhuman policies that treat the most vulnerable with contempt, relegating them to zones of social abandonment and forcing them to inhabit a society increasingly indifferent to human suffering.

Under the Trump administration, the repressive state and market apparatuses that produced a culture of cruelty in the 19th century have returned with a vengeance, producing new levels of harsh aggression and extreme violence in US society. A culture of cruelty has become the mood of our times -- a spectral lack of compassion that hovers over the ruins of democracy.


http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39925-the-culture-of-cruelty-in-trump-s-america

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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #318 on: March 24, 2017, 08:45:54 pm »
The Truth Of Trump’s “I Alone Can Fix It” Canard | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ


UNCEASING INCOMPETENCE!  

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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #319 on: March 28, 2017, 06:49:54 pm »
Robert Reich : The Resistance Report March 27, 2017




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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #320 on: April 02, 2017, 02:02:47 pm »
Agelbert NOTE: The censored word (xxxx) in the article below is "F U C K".

Henry Rollins: Make America Filthy, Hungry, Broke and Stupid Again

At the beginning of comrade Trump’s doomed administration, something he said at his puke-inducing hideout, Mar-a-Lago, right around the time he was pallin’ around with convicted killer Don King, told me everything about how this zero-talent grifter was going to govern. He called his repulsive property the “winter White House,” no doubt to put that into the country’s vocabulary, to be parroted by **** like Sean Hannity going forward.

Right then I knew he was going to try to spend as much time there as he could and that he had absolutely no interest in doing the job of the president. I figured he would go there for Thanksgiving and stay until the beginning of the following year. His dipshit fans would defend the cash hemorrhage to secure the area by making patently false comparisons to the cost of President Obama’s vacation budget. How many more seven-figure vacations is this fraud going to take? Too bad that the comrade’s multimillion-dollar weekends in Florida, of which there have been five at the time of this writing, can’t be billed directly to his supporters.

Days ago, Trump rolled out a new name for his leisure cemetery as he announced a gathering he was having, concerning the Department of Veterans Affairs. “[W]e’re having a meeting tonight at what we call affectionately the Southern White House. Seems to be the most convenient location. Everybody always wants to go to the Southern White House.”

Is the South rising again? Let me get this straight, improving the VA requires all involved to fly almost 1,000 miles for a weekend meeting? This is making America great again?

**** this guy.

In Mick Mulvaney’s hellish vision, elderly people just starve out.

This obscene abuse of the taxpayers’ money reminds me of what Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said recently on MSNBC’s Morning Joe when asked about some of the administration’s proposed budget cuts. He said that he and his team just didn’t feel right that “a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit” have their tax dollars wasted. “We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”

At a news briefing, Mulvaney took a shot at Meals on Wheels, saying, “We can’t spend money on programs just because they sound good. And Meals on Wheels sounds great — again, that’s a state decision to fund that particular portion to. But to take the federal money and give it to the states and say, look, we want to give you money for programs that don’t work — I can’t defend that anymore. We cannot defend that anymore.” So, in Mulvaney’s hellish vision, elderly people just starve out.

I take no satisfaction in any American going hungry. Knowing that a lot of the people who voted for Trump might face grim challenges because of this kick-ass conservative belt-tightening, it is of no interest to me to remind them what they signed up for. All I can think about is an elderly person being hungry and frightened, and it makes me sick.

Two things here, both awful. First, the food and assistance given to millions of elderly and housebound people, including about half a million veterans daily, is a great program. A lot of the funding comes from donations and many of the people who deliver the food and care are volunteers. Second, for now at least, the budget cuts are not affecting Meals on Wheels and the many food delivery programs under its umbrella. Mulvaney didn’t seem to know this, even though as director he should, right? He just let everyone know what he thinks about old folks and vets who obviously need to eat and benefit from someone coming by to look in on them. What a tool.

Many years ago, a woman who lived next door to me had the MOW van come by every day. She passed away. I met her granddaughter who came to clean the place out. Her grandmother was a concentration camp survivor.

**** this guy.

To be truly strong on national security, the EPA’s budget should be expanded.

Doing their best to turn America into a coast-to-coast toxic dump, EPA chief Scott Pruitt and the comrade-in-chief are proposing budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency that will absolutely put millions of Americans at risk. To get a better understanding as to how Trump picked Pruitt to run the EPA, here’s one of the comrade’s tweets: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” Thanks for breaking it down for me.

