GOP Loves Ribbon Cuttings For Projects They Voted Against

The ‘vote no and take the dough’ House GOP rides again!



By Joan McCarter — March 7, 2024

House Republicans will suck up $4.5 billion for pet projects in their districts, also known as earmarks, in the upcoming spending bills that most of them will probably vote against. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called them the “vote no and take the dough” caucus back in 2021, and they’re doing their best to prove her right.

The first of the funding bills for fiscal year 2024 is slated to be on the House floor Wednesday, coming under a suspension of the rules, which means it bypasses the House Rules Committee and won’t be open for amendments. That’s because House GOP leadership can’t get through the Rules Committee to do it under regular order. That’s been the case on all of the funding bills since former Speaker Kevin McCarthy handed the committee over to the extremists.

That means that the package will likely pass Wednesday in the House with mostly Democratic votes, barring a disaster or major revolt from the right that gives Johnson cold feet. House Republicans have sucked up much of that earmarked money, which they now call “community funding projects,” and they will go home to their constituents and brag in their reelection ads about the money they’re bringing home. What they won’t say is that they relied on Democrats to get it done.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/gop-loves-ribbon-cuttings-projects-they

Boeing discloses names of 737 MAX employees after NTSB chair faults cooperation

By David Shepardson
Published March 6, 20247:24 PM EST Updated 16 hours ago

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab on Wednesday provided U.S. regulators with the names of employees on its 737 MAX door team after lawmakers and a federal safety official sharply criticized the planemaker's failure to do so at a Senate hearing.

National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy had said earlier on Wednesday that Boeing had failed to supply the employee names and some key records sought in the agency's ongoing investigation into the Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines (ALK.N), opens new tab 737 MAX 9 mid-air cabin door plug emergency.

Homendy said at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing that investigators sought the names of the 25 people who work on door plugs at a Boeing facility in Renton, Washington, and had begun a week of interviews on Sunday. "It is absurd that two months later we don't have it," she said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ntsb-says-boeing-has-not-provided-some-information-sought-737-max-9-probe-2024-03-06/

I don't know if people fully understand what it takes to work on a plane, but let me say, that I built a strategic bomber, I have worked on every plane / jet produced from 1970-2001 on line maintenance, and every time we removed or installed a fucking part we had to document what we did, then we had inspection verify if it was required for safety of flight and then the Quality control wwould make sure that all work was performed as certified and the then the FAA would look to make sure that the ATA procedures was covered............

Trump warns he could be open to blackmail if U.S. Supreme Court doesn't grant immunity

By Matthew Chapman
Published March 4, 2024 3:07 PM ET

In a series of posts to his Truth Social platform on Monday, former President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that he'll be open to blackmail if the Supreme Court upholds lower court decisions that he does not have immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken as president.

Trump has argued the office of president means he can't face criminal prosecution.

It's an effort to try to block charges filed against him by special counsel Jack Smith in the federal election conspiracy case, related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential results culminating in the January 6 attack.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immunity-2667419223/

JFC the traitor is basically admitting that he can be bought..................for a price...........and this still need to be laid at the feet of the republican senate for "not" convicting this head insurrectionist, not once but twice ............and then what's really classic there if not all 6 of the republican US Supreme Court whatever you want to call themselves have taken "favors" of some sort and, as the old saying goes when you have favors done for you, there is pay back when being asked because of that "favor" .....

'Astonishing and unprecedented': Conservative slams SCOTUS decision on Trump ballot

By Matthew Chapman
Published March 4, 2024 5:37 PM ET

The Supreme Court's decision to restore former President Donald Trump to the ballot in Colorado and shut down any state decisions on Fourteenth Amendment disqualification was wrong, argued retired federal Judge Michael Luttig on CNN Monday.

Luttig, widely regarded as one of the founding intellectuals behind the modern-day conservative legal movement, has long been one of the strongest proponents of Colorado's decision, which had held that the Fourteenth Amendment's Insurrection Clause bars the former president from the ballot for his incitement of the January 6 attack.

"Judge Luttig, you predicted that the Supreme Court would affirm Colorado's decision to remove Trump from the ballot, calling Colorado's decision 'unassailable in every single respect under the Constitution,'" said anchor Jake Tapper. "I guess the justices didn't see it your way. What's your reaction?"

Virginia School Board Member Arrested On Capitol Riot Charges

Miles Adkins blames his arrest on his being a Republican during an election year, but not for committing crimes against the nation.

By Chris capper Liebenthal — March 3, 2024

Miles Adkins, a member of the Fredrick School District School Board in Virginia, has been arrested for his participation in the January 6th insurrection:

Miles Adkins, 40, of Frederick County, faces four misdemeanor charges in federal court.

