Joe Manchin's opposition to the environmental aspects of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill has some connection to the fact that he is heavily invested in coal and a considerable portion of his personal wealth is based on it.
Marty Kassowitz
Long term propaganda campaigns have convinced the American public that "government money" is somehow not their money. Public funds are those funds that came from us, the public. So why are we not entitled to benefit from them?
In Dizzy City politics, what we are not supposed to have attention on is the $2 trillion that has already been burned in Afghanistan. Never forget that the vast majority of that money was spent here, with American companies.
Today marks the passage of a $3.5 trillion dollar budget blueprint through the House The massive bill has something for everyone in a massive investment in the physical and human infrastructure of the country. No Republicans voted for this bill.
The recent revelation that Rand Paul's wife invested in the maker of Remsvidir, just prior to the initial spread of the pandemic raises some scary questions. Like, "Are people profiting from the disinformation being spread along with the virus?"
Everyone involved in The Blame Game reality show in D.C. is fully armed with pet facts designed to paint someone else in as bad a light as possible. But like every reality show, the facts and circumstances are contrived. Today's Afghanistan edition of the Blame Game is no exception.
Been to the pharmacy lately to pick up a prescription and find that your drug cost and/or copay has gone to the moon? Pharma companies, they really should be called cartels now, spend a lot of money to keep these prices high.
My wife and I have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 for many months now. Since two weeks after that out last shot we have felt quite safe, even though as a moderately elderly asthmatic I am the apparent target market for the Covid-19 virus.
As Trump was calling the Covid pandemic a "democratic hoax" he was simply doing what he did every day in office: lying. But the truth of what he actually knew is much worse. And this is where Bob Woodward comes in.
The perversion of legislation toward racist ends is nothing new in our country's history. The attempts by Republicans to weld themselves into power by disenfranchising Democratic voters is racism in practice since the real target is people of color, who largely vote Democratic.
After eight years of living under the dictatorial rule of Mitch McConnell, Senate Democrats as a group still appear to be laboring under some sort of political version of PTSD. This is pretty evident by the fact that McConnell, now the minority leader, is still running the same obstructive game plan he has always run.
With President Biden's push for a massive infrastructure and jobs bill, comes the inevitable Republican knee-jerk push back. "Who's going to pay for this?"
In a study published in March of 2018, Science Magazine noted that lies spread at a far faster rate than true information on social media channels.
Make no mistake about it. The Koch brothers, now reduced by one by the death of David Koch in 2019, have poured billions of dollars into the destruction of our government. Their actions, documented by many sharp-eyed investigative journalists, have been ongoing for decades.
Republican stalwarts like Mitch McConnell, to whom obstruction of any forward progress is like breathing, are not just trying to make life difficult for folks like Bernie Sanders or Chuck Schumer. He wants them to not even bother trying.
Examining the connections between Trump and the Republican Party is on-going source of neck-dislocating head shakes for many people. There is a persistence to it that defies logic when one examines it from the standpoint of normal political calculus.