Ecuador voters appear to pass referendum forbidding its civil servants and politicians from investing in tax havens. They'd have a year to bring their money back to Ecuador, and if they didn't, they'd have to quit their jobs serving the public. If you're about to argue that politicians should have the same rights to put their money where they like as everyone else, please do two things: 1) slap yourself, and 2) meditate on the last three words of the previous sentence. The mantle of public service requires you to make decisions in the public interest, not in your own personal portfolio's interest.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wonders whether the EPA "has the tools" to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. Of course, the Supreme Court ruled, almost 10 years ago, in an opinion authored by the late Justice Scalia, that the EPA does, in fact, have those tools. 10 years ago! Two Presidents ago! But if you feel compelled to hide your toolbox from yourself, of course you'll "wonder" where all the tools are.
At long last, someone takes to one of the big newspapers and urges Democrats to move left. The math certainly doesn't appear to support the notion that Democrats should try to win back the white voters who defected from Mr. Obama to Mr. Trump, since many, many more of them defected to Libertarian and Green candidates in the three battleground states that Mr. Trump unexpectedly flipped on Election Day. I'd still like to have had some inkling of what the author means by "moving left," though -- social issues are far from unimportant, but Democrats won't really win voters back, and for the long haul, until they move left on economic issues.
Trump Administration Press Secretary Sean Spicer laments (and "laments" is the word) that the President doesn't get more credit for all his leadership in fighting anti-Semitism. You and I will remember that Mr. Trump went well out of his way to excise the word "Jewish" from his first Presidential Holocaust statement, but forget that for now. I want to know when right-wingers will finally hear statements like "no matter how many times he talks about this that it's never good enough" as whining.
Finally, right-wing hack Milo Yiannopoulos loses his book deal with Simon and Schuster (and, later, his Breitbart job) after previous utterances resurface in which he favored pederasty in certain circumstances. So, to sum: self-hating gay man who makes career out of bullying others finally gets comeuppance after saying maybe we ought to bend our society's rules on consent -- which state that no child can consent to have sex with an adult -- because a lot of gay kids are lonely. Is it too much to ask that we never hear from, or about, this clown again?
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