March 13, 2017 7:00 AM
Morning Reads — March 13, 2017
Happy Monday, everyone! St. Patrick’s Day is this Friday, so let’s keep the drinking to a minimum as we prepare for the festivities. Also…please watch the video.
State
- Mike doesn’t want you to be fooled.
- People who break laws are suddenly worried about the laws they’re breaking.
- Patriots SkyScreamer is a thing.
- Dahlonega, the KKK, and a quite mountain community.
- Georgia is seeing a dramatic drop in HIV.
National
- Trump’s budget seeks to shrink the federal workforce.
- Waymo asked a federal court to block Uber’s work on a self-driving vehicle.
- Bharara, whose served at the pleasure of the President, is throwing a tantrum because the President no longer wished for him to be a U.S. Attorney.
- Click here, please.
- Can an entire town lose weight together?
Important
The following bills will be on the Senate floor on MONDAY,MARCH 13:
- HB 41 – Architects; allow certain students to take examination; change qualifications (RI&U-27th) Harrell-106th
- HB 260 – Special license plates; Georgia Electric Membership Corporation; establish (RI&U-51st) Powell-32nd
About Author
Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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Snowflake US Attorney whining about being asked to resign. Not Fake News but it is No News. Funny, nary a peep when The Rapist cleans house when he came in, including sacking the sitting FBI Director but let a Repub do the same thing and the media makes it out to be the end of times. Maybe the tearful US Attorney can go to work in the law office og Gary Martin Hayes!
The “dealmaker” demonstrated his word is a good as a fart.
What you should be asking Noway is why after requesting that Bharara in November (and with Sessions approval up until last Wednesday) stay in his position, Trump would want to get rid of a star AG who has sent a number of high power New York democrats to jail on corruption, forced a few banks into mega deals for corruption, and is the lead on the El Capo trial plus half a dozen other terrorist trials. Even law enforcement is annoyed over this move. Could it be his office is currently investigating FOX news (which it is – over related issue from paying hush money to past employees)? Could it be that the majority of the players involved in any of the Russian hacking and possible Trump campaign involvement (if there is any) happened in the location of Bharara’s former district and he would be in charge of the trial? Trump’s corporate headquarters and those of many of his hedge fund friends are located there too. Bharara has gone after hedge fund CEO’s aggressively in the last 8 years. The State of New York has an open investigation of fraud of the Trump Foundation, which may have IRS issues that would have fallen into Bharara hands.
Did Trump have the right to do it, sure. But that doesn’t mean he did what was best for the country.
The Southern District of New York has always had the strongest and dogmatic of the AG crew. If Sessions and Trump nominate a week AG or a political hack in the district that does most of the heavy lifting for Wall Street and banking issues, the IRS, gang and Mafia cases, terrorists and drug trafficking, law enforcement will be your next label as being a special snowflake when they complain.
You are assuming that being on Team Trump should involve some level of logic or reason, and clearly that is not the case. Team Trump won so anything Team Trump does is OK and any resistance is the enemy. Why Team Trump does certain things is irrelevant. That’s how much charisma he has. It’s so much charisma, you won’t believe it. It’s like the old Chuck Norris jokes, except many Trump supporters actually believe whatever he says I guess. Like,
Trump could fire all state department staff and federal prosecutors with no notice and no replacements and diplomacy and justice will actually get better!
A resigning Richard Nixon apparently had a 24% approval rating. That’s roughly equivalent to the % of ppl who would tolerate anything in the name of their team.
Nothing to see folks… short list of taking Bharara’s cases… Roger Ailes lawyer… nope nothing to see…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/13/nyregion/federal-inquiry-of-fox-news-moves-to-a-grand-jury-but-without-preet-bharara.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1
Yeah, only Bharara can prosecute, that’s it…move on Ellynn, to quote Holder and Barry, “Elections have consequences.” This is No News at its highest.
Bharara is not my point on the last post. My point is the most likely candidate to take over as AG for the SDNY which includes the current stockholder fraud grand jury case against Fox News seems to be a past lawyer for Roger Alies.
There’s consequences and then there is quid pro quo. You didn’t like it when the Clinton might have been doing it, you shouldn’t like when others might be doing it either.
It’s standard practice. I didn’t dislike it when The Rapist did it. But when a Repub does it, it suddenly became bad. It’s not news. On any level whatsoever. But it fits the Lib narrative, so the media cries crocodile tears. Oh, and name me the only prez to replace a sitting FBI Director. That’ssssss right – Slick Willy. And nobody said jack sh-t. Typical.
That’s because W. Sessions was a terrible, corrupt Director! It was the right thing to do = no controversy.
Rightttttttttt! Lolol!
Google is a wonderful thing… The Bush AG is the one who wrote the ethics report on violations and started the process of forcing him to resign. Also note the terms Ruby Ridge are not mentioned in the article, but the Bush AG also cited him for protocol errors there. Not mentioned was Waco either, which was under his watch.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-20/news/mn-15006_1_law-enforcement-agencies
Damn Trump is good. Trump changed Obama’s “phony” BLS to a jam up agency in only 50 days….or at least until the next unfavorable BLS report. Then it’ll be time to return to the Obama holdover meme.
