Obits, in the political sense.
[Zero Hedge] - Having heard from The White House Chief of Staff earlier that they would "fight their hearts out" to get Neera Tanden confirmed as OMB Director and White press Secretary Jen Psaki that Neera Tanden has "wide spectrum of support", it would appear tonight that the fight is over and the support was not wide enough.
The Washington Post reports that The White House plans to withdraw the nomination of Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget as early as Tuesday evening, according to people familiar with the matter.
As we previously detailed, Tanden was facing bipartisan opposition from senators due to past comments she made on her Twitter feed.
As a reminder, here is what Glenn Greenwald wrote of the Tanden nomination in November: Check out that thread for those of you not completely familiar with this particular specimen's brand of vileness and overall cunty behaviour...
[Just The News] Throughout his presidential campaign and continuing since taking the White House, Joe Biden has promised a transparent approach to press and public relations. Yet in recent weeks, his administration has closed off — at least for now — several key avenues via which the press and public have for years gained a modicum of transparency, accessibility and accountability from the White House.
These moves to curb press and public access come as President Joe Biden himself has at times appeared to be struggling with the public demands of his job.
Notably, the White House has said that while it will divulge records of individuals who physically visit the White House, it will not be sharing virtual visitor logs. The Biden administration has relied heavily on virtual meetings out of concerns that COVID-19 might spread in face-to-face gatherings.
An unnamed White House official told Politico this week that the administration's refusal to release virtual meeting logs was in line with "the same way that previous administrations didn't release phone logs."
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki this week acerbically dismissed a reporter's query into the administration's lack of transparency on the issue.
"[Biden is] meeting with members of the Senate virtually today," she said. "There, I've released it for you. What else would you like to know?"
It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate.
Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD’s workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep compromise - a big one, considering the phase in.
The Big Mac Index reports that Denmark has the fifth most expensive hamburger in the world, costing $4.32. Just last year the famous burger would have cost you $5.38, which goes to show how strong the dollar really has become in just one year.
#4
Hey cheapo, make it $50 dollars an hour or better $100 an hour. It's not your money, right?
Communist concept of economic is based solely upon feelings not reality. Soviet central planning. How's that working for most of the population of Venezuela, not the party faithful?
BTW will someone show me in the Constitution that Congress has the power to establish a minimum wage? Just asking to see the text.
#10
It sure is rich for the far left to pretend that they give a shit about the working class. They just spent 4 years punching down and telling the working class that they need to fuck off. Example:
"We have to face the reality that most working class people are just hopelessly uninformed about almost everything of importance.
We can listen to an impassioned rant from them about the national debt, but it is almost invariably, to be brutally honest, meaningless or totally erroneous babble which exhibits a failure to understand the most basic, trivial facts about economics or about trade policy or immigration policy or whatever else it may be. The working class, both young and old, are mostly a load of greasy little toads who are too stubborn to improve themselves."
[NationalPulse] President Donald Trump has confirmed reports he requested 10,000 National Guard troops ahead of the January 6th rally in Washington, D.C., only to be rebuffed by authorities.
Speaking Steve Hilton on "The Revolution," the former president outlined how he knew in advance of the crowd size:
"Everyone said we’ll be at the rally. It was, I think, the largest crowd that I have ever spoken to before. I have spoken to big crowds, hundreds of thousands of people, more than that, but hundreds of thousands of people."
In response, Trump said he "gave the number" to the Department of Defense, insisting that 10,000 members of the National Guard would be needed.
"They took that number, from what I understand, they gave it to people at the Capitol, that is controlled by Pelosi, and I heard they rejected it because they didn’t think it would look good," added Trump in the interview after his Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) speech.
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it is still something of a mystery how the Capital Police, which has about 2000 uniformed, could be so unprepared that day so they were so quickly overwhelmed.
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The top of the Capital Police apparently brought up the National Guard troops to Pelosi and she shot it down. So now she's parsing words saying Trump never asked.
[FREEBEACON] Embattled governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) has retained the services of a high-powered criminal defense attorney who defended Harvey Weinstein and Woody Allen against allegations of sexual assault.
Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor with close ties to Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance, will serve as legal counsel to the governor and his top aides, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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... On the other hand, keep in mind that Mr. Abramowitz is only batting .500 in those cases.
And honestly, Woody's escaped because he's A)85 years old, B) a helluva lot better liked than Weinstein was and C), Ms. Farrow comes across as a bit unsympathetic. Cuomo doesn't have any of that going for him.
Mike
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It seems the Dems are trying to deep-six Cuomo.
