Green With... Laughter?

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez launches her Intersectional Environmentalism proposal to de-carbonize the US economy and solve every social problem within ten years.

Megan Mcardle, David Harsanyi and Jon Chait wack the pinata. I'll give Megan props for the best headline:

‘We’re nuts!’ isn’t a great pitch for a Green New Deal

But this proposal, and especially the accompanying (and withdrawn) fact sheet isn't merely ludicrously ambitious and devoid of common sense (Eliminate air travel?!? Retrofit "every" building in America?!?). It also reveals a stunning absence of basic knowledge of history and public finance.

One wonders whether Ms. AOC actually has the time and temperament to collaborate with experts and study an issue (yet another reason she is the Trump of the left!). Or did Democratic leadership cut her loose and send the real Washington hands off on other projects? Let her primary herself!

On to specifics. This passage on how the extreme environmental makeover might be financed may have sounded great in a college dorm. A freshman dorm. But this is a frightening level of ignorance about the structure, legal authorities, independence and role of the Federal Reserve when it comes from a Congressperson as part of a legislative package (my emphasis):

How will you pay for it?

The same way we paid for the New Deal, the 2008 bank bailout and extended quantitative easing programs. The same way we paid for World War II and all our current wars. The Federal Reserve can extend credit to power these projects and investments and new public banks can be created to extend credit. There is also space for the government to take an equity stake in projects to get a return on investment. At the end of the day, this is an investment in our economy that should grow our wealth as a nation, so the question isn’t how will we pay for it, but what will we do with our new shared prosperity.

Ah, well, what? The Federal Reserve is an independent entity - it won't be financing this green agenda just because AOC thinks it ought to. As to their legal authority, well, it is widely agreed the Fed can purchase government backed debt. They crept beyond that during the 2008 financial meltdown and used their lending authority to finance parts of the AIG bailout in what was widely perceived as an dire, backs against the wall, emergency meltdown scenario. But it is not at all obvious why an independent Fed would choose to finance these green projects or whether it would be within their legal scope.

Back on the history front, this JFK/Ike/FDR nostalgia is ahistorical nonsense:

Americans love a challenge. This is our moonshot.

When JFK said we’d go to the by the end of the decade, people said impossible.

If Eisenhower wanted to build the interstate highway system today, people would ask how we’d pay for it.

When FDR called on America to build 185,000 planes to fight World War 2, every business leader, CEO, and general laughed at him... At the time, the U.S. had produced 3,000 planes in the last year. By the end of the war, we produced 300,000 planes. That’s what we are capable of if we have real leadership.

One at a time: Kennedy first laid out the man-on-the-moon vision in May 1961. The US was losing the space race to the Soviet Union, which had the first satellite and the first man in space (their legacy rocket program from WWII gave them a head start).

Did people say "impossible"? The relevant Senate Committee unanimously approved funding a few weeks later. Polling was scattered: per Forbes, in 1959 52% thought a man on the moon was doable within 20 years; in early 1961, 65% approved of the attempt. Well, until the price tag was announced: per Wikipedia, 58% opposed the use of funds for that purpose. But "impossible"? Not seeing it.

And Ike? Well, he didn't wait for people to ask how we'd pay for the highway program - he asked Congress to extend the gasoline tax in his original proposal. No, fiscal conservatism wasn't invented last weekend to thwart Green Dreams.

As to FDR, my goodness: his speech calling for a massive rearmament effort was delivered on May 15, 1940, five days after Germany began their invasion of France. The French collapse along the Meuse was well underway, although the public (and possibly Allied military leadership) may not have been fully aware. The Times front page, with the Roosevelt speech in the upper left:

Although AOC is surely hearing laughter today, people were not laughing in May of 1940 (Geez, did she see "Churchill"? "Dunkirk"? How about "Avengers - Infinity War"?). In fact, FDR pressed into service William Knudsen, the head of General Motors, to dial up America's industrial base. Here is how historian Arthur Herman described Knudsen's approach:

“I’m no soldier,” Knudsen told Roosevelt when he got to Washington that May, “But I know if we get into war, the winning of it will be purely a question of material production.” He persuaded FDR that three steps were needed to get America’s businesses and factories ready for getting back to work, and getting ready for war.

