Politics

Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, September 27, 2017 Note: Please rise for the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, God Bless America, America the Beautiful, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, Over There, Living in America, The Star Spangled Banner again, Let the Eagle Soar, God Bless the USA, Off …

Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Take a trip back to Normal America-Land: • Equifax CEO Richard Smith, 57, retires immediately with an $18.4 million pension: Smith earned $15 million in total compensation in 2016, including a $1.5-million base salary and $7.3 million in stock awards, according to the company’s securities …

Immigration advocates flood Congressional offices As House Democrats yesterday launched a discharge petition to bypass Paul Ryan’s legislative cowardice and finally bring the bipartisan Dream Act to the floor for a vote, immigrant youth, families, and their allies flooded Republican congressional offices today to demand lawmakers act to defend both undocumented youth and …

Lost in the high-profile incompetence and cronyism of the Trump era are the numerous smaller efforts to weaken regulations throughout the government, often in small ways that may not get much attention until the inevitable day that something terrible happens and we all wonder where the old rules preventing those …

Get ready for another go at transferring wealth upward. Jon Queally at CommonDreams writes—Trump Tax “Hoax” Would Blow $5 Trillion Hole In Budget Over Next Decade: Analysis:  A day ahead of the Trump administration’s scheduled release of what it says will be a “detailed” tax plan, progressive policy groups are …

Kendrick Lamar performs on the Coachella Stage during day 3 (Weekend 2) of the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 23, 2017 in Indio, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella) by Zane Warman via billboard.com Kendrick Lamar will be Forbes’ keynote speaker at their fourth annual Forbes Under 30 Summit. The …

Tapioca Trump tells tales. We have reached the unavoidable point in a news story where America’s most prominent people deliver their dumbest possible takes. We seem to be getting to that point with great speed, of late: whatever else you might say about the Trump administration, they have truly streamlined …

Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, meets in the not-so-helpful “cone of silence” with his boss Thaddeus in the 1965-1970 TV series, “Get Smart.” It’s not enough that the paranoid EPA-hating chief of the EPA Scott Pruitt has diverted a dozen of the agency’s already understaffed investigative team to do round-the-clock bodyguard duty, …

Departing GOP Sen. Bob Corker On Tuesday, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, a Republican, announced that he would not seek re-election this year, becoming the first senator to call it quits this cycle. Corker had spent months saying he hadn’t decided what to do, but this move still came as a …

The faces of failure: Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did it again, though this time his embarrassment will be slightly less public and humiliating. This time, Trumpcare won’t go to the floor for a vote that is destined to fail. Sen. Lindsey Graham …