#4
All these #MeToo types are squirrels. The media is gleefully running after them in hopes that we'll forget the real scandal, the crime, in which Cuomo sent Covid-19 patients back to their nursing homes to infect their fellow nursing home residents. Other blue governors did the same. Any real journalist worth his or her salt would be busy trying to connect those dots instead of chasing squirrels. All the big-wig Democrats are throwing Cuomo under the bus for his sexual peccadillos but they've been ignoring the nursing home crime for months, almost a year now. Why? Doesn't anybody want to know? It stinks.
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I’m sorry, Harris is where she is because she banged her way to the top. Those women who are picking on quomo must not have been good enough to rise to the “vice” presidency.
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I don’t doubt the honourable governor of New York did exactly what he is accused of, and worse. And if that is what takes him down, I’m as happy as the FBI was when going after mobsters for not paying income tax. It seems to me the key is to get him out of power — murdering over 13,000 or so elderly retirement home residents is only a small portion of the lives his decisions ended or ruined since Covid was discovered, but he’ll never be tried for that, either.
[CNBC] A slew of Democrats on Capitol Hill...including progressives Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. on Monday proposed a 3% total annual tax on wealth exceeding $1 billion.
They also called for a lesser, 2% annual wealth tax on the net worth of households and trusts ranging from $50 million to $1 billion....The legislation would invest $100 billion into IRS systems and personnel, ensure a 30% audit rate for the super wealthy, and impose a 40% exit tax on wealthy Americans who seek to renounce their citizenship to avoid a wealth tax. I'd like to hear Oprah and Soros and Bezos testify on this.
Trusts and Houshold worth (not earnings)... Man is money going to flow offshore to havens. Vacation home? Sell it. Boat? Sell it. Newer or classic cars? Sell them. Move the money to hoards. High home price area? Move south. Mansions at vacation areas and islands? Sell. Create fake offshore companies to own stuff? Big Time!
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Yes a wealth tax for Congresscritters, they get to have the same assets as that they had when they entered the hallowed halls of Congress when they leave.
impose a 40% exit tax
n.b. The Constitution explicitly prohibits export taxes. Once again showing they have no use for the Constitution other than to assuage the rubes in behaving themselves rather than act on the abuses of the ruling caste.
CONGRESS
DECLARES SOCIALIST CLASS WARFARE
With Wealth Tax
Then Campaign Donations roll in from the Elite.
Once the $$$ is collected then Congress quietly BURIES a few Tax Loop Holes in some bill. That to use you must be OLD $$$$$.
The tax then becomes a means of keeping Middle Class working families from a massing wealth and passing it on to their children.
eg... The Inheritance Tax is loaded with loop holes, if you are already wealthy Class.
[NYPOST] Is there a bigger joke in broadcast news than Chris Cuomo?
Now, he says, he cannot cover his brother, Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo, because it’s a conflict of interest. You don’t say? Apparently no such conflict arose when Chris constantly hosted his brother during the height of the pandemic, tastelessly turning his nightly news show into "The Cuomo Brothers Variety Hour."
The governor took time out of his busy schedule — consisting of daily ego baths dressed up as pressers and writing a book about leadership while allegedly sexually harassing at least one young employee and eugenically shunting old people with COVID into nursing homes and certain death — to answer hard-hitting questions and accusations such as these, posed by little brother Chris:
"No matter how hard you’re working, there’s always time to call Mom. She wants to hear from you."
"You know that what people are saying about how you look really can’t be accurate, so it must be hard for you to make sense of what is real and what is true now. I feel for you."
"Now I’ve seen you referred to a little bit recently as the LuvGuv and I’m wondering if that’s bleeding into your demeanor at all and making you a little soft on the president?"
"Do you think you are an attractive person now because you’re single and ready to mingle?" (Those last two haven’t aged well at all.)
This unethical coverage, by the way, was cheered on by the mass media: The "Today" show, Oprahmag.com, NBC News, USA Today — to name a few — heartily endorsed it.
"That is one thing the Cuomo brothers do: They love one other," New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... media columnist Ben Smith wrote last April. "On March 30, the day a Navy hospital ship arrived in New York, they said, ’I love you,’ twice each, in quick succession."
This reads more like a soggy diary entry written by a teenage girl.
The same day Smith’s column ran, April 5, 2020, the Times reported that new state data showed 4,183 people had died in New York nursing homes from COVID.
Not that Chris Cuomo asked his brother about that.
Nor has CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... been on top of Gov. Cuomo’s latest scandal, the three credible allegations of sexual harassment against him.
And so many on the left still wonder why the mainstream media is mistrusted — 33 percent of Americans having "none at all," according to a recent Gallup poll.
