Open Thread For Dec. 20, 2017
Alby is incommunicado this morning, no doubt hanging with some amis of his, enjoying a croissant avec beurre blanc, and trying on berets. I’ll attempt to squeeze my pieds into his, um, soul shoes.
The Great Robbery Of 2017 is almost complete. The blatant transfer of more wealth to those who needed it least. The fact that D’s put up so little fight was predictable and depressing. ‘We have an election issue!’ is the meme. No, the D’s are the issue, at least to those who still identify with this spineless lot. Does anyone doubt that if the positions were reversed, the Rethugs would have ground momentum for passage of a D initiative into dust? See: The last 8 years.
How about a little good news for a change? A D candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates won the official recount by, wait for it, one vote. This means that there are 50 D’s and 50 R’s in the House. Shared government, anybody?
Cardinal Who Enabled Sex Abusers in Priesthood Dies. Goes Immediately to Hell. Boston’s ironically-named Cardinal Law, who headed the Boston archdiocese during a time when 48 priests and numerous church officials were sexually abusing minors. And did nothing about it, save for covering it up.
Collins Plays The Clinton Card. Decries criticism of her vote for billionaires as ‘unbelievably sexist’. Right, b/c any criticism of any female public figure must be b/c she is female, not b/c what she is doing sucks. Is it sexist to point out that the alleged ‘concessions’ she got in order for her to support the tax giveaway will never, repeat, never be approved by the House?
Yes, The Internet Is Really Slow Right Now. A preview of things to come?
State Is Out Over $7 Mill On Vaughn Prison Payouts. Price tag to go higher. We must be using that Chicago School Of Economics Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. As in, it’s cheaper to pay out to families of those who died than pay for a corrections system that works and protects both the prisoners and the people who work there.
That should be enough to get everyone started. Monsieur Alby may care to comment further upon his return from Parts (or is it Paris?) Unknown.
Damn right about the Dems in Congress. I’d have been shouting from the Capitol dome: “The Republicans just cut federal spending by $1.5 trillion and they’re not telling us what they’re cutting.”
Don’t forget the state’s corollary on the prison payouts issue: it’s cheaper to pay the prison costs for the kids the school system fails than to spend more on schools so everyone gets the education they need to succeed.
Collins is the last Mike Castle. Her days in office are of fucking numbered.
The Mike Castle comparison to Collins is apt, she maintains her “moderate” cred by disagreeing with the Republicans once a year, no doubt with permission in advance. As for the Dems in congress they remain worthless, timid and ineffective. But then again we knew that. As for cardinal Law he’s yet another one that got away, there are a great many more who got away with it as well.
Until we vet rid of the political party’s congress will keep voting along party lines instead of along human lines.
The news journal shows why out states expenses keep going up as old people move to Kent county and pay less in taxes then their Medicare costs are
@arthur- medicare is a federal expense not state…. and it is paid for by federal wage tax on current workers, not retirees. That’s how Medicare works
Medicare – auto correct always goes to Medicare
Damn it!!!! M e d I c a I d
I see that the Rethugs have saved the coal industry. Every middle class, working class, and poor person in the U.S. is getting a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking this year.
Sorry, not Paris. NYC.
Parlez-vous Brooklynese?
Nope. Been there exactly once, by accident.
“This is economic redistribution to the most powerful, to the people who control the levers of our society. And they’re using those levers to enrich themselves at our expense.” –Sam Seder
That’s exactly what’s done in every banana republic, 2nd world or 3rd world country. Which have we become?
OMG,
There’s a new French Bakery on Governor’s avenue in Dover. The 20th century comes slowly lol