Political Theatre category archive
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Ron Littlepage stares agape at Florida Governor Rick Scott’s “environmental” policy.
Our aquifer, which has been Florida’s lifeblood for centuries, is over tapped. A big reason — over development.
(snip additional examples)
But Scott says plopping down new cities the size of Orlando in undeveloped areas is good for the environment because they produce tax dollars to help repair the environmental damage that development causes.
How’s that for circular reasoning?
Ryan’s Derp 0
Paul Ryan bids, “One No Trump.”
Bad for Business, Too 2
At MarketWatch, M. I. T. Professor Simon Johnson considers the three main components of Donald Trump’s popular appeal and finds them all disturbing and–here’s why this article was carried on MarketWatch–economically destructive. Here’s a bit of what he says about one: the anti-immigrant position:
This is a recipe for a police state — checking identities, raiding people’s houses, and encouraging neighbors to inform on one another. It is also fundamentally anti-American, in the sense of undermining everything that the country has achieved. The U.S. is a nation of immigrants — the best in the world at integrating new arrivals. After one generation in the country, no one cares where your family came from.
Trump — and those who bring him to power — would throw all of this out of the window. The associated social disruption would by itself cause not just an economic slowdown, but a sustained decline in GDP and incomes.
Trump is repugnant on many levels, including an economic one.
“A Party That’s Run Out of Ideas” 0
Thom and John Kenneth White try to figure out what the hell is going on withe the Republican Party.
Part One:
Part Two:
Contempt of Court 0
Dick Polman considers Donald Trump’s attack on the judge hearing the “Trump University” case. A snippet:
So, a few questions. Are Trump’s followers so deaf and blind that they truly don’t realize what is happening here? Has their faith in our democratic institutions eroded to the point that they’re happy to feed a junkyard dog who would treat our institutions as his personal chew toy? Are they so ignorant of world history that they can’t see the danger of a leader cult? And can the complicit Republican party sink any lower
Read it.
Afterthought:
Looking to recent history, the answer to Polman’s question in the last sentence is, without question, “Yes.”
“Sinking lower” is what Republicans do.
The Math 2
Via PoliticalProf, who reminds us
You don’t have to like her. You don’t have to vote for her. Just don’t say she isn’t winning.
Trumping the Woman Card 0
Josh Marshall tries to figure out just what Trump thinks he can accomplish attacking Hillary Clinton by blaming her for her husband’s imperfections.
