South Carolina Republican Senator [Lindsey Graham], speaking on “CBS This Morning,” said he’ll formally unveil his campaign plans in his hometown of Central, SC.
But he also repeatedly used the phrase “I’m running….”
Regardless of what we might think of Graham’s work in the Senate, in particular concerning immigration, foreign policy, and our handling of the Daesh, this is a level of indiscipline that we don’t need in the White House.
The Illinois Supreme Court struck down the state’s 2013 pension overhaul, unraveling an effort by lawmakers to rein in benefits for the consistently underfunded public-sector system.
The current pension shortfall is estimated at $111 billion, one of the largest nationally.
So now the citizens of Illinois must act. It is, after all, their Constitution, not the judges’. Assume that the judges of Illinois’ Supreme Court aren’t partisan hacks (they’re politician-lawyers who are elected to 10-year terms by the citizens of Illinois) and have correctly interpreted the state’s Constitution: they ruled correctly, ruling in accordance with the text of the state’s constitution.
Get to work, folks. Nobody else is going to bail you out, nobody else has an obligation to bear the expense of your own foolishness in repeatedly selecting politicians to represent you in Springfield like those who got you into this mess.
The Arkansas Republican‘s [first-term Senator Tom Cotton] tactics have drawn praise from his conservative supporters, but irritated some GOP colleagues when his moves have conflicted with their efforts.
And
Mr Cotton has drawn unusual attention, particularly for inserting himself into negotiations with Iran.
Possibly Republican (and Democrat) Senate old heads should be a bit less comfortable in their seniority roles and get a bit more comfortable in their own skins and with the requirements of their employment—their constituents’ instructions. The quality of ideas and of actions don’t stem from whom their authors are; they’re intrinsic in those ideas and actions.
On the matter of the Clinton Foundation’s need to refile some past tax reporting records because others had discovered that the Foundation had underreported its income, the Foundation’s Acting CEO Maura Pally offered this:
We made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them. And [we] have taken steps to ensure they don’t happen in the future.
Fair enough. Based solely on this instance of underreporting, it’s difficult to lay the error off to corruption or incompetence, even though the erroneous underreporting is a massive error, and the underreported donations occurred while Hillary Clinton was sitting in the Secretary of State’s chair.
But then Pally added this:
the group has already announced that it will accept funding from only a “handful of governments….”
Thus, in addition to giving the appearance, if as yet undemonstrated fact, that the Secretary of State’s influence was…available…Clinton, through Pally, is giving the impression that the President’s chair will be similarly available to selected foreign governments, should she be elected.
The woman is either oblivious, and so incompetent, or she’s a corrupt politician, and so unfit.
Hmm….