The first was to rethink Roosevelt’s own anti-business instincts, and to bring industry leaders into the administration to deal with the production crisis.

The second was to scrap many of the New Deal’s anti-business regulations and tax policies, in order to give businesses an incentive to switch to wartime production and hire workers, retool, and expand their plants.

The third was to take control of the war mobilization process away from Washington bureaucrats and give it to America’s most innovative and productive companies.

That sounds sort of the opposite of the AOC plan to put the government in charge of everything.

Well. Other than showing no grasp of common sense, history or public finance I would say AOC is good to go.

Comments

[Threadkiller]

Roberts declared it a tax to open the door for anyone making the argument that tax bills can't originate in the Senate.

Then he refused to hear any of those arguments.

4D

[Tom R]

Iggy,

OK lets pretend you are correct and Roberts was wrong about the individual mandate being a tax. What would have been the grounds to rule it unconstitutional and strike the entire law down? As a conservative I am opposed to the idea of socialized medicine but just because I disapprove of the law isn't grounds for believing it was unconstitutional.

[Jack is Back!]

The American prision system is overloaded with jailhouse lawyers, maybe instead of the SCOTUS critical appeals like Obamacare should go there for an opinion and ruling. I will guarantee that it will more astute and convincing than anything coming out of SCOTUS.

[Extraneus]

They had the perfect opportunity to overrule Wickard v. Filburn but disgraced themselves instead.

[Old Lurker]

:-) Jack!

[Jack is Back!]

CH,

Here you go, from my neck of woods to make your day:)

https://www.sbnation.com/2019/2/8/18217461/botched-dunk-full-court-hail-mary-three-overtime-defeat-florida-high-school-basketball-is-wild

[Extraneus]

Uganda tourism minister slammed for using ‘women’s curves’ as tourist attraction

“We have naturally endowed nice looking women that are amazing to look at. Why don’t we use these people as a strategy to promote our tourism industry?” he told the audience, as reported by local news site Daily Monitor.

The pageant is open to women ages 18 to 35 and finalists will be selected in June.

Tourism is no doubt one of the biggest industries in the East African nation, netting about $1.4 billion in 2018. But marketing local women’s bodies to pull in more tourist dollars has been slammed by many as derogatory.

The idea was attacked, of course, and the pageant is even being sued, but apparently the show will go on.

But pageant organizers insist that their competition celebrates the country’s diversity and beauty.

“Miss Curvy is an event that will bring out the endowment of the real African woman,” Ann Mungoma, the pageant’s lead organizer, said.

“It is an exceptional event that will see young ladies showcase their beautiful curves and intellect.”

(Click to open pic.)

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Sorry.
What is FFS?

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

Never mind, looked it up on the internet

[henry]

Via iowahawk, the drink your own pee thing is in the notes... not made up. Plus free massage chairs.

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1093859125581283328?s=21

[Jack is Back!]

There is a soccer team in the Premier League of the UK, Aresenal, who is sponsored by Visit Rwanda, famous for the latest genocide of a particular tribe. But to do a one's up on that, a soccer team at the sixth level of UK soccer, Blyth, up near Newcastle is sponsored by Visit North Korea.

Like I tell my friends, you first.

[MissMarple2]

BREAKING: Another woman has now come forward, accusing Virginia Lt. Gov @FairfaxJustin of raping her while both were students at Duke University. pic.twitter.com/lZYB7nLmLc

— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) February 8, 2019

Link goes to letter from second accuser.

[James D.]

hat would have been the grounds to rule it unconstitutional and strike the entire law down?

How about that there is nothing in the Constitution that even vaguely gives Congress the power to force all adult citizens to buy a specific product from the government, even by the broadest imaginable reading of the Commerce power (or anything else in that document)?

[Jack is Back!]

MM,

its not official until the Rolling Stone publishes the accusation.

[henry]

Someone needs to make sure the Rear Admiral takes his meds...

Kristol:

If Bezos’s investigator was getting close to exposing collusion between AMI, the Saudis, and Kushner-Trump in illegal hacking of Bezos’s phone, that would explain the panic at AMI.

