A Very Human Government

 

The federal deficit this year is 1.8 trillion dollars.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a fundraiser in California.

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A Very Human Government

Government has somehow developed a reputation of being more than an accumulation of its parts. And the venal motives of those parts. This is a cautionary story reported in the WSJ.

The Federal Trade Commission went after Hess CEO John Hess, a shale-fracking pioneer who has lambasted the administration’s energy policies. The message to other execs: Put up and shut up.

Last autumn, after Chevron announced plans to acquire Mr. Hess’s company, Democrats demanded that the FTC intervene. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tweeted the deal “would give Big Oil more fuel to raise gas prices,” never mind that the combined company would constitute a tiny fraction of global oil production.

Nonetheless, the FTC’s three Democratic commissioners contrived a fictitious narrative about Mr. Hess being in league with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. They used this to scapegoat Mr. Hess for rising gasoline prices under Mr. Biden and as justification to bar him from Chevron’s board.  

Very human.