Of all the wretchedness of the Trump downward spiral, the consequences of defunding the EPA will be the longest-lasting and hardest to reverse or neutralize. The EPA is one of the most important parts of government. To be truly strong on national security, the EPA’s budget should be expanded. If this agency is defunded to the degree that these two shitbirds want to take it to, then conditions could become catastrophic. Pruitt is a true enemy of not only the country but the planet itself.

**** this guy.

It is apparent that this administration wants America to be filthy, hungry, broke and stupid. There are millions who, like battered spouses, will defend comrade Trump to the end. A fake populist like comrade Trump becoming president wasn’t as surprising as it was inevitable. This is what happens when a country’s electorate are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.

Even though Trump remains a low-energy slug with a 140-character attention span, the scoundrels he has assembled are energized and rarin’ to go. The billionaires are done with the burdensome yoke of the Kenyan tyrant and want a return on their investment. As to how bad it will get, we have not seen the worst of it yet.

**** these guys.

Here we are. Everything matters now. Your goodness, decency, fairness, stamina and, in several months, your vote.

Well put.



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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #321 on: April 03, 2017, 02:10:30 pm »
GOP Lawmakers Now Admit Years of Obamacare Repeal Votes Were a Sham 

Lee Fang

March 31 2017, 1:11 p.m.

It is hard to overestimate the role of the Affordable Care Act in the Republican resurgence.

Over the last seven years, the GOP has won successive elections by highlighting problems with Obamacare, airing more than $235 million in negative ads slamming the law, and staging more than 50 high-profile repeal votes. In 2016 every major Republican presidential candidate, including Donald Trump, campaigned on a pledge to quickly get rid of it.

Now in total control of Congress and the White House, some GOP legislators are saying that the political assault on Obamacare was an exercise in cynical politics, and that an outright repeal was never on the table.

“We have Republicans who do not want to repeal Obamacare,” said Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., on Sirius XM Patriot on Wednesday.

“They may have campaigned that way, they may have voted that way a couple of years ago when it didn’t make any difference,” Brooks continued. “But now that it makes a difference, there seems to not be the majority support that we need to pass legislation that we passed 50 or 60 times over five or six years.”




Listen to Rep. Brooks’s comments below:

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/31/repeal-votes-obamacare/
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« Reply #322 on: April 03, 2017, 08:20:18 pm »
If you don't like the rules, just change them!  ::)


RE

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-panel-prepares-to-consider-gorsuch-as-threat-of-filibuster-looms/2017/04/03/129bcd8c-186a-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html?utm_term=.74847759e5e0

Democrats secure enough votes to block Gorsuch, setting stage for ‘nuclear option
Senate hurtles toward filibuster showdown over Gorsuch
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By Elise Viebeck and Ed O'Keefe April 3 at 2:56 PM

Senate Democrats secured enough votes to filibuster the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, increasing the likelihood that Republicans will change the rules of the U.S. Senate to ensure his confirmation later this week.

Democratic opposition to Gorsuch has been building for days, and four more senators announced on Monday that they would vote against him and support a filibuster of his nomination. That gave Democrats the requisite 41 votes to put up a roadblock and compel President Trump and Senate Republicans to either withdraw Gorsuch’s nomination or change Senate procedure.

With Trump and Republicans vowing that Gorsuch will be confirmed despite any filibuster, a change in how the Senate does business — the so-called nuclear option -- is expected by Friday.

When that happens, the Senate is “headed to a world where you don’t need one person from the other side to pick a judge,” warned Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.). “And what does that mean? That means the judges are going to be more ideological, not less. It means that every Senate seat is going to be a referendum on the Supreme Court … The damage done to the Senate is going to be real.”

Graham’s comments came as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to refer Gorsuch’s nomination to the full Senate, which is expected to begin debating the pick on Tuesday.
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[How many votes Democrats need to block Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination]

The outcome of the panel’s vote was never in doubt — Republicans hold a majority of seats on the committee and Gorsuch was approved on a party-line vote. But the testy hearing foreshadowed what is likely to be a combative week over the merits of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and the way both parties have behaved during years of feuding over the makeup of the federal court system.

Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) and Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) indicated on Monday that they would oppose Gorsuch and vote against cloture — or the motion to end a filibuster that is required to hold a final up-or-down confirmation vote.

