Political Theatre category archive
Mean for the Sake of Mean 0
Seth and Digby discuss a recent Supreme Court ruling normalizing cruel and unusual punishment.
Mulling Mueller 0
Mike is not sanguine (but he is, as usual, profane).
Kabuki 0
Gordon Weil outs the Republican Senators’ misdirection play on the “Green New Deal” and the press’s deplorable failure as competent drama critics. After pointing out the the “Green New Deal” was merely a statement of goals, not a serious legislative proposal, he explains the Republicans’ misdirection.
A snippet:
He then scheduled his bill for what has been called a “bluff vote.” Though the Republicans had proposed the bill, they really opposed it and would seek to kill it. That was their bluff. They apparently hoped that some Democrats, to please the party’s most liberal wing, would err and vote for the proposal, causing an internal party split.
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The Wind in the Wallows 0
When I was growing up at Pine View Farm, we had a windmill (in the picture above, it would have been behind the right ell of the house). Granted, it was relic from before the electric water pump was installed, but there it was.
Insecurity Clearances 0
(Warning: Commercial at the end. This seems to be the hot new trend.)
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All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Will Bunch struggles with Republicans’ crusade against dealing with, or even admitting the reality of, climate change.