[Tom R]

James D @ 4:31

Obamacare did not force anyone to buy health insurance from the government. If you wanted a shitty healthcare plan with a ridiculously high annual deductible you had the option of buying an Obamacare policy but you weren't forced to.

[boris]

Might be just me but interpreting the constitution in ways that the government rules rather than serves the people are bad.

Obamacare was a rule the people interpretation.

[boris]

It's one thing to have SCOTUS tell the people that a law they want is not permitted by the constitution. It is quite another to have some new heretofore unimagined power granted to government on the basis that almost anything can be called a tax in order to pass constitutional muster.

[Extraneus]

Obamacare did not force anyone to buy health insurance from the government.

This is getting off on a tangent. What gives gov't the right to force citizens to buy a product, regardless of the source?

Wickard v. Filburn.

[Old Lurker]

Hey Boris...is it just you and me, but didn't we learn that the Constitution was a document which granted only clearly specified and limited powers to the government until such time as those are taken back by We the People, not the other way around, right?

[jimmyk]

You know what the Amazon HQ2 dispute is all about, right?

25,000 jobs that no one wants because it will interfere with their free shit status in NYC.

And it's a huge giveaway forced by pols on the taxpayers. Similar to taxpayer financed sports stadiums. AOC is a blind squirrel, but she may have stumbled on an acorn with this.

[Tom R]

Boris @ 4:42

Would you have preferred Roberts agree with Obama and classify the individual mandate as a penalty? If he had done that do you think it would have changed the ruling?

[MissMarple2]

Virginia:

Julia Arciga
‏Verified account @JuliaArciga

The firm of the accuser claims they have corroborating emails, FB messages, and statements

[Jack is Back!]

Since Marbrury v. Madison, the most grevious fault of the Constitution was giving the SCOTUS those powers. They now believe they are more than an equal branch of goverment but that they are the government.

And there is no such thing as equal branches of government. Show me in the Constitution where it says that.

Roberts thinks he is equal to Trump and shows it in his commentary. He is not and never will be equal to the POTUS but that is what the prog indoctrinated media will continue to spill on the LIV's and non-attention span public.

Back to the Ledge for a nice Wet Goose Martini:)

[jimmyk]

What would have been the grounds to rule it unconstitutional and strike the entire law down?

Why not read the dissenting opinion of Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Kennedy? At least the first three of those seem to have had a pretty good understanding of what the Constitution permits.

[MissMarple2]

Working hard, thank you! pic.twitter.com/tnuHnw8kll

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 8, 2019

Photo at link.

[Old Lurker]

Got it waiting for you right here, Jack.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
2h2 hours ago

Deepest sympathies to Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and the entire family of John Dingell. Longest serving Congressman in Country’s history which, if people understand politics, means he was very smart. A great reputation and highly respected man.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

I was a big fan of Frank Robinson, both as a great player and man. He was the first African American manager in baseball and was highly respected at everything he did. He will he missed!

[Tom R]

And there is no such thing as equal branches of government. Show me in the Constitution where it says that.

I think the concept of checks and balances was one of the wisest decisions the Founding Fathers made. How exactly do you think the SCOTUS would have a check against the power of the other two branches without the ability to rule a law unconstitutional?

[Gentlejim]

I’m still on the old thread so I don’t know if Pagar got his pdf issue fixed. I’ve used pdfescape to edit pdfs prior to getting access to adobe acrobat yesterday. Pdfescape allows you to create, edit including fillable fields, etc.

Back to ketchup.

[Jack is Back!]

Want a new American hero. I give you Matt Whitaker.

Off to dinner, but did he destroy the Dems on that committe or what. I have new respect for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team:-)

[Captain Hate]

Someone needs to make sure the Rear Admiral takes his meds...

