Headlines

Schumer calls on VA to explain use of unproven drug on vets

Mnuchin says jobless numbers ‘may get worse before they get better’ — unemployment may hit 25%

Dr. Birx: ‘Nothing from CDC I can trust’ ...

California to mail out 21 million ballots. What could go wrong?

Mnuchin: Trump administration ‘carefully’ monitoring reopening

Coronavirus live updates: VA spent $208,000 on Trump-promoted malaria drug to treat vets

Florida nursing home fatalities spike dramatically ...

73 percent of US adults: China holds blame for coronavirus deaths

Court halts ban on mass gathering at Kentucky churches

‘Back to where we started’ — New York coronavirus hospitalization drop to March levels, Cuomo says

White House aides rattled after infections strike inner circle ...

Scalise: Obama, Biden should answer for their role in Flynn case

Headlines

Mark Cuban on Trump’s economy bullishness: ‘I wish he were right, but he’s not.’

Coronavirus live update: May 1 too soon to reopen, says Johns Hopkins director, UK PM discharged

NYT: Behind Trump’s failure on COVID-19 ...

Abbott: I’ll issue executive order on safe business reopening

Gridlocked Israel nears 4th consecutive election

Fauci says earlier social distancing measures ‘obviously’ would have saved more lives

Italy extends lockdown despite business pressure ...

VA governor signs universal background checks, gun rationing bill

Dozens arrested in Brussels riots during lockdown

OPEC and allies will hold an emergency virtual meeting Sunday night to finalize cut agreement

USA gave $3.7M to Wuhan lab at center of scrutiny ...

Kentucky officials will report license plates fo Easter churcfgoers

Headlines

Warren snub of California convention a show of ‘disrespect, ‘ state party leader says

Stocks fall into the red on report Trump-Xi meeting could be delayed until December

Dems take KY gov ... Suburban revolt growing ...

Report: GOP discussing whether to include Biden’s in impeachment trial

Macron takes dig at Trump over climate pact exit: ‘I deplore some choices’

California AG says Facebook isn’t cooperating with probe, asks for court order

Most Republicans on committees aren’t showing up, transcripts reveal

Donald Trump ready for ‘WAR’ on drug cartels in Mexico

United Kingdom  ignores warnings of digital election interference

House will hold first public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry next week

Somali wins in Maine ...

‘Squad’ divided: Pressley backs Fauxcahauntas

Headlines

'John Kelly is the man Fred Trump always wanted Donald Trump to be'

Trump lawyer releases letter from porn star denying affair with POTUS

CNN says 'shithole' 36 times [in one night] ...

School [UMass Amherst] limits free speech to one hour per day ...

Trump administration OKs Medicaid rollback in Kentucky

California killing its last nuclear plant, putting locals in $85 million bind

Saudi richest man running out of time to make freedom deal ...

Amazon Jeff Bezos announces deal to give $33 million scholarships to 1000 illegal immigrants

Judge: Trump's racism may have been key to ending DACA

Ryan says environmental reform unlikely this year

Trump physical : excellent health ... approval back up to 46% ...

Spielberg endorses Oprah, would make am 'absolutely brilliant president'

Carbon Footprints

The moon is full and the bats are flying ... and Hellery is hiding under her counterpane so that the moonbats won't get tangled in her wig ... er, hair. A few weeks ago Hellery reinforced Obummer's oath to put coal companies out of business ... only she unfortunately also cursed coal miners too in this death threat. Like her former moonbat-in-chief, she stigmatized carbon as being more evil than terrorists and promised to help the world reduce its "carbon footprint." And who trudges through carbon detritus more than miners as they are harvesting coal. When they are back above ground, these miners have, by necessity, a seriously grimy carbon footprint.

Hellery is trembling undercover because she made the rookie mistake of going to West Virginia, where coal is king, to campaign for president ... and was confronted there by coal miners who rationally took umbrage at her threatening to take away their livelihoods. One supposedly friendly and vetted questioner asked an unfriendly question to whit -- how could she "threaten to put coal miners out of jobs?" Clearly taken aback, Hellery hum-a-hummed her way around a fractured political non-answer until her handlers threw a net over this bumptious questioner.

So Hellery has deep-sixed her chances in West Virginia, Montana, Illinois, Kentucky, Wyoming, and good swaths of Pennsylvania and Ohio ... not a good start to her capuring a majority of the Electoral College in November ... all because of her anathema to carbon footprints.

Rotting from Within

Government is inherently corrupt.  The fact that anything gets done ostensibly to benefit the governed that also doesn’t diminish individual freedom and line the pockets of those governing is most often just an oversight.  Our founding fathers knew this and did their level best to construct a mechanism of governance which would minimize this genetic flaw … at the expense of substantial legislative, executive and judicial efficiency.

However, almost 240 years later, the devilishly devious minds of our elected snollygosters have managed to circumvent most of these Constitutional barriers … the latest being the legislation that became law last night in Washington.  From Politico we read about the law that broke our latest fiscal impasses:

The legislation also includes a McConnell-written proposal that would allow Congress to disapprove of the debt-ceiling increase. Lawmakers will formally vote on rejecting the bump of the borrowing limit - if it passed, it could be vetoed by Obama. 

 The deal would also deliver back pay to furloughed federal workers, require a study of income verification for people seeking health-insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act and also allows the Treasury Department to use extraordinary measures to pay the nation’s bills if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling in a timely fashion.

Other than a little window dressing that means nothing to our power-lusting President, this is a rollover.  Basically, the power of the purse, as granted to the legislature in the Constitution, has been greatly usurped by corrupt politicians of both stripes in Washington ... much of this prerogative is now the President's ... a very dangerous thing.  For what?  So that many in Congress might get a puff-piece in the New York Times or help insure their re-election … read and weep: The Conversation.

Oh yes, and Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, also gets a $3 billion piece of pork for his state, Kentucky … see: The WFPL News.  I suspect there are surely some other bits of bacon also included in this legislative travesty.

QED

Afterward: I was right about the additional bacon, see: The Hill Story.