Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Politics Corner, November 12th

"Lady Freedom" by skpy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 


Trump does not seem to understand that it's his greed that continually gets him in trouble. “Give me some of that,” he said. “Give me some of that money. I want some of that money.”  He's talking about the Federal Reserve Bank. [CNBC]


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Stephen Miller is exactly as bad as you suspected. And then worse. [Southern Poverty Law Center]


House Republicans released a memo outlining their impeachment defense and boy is it dumb. [Axios]


Of course Trump wanted to fire the Inspector General who released the Whistleblower report. [CNN]


All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let Mulvaney
Join in any reindeer games

.So Mulvaney said "Fine, I'll take my ball and play by myself." But Mulvaney didn't know how to play by himself so he went back to the White House and sulked all alone. [Reuters]


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Roger Stone told the Trump campaign all about what Wikileaks had way back in April 2016 so when Trump asked Russia for Clinton's emails he knew what he was getting. [Politico]


Speaking of Clinton, she's dumbfounded that Boris Johnson's government is sitting on a report that Russia is intervening  in the upcoming UK election. When does Boris want the report released? After the damage is done. [NPR]


It looks like DACA might be dead if left up to the Supreme Court. Congress could do the honorable thing and safeguard these people who have never known another country but the US but it would have to be veto proof. [ABC]


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The Appalachian Trail gained a hiker today when Mark Sanford realized that no one wanted him to run for President. [NPR]



Think science has a place in the Environmental Protection Agency? Not in this administration. [The Hill]


The Grift don't stop: staffers from Trump's campaign and transition teams got cushy contracts that overpaid them to bump up the reputation of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. Who? Yeah, when you hire people just to give them money then the quality of the work suffers. [Politico]


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