The obtuseness, to put the most positive spin on his behavior, of that dimwit still shocks me. The more realistic view is that he's an evil POS.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--Iggy,

OK lets pretend you are correct and Roberts was wrong about the individual mandate being a tax. What would have been the grounds to rule it unconstitutional and strike the entire law down?--

I don't think you're grasping the issues correctly.
There were essentially two prongs to the government's case for why it was constitutionally authorized; the commerce clause and/or the taxing power of congress. This is why the government at times argued it was a tax [if the commerce clause strategy failed] and at others it was a penalty or fine. Their preferred and primary argument was a cc one. They lost on those grounds.
It was self evidently not a tax. So if you're interested in the rule of law their case would have failed on that prong as well, leaving the government with very little case left.

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1093926896801333248.html

This is a thoughtful article on Ginsburg's prognosis , whereabouts, and why we haven't heard anything.

[Dave (in MA)]

LOL https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/321206/

[Tom R]

BTW in trying to find the old article that talked about how Roberts decision was being misinterpreted by conservatives, I found this one.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/how-obama-broke-his-promise-on-individual-mandates/259183/
During debate on the Affordable Care Act, Republicans tried to call the mandate's penalty provision a tax. The bill stated (and the law now states) that those who do not buy health insurance must pay a "penalty" to the IRS. When Republicans labeled it a tax, Obama strongly objected.

Sounds like Roberts and Congressional Republicans were in agreement that it was a tax.

[cathyf]

How about that there is nothing in the Constitution that even vaguely gives Congress the power to force all adult citizens to buy a specific product from the government, even by the broadest imaginable reading of the Commerce power (or anything else in that document)?

Of course that’s in the Constitution. The Constitution is all about forcing people to buy products from the government which they would rather get for free — the legislative, judicial, & executive branches of government. Which includes salaries of all those people, salaries and supplies for our armed forces, all of which are explicitly allowed for in the Constitution.

No, the problem with Obamacare is that it forces the owners of a product to hand it over to the people who chose not to buy the product. The 18th Amendment didn’t actually prohibit alcohol, it simply outlawed charging for it. In the same way, Obamacare prohibited health insurance by outlawing the charging for a key component of insurance. (By the outlawing of pre-existing condition exclusions.) The constitutional problem is that somewhere between 1917 and 2010 we went from needing a supermajority of House & Senate and ratification by a supermajority of states in order to amend the constitution, to being able to just pretend that what Obama chose to implement had actually passed the House or Senate at all.

[Captain Hate]

Speaking of the Rear Admiral:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379705

[Dave (in MA)]

Northam's trying to get back in the D's good graces by reading Roots and some articles by Tennessee Coatrack.

[pagar]

GentleJim, I have not got it resolved. The adobe thing did not work out. They don't sell it in Panama and apprently the work around program did not work.

[pagar]

I'm going to your program now.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

The program gentlejim recommended is one I recommended as well. I use it for work. Let me know if you have success with it.

[sbwaters]

So Accuracy in Media [aim.org] ran a piece about the Associated Press coverage of the SOTU address compared to the one in the Rome Sentinel.

Several people contacted us with compliments.

[Old Lurker]

We are refighting the ACA SCOTUS ruling why?

[Tom R]

Iggy @ 5:15

IMO Obama and the Democrats knew all along the individual mandate was a tax but they were quibbling over semantics because Obama did not want to admit it was a tax strictly for optics reasons. That would have forced him to admit Hillary had been right all along in the campaign on that subject.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/health/policy/arguing-that-health-mandate-is-not-a-tax-except-when-it-is.html

In other words, the Justice Department is essentially arguing that the penalty is not a tax, except when the government says it is one.

Roberts called BS and said you can't have it both ways.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://www.aim.org/aim-column/newspaper-editor-rewrites-aps-sotu-coverage-to-remove-bias/

[Tom R]

I have a beer waiting for me so I'm checking out for a while.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--We are refighting the ACA SCOTUS ruling why?--

Because the actual name of this blog should be Excuse Me While I Beat This Dead Horse for Just One Minute?

[Threadkiller]

Gives us something to do until CW2.

:-)

[jimmyk]

We are refighting the ACA SCOTUS ruling why?

We're trying to figure out if Roberts should have his head on a pike or merely tarred and feathered.

And no, a mandate is not a tax, except in the Humpty-Dumpty sense:

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that's all.”

Prescient, no?

