Tag Archives: House Oversight Committee

Finally accepting that there are no easy answers to COVID-19, our coward of a president officially abdicates all responsibility, and just walks away from the problem

Yesterday, new government modeling was released which showed that, by June 1, we could be seeing as many as 200,000 new COVID-19 cases and over 3,000 deaths per day. And, today, it was reported that, in spite of this, the White House is looking to wind down its coronavirus task force. Curious as to how […]

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OK, with Trump heading into a private meeting with Putin just days after Mueller went public with evidence proving Russia’s state-sanctioned hacking of our 2016 presidential election, is it finally time to admit that the conspiracy theory is actually fact, and take to the fucking streets?

As I’m not sure where to start, or where this post may go, I’m just going to jump right in and start rambling. Hopefully you can follow along. If not, I apologize. Earlier this past week, before Donald Trump left the U.S. for what would turn out to be a completely disastrous NATO summit in […]

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What did Trump know, and when did he know it? We need to demand an investigation into Russia’s ties to Trump and his associates.

I’m hesitant to write anything more about the situation unfolding right now in D.C., as things are happening so quickly. I did, however, want to share this timeline with you from today’s Washington Post, as I think it might be something that we return to in the future as we try to determine what Trump […]

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In an ironic twist, House Republicans, who, up until a few weeks ago, wanted to see the EPA dismantled, argued this morning that what happened in Flint was due to the agency not being aggressive enough

Several people testified before the House Oversight Committee today about the poisoning of Flint’s citizens, including Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards and Flint resident Lee Anne Walters. While most of the local coverage, I suspect, will focus on Congressman Jason Chaffetz’s forceful promise early in the proceedings to have the U.S. Marshals “hunt down” former […]

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