TenuredVulture wrote:Failing N.Y. Times publishes yet more knob slobbing of trump by David brooks. Won't link. But basically, the position is if trump didn't tweet, he'd be a fine president.

TenuredVulture wrote:Failing N.Y. Times publishes yet more knob slobbing of trump by David brooks. Won't link. But basically, the position is if trump didn't tweet, he'd be a fine president.

JFLNYC wrote:I dunno. The message could be: “The Republicans control the Presidency, the Senate and the House and they still couldn’t keep the government functioning.” Most of the masses don’t understand it’s not that simple, so the message might work to the Dems’ advantage.

thephan wrote:I think it would be an extremely flawed strategy by the Dems to shut down the USG Friday. Arguments about leverage aside, that message plays differently 10 months from now.

JFLNYC wrote:I dunno. The message could be: “The Republicans control the Presidency, the Senate and the House and they still couldn’t keep the government functioning.” Most of the masses don’t understand it’s not that simple, so the message might work to the Dems’ advantage.

pacino wrote:this guy is a criminal who has no regard for the safety of his workers or the people who live in the region:

The memo was written by Robert E. Murray, a longtime Trump supporter who donated $300,000 to the president’s inauguration. In it, Mr. Murray, the head of Murray Energy, presented Mr. Trump with a wish list of environmental rollbacks just weeks after the inauguration.

Nearly a year later, the White House and federal agencies have completed or are on track to fulfill most of the 14 detailed requests, even with Monday’s decision by federal regulators to reject a proposal by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to subsidize struggling coal and nuclear plants.

The March 1 memo, which was obtained by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and shared with The New York Times, is addressed to Vice President Mike Pence. The sweeping wish list of regulatory overhauls includes ending regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and ozone and mine safety, as well as cutting the staff of the Environmental Protection Agency “at least in half” and overhauling the Labor Department’s office of mine safety.

The Trump administration has had an unusually close relationship with Mr. Murray. He and 10 of his miners were invited to watch the president sign an executive order to rollback President Obama’s climate change regulations. He has met with Mr. Perry to discuss the needs of coal producers. His longtime attorney, Andrew Wheeler, is awaiting Senate confirmation to the No. 2 slot at the E.P.A., and David Zatezalo, the nation’s new top mine safety and health regulator and previously the president of a coal mining company, told his hometown paper that Mr. Murray had encouraged him to put his hat in the ring for the job.

Jeffrey Holmstead, a lawyer with the firm Bracewell and a deputy administrator of the E.P.A. in the George W. Bush administration, called Mr. Murray’s action plan “an ambitious list.” While interest groups always try to influence policy in a new administration, Mr. Holmstead said Mr. Murray’s status with the administration set him apart.

Monkeyboy wrote:Yes, and I will. I think I'll register at my in-law's place because I get my official mail there.

TenuredVulture wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Yes, and I will. I think I'll register at my in-law's place because I get my official mail there.

I hope they live in a swing district. If not, have them move.