[Extraneus]

Gillibrand Cancels South Carolina Campaign Event Less Than 30 Minutes Before Start Time

"JUST IN: Literally 27 minutes before it was set to begin, [Gillibrand's] campaign sends out notice her event here at SCSTATE1896 has been canceled," Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard tweeted.

In tweets that have now been deleted, Kinnard further criticized the Gillibrand campaign.

"This comes as no real surprise to me, because @SenGillibrand's campaign strategy has stood in stark contrast to other candidates," she wrote. "Mainly in that she doesn't seem to have one."

"Here's hoping, for her sake, that she is able to make some solid hires," she wrote. "At this point, the others who've campaigned in SC are lightyears ahead in organization and communication."

"This is a continuation of an entire week of chaotic planning. I've never seen anything like it."

The claws are out between some of the female reporters and candidates.

[henry]

Jimmyk, embrace the power of “and”. A feathered head on a pike attracts more attention.

[Captain Hate]

Kirsten JelloBrain

[clarice]

If it were possible Gillibrand is an even bigger liar than E Warren.

[Tom Bowler]

This is a thoughtful article on Ginsburg's prognosis , whereabouts, and why we haven't heard anything.

Reminds me of an old Pat & Mike joke. Pat died and his devout Irish Catholic wife wanted Mike's advice. She felt Pat should have a traditional Catholic funeral mass and burial, but Pat's wish was to be cremated. She asked Mike about it at the wake. A well oiled Mike offered an alternative. "Why don't we stuff 'em and keep the party goin'?" [Brogue in the original]

Probably under consideration for RBG. Keep the party goin' until Trump is out of office.

[Extraneus]

I'd bet it has something to do with St. Franken.

[lyle]

No one else caught this elision from the ignorant twat’s commie manifesto that our esteemed host quoted?

When JFK said we’d go to the by the end the of the decade, people said impossible.

What word is missing? Moon or soundstage?

And this stupid bint is the “Trump of the left”? Really? Yeah, drawing draft beer and building a RE empire: same dif.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

So if the EPS fines a polluter they've levied a tax?
The IRS penalizes someone for late filing they pay their tax and then another tax not a "penalty"?
A Federal court fines someone for committing a Federal crime, they've actually taxed them?

Obey the law, don't owe the penalty. Don't obey and you're penalized.
It's irrelevant what Reps in congress said since they're political animals too. It is sufficient to look at the circumstances.

[Porchlight]

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[Captain Hate]

BK's timeline is always full of obvious fake/bot posts about how great he is.

Every tweet has at least 2 or 3 "liberals" who say "I can't believe I agree with Bill!" or "I love the new Woke Bill Kristol!"

He's just hanging his ass out for Lefty followers.

Twitter is an addiction. A disease, really.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 08, 2019 05:42 PM (AzW6q)

Bot-followers. Jeez. That's like buying a blow-up doll just so you have someone else to cook for... what a fucking tool.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 08, 2019 05:44 PM (Ct55T)

[Threadkiller]

Keep the party goin' until Trump is out of office.

I figure they will wait until next year and claim that since 2020 is the final year of the term, Trump can't expect to replace a SCOTUS judge. Same as Obama's last year.

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

"Sounds like Roberts and Congressional Republicans were in agreement that it was a tax."

They're both on the side of the elites. They call it legislative/political strategy, But, bottom line, it's a form of tyranny.

MissM, I didn't read the RBG twitter feed. Will the Court soon be ruthless?

[Dave (in MA)]

Yuk it up, Porchlight. See if you're still laughing when you're using your guaranteed income to pay for taking the sail train to Hawaii in 10 years.

[Porchlight]

RIP, Albert Finney.

I loved him most in Tom Jones, the film that launched him.

But also Scrooge. He didn't wear any makeup for the part - their only alteration was to give him thin wispy hair. He was only in his mid-30s and still extremely handsome, but he was able to scrunch up his face and use his voice to come across as a feeble dried up man twice his age.

I also remember him in an overlooked divorce film with Diane Keaton from the 1980s called Shoot The Moon. It was hard to watch at times, but excellent. Worth seeking out. TCM might run it as part of a tribute.

