democracy is in crisis. the former president of the united states continues to insist he didn t lose an election in which he got 7 million fewer votes and 74 fewer electoral votes than the winner did. at a rally in iowa saturday night, trump not only repeated his lies. he made sure to tell the crowd, quote, i never conceded, no reason to concede. at that rally an 88-year-old senator running for reelection seemingly gave away the game. listen to this. i was born at night, but not last night. so if i didn t accept the endorsement of a person that s got 91% of the republican voters in iowa, i wouldn t be too smart. i m smart enough to accept that endorsement. so it couldn t be more clear. you want to get reelected as a republican in the house, in the u.s. senate, even at your local elections board or school board, you better be hugging donald trump pretty tight. that s how strong his grip is on the republican party, that the highest ranking gop lawmakers in america are not o
funding in the cromnibus. with significant infrastructure needs including roads and bridges maints nance, now is not the time to spend $500 million on a new discretionary bus transit program. the obama administration actually proposed two new programs this year that sought funding from the highway trust fund, both of which asked for $500 million each. the committee made clear in the committee report that they choose chose to fund the new $500 million fixing and accelerating surface transportation or the fast program n. this bill. if i had to fund one of these programs that is the one i would have funded. so i applaud the chairman, ranking member, and committee for the choice and also apparently choosing not to fund the proposed rapid growth area transit program once again in this legislation. having said that there are no detailed summaries of the particular program accounts because authorizing language has not yet been passed. in addition, nothing is said about the propose
than expected. once they ve compared and contrasted, they pull some reason, some folderol from the release, to explain it, then boom, rapid fire posting, don t look back, on to the nexex company. we see this sort of thing this years. this week, there was four of them that were like this this year. it createsuch a rush to judgment with so little time to breathe that people end up losing fortunes, trading off these slipshod bulletins that purport to say what really happened in the quarter, like you could really figure it out in 1 characters. hasbro reported today. the vast majority of these companies said it was a good hit, and it cacatalizes off of hit movies. despite those headlines hasbro opened pretty yuch unchanged. shouldn t it have opened big? no, it turns out, because when the company conducted its conference call, we learned things are not going all that we wi at hasbro. at cfo deb thomas told you after flowowy discussion, and a a ote, growth in preschool categories we
A county in southwest China is trying to impose fines for violations such as not making a bed or leaving out dirty dishes in a bid to improve the area’s living conditions.