We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022

We have to give them the benefit of the doubt here. By “the boss” Gaetz is probably talking about the American taxpayers

Or Springsteen, or Ross?

Sinema indicates she may want to change Schumer-Manchin deal
Also: coming Vote-a-Rama, poison pills, more---it's Axios, but seems plausible enough:
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/30/sinema-schumer-manchin-deal-democrats

Rep. Chuy García (D-IL) tweeted profanities and a slur in response to a random Twitter account with 531 followers who trolled him. pic.twitter.com/LUjqWnDoxd

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) July 30, 2022

will use the vote-a-rama to force vulnerable Democrats to take politically difficult votes.

Similar to whining about being tricked on CHIPs, is this something that ever really matters? Every Republican ad is a lie about their opponents record anyway.

(and I'm sure Democrats will run ads about Republican Senators stabbing veterans in the bank to similarly little effectiveness)

Yeah getting them to withdraw money and then stabbing them probably more effective

Apparently the vets thing will pass next week. I follow this stuff and I have no idea what’s going on. Amazed senators think anyone cares at all about anything other than bills that pass (and even then).

Mr President, passage would not have been delayed if Senator Schumer had kept his promises. Good news is, despite his mendacity, it will pass this next week. https://t.co/HVUtLYmFeU

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) July 31, 2022

cornyn is talking out of his ass

So, given what we know of cover-ups and incompetence, why are there *any* Trump picks still in appointed government positions?

Deep state

Dem adherence to norms and traditions

If God didn’t want Louis DeJoy running the Post Office, He’d smite him.

getting ready to cast my vote in the missouri primary. my choices for a democratic senator are a marine, someone with busch in their name, and a guy who spends all of his interview time talking about how cool the text message campaign is that he built which costs 2 cents per message instead of the state-wide average of 6 cents.

guess i'm voting for tough guy marine with a soft heart lucas kunce to stand up man-to-man with all the republican candidates who center their campaigns around how they want everyone to use their guns and also how everyone is out to get them. he was endorsed by sanders last night, i guess. but early polling shows that even if Eric Greitens, who is a shell of a man and a reaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit, wins the Republican nomination, Kunce would be a significant underdog. And if the other Eric (Schmitt) wins -- Schmitt is a reaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit -- then it's not even close. The good people of Missouri know in their hearts that they want a reaaaaaaaaaaaal piece of shit!

speaking of, trump made an endorsement yesterday: ""I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Total Endorsement!"

predictably, both Erics thought it was about them.

so did Eric Trump

that eric trump is a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal

so Nancy Pelosi is in Taiwan, not really sure what to make of that

She should hoist an American flag and claim the country, see what China makes of *that*.

Good news, I guess:

President Joe Biden has far outpaced his Oval Office predecessors in nominating women and racially diverse attorneys to the federal bench, a new American Bar Association analysis confirms.

As of July 1, 68% of the 68 federal judges nominated by Biden and confirmed by the Senate are Black, Hispanic or Asian American, and just three are white men, the ABA found. By contrast, 16% of the judges installed on the federal bench by former President Donald Trump are non-white, according to the organization's 2022 Profile of the Legal Profession.

The report, released Thursday, details how diversity within the federal judiciary is slowly increasing.

After Biden, Barack Obama appointed the second-most non-white federal judges, at 36%, followed by Bill Clinton at 24%. According to the ABA’s figures, which date back to the Carter administration, Ronald Reagan had the lowest percentage of non-white federal judges at 6%....

...In addition to racial diversity, Biden has pushed to nominate federal judges with a broader range of professional experience and has tapped more nominees with backgrounds as public defenders than past presidents.

Our intelligence community is the best.

— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) August 2, 2022

lol

what a weird thing to say

Not if they’ve got Chasten held at an undisclosed location.

appropriately chastened

Gimme a C
Gimme an I
Gimme an A

Pete was assigned to 'intelligence' when he served in the US army, so he's a member of the club.

Would be funny if the DOT had its own spooks looking for, I dunno, foreign subversion of air traffic control or something.

I just remembered that the buildings for the Federal Highway Administration and the CIA are adjacent to each other in Virginia.

BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022

Boring: sorry, nope, the FHWA facility adjacent to CIA HQ is just a test track. Their headquarters is in SE.