"Obviously I love you as a brother," Chris told Andrew on his show last June. "Obviously I’ll never be objective."
Imagine: A CNN anchor just admitted on-air what we all knew — he could not do his job, but would continue to do it anyway!
Seriously, what does Chris Cuomo have on Jeff Zucker? Why does he still have this job? I realize this may be a hypothetical given Brian Williams, that other puffed-up fabulist, is back on MSNBC, but still — Chris Cuomo, reported annual salary $6 million, is a special case.
Lest we forget his self-indulgent chronicles once he tested positive for COVID (according to his own self-report), then roaming around the Hamptons without a mask and calling a local who spotted him a "jackass loser fat-tire biker"; later faking his emergence from basement quarantine on CNN; spanked by management of his NYC building for repeatedly entering, exiting and riding the elevator without a mask, and — as Page Six reported last December — flexing his muscles and admiring himself in that same mirrored elevator.
Ron Burgundy doesn’t come close to Chris Cuomo.
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Because his brother is Governor. This question only becomes relevant if/after the Governor loses his job... I imagine the interview came after both brothers told the other, “I need help”
[NYPOST] Top Democrats in the state Legislature are taking steps to strip Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo of his pandemic emergency powers — possibly as early as Friday — as the administration is embroiled in dueling scandals over the handling of nursing home deaths and allegations of sexual harassment against the governor.
The agreement on a bill stripping Cuomo of the powers was forged between state Sen. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-The Bronx). Once passed by both houses of the Legislature it would immediately repeal the powers granted to Cuomo last March to largely control state response to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , presently set to sunset on April 30.
That vote could come as soon as Friday.
The legislation would also bar Cuomo from creating new emergency directives without a sign off from legislative leaders and relevant committee chairs and would only allow the extension of existing directives if they are directly tied to managing the pandemic.
The deal would allow some of the existing directives to continue, such as the statewide mask order.
[New York Slimes] The young woman’s account follows two separate accusations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed two female state employees.
Anna Ruch had never met Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo before encountering him at a crowded New York City wedding reception in September 2019. Her first impression was positive enough.
The governor was working the room after toasting the newlyweds, and when he came upon Ms. Ruch, now 33, she thanked him for his kind words about her friends. But what happened next instantly unsettled her: Mr. Cuomo put his hand on Ms. Ruch’s bare lower back, she said in an interview on Monday.
When she removed his hand with her own, Ms. Ruch recalled, the governor remarked that she seemed "aggressive" and placed his hands on her cheeks. He asked if he could kiss her, loudly enough for a friend standing nearby to hear. Ms. Ruch was bewildered by the entreaty, she said, and pulled away as the governor drew closer.
"I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed," said Ms. Ruch, whose recollection was corroborated by the friend, contemporaneous text messages and photographs from the event. "I turned my head away and didn’t have words in that moment."
Ms. Ruch’s account comes after two former aides accused Mr. Cuomo of sexual harassment in the workplace, plunging his third term into turmoil as the governor’s defenders and Mr. Cuomo himself strain to explain his behavior.
A spokesman for the governor did not directly address Ms. Ruch’s account, referring to a general statement that Mr. Cuomo released on Sunday night in which he acknowledged that some things he had said "have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation."
"To the extent anyone felt that way, I am truly sorry about that," the statement said.
Ms. Ruch’s example is distinct from those of the former aides: A former member of the Obama administration and the 2020 Biden campaign, Ms. Ruch has never been employed by the governor or the state. But her experience reinforces the escalating concerns and accusations about Mr. Cuomo’s personal conduct — a pattern of words and actions that have, at minimum, made three women who are decades his junior feel deeply uncomfortable....
[DSCRN] Former CIA Director John Brennan announced during an interview on MSNBC that he finds himself "increasingly embarrassed to be a white male." That makes it unanimous; we're all embarassed you're white.
#7
We have to remember his conversion to Islam, so I don't the Bruce Jenner option is for him. More appropriate would be the 'man' to swine transition or perhaps the 'man' to rat.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Just The News] Throughout his presidential campaign and continuing since taking the White House, Joe Biden has promised a transparent approach to press and public relations. Yet in recent weeks, his administration has closed off — at least for now — several key avenues via which the press and public have for years gained a modicum of transparency, accessibility and accountability from the White House. 
/\ That's simply the manner in which the event was scripted. 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[New York Slimes] The young woman’s account follows two separate accusations that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed two female state employees.
[DSCRN] Former CIA Director John Brennan announced during an interview on MSNBC that he finds himself "increasingly embarrassed to be a white male."
