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The enduring beauty of the deep state… Marie Yovanovitch provides the best counterpoint to Trumpism to date

By Mark | November 18, 2019

I had the good fortune to be on vacation this past Friday, so I was able to watch quite a bit of Marie Yovanovitch’s courageous testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in real-time. While there’s a great deal that I could say about the shameful behavior of Republicans on the committee and the response to […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, bravery, conspiracy theory, corruption, Courage, deep state, diplomacy, Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee, Hunter Biden, intimidation, Jennifer Williams, Joe Biden, Marie Yovanovitch, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Rudy Giuliani, rule of law, smear, State Department, Twitter, Ukraine, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky, witness intimidation, Yuriy Lutsenko | 6 Comments

Saying they “delayed our action plan,” Rick Snyder lays the blame for the Flint water disaster at the feet of “career civil servants” who cared more about process than people

By Mark | January 27, 2016

You have to give him credit for having chutzpah. It took him a few days, but our Governor, with he help of multiple consultants and a few top flight PR firms, is attempting not just to deflect blame for what happened in Flint, but actually turn the deadly public health crisis into an anti-government parable […]

Posted in History, Michigan, Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged accountability, ALEC, bureaucrat, career civil servants, checks and balances, Cher, crisis communications, Dana Milbank, Emergency Manager, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, framing, individual responsibility, lead, lead poisoning, public employees, public health, public health emergency, public relations, Republican framing, revisionist history, Rick Snyder, water | 19 Comments

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