The Texas governor said: "Nothing about today’s announcement in Harris County impacts the state’s ongoing investigation.

“There’s been one county that’s flooded, in the state. One county that was Cape May County. It’s the one county that flooded. So I don’t know where, from all over the state, since we have 21 counties where that’s happened,” Christie said. “Second, I don’t know exactly what you expect me to do. You want me to go down to Cape May with a mop?”

Schmidt disputes any notion Clark's behavior has taxpayers' blood boiling.

"I see it on the front page of the newspaper, so it's not like it's not a big deal, but on the ground, I'm not sensing the same thing," Schmidt said. "We had our public meeting the other day - [there] was no outrage present."

Indeed, the "public" at that meeting consisted of a reporter and a representative of the Committee of Seventy.

drsmooth wrote:Didn't see another unlocked non-poll politics thread, so....



Apparently Houston's DA has dropped the case against Planned Parenthood there - and indicted the makers of the controversial film

DA is Republican, don'tcha know

Eagerly awaiting Fiorina's campaign announcing she's throwing in the towel

JUburton wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Didn't see another unlocked non-poll politics thread, so....



Apparently Houston's DA has dropped the case against Planned Parenthood there - and indicted the makers of the controversial film

DA is Republican, don'tcha know

Eagerly awaiting Fiorina's campaign announcing she's throwing in the towel

the grand jury going after them instead of PP is probably going to be the best news story of the year. the schadenfreude i feel just brings a tear to my eye.

Soren wrote:

JUburton wrote:

drsmooth wrote:Didn't see another unlocked non-poll politics thread, so....



Apparently Houston's DA has dropped the case against Planned Parenthood there - and indicted the makers of the controversial film

DA is Republican, don'tcha know

Eagerly awaiting Fiorina's campaign announcing she's throwing in the towel

the grand jury going after them instead of PP is probably going to be the best news story of the year. the schadenfreude i feel just brings a tear to my eye.

It will change exactly 0 people's opinion on the whole thing

pacino wrote:

“There’s been one county that’s flooded, in the state. One county that was Cape May County. It’s the one county that flooded. So I don’t know where, from all over the state, since we have 21 counties where that’s happened,” Christie said. “Second, I don’t know exactly what you expect me to do. You want me to go down to Cape May with a mop?”

after someone asked him Monday why he was already in New Hampshire campaigning again after there was flooding in NJ due to the storm

traderdave wrote:I swear my response would have been, "No, Governor, I expect you to at least pretend like you give a shit".

drsmooth wrote:

traderdave wrote:I swear my response would have been, "No, Governor, I expect you to at least pretend like you give a #$!&@".

Softball question: Big CC could have simply ticked off a list of stuff he did over the weekend in NJ, & offered to check in with the girl's friends/contacts. Y'know, All presidentially.

Instead he chooses - CHOOSES - to browbeat her. Who brought these nincompoops up?

President Obama on Monday announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, saying the practice is overused and has the potential for devastating psychological consequences.

In an op-ed that appears in Tuesday editions of The Washington Post, the president outlines a series of executive actions that also prohibit federal corrections officials from punishing prisoners who commit “low-level infractions” with solitary confinement.

The new rules also dictate that the longest a prisoner can be punished with solitary confinement for a first offense is 60 days, rather than the current maximum of 365 days.

The president’s reforms apply broadly to the roughly 10,000 federal inmates serving time in solitary confinement, though there are only a handful of juvenile offenders placed in restrictive housing each year. Between September 2014 and September 2015, federal authorities were notified of just 13 juveniles who were put in solitary in its prisons, officials said. However, federal officials sent adults inmates to solitary for nonviolent offenses 3,800 times in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2014, suggesting that policy change will have more sweeping ramifications.

The reforms come six months after Obama, as part of a broader criminal-justice reform push, ordered the Justice Department to study how solitary confinement was being used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

pacino wrote:i dont think they coordinated

pacino wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

traderdave wrote:I swear my response would have been, "No, Governor, I expect you to at least pretend like you give a #$!&@".

Softball question: Big CC could have simply ticked off a list of stuff he did over the weekend in NJ, & offered to check in with the girl's friends/contacts. Y'know, All presidentially.

Instead he chooses - CHOOSES - to browbeat her. Who brought these nincompoops up?

he did in an antagonistic, fake concern-type way, to be fair

i just dont see who sees how he comes across and thinks 'i want this guy to lead my country'.