Can’t forgetJeff Flake, who makes McCain and Goldwater roll over in their graves at what passes for an Arizona senator these days. During the Gorsuch hearings, he actually used his time to ask if he would rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck.
But wait, that’s not all! He followed up by asserting “Even President Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees were recognized for their ability to do the job and confirmed without incident.”
Yes, both of them. You twatwaffle, you really think your constituents are that dumb? Okay, maybe they are, they elected *your *ass.
McCain did more than roll over, he actually made a statement this morning…
"I think there needs to be a lot of explaining to do,” McCain told “CBS This Morning.” “I’ve been around for quite a while and I’ve never heard of such thing.”
Inelegantly phrased perhaps, but better than most other dead people
This morning I heard a clip of Congresscritter (I didn’t catch who) claim that this leveled the playing field for Comcast and Verizon with Google and Facebook. Neglecting to mention, of course, that the transport companies are not providing content and the content providers aren’t providing transport. Well, Facebook isn’t. I think Google has been experimenting with that.
It should be noted that the vote wasn’t to allow something, it was to stop a last minute regulation by the Obama administration from going into effect. We’ve had the internet for quite some time now. Is this regulation solving a problem that people have actually been complaining about, or was Obama dissatisfied with the level of campaign donations coming from Silicon Valley?
It seems to me that adaher’s question is more along the line of “Why THEN? Why wasn’t this regulation written years ago? What happened around that time that necessitated this regulation?”
I’m kind of curious myself, even being someone in favor of the regulation - why wasn’t it done years ago?
Pretty bad, but not as bad as the bill requiring women undergoing an abortion to hold a rattle and a pair of booties and watch a slideshow of sad-faced babies over a Sarah McLachlan song.
Coal mining is a sunset industry. This is very well known. It’s not a surprise. The only thing left now is for the US coal companies to squeeze the very last of the profits out, preferably by relaxing environmental regulations lowering wages and safety spending and getting taxpayer subsidies. This is the only way they can get more money in the short-mid term. In the long term, they simply plan on leaving environmental disasters for the public to pay for.
Regulations are needed for corporations, because they are amoral. This is not a bad thing - “amoral” does not = “immoral”. Corporations have no morals because that is not how they are designed.
Maybe coal miners should retrain and start driving these. With the amount of horseshit Trump and the Trumpettes spread, surely they have enough horses to supply one for every miner.
