I date it to the founding of National Review…
Interesting how Nixon and the GQP are rehabilitated by one or two laws, or redeemed for passing $3200 in relief checks over a yearlong and continuing pandemic…
Of course the Dems run to gain power…that’s what elections are for. It’s what you do with the power that matters.
I have never understood this. Isn’t “tax and spend” what government is supposed to do?
It certainly beats the GOP’s approach, which is don’t tax but still spend…
as a Nevadan, i’m happy about this. as much as i liked Reid (savvy politician who used his power when he needed to) and Catherine Cortez-Masto (who frankly surprises me that she’s not on board with this), i hope they will see the light that this is the change we need.
YES!
My understanding is that the EPA was created under a lot of pressure. Doing it federally headed off each state doing their own thing making it easier to control. It’s hard to ignore when the rivers catch fire and you can see the air.
According to TFA, they had previously moved funds into the DSCC to support Senator Mastro–which isn’t quite the same thing as taking the funds with them. And, frankly, to my mind, that part is the only even slightly questionable part of what they did. Call it ragequitting if you want, but what it means is that they have cleared the way for a group of people who approach politics from a different angle to put in place people who are dedicated to that group’s policies.
In related news, I note that Bernie Sanders–recently a candidate for the Democratic nomination–has once again quit the Democratic party.
This seems completely normal to me. Unlike the GOP, which is a cult that demands total fealty from all to whoever happens to be at the top at any given time, the Democratic party has factions that disagree on a variety of policies in essential ways. If you’re a staffer who took the job (over, say, a job outside of politics) because you support some of those policies, it would be normal to not want to stay in the job if you’re now tasked with promoting things or people in which you don’t believe.
Doesn’t news have to be true for it to be news? Admittedly the answer to Bernie’s party affiliation is complicated, but I would caution you not to fall into the exact same misinformation campaign waged on him in 2016.
Well, yes, but I think the “tax and spend” when used in a derogatory way is that the taxes are too high, and the spending on wasteful and/or stupid things. It is just a circular machine feeding itself to appear useful. I don’t think that is accurate, but that is the framing of the term, I believe.
Or when taxes exist at all for the “job creators”.
I’ve got no problem with Bernie being an independent Democratic Socialist who caucuses with the Democrats. My point is just that the same people who do, in this thread, seem to have a problem with Reid Democrats quitting a progressive Democratic administration don’t have the same problem with Bernie declining to identify himself as a Democrat.
The fact they had to explicitly say they’re sharing, “access to logins and other information to Whitmer and her team” shows how much institutional knowledge will be lost in the transition. Even if they’re not sticking around, I imagine it would be preferable to give notice. Both to pass on knowledge and to find yourself another gig.
Rob, I like your analysis. It’s why I stay away from DC. To get anyone to do what they were elected to do requires an endless parade of ass kissing, because you only have truth and righteousness on your side, which has no place there. If you had money, whole different story.
Nah, it’s a bit two-faced of Reid supporters. I consider it hypocrisy for registered progressive Democrats who dutifully volunteer and donate over many years for the sake of party unity suddenly find themselves abandoned when the tables turned. As for the Democratic Socialists, they aren’t really the ones pulling the strings here. It was an alliances of several progressive factions that realized that they finally (just barely) had the numbers not to go back to the ones that paid and followed but didn’t drive the agenda.
Oh well. It’s their choice to leave. It’s not like I’m saying they did anything illegal. I just view them as weak for not reaching out for an alliance on when they presumable have a lot more in common than not.
This is exactly the conditions that forced Nixon to sign the EPA into law. When authoritarian worshippers can feel and see the danger, it’s the only time progress can be made when people of that mindset are the majority of the voting population.
To be fair, wasn’t there a case of a river catching fire last year?
Yes. And it was the Cuyahoga, too.
Time for the EPA to have some teeth again and a new, much more robust round of environmental regulation.
Point of personal privilege. All those thumbs are triggering my hitchhiking anxiety.
The fire was the result of a accident where a fuel tanker spilled fuel into the river. The fuel caught fire. Please don’t make it sound like the industries around Cleveland are simply dumping flammable materials into the river. They are not.
I agree that its way beyond time for the EPA to have some teeth and they start doing what their charter says, but dRumph and company very effectively dismantled the whole agency.
I, for one, am relieved it was not flagrant violation of state and federal law that culminated in the Cuyahoga, once again, catching fire.
