You have to read Matt Bittle’s story about Wednesday’s marijuana task force meeting to believe it. Rep. Helene Keeley, who chaired the meeting, couldn’t have screwed it up any more if she had taken bong hits throughout. Here, I’ll let Matt do the honors:
A vote to release the task force’s report was initially thought to have succeeded only for it to be pointed out by reporters that it had, in fact, failed. Just 12 of the 25 members supported releasing the report. [Keeley] then claimed the vote was non-binding, simply held upon the request of a task force member, and the report can be still provided to other lawmakers….Due to an initial miscounting, most members left the building thinking the vote was successful. The few that were told it had failed were dismayed to learn Rep. Keeley characterized the vote as not binding — despite not informing the room of that before the vote itself.
If the point of the meeting was to demonstrate that even talking about the Evil Weed gives you a contact high, mission accomplished.
Has a stupid idea ever been (ahem) shot down so quickly? Just days after the idea of arming teachers was floated as a serious solution to school shootings, a Georgia high school teacher fired a handgun and barricaded himself in a classroom. Fortunately for all, Donald Trump ran in and disarmed him before anybody got hurt (citation needed).
Former model and Trump wrangler Hope Hicks ankled the White House yesterday, the day after telling Congress she lied for her boss. The departure, just days before the end of TV’s sweeps month, provides one of the most sudden twists yet in season two of “That Darn Trump!”
Indeed, popular historian Jon Meacham says that if we use Trump’s stated standard — that every day is another episode that needs to be “won” — yesterday was not a sign that the already creaky White House is collapsing. “He’s driven entirely by conflict and entirely by narrative, so yesterday actually is a perfect example of Trump’s vision,” Meacham said. “I think he thinks of it as a production, so the theme here, as Hobbes would say, is the war of all against all.”
Forced-birth hero Mike Pence told a forced-birth crowd that he could see an end to all legal abortion in our time. And that shows you another reason the Deep State keeps Donald Trump around and Congress shows no interest in impeaching him.
To what should be nobody’s surprise, local gun shop owners say they won’t be following Dick’s example, because selling assault weapons is what keeps them in business. It would be like a pain clinic deciding it would only give patients Tylenol from now on.