Late yesterday afternoon, the House Intelligence Committee voted along Republican party lines to release the four page memo that was compiled by the committee’s chair, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and the staff to discredit the investigation into the allegations that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and the Trump campaign conspired …
Tag: Partisan Politics
Oct 01 2012
Sunday Train: Trains and Not Destroying Civilization
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
crossposted from Voices on the Square
When one first thinks about it, one would think the politics of not destroying civilization should be simple. It seems that “Not destroy civilization, Yes/No” would get a very high “Yes” vote.
In the immediate future in US political, however, its far more complicated than that, given that one party’s position is “No”, and the other party’s position is “Maybe, a little bit of not destroying civilization, if its not too inconvenient”.
So, how would we go about not destroying civilization, why is the politics of not destroying civilization so messy, and what in the hell can we do about it?
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