@humphrey

right after there is an investigation into Pelosi’s stocks as well as every other member of Congress. Pelosi’s husband has made a lot of ethical challenging trades just before the company whose stock he bought got a new contract that was approved by Congress.

Hey democrats do you really think that your poo doesn’t stink too?

best strategy for Supreme Court ethics reform.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4154869-democrats-push-supr...

A terse rebuff from the Supreme Court and a series of new allegations of ethical lapses by Supreme Court justices are prompting renewed calls from Democratic lawmakers to establish an ethics council for the high court.

Rep. Daniel Goldman’s (D-N.Y.) prior call for an “independent investigative body and dedicated ethics counsel” for the court was ignored in a response he called “insufficient and unavailing.”

“The Chief Justice has asked me to acknowledge your letter dated June 27, 2023, and to thank you very much for bringing your concerns about these important matters to his attention,” Ethan Torrey, legal counsel for the court, wrote in Roberts’s stead in a July letter obtained by The Hill.

The sentence was the entirety of the reply from the court.

The body envisioned by Goldman would standardize the court’s ethics procedures and provide guidance on the disclosure of gifts and recusals in light of conflicts of interest.

This ethics crisis at the top of the judicial system undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and reflects poorly on the entire judiciary,” he wrote in the Wednesday letter signed by 14 other lawmakers.

All are moves he contends are needed “in order to restore credibility to the Judiciary Branch.”

In addition to addressing Roberts, the letter was also sent to the Judicial Conference, the policymaking body for the federal courts that establishes guidelines for judges and rules for trial procedures.

@usefewersyllables @usefewersyllables Joe, you see, needs to overcome the big hit to his public image when they asked him about Maui and he said "no comment." "Course, Joe will screw it up.

Sure, the people of Maui don't want Joe there. And that's not surprising. From the linked article:

The president on Tuesday broke his silence about the staggering death toll at an economy-focused speech in Milwaukee, but at one point appeared to forget the name “Maui” and referred to it as “the one where you see on television all of the time.”

What the people of Maui need to understand is that it's important to get Joe Biden out of the White House.

The new problem is that the Bidens (and their absurdly massive entourage) are going to visit Lahaina on Monday. So all recovery/relief efforts, especially airborne, will have to come to an absolute screeching halt while he does his damned photo op.

Hey, Joe? Perhaps you could stop sending money to the Ukraine, and send it to Maui instead. You know, as a leader who gave a shit about his people might do. That's right; send money.

Instead, you'll fly Air Force One (and the spare VC-25), two or three C17s full of armored vehicles, helicopters, and something like 300 SS agents, plug up the airport and surrounding airspace for at least two days, tie up road traffic (and every LEO on the island) for a day with your damned motorcade both coming and going, and bring all actual relief efforts to a stop.

For a photo op. The cost of the fuel alone would purchase enough safe drinking water to last the displaced residents a few days, would it not?

Stay in Washington, Joe. There are no ice cream shops left standing, or little girls for you to smell (unless, perhaps, your people have them bussed in). And your soon-to-be-posed photos illustrating a lame attempt to convey concern will convince exactly nobody. Stay home.

Meanwhile, for the rest of us, another new locally-based resource for extending help (financial or otherwise) has now been started up at https://www.mauinuistrong.info/

Please consider giving, if you can and are so inclined. Da Kine, mo bettah...

@usefewersyllables This is covered on Rising:

The new problem is that the Bidens (and their absurdly massive entourage) are going to visit Lahaina on Monday. So all recovery/relief efforts, especially airborne, will have to come to an absolute screeching halt while he does his damned photo op.

Hey, Joe? Perhaps you could stop sending money to the Ukraine, and send it to Maui instead. You know, as a leader who gave a shit about his people might do. That's right; send money.

Instead, you'll fly Air Force One (and the spare VC-25), two or three C17s full of armored vehicles, helicopters, and something like 300 SS agents, plug up the airport and surrounding airspace for at least two days, tie up road traffic (and every LEO on the island) for a day with your damned motorcade both coming and going, and bring all actual relief efforts to a stop.

For a photo op. The cost of the fuel alone would purchase enough safe drinking water to last the displaced residents a few days, would it not?

Stay in Washington, Joe. There are no ice cream shops left standing, or little girls for you to smell (unless, perhaps, your people have them bussed in). And your soon-to-be-posed photos illustrating a lame attempt to convey concern will convince exactly nobody. Stay home.

Meanwhile, for the rest of us, another new locally-based resource for extending help (financial or otherwise) has now been started up at https://www.mauinuistrong.info/

Please consider giving, if you can and are so inclined. Da Kine, mo bettah...