On today’s BradCast: Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans’ attempt to govern continue to fall apart. Also, the assault on our nation’s elections continue as well, both from without and within. [Audio link to full show is posted below.]
After new defections by two more GOP Senators late Monday night led to the stunning collapse of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”), his subsequent plan, to repeal ObamaCare now and replace it later, also collapsed within hours, after the number of Republican Senators needed to kill the measure almost immediately vowed to vote against it. Cue Donald Trump’s blame game, avoidance of responsibility and lies about the entire matter.
So what’s next on the Republican agenda? A budget resolution must be passed to avoid a Government shutdown by the end of September and a major tax cut effort has long been promised. Evidence suggests both items may run into a similar inability of Congressional Republicans to even agree amongst themselves. Such is the danger of radicalized, illegitimate political enterprises. They may work for winning elections, but not so much when it comes to actually governing.
Also today: New and startling revelations (even to me) of hundreds of thousands of attempts to hack South Carolina’s general election system last November offer a dark omen and yet another much-needed reminder regarding election systems in the rest of the country, as well as the need for the public to be able to oversee results; Thousands of legitimate Colorado voters un-register in response to the massive data request for private information by Trump’s “Election Integrity” Commission headed up by “voter fraud” fraudster Kris Kobach; and new details about the hack last year of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — the federal agency tasked with overseeing electronic voting and tabulation systems in the U.S. — highlight, yet again, why it’s so disturbing that the GOP is attempting to shut down the agency entirely. (No matter how many times over the past decade The BRAD BLOG has found the EAC to be both corrupt and a failure.)
Finally: Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, with huge wildfires in Canada, Trump giving away more tax-payer dollars to fossil fuel companies and much more…including, yes, some heroic nuns and a small, disorganized Tropical Storm named Don…
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