During an hours-long committee hearing, Leahy, the longest-serving member on the panel, criticized Gorsuch’s answers during his marathon confirmation hearing as “excruciatingly evasive.” He said that a GOP move to end filibusters of Supreme Court nominees would damage the Senate but argued that he had to vote his conscience, even if it pushes Republicans to change the rules.

“I cannot vote solely to protect an institution when the rights of hard-working Americans are at risk,” he said, “because I fear that the Senate I would be defending no longer exists.”

[Home stretch for Trump’s Supreme Court nominee could forever alter the Senate]

Senate Republicans shot back — blaming Democrats for years of partisan bickering over judicial nominees that they say started when President George W. Bush made several nominations for federal court vacancies earlier this century.
Judge Neil Gorsuch prepares to testify during the third day of his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

“I disagree with those who somehow say this is the end of the Senate as we know it,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said. “This is a restoration of the status quo ante before our Democratic colleagues directed this artificial 60-vote requirement.”

Meanwhile, Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) became the fourth Democrat to say he would join Republicans in trying to end the filibuster. But in a sign of the incredible political pressure he faces as he votes on a nominee from his home state, Bennet did not state whether he plans to support or oppose Gorsuch.

So far, Bennet is the only Democratic senator who is not up for reelection in 2018 that opposes the filibuster.

Republicans are vowing to confirm Gorsuch by Friday, when a two-week recess is set to begin, meaning the process will consume the Senate’s floor schedule this week.

[Democrats just took the filibuster off life support]

Gorsuch was nominated by Trump on Jan. 31 and spent weeks privately meeting with senators and preparing for his confirmation hearing. He was questioned by the Judiciary Committee last month for almost 20 hours over three days, answering nearly 1,200 questions and later sending about 70 pages of answers to written follow-up questions, according to a team of White House officials assisting with his nomination.

As of Friday, Gorsuch had met with 78 senators — all but some of the most conservative and liberal lawmakers whose votes are likely to be along party lines. But three first-term Democratic senators, Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) and Kamala D. Harris (Calif.), complained that they were unable to get a face-to-face meeting with the nominee or offered the opportunity.

The fact that the three senators are women, with one Hispanic, one Asian and one African American, was not lost on some progressive groups that highlighted the perceived snub over the weekend. But Gorsuch aides insisted privately that difficulties scheduling time with the senators was the only reason they never met.

The two big, misleading statements senators can’t stop making in the Neil Gorsuch battle

This week’s anticipated change in Senate procedure dates to 2013, when Democrats, angered by Republican opposition to President Barack Obama’s nominees, used the “nuclear option” to end filibusters of executive branch and lower-court nominees, prompting Republicans to warn that there might one day be retribution.

“Changing the rules is almost inevitable; it’s only a question of when,” said Norm Ornstein, a longtime congressional expert and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

Ornstein warned that with Republicans set to extend the filibuster ban to Supreme Court nominees, they may soon face pressure to end filibusters of legislation to keep major health-care and tax reform bills passed by the GOP-led House from stalling in the more closely-divided Senate.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) “will resist the change in some cases because it’s in his interest not only when he’s in the minority again but also to be able to rely on Democrats when the House sends you crazy things,” Ornstein said. “And because it’s not clear they have the 51 votes necessary to change the rules for filibusters on legislation.”

McConnell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, “I don’t think the legislative filibuster is in danger.”

Appearing on the same program, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said: “I don’t think there’s any thirst to change the legislative rules. Most Democrats and most Republicans have served in both the minority and majority and know what it means.”

Amber Phillips contributed to this report.

Yup.  :(

Along the way in my course of life studies in the school of hard knocks, I learned that much of what we are told by the "authorities" is rather selective in its application and availability.

If you do this or that, you are a baddy and an irresponsible naughty and shiftless citizen worthy of a fat fine and some jail time to learn you your manners.

But when the higher ups get caught with their hands in the unethical cookie jar, all of a sudden an exception to the "sacred rule of law" shows up.

How about that neato term called Force Majeure that governments pull out of thin air to justify bailing out liars and corrupt cheats in banking or some other business?

Have you ever wondered why lawyers and judges insist that "every case is different" when an 8 bit computer could classify and order and prepare sentence for 99% of every case that has ever been presented according to the direct application of the rule of law? BECAUSE, as the post you made explains, all the high sounding talk and alleged adherence to integrity and consistency and respect and so on is ALL BULLSHIT.  :evil4:


Surly posted the solution to this type of difficulty some time ago....He had a few fellows that were caught doing bad stuff being attended to with a length of rope and gravity assist.  ;)

Where there is a will, there is a way.






