The Absurd GOP

[Angrboda]

Comey’s lawyer are trying to get the charges against him dismissed, arguing that the appointment of Allison Halligan was unlawful. In support of this argument, they are citing legal opinions from Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Aileen Cannon.

My joy borders on the inexpressible.

Boru

They've likely got a good case. The appeals court is giving the government the side-eye in the remarkably similar Alina Habba case.

[Paraselene]

According to them, the constitution was designed to make Trump a king.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Comey’s lawyer are trying to get the charges against him dismissed, arguing that the appointment of Allison Halligan was unlawful. In support of this argument, they are citing legal opinions from Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, and Aileen Cannon.

My joy borders on the inexpressible.

Boru

They've likely got a good case.  The appeals court is giving the government the side-eye in the remarkably similar Alina Habba case.

SCOTUS won't care. They've already demonstrated their pretzel logic regarding precedent. Does anyone think the will abide their own precedent despite any contradictions? I don't. I predict a Trumpian "I was just joking" moment, or a "no, no, we were misunderstood."

This court doesn't give a shit about consistency. The majority, after all, claims to want to read the Constitution from the viewpoint of the Framers, yet this same majority asserts that our Constitution permits autocracy -- when that was the last thing the Framers wanted. If they don't care about such a grand inconsistency as that, does anyone think a decision they made a few months ago will cause problems? I don't.

[Jackalope]

^^°All of this. Not to mention using the shadow docket to avoid establishing precedent

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

MAGA Math

Dr Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, got himself into a desperate mathematical tangle attempting to defend President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on  on Wednesday.

“Cutting drug prices by 400 percent, anything over 100 percent, wouldn’t that effectively make them free? Is that a realistic goal from the president?” Welker asked Dr Oz.

Attempting to mount an explanation, the administrator said: “The president does the calculation by saying, ‘OK, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100 percent cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100 percent.’”

The physician struggled with precisely the same calculation at a White House press conference on October 16, held to promote a new deal on fertility drugs, when he said at one stage in his address: “You’ll notice, President Trump, these are discounted from $242 to $10.

“I don’t know what the math is on that. We can’t even calculate it. It’s too high to calculate.”


A reduction from $242 to $10 is 95.87 percent.

Boru

[Paraselene]

The GOP expected Democrats to relent on the shutdown by now. That isn't happening.

NBC

[Angrboda]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I’m fairly certain the average US soybean farmer doesn’t have a $600 million cushion to ride out the bad times.

Boru

[Paraselene]

It was the worst of times and it was the worster of times.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It was the worst of times and it was the worster of times.

Mr. Dickens would be proud!!

Boru