On today’s BradCast: It’s astonishing how many GOP policies, practices and nominees must be pushed through by force, scheming, lying and the breaking of norms and traditions. If any of the stuff they are pushing was actually popular and sought by voters, it doesn’t seem like the strong-arm tactics would be necessary. But… [Audio link to show follows below.]
Among the stories covered on today’s show:
- Nebraska law disallows state officials from considering Thursday’s massive Keystone Pipeline tarsands oil spill in South Dakota in their upcoming decision on permits to build the even larger and more dangerous KeystoneXL Pipeline expansion in Nebraska;
- Things are getting ugly in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee as the GOP attempts to ram through massive, unpopular tax cuts for the rich before the Thanksgiving break;
- Even Fox “News” now finds Alabama’s GOP U.S. Senate nominee Roy Moore to be in trouble with voters before the December 12 special election, following growing allegations of sexual assault on minors;
- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Chair does away with 100-year old “blue slip” tradition in order to ram through more of Trump’s lifetime appointments to the federal bench;
- Those appointees, a new analysis finds, are almost exclusively white and male;
- They’re also “not qualified”, dishonest and racist, as investigative journalists have recently discovered;
- So are Trump’s appointees to other areas of the federal government, more of whom were forced to resign in disgrace this week;
- In other “Filling the Swamp” news, Trump continues to spin the revolving door with Big Pharma exec nominated to head Health and Human Services (HHS), a Big Coal exec gets rammed through the Senate to head the office of Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), but one wildly inappropriate appointee to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may actually get blocked…by Senate Republicans! What are the odds? Well, we’ll believe it when — and if — we actually see it…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
11/17/2017
Of Pipelines, Tax Cuts, and Corrupt Trump Appointments: ‘BradCast’ 11/17/2017 · · · · · Of Pipelines, Tax Cuts, and Corrupt Trump Appointments: ‘BradCast’ 11/17/2017
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The apparent selection of high level non-indicted
felons, is NOT a bug, it is as feature of the Drumpf
Administration. Or, they are appointed to destroy
the departments, or at least, disable them.
ONLY DRAINING THE SWAMP TO PUT IN BIGGER ALIGATORS
i really wonder how things are gonna go in alabama
if the machines spit out a moore “win” are people going to believe that too?
he has the entire national repub party bashing him which should at least depress the repub vote
numerous repubs are saying they will write in a candidate or even gasp vote dem
never a better time to actually COUNT THE VOTES
https://www.democraticundergrou...om/10029860272