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(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog’s Favourite Living Canadian)
At the end of
Time Bandits, Terry Gilliam’s underrated classic, a bit of leftover concentrated evil, disguised as an overdone Sunday roast left in a toaster oven, explodes, taking out the parents of Kevin, the movie’s young hero. You have to be very careful not to leave hunks of fleshy concentrated evil behind.
But enough about Louis DeJoy.
Camp Runamuck’s legacy to the United States Postal Service, which is now and always will be one of the crown jewels of this constitutional republic, ought to be reaching the end of his campaign of calculated vandalism. The Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday voted to advance three of the president’s nominees to the Postal Service’s board. This would establish a Democratic majority on the board, a development that Democrats and the postal workers union have long sought with the
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There was no real suspense over whether this proposal would die an ugly death in the Senate despite having recently passed the House. D.C. statehood is a non-budgetary matter and thus subject to the filibuster in the Senate, and no Republicans were about to chip in on the push for 60 votes. But for lefties, a faint hope springs eternal that Joe Manchin will see the error of his ways belatedly, decide that it’s time to nuke the filibuster after all, and then join with his party to ram through statehood for Washington, delivering two new Senate votes for his party.