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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #323 on: April 11, 2017, 09:43:30 pm »
Economic Update: Economics, Psychology & Trump


Published on Apr 9, 2017 by Democracy At Work

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What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--
And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes


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« Reply #324 on: April 14, 2017, 09:27:45 pm »
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Luther Martin: Representative for Maryland and dissenting Anti-Federalist. Was shocked at the attempt by the elite to overthrow the existing government in secret in 1787, and swore to tell the people what Washington, Madison and Hamilton were up to. The rich were terrified of the people screwed by Hamilton's bank bailouts and after Shay's Rebellion almost saw Philadelphia captured by angry citizens, they were ready to install a police state.

Martin warned we were ill-advised to install a President King who would plot against the people in concert with the Senate: He said we were crazy to put men into a chamber for six year terms instead of the current one-year terms; men who would no longer be paid by their states and move away from their constituents to a corrupt political city, and who could not be recalled for any reason by their state for misbehavior. He said we were going to lose our freedom under the reintroduction of a hated standing army and that we would suffer under the despotism of a Supreme Court with no citizen jury.

He stormed out and refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights, and broke the convention's signed oath of secrecy that Mad-Man Madison made everyone sign before being admitted. Martin went straight to the press and warned the people not to ratify this powerful central government with a crazy central bank and insane electoral college scheme designed to strip citizens of any meaningful representation.

Before this abomination was ratified, there were 2,000 representatives for the people: One rep existed for about 300 citizens. The Constitution made it one rep per MINIMUM 30,000 to 60,000 but CONVENIENTLY DID NOT STATE A MAXIMUM POPULATION PER REP!

That apparently wasn't good enough for the oligarchs as our population grew so shortly after 1913 a cork was put on the maximum number of representatives. Please note that ALL new voting groups from women to minorities to Native Americans got the "right" to vote AFTER the cork was put on the maximum number of reps .

NOTE: The 14th Amendment right to vote for African Americans after the Civil War became a cruel farce by 1876. The elitist Supreme Court twisted the 14th Amendment to give Corporations personhood as a cruel and cynical vicious slap to the original intent of the 14th Amendment. Even as blacks where being disenfranchised, the courts were busy giving corporations extra privileges along with the license to break the law with impunity called limited liability.

Now, in most states, there is only one rep for 740,000 citizens, and virtually ZERO chance of you ever talking to one.

Source: the Actual Anti-Federalist writings...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Anti-Federalist

It being that the FIX was in from the START, it is really quite amazing that this oligarchy lasted as long as it did without a Trump type leader raping it from top to bottom.


Trump will destroy the USA. He is just following the tradition of ALL US Presidents. What makes it different now is that there was still some illusion of order and justice after the other presidents left with their ill gotten gains. This time it will completely come apart. Have a nice day.



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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #325 on: April 15, 2017, 03:55:25 pm »
Thousands demand  Trump release tax returns at New York rally

Posted 15 Apr 2017 23:30
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NEW YORK: Thousands of people turned out for a march through midtown Manhattan on Saturday to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns and to dispute his claim that the public does not care about the issue.

Organizers of New York's "Tax March," one of more than 150 across the country and beyond, want to call attention to Trump's refusal to disclose his tax history, as his White House predecessors have done for more than 40 years.

In addition to major U.S. cities, including Washington and Los Angeles, marches are planned in Europe, Japan and New Zealand.

The Manhattan march began with a rally at Bryant Park, drawing a good-natured crowd estimated by a Reuters reporter to be about 5,000 people, although no official estimates were immediately available. The procession up Sixth Avenue was due to disperse at Central Park.

Among the marchers was an oversized inflatable rooster, sporting an angry expression and a sweeping metallic orange hairdo meant to resemble Trump's signature style.

“Thanks to Trump, I think that releasing your taxes when you run for president now has to be a law,” said New Yorker Marni Halasa, 51, who arrived in a tutu and leggings made of fake dollar bills and holding a sign that read “Show Me The Money!”

Critics have raised questions about what Trump's tax returns say about his net worth and various business ties.

As a candidate and as president, Trump has steadfastly refused to release his tax returns, citing an ongoing audit by the Internal Revenue Service. In September, he told ABC News, "I don't think anybody cares, except some members of the press."

