Musings: The Newest Banana Republic

Saturday, December 16, 2017

The Newest Banana Republic

The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based” — in any official documents being prepared for next year’s budget.

The type of person Trump is trying to turn into federal judges:

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Rajan Parrikar · 380 weeks ago

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/is-...

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macgupta 81p · 380 weeks ago

Yeah, why should not someone who only been a theoretical physicst, not an experimentalist, be appointed a tenured professor of experimental physics?

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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2...

"When it comes to the things that district judges need to do on an everyday basis," he added, "I think that he seems remarkably limited in his experience with those things.""

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Petersen wilted in the face of the simple and polite questioning by Senator John Kennedy, a Trump-supporting Republican from Louisiana, not previously known as a leader of the vast leftwing conspiracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/de...

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Rajan Parrikar · 380 weeks ago

Good point. But most on the Left said not a peep that Yale/Stanford/Harvard educated judges brazenly injected their personal politics to obstruct Trump's travel ban. There is much hypocrisy to go around. To be sure, the Right does it, too. I felt a similar disgust when W was handed the presidency by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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macgupta 81p · 380 weeks ago

I'm not sure the travel ban blocks were simply politics and not based on the law.
But the issue raised with Petersen and his ilk is competence and seriousness of purpose, not ideology.