In keeping with the lawmakers, “one of the best ways” to enhance outcomes for folks in the US “is to cease particular pursuits from profiting off of the general public service of presidency officers and to padlock the revolving door between company, particular curiosity and our authorities.”
To this finish, the trio insisted on “enacting a complete ban on lobbyists employed by firms from serving within the administration, particularly at government companies they lobbied.” […]
THREE OTHER ARTICLES WORTH READING
- A Historic Surge in Gun Violence Compounds the Traumas of 2020, by Champe Barton, Brian Freskos, and Daniel Nass. In over a dozen cities, homicides rose by 50 p.c or extra this 12 months. “It’s very seemingly that these will increase are bigger than any on report,” mentioned one criminologist.
- ’Basically Cyberbullying’: How Cops Abuse Social Media to Publicly Humiliate, by Hope Corrigan. Regulation enforcement companies are creating on-line content material, typically on the expense of individuals they’ve arrested.
- Trump Has Reached the ‘Railing Against Mike Pence’ Bunker Phase, by Jonathan Chait. In the true final stages of the Trump presidency, we ultimately have proof of real change. Trump’s psychological decline will not be truly accelerating, however he’s turning towards his supporters in a pointy and distinctive vogue.
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“The virus that we’re speaking about having to do, lots of people suppose that goes away in April, with the warmth, as the warmth is available in, usually that can go away in April.” ~~Donald J. Trump, Feb. 10, 2020.
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
At Every day Kos on this date in 2002—In protection of Sen. Murray:
Boy, stung from a actual scandal, the GOP is now trying to manufacture one on the Democratic aspect.
So here is the deal:
Sen. Patty Murray meant to be provocative when she instructed a gaggle of highschool college students terrorist chief Osama bin Laden is in style in poor nations as a result of he helped pay for faculties, roads and even day care facilities.
“We have not accomplished that,” Murray mentioned. “How would they take a look at us as we speak if we had been there serving to them with a few of that slightly than simply being the people who find themselves going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?”
Received it? She mentioned: the US could be extra in style abroad if we constructed faculties, slightly than bomb. Osama builds faculties (which he does). Subsequently, Osama is extra in style.
That is outrageous? So Drudge and all of the jokers of the Mighty Wullitzer are making Murray out to be some form of enemy sympathizer. Even higher, they’re asking her to resign. This at the same time as identified segregationists Lott and Ashcroft stay in public service
