Make this hurt them. Hit them with it until they fall.

And he did. Asshole.

It’s through. Collins and Mukowski held out but no one else did.

We’re down to McCain and Johnson. Either could sink it. Murkowski and Collins both said no already.

Make Manatees not Revisionist Histories!

I always assumed it was short for “contour” myself.

I’ll admit, I consider both it and the bachelor party kind of foolish. The bachelorette came into being to mimic the bachelor party, which is part of a tradition I greatly dislike. That is, the tradition of treating a man’s side of the marriage as if he does not want to be married, as if marriage takes things away…

Mattis is probably the most competent person in the administration; even if you don’t agree with a lot of his conservative stances (I do not agree with a lot of them, myself) he at least gives a shit about how policy affects the man on the street and the troops on the ground. Like how he helped block the bill that…

Oh, I don’t think Tillerson is better than someone who’d know what they were doing, certainly. But he does seem like he’s at least, you know, trying to do the job he was hired for which is more than most of the people in this administration.

Pentagon rumor mill is that he’s not happy about how slow the replacement process is going, no.

Plus Mattis won’t like it. He and Tillerson meet weekly and are pretty much the Sane Kids of the bunch.

Yep. He and Mattis are pretty much the only ones trying to keep things sane and, well...it’s not going well for them.

The news in the Pentagon is he and Mattis are swamped trying to be the sane people at the table. Mattis is mad since Tillerson’s been short-staffed and Mattis actually wants diplomats doing diplomacy, not the armed forces. Tillerson’s been leaning on Mattis for help when he can but the administration’s been such a…

Apparently Tillerson and Mattis meet weekly to try and work with what they’ve been given. They’re sort of the sane club of the administration, since Mattis cares more about how things affect people on the street and troops on the ground, not the rhetoric, and Tillerson genuinely wants to try and do his damn job…

I wish her luck. A very sad game I’ve been playing lately is “Is this an alt-righter pretending to be a leftist to troll, of a leftist who is parroting the alt-right without a care?” Very hard to tell sometimes.

I don’t know if she was trying to get promoted out or not. Or who would have promoted her out if she was.

Yeah, the idea was this big pavilion with moving walls they could re-arrange and the walls would have exhibits on them (as a museum studies graduate, stuff flat on a wall is generally considered the most boring kind of exhibit—plus the way it was pitched to us the stuff on the walls would be slow to change if ever).…

I still remember a 2014 attack as for the house rep for my area. Rep Southerland accused his opponent of voting for it and working with Pelosi* to pass it, with tons of cuts to “voters” scolding her for that.

We pointed out if they couldn’t move the money fine, but given the project was going nowhere to use money that wasn’t locked in to do other stuff since apparently some donors thought they were making general donations and were getting it shunted into that project. The real point was she was wasting time getting this…