No. of Recommendations: 2
with the bar set low via incompetence and irrationality, this was a relatively massive week for the GOP :
- johnson passes temp budget (and all expectations), basically putting him in the same effective position as predecessor mccarthy.
will history rhyme, or selective hypocrisy hold in 2024 ?
surely some of this was due to congress' need to feel they fully deserve a long stretch of peaceful winter holidays.
- GOP finds a lower limit to its real-world ethics&criminal tolerance for anyone not named trump. santos seems done.
let's not spoil this week with all the off-setting GOP activities, as regular programming sure to continue.
No. of Recommendations: 2
"Given his egregious violations, Representative George Santos is not fit to serve as a Member of the United States House of Representatives," said the ethics committee chairman, Michael Guest, a Republican, in introducing the latest expulsion measure.
Now do Clarence Thomas.
What makes him such a compelling individual that billionaires would shower him with outrageously lavish gifts?
WASHINGTON —Clarence Thomas collapsed from exhaustion after putting in what he described as a “punishing day” of regulating himself under the Supreme Court’s new code of conduct.
Although critics have called the Court’s new rules “toothless” and “unenforceable,” the strain of regulating his own behavior forced Thomas to repair to his bed, from which he spoke to reporters.
“People said that we Supreme Court Justices were going easy on ourselves by issuing a code of conduct that only we could enforce,” he said. “Well, all I can tell you is, regulating my behavior turns out to be a freaking full-time job.”
“I had no idea how egregious my behavior was until I was put in charge of regulating myself,” he said. “I’m really something of a rascal.”
He said that other Justices were struggling with the arduous self-regulatory demands of the code of conduct. “As rough a time as I’ve had, I wouldn’t trade places with Brett Kavanaugh,” he said.
As for his immediate plans, Thomas said that, once he regains his strength, he will take a “much-needed break” from regulating himself aboard Harlan Crow’s hundred-and-sixty-two-foot yacht.