On to the CBO!
The talking point is that the Office isn’t properly evaluating the deliberate damage the GOP has inflicted on Obamacare. It’s a Congressional Office operated in a non partisan manner by a Republican. However if Trump watches a Fox show to the contrary, it’ll be fact that the Office is corrupt and rife with Obama holdovers. Maybe Sean Hannity will tell Trump to replace the CBO’s Director with a Republican hack and remedy the situation.
And how about that Donaldcare?
$160B in reduced taxes for those earning over a $1M, paid for hikes in healthcare expenses paid by the middle class that can still afford healthcare. It’s choice that’ll Make America Great Again. It delivers the “lower numbers, much lower deductibles” “insurance for everyone” where people “can expect to have great health care. It will be in a much simplified form. Much less expensive and much better” that the Donald promised.
Any Donaldcare covers all the bases too. There are six pages in the bill to insure lottery winners become ineligible for credits, what with all that fraud and abuse undermining the system.
I don’t understand how ppl continue to acquiesce to the manipulation of their own minds, as in allowing the alternative fact that labor staistics under Obama were phony, but they’re real now. Well, they’ll be real until they look bad again. Then they’ll be rigged.
My understanding is that about at least a third of the bump up was in construction, in part to blame on warmer weather, and more on the consistently up-trending real property markets. There’s a mix of optimism and pessimism out there, both of which Trump can claim credit for, but optimism alone doesn’t create jobs. The effect of policies will be trickling down, if at all, drip by drip.
Will,
Your description of H.B. 41 is not correct. It does not change qualifications of who can take the tests on being a licensed architect. It adjusts the when you can take the tests. All schools of architecture have to currently meet the same set of National Architecture Accreditation Board (NAAB) standards and the intern hours of work required by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). They still have to pass each of the 7 Architect Registration Examination (ARE) tests. This bill allows 20-28 students in a very specialized and NAAB approved program to take the tests while in the final years of a seven year (instead of a five or six year) program. Students have to carry full loads, and work part time in firms to gain the intern hours during the school year, plus on their summer and winter breaks. It also allows local Georgia students who went to out of state schools who are in similar NAAB and NCARB approved programs to take the test here. All surrounding states with a NAAB approved School of Architecture allows students to take test while still in the final 2 years of college. Although this bill currently only apply to the SCAD program, if Georgia Tech and Kennesaw have a seven year program approved by NAAB, this change will also apply to their program.
For full disclosure, I have served and am currently involved with local committees of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) which is the overall governing body of students, interns and licensed architects, which includes NAAB and NCARB. I am alumni of SCAD, and fully support this bill.
SNL finally found a decent cast member this season – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/snl-dog-trump-supporter_us_58c4dbb9e4b0ed71826d1cd7 – hint, it’s the one being attacked by all the humans failing miserably posing as comedians.
I give you the pinnacle, the summir, dare I say the absolute zenith, of Dem legislative achievement! Is it any wonder why y’all are irrelevant?
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/12/rep-farrar-bill/
The government in general has no right to regulate ANYONE’S reproductive organs and what consenting adults do with them.
Tell that to yor Dem sister in TX! LMAO!
I see you missed the irony at first…
Is the fetus consenting right before the abortion? Thatssss right, it gets no say in the matter.
As I have stated a few times, the deciding factor to overturning Roe will come down to the SCOTUS having to decide all people from conception to death are equal under the Constitution except pregnant women. That sets a dangerous judicial precedent that the US government can legally regulate a human body; male or female.
As I have also stated, I would not have an abortion and have worked to prevent them. However; I refuse to let anyone tell me what I can or can not do with my own body.
Tick tock. Where’s the evidence, Donnie?
CBO has spoken. 14 million without insurance next year.
Can the GOP stand the blow back?
Let me help you out by siting the source….
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52486
…and Sec Price was on Meet The Press and told a bold faced lie. He said “NO ONE would be financially harmed by this bill.” Even though he didnt say “uninsured” he was still telling a lie, and its an obvious lie that he had to know he was telling.
If I was a democrat running in GA06 I would have an ad up touting this CBO report and nail republicans to it…especially Gray who not so wisely tied himself to Trump in his latest ad. Republicans own healthcare now…make sure everyone knows it.
Price predictably says the administration disagrees with the CBO’s conclusions, but he goes on to complain that the CBO’s scoring ignores the other two legs of the gop’s strategy, which is downright comical since they don’t exist.
If Hall hadn’t used dynamic scoring Price really would have had some big numbers to wave away.
“Keith Hall will bring an impressive level of economic expertise and experience to the Congressional Budget Office,” said House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, in a statement. “His vast understanding of economic and labor market policy will be invaluable to the work of CBO.”
That was then, of course.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/keith-hall-congressional-budget-office-115584
DOJ says dog ate its homework; wants more time to address wiretapping claims.
They didn’t realize they needed to check the appliances.
I’m generally in a secure enough position that I don’t have to think of every piece of legislation in terms of how it affects me personally; I’ll usually be OK. But this…! I am facing entering my sixties with no health insurance? Bleak.
It’s the GOP’s idea of choice. Choose not to pay for it if you can’t afford it, or give up your smart phone instead.