The IRS has said that Trump can release his tax returns even while under audit.  ;D

The Trump tax marches were launched by a single tweet, organizers said. A day after the massive Jan. 21 women's march in Washington and other cities, comedy writer Frank Lesser tapped out on Twitter, "Trump claims no one cares about his taxes. The next mass protest should be on Tax Day to prove him wrong." It has been retweeted more than 21,000 times.

Organizers said they stuck with the traditional tax-deadline date of April 15 for the marches because as a Saturday it would draw more attendance, even though this year's income tax filing deadline was pushed back to Tuesday.

POLLS SHOW PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR TRUMP TAX RELEASE

“Paying your taxes is an American thing to do,” said Claudia Stroie, 49, a mechanical engineer from Connecticut who attended the rally in New York. “He’s not fit to represent the American people.”

Joe Dinkin, spokesman for the Working Families Party, one of the groups organising the marches, said ongoing investigations into the Trump campaign's connections with Russia underscore the need to disclose his returns.

"Without seeing his taxes, we'll never really know who he's working for," said Dinkin, who expects the marches to draw at least 100,000 protesters.

There have been some glimpses into Trump's tax history. Last month, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow reported on two pages of Trump's 2005 return that were obtained by investigative reporter David Cay Johnston and released by DCReport.org. They showed Trump paid US$38 million in taxes on more than US$150 million in income.

And in October, The New York Times reported that Trump had declared a US$916 million loss on his 1995 federal tax return, citing three pages of documents from the return.

In a Quinnipiac University poll released on April 4, more than two-thirds of the respondents said Trump should publicly release his tax returns. Other recent polls had similar results.

(Editing by Frank McGurty and Cynthia Osterman)

- Reuters

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/protesters-to-take-to-streets-to-demand-trump-release-tax/3680576.html


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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #326 on: April 15, 2017, 05:49:50 pm »
The Repukians are GETTING IT from their Trump REJECTING base!  :o  ;D

Shields and Brooks on GOP home-district hostility, Trump policy reversals 
 
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Published on Apr 14, 2017

Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including how Republican members of Congress are facing heat from crowds of their own constituents while home during recess, why President Trump’s views have shifted on China, NATO and Janet Yellen, and more.
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« Reply #327 on: April 15, 2017, 06:52:10 pm »



250 Million Reasons to Reject HONEST  ;) Act , 200,000 to Reject Mar-a-Largo

The (dis)HONEST Act, Lamar Smith’s latest attempt to hobble environmental regulations, is already living up to this name. As it turns out, it the bill would likely cost around $250 million to implement, instead of the $1 million proponents have suggested. But the Congressional Budget Office never got those estimates: apparently, EPA leadership looked at the comments and decided not to report the numbers to the CBO. Not so honest after all. 

These juicy details were reported on April 4th, in a little-noticed  Bloomberg BNA story, which also claimed that EPA brass prevented the agency from passing on the cost estimate. But someone did notice: ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Eddie Bernice Johnson. She wrote a letter to Lamar Smith asking that he investigate the EPA’s political appointees for potentially misleading Congress about the cost of the HONEST act.

Given Lamar Smith’s inability to acknowledge the inconvenient truth about climate change, the odds that he’ll voluntarily look for evidence against his bill seem pretty slim.

Another climate denier, and frequent flier in Smith’s circles is Kathleen Hartnett-White , who we called out way back in August ‘16 as a rising star in the oily black denier sky. She was rumored to be a pick for Scott Pruitt’s job back in December, but Politico reported yesterday that she’s now the leading choice to run the Council on Environmental Quality. This would make her the White House’s top advisor on environmental issues, a perfect platform to provide Trump with exactly the pro-oil, anti-science perspective he wants to hear.

One last decision folks might be regretting is paying the $200,000 membership fee to Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort. The Miami Herald reports that health inspectors found some yuge violations in the club’s kitchen earlier this year, including potentially parasitic fish  :P, broken coolers full of bacteria-breeding-temperature meats and rusty shelves.

Given that sea level rise is poised to flood the resort, the temperature of Trump’s coolers isn’t the only warming he’s unwise to ignore. 
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Robert Reich : The Resistance Report, Monday, April 17th



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Will Trump GO AWAY in MAY?




JFK WANTED that movie made to wake up the country to what a pack of generals running the show would be like. It's ironic that a pack of generals is the only thing that may save this country from WW3....


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