I don’t know if you can trust the polling here either, but it appears that the Repugs are forced to defend seats that you would assume are safe with Don The Con dragging down their prospects, as Sam Seder of The Majority Report tells us...and I would agree with Sam’s analysis on what Jon Tester said; yet another case of Chuck Schumer screwing the metaphorical pooch (I also think the Dem should get out in Montana and endorse Seth Bodnar, the independent, who has a better shot of taking out Repug Kurt Alme)...that polling number in Idaho absolutely blew my mind, and that Matt Loesby guy should pack it in there also to try and help out Indie Todd Achilles...by the way, as noted here about Kansas U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, he sued about 700 patients in his OB-GYN practice who had unpaid bills and it wasn’t directly related to C-sections (though Marshall apparently charged 18 percent interest on those debts, which is pretty usurious on his part I think)...
...and Robert Reich lets us know how Fix Noise mocked him for being right about egg prices...I think we have a case of TMI with Senator Foghorn Leghorn on this one, with avian flu blamed as the initial reason for high egg prices, even though egg producers received about $1 billion in bird flu bailouts while the supply didn’t drop commensurately...you can also chalk this up to monopolization of the egg market and producers dictating their prices...I think Reich’s snark here is called for given the messages among the egg producers, especially that one “we need to bid like they vote in Chicago – early and often”...and I guess we should be grateful that Cal-Maine, one of the producers, got any punishment at all...
...and Thom Hartmann informs us that Greenland and Antarctica have lost about 11 trillion metric tons of ice, enough to bury this country about five feet deep, according to a recent study,...also, apparently Trumpist Fish and Wildlife Director Brian Nesvik reinterpreted the Endangered Species Act so that only “intentional” killing counts as illegal (and good luck trying to sift through the legalese as to what “intentional” means)...additionally, it looks like Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to hand a wide swath of Yellowstone to a developer from another damn private equity firm (and OF COURSE the CEO who benefits from this is a Trump donor)...we also have two more measles deaths in PA that will be ignored by Bobby Brainworm, bringing the total thus far to four...and I don’t know if anybody out there is ready for bird flu, but that might be on the way also – terrific...I knew book reading was good, but I didn’t know how much especially for older folks (“a country that stops reading is a country that’s easy to fool” indeed)...
...and Brittany Page discusses the recent appearance of Paul Webster of The Cicero Institute before a House subcommittee in which he was grilled pretty ferociously (almost to the point of obnoxiousness, to be honest) by Dem Rep Rashida Tlaib...listen, I’m fundamentally on the same side as Tlaib, and this Webster guy is truly a guttersnipe (and Tlaib is right to point out that the people pulling strings for Cicero are making bank from private prisons, which should be illegal – here), but I just think she took it a bit far, that’s all (and this Joe Lonsdale is another member of the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch of course)... looks like this Brendan Gill so-and-so of Texas realized he was out of his depth and bailed when trying to confront Samantha Batko of The Urban Institute...didn’t know the Gropenfuhrer increased his net worth by about $2 bil, but that figures too...hearing was geared to demean Housing First, without empirical evidence of course, led by this Jonathan Choe guttersnipe of The Discovery Institute...good point about having an actual homeless person at that hearing – what a concept!...
...and America’s Finest News Source tells us that we can all rest a little easier now that Congress has addressed the pressing matter of a minimum wage for billionaires (dancing on that razor’s edge when it comes to satire yet again)...
...and I like this newer tune – looks like this guy might be trying to pick up the mantle of Tom Petty...we’ll see...
...and with that, I take my leave of you for a little while – I’ll plan to get back to this in about ten days or so.
