A University of Delaware poll found enormous leads for Sen. Tom Carper and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, but the most shocking figure was Republican Senate candidate Rob Arlett’s anemic 22% support. Both parties are dying, but the GOP is dying faster.
This Kavanaugh stuff really has people worked up. Michael Tomasky, a longtime journo not formerly known for impassioned rhetoric, tears Kavanaugh a new one over his hypocrisy. While Kavanaugh now thinks tearing open his private life is an intrusion, he argued in 1998 for using lurid details of the Starr investigation to try to shame Bill Clinton into resigning, helping put politics in its current gutter. Karma’s not a bitch, she’s an assertive woman.
Little Nimrata Haley is quite the big liar. Here’s her spin on Trump being laughed at during his U.N. speech:
“They loved how honest he is. It’s not diplomatic and they find it funny. … When he goes and he is very truthful, they kind of were taken back by it. All day yesterday, they were falling over themselves to get a picture with him, to talk about how great his speech was. … They love that he’s honest with them and they’ve never seen anything like it, so there’s respect there. I saw that the media was trying to make it something disrespectful. That’s not what it was ― they love to be with him.”
Just out of respect, we should laugh her out of politics.
Historians say Afghanistan is America’s longest war, but they’re discounting the War on Drugs, which has dragged on for nearly 50 years and has turned America into a police state. What can be done about it? For one thing, we can stop pretending that everyone who uses is an addict. Dr. Carl Hart has a lot of common-sense observations that, sadly, are grounded in science and rationality and therefore will be roundly ignored.
Turns out you don’t have to go to hell to see a lake of fire. Lakes all over the Arctic are belching out methane, and scientists aren’t sure yet what this will mean for an already warming planet.
Quote of the Day: “What a fucking geriatric tone deaf sausage party. Puke.” Sarah Silverman, on Twitter, reacting to news that Republicans hired a woman to interrogate Christine Blasey Ford.