[Extraneus]

If it were possible Gillibrand is an even bigger liar than E Warren.

She really is a disgusting fraud. Not long ago, she had a good rating from the NRA, for example, and was against illegal migration. She's a political whore, and might not need the qualifier.

[Tom Bowler]

Yes, TK. Except McConnell can tell them to go pound sand. "Win the Senate, then come talk to me."

[henry]

Sail train? We’ll be in pens until some random Chinese needs our organs by year 11.

[Captain Hate]

Moar sidebar Ewok:

Are Any of the Establishment/Cocktail Circuit Alleged Conservatives Going to Admit That Their Pal Bill Kristol is No Longer a Republican (and Probably Never Was a Conservative)? If Not, Aren't They Engaging in the Same Corrupt Cover-Up-Practices of the Media They Pretend to Oppose but Chiefly Emulate?
The same people who will quickly demand that everyone to the right of Little Benny Shapiro be purged continue protecting and promoting Bill Kristol. These are the same people who can't wait to say that "Conservatism can no longer tolerate this person and he must be anathematized." And yet they seem to think conservatism has infinite tolerance for a full-on liberal and Democrat acting as a Franco-Iranian leftwinger's paid saboteur.
Could it be that maybe that's because half of the staff at their own magazine is compromised by this same kind of corruption, and would join The Bulwark if only Pierre Omidyar paid better?
Hey Guys, how about a hundred more repetitive, macro-ized rewrites of your endless "Trumpism Corrupts" screeds while you simultaneously corruptly protect your Pal Bill Kristol because you're afraid of what he might reveal you said to him in private? I could sure use some more moral scolding from the immoral and the corrupt and the bought-and-paid-for.
NeverTrumpism corrupts. You shriek about tribalism; you're viciously tribal. You scream about honesty; you hide your actual beliefs from your readers and you routinely con conservatives into supporting measures you know they'd oppose if they had the facts. You demand that John Bircher Society purgings; yet you won't purge your very own conspiracists and lunatics.
Hah: A commenter says, basically, "Just because you're some fat old smug money-grifting white guys covering for each other for mutual pecuniary gain doesn't actually make you conservative. It takes a bit more than that."

[Extraneus]

FAIRFAX DENIES SECOND ALLEGATION, REFUSES TO RESIGN

“I deny this latest unsubstantiated allegation. It is demonstrably false. I have never forced myself on anyone ever,” his statement reads. “I demand a full investigation into these unsubstantiated and false allegations. Such an investigation will confirm my account because I am telling the truth.”

It continued, “I will clear my good name and I have nothing to hide. I have passed two full field background checks by the FBI and run for office in two highly contested elections with nothing like this being raised before. It is obvious that a vicious and coordinated smear campaign is being orchestrated against me.”

"Unsubstantiated" is the word the MSM keeps using for Fairfax, substituting it for "credible" which was used in Kavanaugh's case.

[Porchlight]

It continued, “I will clear my good name and I have nothing to hide. I have passed two full field background checks by the FBI and run for office in two highly contested elections with nothing like this being raised before. It is obvious that a vicious and coordinated smear campaign is being orchestrated against me.”

Sounds familiar, huh?

[Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA]

AIM"ran a piece about the Associated Press coverage of the SOTU address compared to the one in the Rome Sentinel."

Congrats, sbw!

[Porchlight]

Of course they have the same attorneys, so....

[Captain Hate]

Confirming the non sbw field:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=379663

[Extraneus]

McAuliffe Calls on Fairfax to Resign After Second Sexual Assault Accusation

I guess that means the blackfacers plan to survive.

[Extraneus]

The bleating of a particularly smarmy scumbag:

The allegations against Justin Fairfax are serious and credible. It is clear to me that he can no longer effectively serve the people of Virginia as Lieutenant Governor. I call for his immediate resignation.

— Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) February 8, 2019

[Extraneus]

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam Tells Staff He Will Not Resign Over Racist Yearbook Photo

A senior official in Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration says the governor has told his top staff that he does not plan to resign over a racist photo despite intense pressure to step down.

