So the Senate finally gets around to appointing a permanent ATF director after seven years. Oftentimes when agencies seem inept and ill-managed, the fault lies with wizards in the legislature willing to play such games for political ends both specific and global. Here, the specifics are an ATF the NRA would rather see dead and the global is a Republican Senate Super-Minority willing to hobble government administration at any turn so as to better run against “the beast” in future elections and show loyalty to Godfather Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader who has decreed a starvation diet for the federal government.
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Cut Off Nose, Spite Your Face
With its report, Philadelphia’s business-sponsored Economy League tries to inject a dose of rationality into the Pennsylvania political landscape where the Republican governor, like many governors from his party, is against Medicaid expansion mainly because it’s tied to !!Obama!!Care!! that Republicans so long demonized that most remain blindly opposed–even to elements that, as the Economy League’s report suggests, would be really good medicine for Republican-led states.
Set bar higher for judges
At present in Pennsylvania, with elected judges, it’s more like a limbo bar. Inquirer Editorial: Set bar higher for judges.