A new Politico poll has a majority of Americans saying Trump is reckless, and worse.
Seriously: It’s time for Republican legislators to stop behaving like weasels and whoring themselves to the loonies who think Trump is a great man.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot
Jeff Flake’s scalding attack on Donald Trump yesterday lacked only one thing: A commitment to staying in the Senate and fighting for a Republican Party that isn’t an offense against American values and ordinary human decency. As too many others have, Flake is quitting the field and surrendering the Party to the barbarians.
Which is not to say I’m without sympathy. After all, Trump has created a coalition of the sick and disaffected, and they love to send abusive e-mails; it has to take its toll, and you can’t blame a man for muttering “I don’t need this $λιζ.”
But, as Ross Douthat so rightly points-out in today’s New York Times, “In the end, if you want Republican voters to reject Trumpism, you need to give them clear electoral opportunities to do so …”
There is only one way to fight nihilistic fanatics: Openly, and to their irrevocable destruction.
This is interesting: No president in more than 50-years has been so pokey as Donald Trump about appointing a science advisor.
That shouldn’t be a surprise, I suppose. After all, The Donald’s EPA head is busily scrubbing that department’s Web site free of mentions of climate change.
What did startle me, at first, is this: Richard Nixon and Barack Obama were the fastest about appointing a science advisor. Then I recalled that Nixon launched the EPA and, of course, Obama’s reliance upon science is well-known. Nixon wasn’t too scrupulous about the Constitution, but both men governed as reality-based pragmatists. I guess small, hardly-noticed things can tell you a lot.
As Kim Davis globetrots against gay rights, Kentucky’s taxpayers are left on the hook for her summary refusal to obey the law.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Kentucky taxpayers are still on the hook for attorney fees for the couples who sued Kim Davis, a county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.
So: Davis enjoys downmarket celebrity for her bad behavior, and taxpayers will have to ante up the money to pay the judgment.
Davis’ behavior was incontestably unlawful; there never was a serious legal question about that. What is more, she was definite about her decision — a higher law forbade her to obey the temporal law.
Bah.
Can Kentucky sue her to recover the money? I understand that she probably doesn’t have that sort of money lying around, and that the state would be in the position of spending money to obtain a judgment it is unlikely to ever recover, but I think a judgment against her — even if unenforceable — would be a fitting coda to this squalid affair.
Teen wanted in murder of co-worker added to FBI’s ‘Top 10 fugitive list’
A Charlotte teenager wanted for the murder of Truc Quan Ly “Sandy” Le has been added to the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.
The FBI and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating Alejandro “Alex” Castillo, 18, whom investigators allege is responsible for the 2016 murder of Le.
Castillo should be armed and extremely dangerous, police said.
