The news bombs are dropping fast and furious on both the Roy Moore and Russian collusion fronts.
The Atlantic rocked the Russian collusion story by printing the secret email correspondence between Fredo Don Jr.and Johnny Ola Wikileaks. Trump is fighting back by, um, trumping up some charges, any charges, against Hillary Clinton, and Jeff Sessions might be bidding to save his job by considering a special counsel to look into the Clinton Foundation and the Russian uranium deal.
Moore, meanwhile, continues to lose support among Republican senators. Others are talking about expelling Moore from the Senate should he win. As Lindsay Graham put it, “Even if he wins, he loses.” His fate apparently will be decided by the Alabama GOP at a meeting later this week.
Plenty of other stuff going on, too. That totally unqualified federal judicial candidate who got approved by the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote? Turns out his wife works at the Trump White House, a little detail he forgot to mention to the committee.
The Hannity-Keurig War continued, with Keurig apparently accepting a truce from the Fox News forces. As of last night, most observers were saying Keurig caved like a cheap plastic container.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Nickel and Dimed,” weighed in on the sexual harassment discussion by tweeting, “Our current sex harassment discussion is woefully class-skewed. Too much about actresses and not enough about hotel housekeepers.” Slate got Ehrenreich to expand on that in a sobering interview.
Though federal funds have long flowed from blue states to red states, current tax reform proposals take special aim at blue-state taxpayers. This piece lays out some of the gruesome details
One of the mistaken beliefs of climate-science deniers is that increased atmospheric CO2 is good for plant life. Research has found otherwise: higher levels lead to less nutritious grains and vegetables.