The official says Northam told his Cabinet during a Friday afternoon meeting that he intends to stay. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

[daddy]

Good Morning!

Odd how the WaPo owner Bezos is so up in arms claiming that it is outrageous that possibly someone in Government leaked pics to a newspaper, yet not a frickin' word about the illegal leak by someone in Government of General Flynn’s name to the WaPo and every other paper on the planet. They sure are hypocritical over there until it’s their own ox being gored.

[henry]

Daddy, Bezos blew $80 billion by grabbing some strange. Now he has to blame anyone but Ms Strange for leaking his mini me selfie (and exact replica of his portrait, minus the ears). Hacked texts? Hell no. It’s always an inside job (online security is unpossible in general, but it rarely is a hack unless a credit card, bank account, or weapon design is involved... even then it is usually an inside job). His new squeeze bragged, some friend got copied the goods and sold them. The rest is right up there with DNC emails “hacked” (copied to a thumb drive internally).

[MissMarple2]

JUST IN: After annual physical, the physician to the president says in a memo that President Trump is “in very good health and I anticipate he will remain so for the duration of his Presidency, and beyond.” pic.twitter.com/OR8YXayoYZ

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) February 8, 2019

Link goes to statement.

[Pinandpuller]

Did Shiela Jackson Lee actually pass the bar? Serious question: Does the Texas Bar Association have a Ladies Tee?

[henry]

@hopeforvirginia:

On Monday, I will be introducing articles of impeachment for Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax if he has not resigned before then.

[henry]

Sean Davis:

Have Virginia Democrats paused to consider the implications of a statewide blackface/KKK scandal that somehow results only in the resignation of the black guy?

[Extraneus]

lol 6:58

[MissMarple2]

Ryan Nobles
‏Verified account @ryanobles
27m27 minutes ago

BREAKING: Del. Patrick Hope is preparing articles of impeachment against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. He will file them Monday unless the LG resigns on his own before then.

[Jack is Back!]

If this is solid perect white shoe virginia can you imagine what is going on in California?

[Narciso79]

Hes a dem rep from Arlington, I linked what was going on my old berg from front page in the last thread.

[henry]

I raise my glass to Virginia. Superb entertainment.

[Narciso79]

Popcorn with caramel topping

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-02-08/lights-go-out-twice-on-maduro-s-international-press-conference?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR31KerylLgN7tjLRHDNe4Cri1xDONe3aJ-HpA6upqUW_BJWBJX98LkjRgA

[Narciso79]

One of the deep staters that Schiff for brains has hired

https://www.cnas.org/people/abby-grace

[henry]

Adam Baldwin:

Bombshell!

Specific American names are listed in the redacted section of Rosenstein’s updated Scope Memo.

Corroborating that the DoJ was investigating not crimes, but people.

Witch hunt!

https://twitter.com/adambaldwin/status/1093920792272764929?s=21

[Captain Hate]

Anyone else having problems with Yahoo mail's servers?

[MissMarple2]

Gorka reviews the SOTU, and reminds us of one of Trump's finer statements during the campaign:

https://www.sebgorka.com/column/the-art-of-the-sotu/

[daddy]

Still catching up. Did Rich Lowry excuse Fairfax's alleged Sexual Assault, or was he only excusing the BlackFace boys?

[Narciso79]

I think it was a package day daddy.

[henry]

Daddy now two sexual assaults. Possibly three or more (the second was not who one reporter thought it would be).

[Narciso79]

In other news:

https://babalublog.com/2019/02/08/cuban-state-security-ex-chief-arrested-by-fbi-in-miami/

[Extraneus]

Trump should do a rally in Virginia soon.

[MissMarple2]

I just saw this:

Clif Garrett
🇺🇸
🇮🇱
‏ @GarrettClif
Feb 7

The LA Times has dropped a bombshell this afternoon. It seems thatCongressman Adam Schiff’s gay lover has accused him of cruelty and other violent happenings that would occur in the California gay community. Even so far as pimping out his gay lover to other people. Bad news

[daddy]

Thanks, Henry.

Glad to hear there's a Chapter 2 in "Uncle Tom's Cabinet."