Blue Dog Democrat Dan Lipinski eked out a victory against his progressive challenger, Marie Newman, in suburban Chicago. This indicates to me that November’s blue wave isn’t about electing any particular kind of Democrat so much as tossing Republicans out.
The British TV expose of Cambridge Analytica brought about the suspension of its CEO, along with official denials of all the stuff he admitted on hidden camera. Someone should send the videos to James O’Keefe so he learns how to make the hidden-camera thing work: Have a true story to tell.
Over here on the left we think of Republicans as interchangeable douchebags, but they’re not really. The sensible people have faded away, leaving the field to pedophiles and convicted killers like coal baron Don Blankenship, who has surged to the lead in the West Virginia Senate GOP primary. Republican operatives see this as Roy Moore all over again, with dead miners taking the place of live molestees.
Here’s how we do things in Delaware: Name a task force to study a problem until everyone loses interest. The Council on Corrections, for example, apparently spends most of its time deciding how to manage its continued existence, if indeed its existence continues.
Trumplandia is all astir today because news leaked out that Trump — despite an ALL-CAPS WARNING not to do so — congratulated Vladimir Putin on successfully rigging the Russian election. This has Trump enraged, not because it makes him look like a puppet — no puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet — but because somebody leaked it to the media. At least we know he has his priorities in order.
We ought to give retired Gen. Ralph Peters, the Fox News military analyst who quit the network because it’s a propaganda machine, honorary Delaware citizenship. He worked there 10 years before he figured it out, which is about how long as it takes most new developments in western society to reach the First State.