On today’s BradCast, Desi and I are back from holiday break, and just in time for the start of the new Congress, where the GOP had hoped to break the U.S. House even further by gutting the independent Office of Congressional Ethics. [Audio link to show posted below.]
First: A huge thanks to Nicole Sandler and Angie Coiro for filling in for us while we were gone and allowing us some much-needed time off! Please support them, their work and all independent media, wherever you can find it! As today’s show makes clear, it’s more important now than ever!
The U.S. House watchdog office was formed by Democrats in 2008 after the massive Jack Abramoff influence-peddling and bribery scandals of the George W. Bush era. After voting last night — with no advance notice or public debate — to hobble the OCE, Republicans were forced to reverse their plans thanks to public outrage expressed through phone calls to Congress. Nonetheless, Donald Trump is being inappropriately credited by the corporate media for the reversal, despite the lack of evidence that he actually opposed the move or that his tweets were responsible for the GOP changing course.
The episode suggests that public opinion, outrage and shaming may still matter in these United States, even in the Age of Trump, and even if the corporate media fail to notice. But we’ll see.
At the same time, as NBC News guts their own news reporting outlets, they’ve announced today they are hiring Fox “News” star Megyn Kelly for untold millions. And, in Wisconsin, the agency responsible for environmental protection has solved Climate Change…by simply changing their website to pretend it no longer exists.
But, hey, “It’s a New Year and Time to Face Reality”. All of that and more on today’s BradCast!…
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This is like when Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev… Tear.. Down.. This.. Wall”, when they already knew the wall was coming down.
You can’t say the Republicans and their breaking media aren’t good at theater. California has Hollywood, but the Republicans got D.C. reality TV.
Spectacular election theft is handled!
WANTED. Anyone in Charlotte NC interested in being a plaintiff for a request for data election files from the touchscreen machines?
I’ve been contacted by someone who needs a “local” plaintiff for a court order to obtain some voting machine computer files.
Legal fees will be taken care of by that person.
At issue is getting certain files from the machines that are deemed confidential, only a court order can get them then we’ll have a computer expert examine them to see if the machines counted the votes accurately or if there were errors.
email is joycemccloy at gmail (dot) com
Hey, they were just trying to do the ‘christian’ thingy:
(Doing The Alt-Right Thing – Mithraism – 4).