Surrender
Excuses, excuses …
Tolls ahead
Today’s vocabulary word is ‘defenestrate’
Rosemary Boland, longtime president of the Scranton Federation of Teachers, stirred up a hornet’s nest of criticism recently when she cited “black,” brown” and “immigrant” children in the city district who, she claimed, come from households that might not be observing COVID-19 prevention guidelines. Boland capped things off by saying these kids “are not going home to the Donna Reed home.” Boland claims her words were taken out of context. I’m not so certain.
Don’t cross the cult
Like his GOP peers in North Carolina and Utah, Sen. Pat Toomey is experiencing some serious blowback from the Trump Cult currently masquerading as his state’s Republican Party. Toomey’s crime? Voting (correctly) to convict Trump of the impeachment charge for the role he played in provoking the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill.
One party official in Washington County went so far as to say “we did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us,” which, given the evidence against Trump, is as close to admitting you’re in a personality cult as is possible in U.S. politics.
‘No salt salts like …’
Hero in his own mind
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s political problems involving the undercount of nursing home COVID-19 deaths are bad enough without his earlier self-aggrandizing claims of success in battling the pandemic.
On the job
Going nowhere fast
Nothing to worry about
Postal problems
Short supply
Back to class for now
Here we go, again
Unhappy with rulings handed down by state judges who were selected by Pennsylvanians under the current districting system, Republicans in the legislature are turning to their old stand-by, the gerrymander.
