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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
A twitter thread on the White House plan to reorganise the Federal government
, with a link to the PDF.
As horrendous as expected, thankfully it's probably impossible. I highly doubt the Federal government is easy to change in such a massive manner.
edited 23rd Jun '18 5:54:38 AM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangOn some level, beyond the constituency nightmares it would cause for Congressmen, the transparent notion that Congress is being treated as a rubber stamp for Trumpist policy proposals would probably offend more than a few of them.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
I must confess my first thought was whether the wreck was an accident or an "accident".
Morally speaking, good on the Dem candidate for suspending his own campaign while she recovers. Though, pragmatically, I wonder if that won't end up being Honor Before Reason.
As a rule, the higher a Democrat tries to go, the lower the Republicans will sink.
Which is precisely why I expect the Republicans to do that, even as their candidate is in the hospital
edited 23rd Jun '18 6:41:12 AM by sgamer82
So like a reverse Michelle Obama, then?
No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!Don't know if anybody's read it yet, but George F. Will wrote a great opinion piece: "Vote against the GOP this November"
Predictably, Laura Ingraham called his piece "sad" and "petty".
About that op-ed... to me that just kind of reads like 'a Democratic Congress would also suck and also couldn't do anything but a Congress that does nothing because it's stuck against the Executive Branch is better than a Congress that does nothing because the President is doing what they want'. Which... I guess makes sense? Certainly better than having a Congress that's hired and paid to flatten the padding in their chairs.
It's been fun.Sarah Sanders claims that she was kicked out of a restaurant because she works for Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/politics/sarah-sanders-restaurant-kicked-out/index.html
No Sympathy if this is true. Turns out that no one likes the Mouth of Sauron.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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