Originally published at: Trump Admin’s Laziness Is Messing Up Its Effort to Deploy the National Guard to Portland
A Baffling Legal Blunder For some inscrutable reason, the Trump Justice Department appealed only one of two temporary restraining orders blocking it from sending National Guard troops into Oregon. The first temporary restraining order (TRO), handed down by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, blocked the Oregon Guard from deploying. The second, which…
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They’re getting diminishing returns for this crap. So it’s time to rotate to a different outrage. Well, better Caracas than Portland, I guess.
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Lazy is a charitable explanation. Ignorant and incompetent work better.
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Remember when the AG testified before a congressional committee a couple of weeks back and was snotty with most of the committee?
Expect Bovino to be 110 times worse. That’s if he even shows up. I don’t expect him to cooperate in this and to make it one big joke for the Fox News viewers.
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The MAGA loyalists are not known for their competence and the sycophants who have glomed on to jobs in the adminiatration are not known as the sharpest arrows in the quiver. Worst of all most of the tech bros who are financining Trump are libertarian one trick ponies who think success in one area will easily translate to others. There isn’t a hard worker in the bunch.
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And can that snottiness get him a contempt of court? Hall him into a jail cell and let him see how it feels.
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He should also experience hand cuffs and shackles.
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And @ladyfair
Bovino sees himself as invincible because he has the First Felon backing him. I bet he just doesn’t show up. They won’t send Marshall’s.
He won’t get a moment in a cell because the courts are too afraid to prosecute to the extend of the law they have in front of them.
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If it takes “laziness” and stupidity to save us, I’ll take it. On the other hand, every upcoming election makes laziness inexcuseable for us lefties. New Mexico votes in a week; early voting will go on through this Saturday. Municipal elections – mayoral, city council, school boards, flood control authorities, and the like. Still, not something to skip.
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“For some inscrutable reason…”
Epstein.
The Epstein files. They need to be covered up.
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You are right. He isn’t going to be in front of a congressional committee. He is going to be in front of a Federal Judge.
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Democrats represent their districts. That’s why there’s white men and black women and an Indian gal and a gay man and a young kid and a mom and some soldiers/warriors. America is diverse. Democrats are diverse.
Republicans are figureheads for the Party, dutifully performing whatever the Party Daily Briefing tells them to do.
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His rep holds that he will be cocky, dismissive and possibly abusive. He seems to feel enabled and shielded. He has manipulated his circumstances in the past and attached himself fully to Donnie.
So he may put on an act that may supersede what has come before. Playing to an audience of one. If we are lucky.
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Well it depends on how many friends, donors and fellow Republicans are in those files as well. Odds are a lot. They should rent the basement in an obscure pizza parlor somewhere for working room.
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Just a thought. Republicans have definite weakness in their focus. They pay lip service to their districts but their actions frequently have little impact on those districts. Once elected, they definitely line up to the party line regardless of if it is good at home. They appeal to baser instincts and have little to show for it in the long run.
It might be a resource drag, but they might take advantage and finds ways to appeal outside of those districts as well. Present a slightly more unified face for the Democrats that they are for all people and not simply siloed to their districts. It is a bit of a balancing act admittedly.
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I think it would be a futile exercise to try to redistrict IL unless you could stretch a Chicago suburban district all the way down to Champaign. IL is way more redder than 30 years ago.
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Leader of local GOP in Kentucky apologizes for sharing racist video depicting Obamas
The chairwoman of the Hardin County Republican Party in Kentucky is apologizing after posting — then later deleting — a video depicting former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes.
Hardin County Republican Party Chair Bobbie Coleman confirmed through a Facebook post late Saturday night that she had shared the video on the party’s account. She said she did not initially see the video as engaging in a racist trope, but instead portraying President Trump “as a Lion King, triumphing over liberal Democrats.”
“I thought this video was a silly way to celebrate the policy victories of the past nine months - including tax cuts, peace in the Middle East, a strong border, and lower gas prices,” Coleman said.
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The Hunger Games Begin - Paul Krugman
And unless the government shutdown ends this week, which seems basically impossible, federal support for SNAP will be cut off this Saturday.
Here are four things you should know about the imminent hunger games.
This is a political decision — specifically, a Republican decision
Despite the government shutdown, the SNAP program isn’t out of money. In fact, it has $5 billion in contingency funds, intended as a reserve to be tapped in emergencies. And if the imminent cutoff of crucial food aid for 40 million people isn’t an emergency, what is? The Department of Agriculture, which runs the program, also has the ability to maintain funding for a while by shifting other funds around. But Donald Trump has — quite possibly illegally — told the department not to tap those funds.
Furthermore, the Republican majority in the Senate could maintain aid by waiving the filibuster on this issue. They have done this on other issues — for example, to roll back California’s electric vehicle standard. But for today’s Republican Party, blocking green energy is more important than keeping 40 million Americans from going hungry.
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