Mother of all Days: Sunday Reads
Posted: May 14, 2017 Filed under: just because 14 Comments
It is Mother’s Day y’all, so Happy Day to all the Mothers out there.
Sorry if I don’t push the holiday any more than that…
Some links today:
Only a couple tweets on the current events. I can’t take much more than that.
Holy shit. I guess I was able to share more than I thought I could. You can see why the post is late. I was up most of the night watching the Twitterverse.
Happy Mother’s Day
This is an open thread.
Happy Mother’s Day. Hope everyone enjoys the day.
Happy Mothers Day to you and your mom, JJ.
Happy Mother’s Day to you and all Sky Dancing moms!
Felicitations to you, JJ, dak, and to all mothers!
I know some of you are ahead of me, but I was still hazy on the difference and advantages/disadvantages between an independent commission and a special prosecutor. This was a helpful review.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/a-special-prosecutor-is-not-the-answer/526662/?utm_source=twb
I’ve also seen it argued that an independent commission is too easy to turn into a way to study it to death. Examples: the 9/11 Commission, the one on JFK’s death (Warren?). They don’t find anything and they take two decades doing it.
I don’t know if anything will work at this point. There should have been three Repubs of conscience by now in the Senate to create a majority for dealing with this case of high treason by a President.
There aren’t.
The Founding Dads foresaw many pitfalls, but they missed the possibility of a whole branch of government failing. They were too busy hedging against the stupidity of the voters to allow them to be the final check on politicians.
And, so they gifted us with the Electoral College-swell.
Good points. I then read something from ShareBlue on how unlikely it’d be for a Republican Congress to allow an independent commission and that we’d be better off with an independent prosecutor, at least at first. I’ll take whatever we can get.
Founders guarded against the stupidity of voters but didn’t imagine the stupidity and complicity of the politicians.
Hope you all had a very nice Mother’s Day.