Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Yep, this will bite us hard once coronavirus gets entrenched in more states. The blue states will likely be better off due to rainy day funds and better staffed emergency management departments. The red states where governors and legislators insist this is a hoax will once again be mooching off the blue states when they exhaust their resources. Or go crying to Uncle Sam. Except this time those red states put in exactly who they said they want, and will tell them to go pull up by their (already badly stretched) bootstraps. If nothing else, this is Orange Shitgibbon’s Katrina.… Read more »
The problem is that the irresponsible Red States WILL be granted access to Uncle Sam’s bottomless welfare apparatus (just as with the ramped-up “natural” global warming disaster relief) and WILL be allowed to mooch off the largesse of Blue States in this crisis as well. There’s no alternative in a public health crisis. That this happens time after time should be infuriating, and should result in accountability consequences, but Blue Staters and their Reps keep putting up with this irresponsible shit, without even so much as mentioning the scandalous behavior by “conservative” America. Blue Staters are the true fools, with… Read more »
I’ve been using my Cafe/Lounge space as a catch-all for news articles about Covid-19 since last Wednesday. I suspect you are right that it is only a matter of time before we experience more school closings, etc. I am cancelling a conference appearance due to concerns about flying at this time (airplanes and airports are effectively petri dishes under the best of circumstances). I’ll be curious if I still travel onsite to AP Reading in June (one of my moneymakers). My friends and I are already wondering. If we have several million cases by that time, that’s a ton of… Read more »
It was predictable that this horrible, malevolent, kakistocratic President would face a crisis during his term which could not be successfully dealt with by conman and blameshifting behaviors. It took a while, but here we are. It will be very costly to the President that he has personally trashed the ability for the nation to unite in response to this crisis. We’ll do the best we can under the bad circumstances, but there will not be national unity in response to this. Hell, even the truly horrible W. Bush behaved in ways which absolutely did bring the people in our… Read more »
Yep, this will bite us hard once coronavirus gets entrenched in more states. The blue states will likely be better off due to rainy day funds and better staffed emergency management departments. The red states where governors and legislators insist this is a hoax will once again be mooching off the blue states when they exhaust their resources. Or go crying to Uncle Sam. Except this time those red states put in exactly who they said they want, and will tell them to go pull up by their (already badly stretched) bootstraps. If nothing else, this is Orange Shitgibbon’s Katrina.… Read more »
The problem is that the irresponsible Red States WILL be granted access to Uncle Sam’s bottomless welfare apparatus (just as with the ramped-up “natural” global warming disaster relief) and WILL be allowed to mooch off the largesse of Blue States in this crisis as well. There’s no alternative in a public health crisis. That this happens time after time should be infuriating, and should result in accountability consequences, but Blue Staters and their Reps keep putting up with this irresponsible shit, without even so much as mentioning the scandalous behavior by “conservative” America. Blue Staters are the true fools, with… Read more »
Well, I’m in my late 70s with COPD and a target on my back. I just hope I can hold out long enough to cast my ballot in the General Election.
Be well! May we all be around to vote in November.
Stay safe and well.
I’ve been using my Cafe/Lounge space as a catch-all for news articles about Covid-19 since last Wednesday. I suspect you are right that it is only a matter of time before we experience more school closings, etc. I am cancelling a conference appearance due to concerns about flying at this time (airplanes and airports are effectively petri dishes under the best of circumstances). I’ll be curious if I still travel onsite to AP Reading in June (one of my moneymakers). My friends and I are already wondering. If we have several million cases by that time, that’s a ton of… Read more »
It was predictable that this horrible, malevolent, kakistocratic President would face a crisis during his term which could not be successfully dealt with by conman and blameshifting behaviors. It took a while, but here we are. It will be very costly to the President that he has personally trashed the ability for the nation to unite in response to this crisis. We’ll do the best we can under the bad circumstances, but there will not be national unity in response to this. Hell, even the truly horrible W. Bush behaved in ways which absolutely did bring the people in our… Read more »