The FBI says a picture shows Adkins inside the Capitol helping someone else climb in through a window.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/virginia-school-board-member-arrested

SO Miles do you think that your votes to become a School Board member should be thrown out............because SFB, that why you were at the capital to throw out votes and intimidate 70 million other voters ............I think you should be thrown in a federal jail........lets say Florence Colorado..........once an insurrectionist always an insurrectionist......and your trying to blame your crime on the DOJ.........the DOJ wasn't there you an your fellow criminal insurrectionists were.........

It's A Cult: Kid At Trump Rally Wants 'Fani And Nikki In Jail'

This is really sick.

By Conover Kennard — March 3, 2024
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans accused former President Barack Obama of trying to indoctrinate children. Of course, they accused him of that without evidence.

A kid at twice-impeached four times indicted former President Donald Trump's rally told Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, Brian Glenn, that District Attorney Fani Willis and Trump's rival Nikki Haley should be imprisoned, even though his orange god is the only one facing charges.

"Let's put Fani and Nikki in jail," the kid said.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/its-cult-kid-trump-rally-wants-fani-and

Hey RSBN.............good thing there isn't a fairness doctrine right..............I think you should be in jail.....better yet move to mother Russia.....Iran, North Korea,...........

House Republican Readies Discharge Petition To Thwart Speaker Johnson

Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters on Thursday he was preparing an effort to circumvent House Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on aid to Ukraine.

By Ed Scarce — March 3, 2024
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. In this case, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, has to get around the impediment known as Mike Johnson in order to secure much-needed military aid for Ukraine. Johnson has chosen not to schedule a vote because Trump told him not to (and Putin told Trump, probably).

The House version would provide $66 billion in military aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, of which $47.7 billion would go to Ukraine. A portion of that would include much-needed improved air defense systems, the kind that saves civilian lives, such as this woman and her three-month-old baby in Odesa.

Source: NY1

Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a House Republican lawmaker in favor of Ukraine aid, told reporters on Thursday he was preparing an effort to circumvent House Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on aid to Ukraine.

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/03/house-republican-readies-discharge

'Killed in vast numbers': Horseshoe crabs under threat from overharvesting

Robin McKie
Sat 2 Mar 2024 05.51 EST

They are some of the most spectacular images currently on display at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in London. Huge pictures of weird creatures with golden carapaces and multiple legs scuttling across the seabed now adorn the walls of the city’s Natural History Museum.

The award-winning photographs, taken by Laurent Ballesta, could be visions of extraterrestrial lifeforms. In fact, they are horseshoe crabs that evolved hundreds of millions of years ago and which are some of Earth’s oldest species. These living fossils thrive on the ocean floor where they root out worms, algae, and clams that they crush between their legs before eating.

The biological relationship between horseshoe crabs and Homo sapiens is distant. Yet these strange creatures have become a vitally important cog in modern life – for their bright blue blood is a critical component of tests to assess the safety of vaccines, insulin injections and many other medical interventions used by humans today.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/02/killed-in-vast-numbers-horseshoe-crabs-under-threat-from-overharvesting

'Huge tax breaks': private equity prepares for a boon from Congress

Billions in private equity and corporate taxes could be rolled back, along with what critics say is a sop for child tax credits

Adam Lowenstein in Washington
Fri 1 Mar 2024 07.00 EST

Some of largest and most profitable companies in the US are primed to save billions of dollars from a congressional tax deal that critics say gives “billions in tax credits to the biggest corporations while giving pennies to middle-class children and families”. And private equity funds could be among the deal’s biggest beneficiaries, a Guardian analysis suggests.

The tax cuts passed the House of Representatives at the end of January as part of an agreement that pairs handouts for businesses with a moderate expansion of the child tax credit. The Senate could vote on the bill over the coming weeks, and the White House has indicated that Joe Biden would sign it into law.

The deal, led by Democratic senator Ron Wyden and Republican congressman Jason Smith – the chairs of Congress’s tax-writing committees – would roll back a series of tax measures that were designed to partially offset the cost of the 2017 Trump tax cuts.
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In a statement to the Guardian, a Wyden spokesperson said: “The provision dealing with business interest was a Republican priority in negotiations, and it’s clear that it would become law in a Republican Congress without any matching benefit for working families. With the support of finance committee Democrats, Senator Wyden set a standard for this divided Congress that any tax cuts for corporations must be matched with an investment in children and families that the Joint Committee on Taxation scores as equal, and that’s why the bill includes a child tax credit expansion that helps 16 million children from low-income families get ahead.”

Smith’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/01/corporate-tax-breaks-private-equity

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