Explaining life in Trump’s land of delusion, Trump’s travel ban suffers major legal setback, aiding al-Qaeda by committing more drone strikes in Yemen in one week than President Obama did in a year, Trump’s plan to gut HUD will devastate majority of minions that voted for him, Trump’s hiring freeze hitting military families hard, Ethics office tells Trump and co. they are not above the rules, White House ignorance isn’t limited to our minority-elect President, the joke known as TrumpCare still faces major hurdle, why calling Trump crazy is an insult to crazy people, impeachment not required to remove a jackass president and more.
Donald Trump’s White House bubble presidency explained article from AOL News. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/10/donald-trumps-white-house-bubble-presidency-explained/21879649/
‘Bomb the Sh*t Out Of Them!’ – Trump Drones Yemen More in One Week Than Obama in a Year article from Information Clearing House. –
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46634.htm
“Undeterred by the disastrous commando raid on Yemen in the first days of his Administration, where plenty of civilians were killed but the target got away, President Donald Trump has escalated US military involvement in the tragic Yemen conflict to an unprecedented level. In fact as Foreign Policy reports, the US President has bombed Yemen more in the past week than President Obama (no peacenik) has bombed in a year.
But although the US escalation in Yemen is sold back home as another aggressive front in the war against al-Qaeda, in fact US operations in Yemen are actually helping al-Qaeda as well as its chief sponsor, Saudi Arabia.
The problem is that because his advisors are increasingly drawn from the neocon camp, the advice he is given is filtered through the “noble lie” that the neocons view as the central tenet of their faith. Thus even though the main enemies of al-Qaeda in Yemen are the Houthis, because Trump has been sold the neocon lie that the Houthis are Iranian proxies Trump is droning Yemen back to the stone age to the advantage of al-Qaeda and Saudi Arabia, who are on the same side.
While it is arguable that the President has authority under the authorization for the use of military force against those attacked us on 9/11 to attack al-Qaeda in Yemen, very few would argue that such authorization extends to actually helping al-Qaeda in Yemen…”
Trump’s revised travel ban dealt first court setback article from AOL News. –
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/03/11/revised-trump-travel-ban-first-setback/21879879/
Trump’s Plan to Gut HUD Threatens the Very Survival of America’s Poor article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/economy/trumps-plan-gut-hud-threatens-very-survival-working-poor
Ethics Office Tells Trump & Co.: Sorry, You’re Not Above the Rules article from Common Dreams. –
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/10/ethics-office-tells-trump-co-sorry-youre-not-above-rules
“The No TRUMP Act, introduced this week, seeks to address at least some of President Donald Trump’s conflicts of interest
The head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) has taken issue with the Trump administration’s grasp of ethics rules, expressing deep concern that the executive branch apparently thinks it is above such regulations.
In a letter sent Thursday to deputy White House counsel Stefan Passantino, OGE director Walter Shaub admonished the administration for failing to censure advisor Kellyanne Conway for her February endorsement of Ivanka Trump’s products on the television program “Fox & Friends.” The OGE had previously told the White House that there was “strong reason to believe that Ms. Conway has violated the Standards of Conduct and that disciplinary action is warranted.”
But Passantino let Shaub know earlier this month that the White House would not discipline Conway, saying she acted “inadvertently” when she openly encouraged people to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” after President Donald Trump slammed Nordstrom department store for dropping his daughter’s fashion line…”
Trump’s federal hiring freeze is hitting military families hard article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-federal-hiring-freeze-military-families-4c41f51d9c06#.ujkqnsdb5
Sean Spicer’s appalling answer about economic data shows how far we’ve lowered the bar for Trump article from Vox. –
http://www.vox.com/2017/3/10/14887006/sean-spicer-jobs-report
“At Friday’s press briefing, Sean Spicer told an absurd lie to the assembled members of the White House press corps. But he did it with a smile rather than a snarl, so everyone laughed.
The issue was the release this morning of a strong jobs report indicating continued growth in the economy, which many Republicans took the opportunity to crow about. Given the frequency with which candidate Trump had questioned the integrity of government economic data (calling them “phony numbers” and “one of the biggest hoaxes in American politics”), the question went, was President Trump confident that today’s report was accurate?
Spicer, with a wry grin on his face, said, “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now…”
‘Trumpcare’ has passed its first huge hurdles – but there’s a very real danger it collapses article from Business Insider. –
http://www.businessinsider.com/trumpcare-obamacare-replacement-2017-3
EXPOSED: DONALD TRUMP’S SHAM POPULISM article from the New Yorker. –
http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/exposed-donald-trumps-sham-populism
“Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Majority Leader, went on Sean Hannity’s show on Thursday night and tried to talk up the awful health-care bill that his party had just rushed through two committees. His message was aimed at the ultra-conservative groups, such as the Freedom Caucus and Heritage Action for America, that have come out strongly against the proposed legislation. McCarthy didn’t try to claim that the bill would make health care more affordable or widely available. Instead, he defended its conservative bona fides, twice pointing out that it would repeal all the taxes that were introduced under the Affordable Care Act—taxes that mainly hit the one per cent.
Hannity, who is one of President Trump’s biggest boosters, didn’t hide his loyalties or his concern about the political firestorm that the bill has set off. “This has to work: there is no option here,” he said at one point. Later, he warned, “As soon as it passes, you own it.”
Intentionally or not, Hannity summed up the political dilemma facing Trump and his Administration. The White House has embraced Paul Ryan’s handiwork—the House Speaker is the bill’s top backer—and they are now trying together to persuade the full House and the Senate to vote for at least some version of it. But if the bill does pass and Trump signs it into law, what happens then? The health-care industry will be thrown into turmoil; many millions of Americans will lose their coverage; many others, including a lot of Trump voters (particularly elderly ones), will see their premiums rise sharply; and Trump will risk being just as closely associated with “Trumpcare” as Barack Obama was with Obamacare…”
THE WORDS WE USE ABOUT DONALD TRUMP article from the New Yorker. –
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-words-we-use-about-donald-trump
“That’s crazy! That is the instant, intuitive, and, one might think, only possible response of a sane person to a week’s worth of tweets from President Donald Trump. Only crazy people make reckless charges, without any plausible foundation, and then simply shrug and sit on them. Take one recent example: “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” This charge is mindboggling, not least for being self-exploding. For Obama to have wiretapped Trump (put aside that that’s not, technically speaking, what is done any longer; the President may have been moved by vague memories of how the feds brought down John Gotti), Obama would have needed his own private team of plumbers to break into, or hack the systems of, Trump Tower. And no one in his right mind suggests that Obama ever had such a team. The most obvious alternative would be that it was done by the F.B.I., in response to a court order spurred by genuine suspicion of grave wrongdoing. In that scenario, Trump would be asserting that someone in the Department of Justice had grounds for such suspicion, sufficient to convince a judge. But he couldn’t possibly have intended to say that. All this suggests that he may not be capable of the normal logic of normal people, of any kind of political bent. And that, folks, would be crazy.
Of course, we are quickly counselled never to say this, in part because calling Trump crazy would be, in plain English, an insult to crazy people. Diagnosis should be left to those with expertise in it; mental illness is not a category to be used casually to describe those whose behavior we find squalid or even abhorrent. And calling people crazy, to take it to the next dimension, is what totalitarian societies do when they want to lock dissidents away…”
On and Beyond the Removal of a Jackass President: Impeachment Not Required article from Counter Punch. –
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/10/on-and-beyond-the-removal-of-a-jackass-president-impeachment-not-required/
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