Conservatives must have money to burn. That’s the only explanation for why some of Sussex County’s more cretinous politicians are still thumping the tub for a county-specific “Right to Work” anti-union law. They held a rally yesterday to support the bill, which already has been declared invalid by the attorney general’s office and therefore seems certain to cost the county another six-figure legal bill to be told that its lawmakers are ignorant of the law, which everyone already knows.
Steve Bannon reportedly still advises Trump, but that’s not why he’s back in the news today. The Guardian has an excerpt from Michael Wolff’s book on the administration in which Bannon says the money-laundering practices of Donald Jr. and Jared Kushner will bring Trump down, which is not exactly a revelation but shows that even people who pretend to see nothing unseemly going on know exactly what the score is. That leaves Trump’s rank-and-file supporters as the marks in this scenario, which, again, is not exactly a revelation. The funny part, I suppose, is that for people who worship money they sure are suckered out of it easily.
Joe Biden will make an appearance on Capitol Hill today as he accompanies Doug Jones for his swearing in as senator from Alabama, presumably as thanks for Biden’s campaigning on Jones’ behalf during the special election.
The public is being played by the media on a number of levels, but none so pathetic as the fiction that Trump critics in Congress actually oppose him. Amanda Marcotte points out that Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse does a lot of sanctimonious head-shaking about Trump but backs his agenda right down the line. You’ll be able to apply the same logic to Mitt Romney should he decide to run for the Senate to replace Orrin Hatch. There aren’t people who disagree with Donald Trump. They’re people who wish Donald Trump would stop telling the naked truth because they’re too prudish to view anything that’s naked.
