I think today is the one year anniversary of the presidential presser that inspired "How to Medical" (above), but even without Trump the beat goes on. Earlier this week, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said major league baseball's decision to move the all-star game out of Georgia would "likely cost Atlanta 100 million jobs." Actually, it's not very likely, because the population of Atlanta is less than half a million, the population of the state of Georgia is about 10 million, and the total number of people employed in the US is about 150 million.
Grassley is one of around twenty senators who are like the uncle who, day after next Thanksgiving, will have concerned family members discussing whether his habitual, loquacious zaniness has now deepened into dementia. It would be bearable if only he wasn't so interested in politics! Well, thanks to COVID you had a Thanksgiving off. Praise the Lord for sending his tender mercies.
Meanwhile, Rep. Nancy Mace, Republican of South Carolina, is pictured below arguing against statehood for the District of Columbia. "D.C. wouldn't even qualify as a singular congressional district," she huffed, "and here they are, they want the power and the authority of being an entire state in the United States—and they want that power."
The woman looking down at her notes behind Rep. Mace as she made this argument is Rep. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming. Of course Wyoming has two US senators in addition to Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House. The District of Columbia has no vote in either House or Senate. The population of Wyoming is about 578,000. The population of the District of Columbia is about 693,000.
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