Miles Archer
Miles Archer's JournalWhen MARIA BARTOROMO asks if you have the votes to eff up Medicaid & the SNAP program...
"Do you have the votes to pass this in the House this upcoming week?" she pressed.
"We do have a very small majority, only five seats, one of the smallest we've ever had," he said. "But I cannot imagine someone in our conference that would want to go along with Biden's reckless spending."
"We will hold a vote this week, and we will pass it, and we will send it to the Senate," he said.
https://www.rawstory.com/kevin-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-2659897483/
Greene, Stefanik, Haley, Sanders, Noem & Lake, the Swamp-Slash-Gene Pool for Trump's VP Pick
WaPo on Alito: "Now he cannot restrain himself from venting in an actual opinion"
First, Alito’s dissent begins with an extended, bitter and unnecessary rant about the shadow docket (the use of emergency rulings that have major policy consequences without the benefit of full briefing). He has railed at critics before, but now he cannot restrain himself from venting in an actual opinion. He goes on at length to recall the accusations, choosing to single out a warning against overuse of the motions docket from none other than Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (That alliance might be on the rocks.) It’s entirely irrelevant to the matter at hand and, as with so much of Alito’s writing, utterly intemperate.
But it gets much worse. Alito has the temerity to assert that there would be no irreparable injury in denying the stay because “the Government has not dispelled legitimate doubts” — by whom? where does this standard come from? — “that it would even obey an unfavorable order in these cases, much less that it would choose to take enforcement actions to which it has strong objections.” This unprecedented attack on the government’s obedience to court rulings — based on nothing — is out of order. There is zero evidence — stray pundits and legislative backbenchers don’t count — that the Biden administration would essentially put itself in contempt of court.
Moreover, Alito’s dissent demonstrates that he does not care one whit about the women affected if the drug were suddenly made unavailable. (At least he’s consistent; he also utterly ignored the interests of women in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, giving them no weight in contrast to the seemingly inviolate interest of states in commandeering women’s reproductive choices.) Their irreparable harm doesn’t register.
Next, consider Alito’s hypocrisy in accusing the government of “leveraging” (i.e., judge shopping) by going to a court in the 9th Circuit to obtain a contrary opinion, thereby setting up a conflict between circuits. It takes some nerve to make that accusation, given how the case began when antiabortion activists searched out a single-district division in Amarillo, Tex., where they were certain to draw a judge who embraces their cause.
PROFILES IN COURAGE: John Roberts Edition (No Clarence ethics testimony for you)
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Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas’ alleged ethical lapses.
Roberts instead referred the request from Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin to the Judicial Conference, which serves as the policy-making body of the federal courts.
The Illinois Democrat had penned a letter last month urging Roberts to voluntarily testify in a hearing on Supreme Court ethics set to take place May 2. The letter came in the wake of a ProPublica report that found that Thomas had gone on several luxury trips at the invitation of a GOP megadonor. The trips were not disclosed on Thomas’ public financial filings.
Thomas said in a statement that he had not reported the trips because the ethics guidelines in effect at the time had not required such disclosures.
There weren't enough hours in the day for Trump to have done his job at any point in 2020
WE KNOW he took more 3-day golf weekends than not. It WAS ALMOST every single week. So that means a 4-day work week.
WE KNOW all about "executive time"...code, in part, for "Sat in my room eating McDonalds. watching Fox & Friends, waiting for them to mention me." THIS MEANT that on the days he showed up for work at all, he arrived in the Oval Office at noon. Also, his staff got "creative" about publishing his daily schedule, when they did at all, and the period in which Stephanie Grisham was his "Press Secretary," she held NO PRESS CONFERENCES AT ALL. So we "knew" what we were "told," which was basically GOLF and "Executive Time."
WE KNOW that he tweeted his ASS off until they shut him down, and maybe 1/3 of that was "presidentin'" and the rest was trolling and "book reviews" (books which, naturally, praised Trump).
So if you look at things like THIS:
Bombshell revelation of Trump election texts is 'more damning' than his Georgia phone call: legal analyst
...and then put it together will all of the other "behind the scenes" efforts to overthrow our democracy, AND "TV time," AND "tweet time," AND GOLF, AND campaigning / "rallies," how much ACTUAL TIME do we think he spent in 2020 fulfilling his duties as president?
Far-right House R's reportedly "thrilled" with the debt ceiling legislation unveiled by McCarthy
That's likely because, according to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), McCarthy (R-Calif.) simply "picked up the House Freedom Caucus plan and helped us convert it into legislative text."
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Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, said the House GOP leadership's proposal is "a reflection of just how totally controlled by the fringes of his caucus McCarthy is."
"It's just as bad as we expected," said Levin. "Literally take food off the table of millions of families just trying to get by? Help the ultra-wealthy and big corporations get away with cheating on their taxes? Strip away healthcare from children, veterans, and seniors? Saddle millions with crushing student debt? Pull the plug on new clean energy jobs? That's your big pitch to the American people?"
https://www.rawstory.com/us-debt-ceiling/
Why, there is NOTHING disturbing about Trump stroking "hive mentality" for 2024. Nothing at all.
I don't want to post any more of his actual words here than are necessary to get the point across.
He's playing directly into the "When they indict ME, they are REALLY coming after YOU" minefield.
Trump declares that 'we’re going to all become' the 47th president
He knows that his base is weak, gullible and easily harnessed.
This is a continuation of "Many fine people on both sides of Charlottesville" and "Go home, you're very special and we love you."
He's appealing to the outer edges of his extremist fans.
"Team Trump" appears to DESPERATELY want Soros signatures on checks to E Jean Carroll
"Her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, argued that jurors have no business knowing who’s financially supporting the lawsuit, citing court precedent that says the circumstances of who’s paying the legal bills 'has nothing directly to do with the ultimate merits of a case,'" it added.
The judge overseeing the case has purportedly been concerned about releasing the details into the public record just before trial. The judge also said it could be damaging to Carroll if too much focus is put on the financing question, and that the public has already had sufficient access to the
“Evidence that is inadmissible at trial should not be unnecessarily entered into the public record just before this highly watched trial is to begin,” Carroll wrote.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rape-accuser-financing/
I've got to say, it's nice to be back
Folks who know me know that I go W-A-Y back on DU.
I "was" Amerigo Vespucci...my computer died and I lost all of my passwords / data, including the email I used to sign up for DU. I might have been able to approach Skinner at the time and convince him of my identity and get restored, but I just started over again as Miles Archer.
I was about as worn out as worn out gets after the 2020 election. I was breathing a collective sigh of relief with all of you when Joe Biden became President, but the daily stress and anxiety of the campaigns AND election left me empty and not wanting to talk about politics at all.
So, rested up, re-invigorated to fight and speak out until the last November 2024 vote is cast and counted, I'm back.
You folks rule. I'm glad to be a part of the conversation again.
Fresno Vice Principal calls cops to report black girls ("Section 8 people") in his gated community
A California vice principal is reportedly on leave after being caught on video during a confrontation with three Black teenage girls.
Fred Veenendaal, vice principal at Sunnyside High School in Fresno, is seen on the video talking on his cell phone to what appears to be police. Veenendaal then says he has "three Section 8 people here, ghetto girls." It is unclear how the confrontation started.
"Section 8" refers to a federal program that provides rental assistance to low-income families, the elderly, and disabled individuals.
The news was picked up by FOX26, which reported that the girls were Kyra Schrubb, 17, Bri'janae Lewis, 17, and a friend. They say they were just walking through the gated community to cut their walk in half.
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