Open Thread For October 25, 2017
Taxpayer-Funded Police Slush Fund Under Investigation. Talk about a bare-bones story. Maybe it’s all that Randall Chase could glean from the cops. Which would be par for the course. Guess who they’ve got investigating it? A former state cop. This entire story highlights the cozy relationship the police have with government. And your money.
Senate Votes To Remove Consumer Protections Via Class Action Lawsuits. VP Pence casts the deciding vote. Biggest beneficiaries?: Equifax and Wells Fargo. McCain, Corker and Flake vote with the Rethugs. Conscience can only take them so far. BTW, here’s why Elizabeth Warren should be President.
The Tiny Company Given The Yuge Contract To Repair Puerto Rico’s Power Grid. Yes, of course it has ties to a major Trump contributor. Oh, and it’s located in the same tiny town that brought us Interior Secretary Zinke. Whitefish, Montana. Guess who gets the short end of this stick. Yep, the people of Puerto Rico. While Trump cronies get rich. A criminal enterprise.
Why This Whole ‘Trump’s Generals’ Thingy Might Not Be A Good Idea. Their skill set may be ill-suited to the political game and the PR game.
Rethugs Using Same Tactics On Tax ‘Reform’ That They Used On Obamacare. Keep the details secret, then try to rush it through to meet an artificial deadline. A deadline designed to make sure that Americans don’t know what’s in the bill.
What do you want to talk about?
Delaware Law Weekly is reporting that Sean Lynn is considering running for AG with a decision due end of the month or early November. Tom “I Never Met a Camera I Didn’t Love” Neuberger is also pondering a self-financed run as a Republican. Link is behind a registration wall.
Show of hands… who thinks Whitefish Energy Holdings is going to pocket the $300 million and run?
It’s a no-bid contract to a company with no history of doing work on anything approaching this scale.
You’ll notice those Republicans who are so disappointed with Trump have nothing to say about this. This, not the tweets, is what they should be concerned about — the blatant corruption. They have said nothing, showing that it’s not corruption that they’re against. They just squeal like the pigs they are when non-Republicans get any of the spoils.
The “tell” for Flake and Corker will be the Tax Cut/Explode the Deficit vote. If they vote for that bloody horror show, then are just putting on a show standing up to Trump while they preserve some standing among the GOP in exile.
Agreed. I wonder what they think that will get them in the long run. The doctrinaire conservatism they represent is an intellectual and societal dead end, in that it doesn’t try to solve problems but to wash government’s, meaning their, hands of them.
That’s what “small government” is all about — let’s not spend money trying to help poor people with programs that might not work.
They’re nothing but misers who help enrich the people who buy them their jobs. Mike Castle was their poster boy.
Bill Roth, an actual conservative, is turning over in his grave at Zinke’s handiwork.
News reports that Tesla has just gotten the power back on in a children’s hospital in PR. Why aren’t we asking Elon Musk about how to solve the electric crisis in PR? Just off the top I can say that a Tesla solution seems much more attractive than reinstituting some form of burning bunker oil to generate electricity. Oil must be imported. Expensive. OK, so you say it will be natural gas. Same thing. Must be imported, expensive. Tesla’s technology can be inserted even before you disassemble the old power grid in order to rebuild it. The source of power is on the island already, and one of our companies demonstrates American companies can be out front in situations that require an all out effort. Win, win, win, win, win.
I think Tesla is planning to do more than just the hospital.
The problem with decentralizing power is power companies lose business and individuals have more freedom. So, naturally, everything will be done to make sure this doesn’t happen on a large scale.
Teacher from Newark Charter School accepts Milken Award surrounded by a sea of white faces.
There is a Southeast Asian in the mix.
Exactly, decentralized power is the key to our kids’ future. Shaking loose the dirty terrorist energy mafia monopoly is one of the issues of our time in my view.