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by Rappaport & Lichtblau @ New York Times, 12:16 pm ET
2) Also some big picture "pushback" analysis at
"A Jarring New Level of Confrontation Hits Washington" by Hulse @1:12 PM ET
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The Hill, 10:29 am: Dems boycott confirmation votes for Trump nominees
with quotes from both Repubs & Dems; excerpt:
Democrats walked out of the Senate Finance Committee hearing room Tuesday morning, arguing that Mnuchin and Price misled senators in their testimony before the panel, and saying they could not allow a vote to proceed without more information.
"He misled Congress and he misled the American people," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the panel, said of Price.
Democrats said they wanted to bring Price and Mnuchin in for further questions, saying some of their statements did not line up with the facts.
"We have great concern that Chairman Hatch is asking us to vote today on two nominees who out and out lied to our committee," said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).
And @ 1:31 pm: White House blasts 'outrageous' Dem boycott
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2017 - 3:42pm
And The Hill on Senate 1:40 pm: Dems delay Sessions vote
Senate Democrats used a procedural move Tuesday to stall a committee vote on Sen. Jeff Sessions’s nomination to be attorney general.....The Senate Judiciary Committee will reconvene at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday to vote on Sessions’s nomination, Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said. [.....]
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2017 - 3:46pm
Well, so much for that idea.
by barefooted on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 11:09am
Yeah, I saw, you said it. Reminded me of what Mark Shields said in the vid moat posted, that the Dem party has basically disappeared nationwide. While they deal with that (not well, or maybe not at all?) news junkies like me might just better off paying more attention to what civil servants and various wings of the GOP are doing if we want to understand wassup in the here and now? I'm just not the activist type who wants to work at doing spin for the Dems--though I agree that in these days of viral, that can work--life is short, I am getting on in years, only so many hours in the day and I hate doing spin, rather, I've always enjoyed deconstructing it.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 8:43pm
At least they tried. As a minority they aren't going to be able to effectively do much, but for the sake of the Democratic base morale they have to make the effort (not to mention that folks are seriously on their backs). As for paying attention ... Trump and his agencies have been very quietly backing down/off of things, like green card holders being included in the ban, the push for pharmaceutical companies to negotiate with Medicare and his "demand" for an investigation into voter fraud just to name a few off the top of my head. Like Peracles pointed out, the idea may be to give us plenty to yell about so we won't notice that he's not quite the tough guy he'd like us to believe his is. Deconstructing the spin might be our best advantage.
by barefooted on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 9:16pm
always glad to have deconstructing buddies!
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 10:00pm
from those that we don't even know if they are Dems or Repubs:
Letter of Dissent on Ban Goes Viral at U.S. Embassies
New York Times, By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN 46 minutes ago
The State Department cable, asserting that the president’s order on immigration will not make the nation safer, has wended through dozens of embassies and is still spreading.
It's till being circulated for editing and signatures, and as mentioned in the article, these dissent memoes are part of their system but rare
“Policy dissent is in our culture,” said one diplomat in Africa, who did not want to speak publicly before the letter was released. “We even have awards for it.”
and
Most people in the State Department have never seen anything like this, the diplomat said. He said dissent memos were reserved for major policy issues, not for little grumbles like bad food in the embassy cafeteria.
Sounds just the opposite of Trump's tweets (or even his hastily-written-by-others executive orders). He won't read it, natch?
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2017 - 4:23pm
story title updated to say they've got 1,000 signatures.
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/31/2017 - 6:26pm
Senate Dems results so far, leave it to others to judge good or bad:
'Idiots' — Senate tensions boil over
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 2:01am
Growing wave of federal workers is pushing back against Trump, Washington Post, Feb. 1, with 3 reporters on it:
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 2:47am
Two G.O.P. Senators to Oppose DeVos as Education Secretary, Imperiling Her Confirmation
In New York Times First 100 days Briefing updated Feb. 1. 6:54pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 9:01pm
find myself wishing right now that liberal local governments will feel free to lock up self-styled anarchists out on the street promoting rioting, even rioting without damage.
This kind of thing
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02/02/protests-at-uc-berkeley-over-speech-alt-right-lah.cnn
gives me very bad juju as a boomer who was once a fan of the SDS and Chicago 7 and lived through "the generation gap" and "the silent majority" and the terrible results of it all.
Please liberals, disavow these anarchists, they are going to ruin the whole anti-Trump populist reaction.
by artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 10:06pm