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Aug. 30 Open Thread: We Want Democrats Who Aren’t Afraid to Fight
While mainstream Democratic leaders timidly fail to oppose Trump’s judicial nominees, a Massachusetts candidate for Congress shows how it should be done: Barbara L’Italien, the same woman who punked Fox News a few weeks back when they mistakenly booked her to talk about immigration, has added a new promise to her campaign: She will try […]
Aug. 29 Open Thread, Late Edition: Monkey in the Middle
Florida voters in both parties rejected the more centrist candidates in yesterday’s primaries, and within hours GOP winner Ron DeSantis, a Trump favorite, was warning voters not to “monkey up” the state by voting for Democrat Andrew Gillum, an African-American. His spokesman says DeSantis meant nothing racial by it. They never do. The saddest thing […]
Aug. 28 Open Thread: Google Is RIGGED!
I’m old enough to remember the mockery when President GHW Bush was photographed looking baffled by the then-newfangled grocery store laser scanners. That sprang to mind this morning after Trump apparently Googled himself for the first time. His reaction was classic: “They have it RIGGED” (the caps lock makes it art) to show only the […]
Aug. 27 Open Thread: A Plague of Frogs
The Republican Party should ditch the elephant and replace him with a frog in a pot of water. Axios released the argument for that in the form of a spreadsheet listing all the probable investigations Democrats will launch if they capture the House majority. How did they compile the list? They simply entered every investigation […]
Aug. 26 Open Thread: McCain Won’t Get to See Trump in Prison
This might be hard to believe, but there are even worse people than Donald Trump in the Republican Party. When the family of Sen. John McCain, who died last night at 81, announced last week that he was stopping treatment of his brain cancer, “Chemtrail” Kelli Ward, running for Jeff Flake’s senate seat in Arizona, […]
Aug. 25 Open Thread: Gravedancers’ Ball
Frank Rich reminds us that the premature end of a crooked presidency happens, as Hemingway wrote of bankruptcy, gradually and then suddenly. He’s not the only pundit who took the opportunity of Trump’s worst week to look ahead to how his presidency will end. Eliot Cohen claims tyrants, unloved, are always abandoned by their followers. […]
Aug. 24 Open Thread: Dead Elf Walking
You knew somebody was going to take the fall for the USS Trump hitting that iceberg Tuesday. If Trump were still on his game he’d turn this into reality-show fodder, stringing the media along with “Who will he fire?” speculation to dominate headlines. Alas, the storyline won’t allow for it. Trump is already frustrated by […]
Podcast of Kathleen Davies on the Rick Jensen Show
DL-endorsed candidate for auditor, Kathleen Davies, spent an hour on the Rick Jensen Show on WDEL answering questions about her years as second-in-command under Audtitor Tom Wagner and the controversy surrounding her removal from the job. It’s worth a listen if you’re not sure who to believe in the contretemps. h/t John Kowalko.
The Intercept Flays Carper With His Own Record of Serving Big Banks
It’s no secret the folks at The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald’s “adversarial reporting” web site, don’t like Tom Carper. They’ve run several pieces supporting Kerri Harris and attacking Carper, including references to his wife-“slapping” episode and how he lied about it for years. That’s a dead end for opposing Carper. No opponent will use it for […]
Aug. 23 Open Thread: Trump Keeps Digging
What little is left of Trump’s brain is in turmoil. He sat for an interview with Fox News that surpassed even his usual levels of incoherence. The best part was his contention that prosecutors cutting deals with lower-level crooks for dirt on their superiors almost ought to be illegal” because it’s “not fair.” Remember, this […]
Keep an Eye on This Guy
Want to see what a natural politician looks and sounds like? Spend 4 minutes watching this video of Beto O’Rourke, Ted Cruz’s opponent, responding at a town hall to a young man who doesn’t like NFL players kneeling for the national anthem. O’Rourke doesn’t flinch, doesn’t straddle the fence and doesn’t sound like a mealy-mouthed […]
The Slightly Evil Weed
Reefer madness is back. In an article in The Atlantic earlier this week, headlined “America’s Invisible Pot Addicts,” Annie Lowery sounded the klaxon on cannabis use disorder. “Users or former users I spoke with described lost jobs, lost marriages, lost houses, lost money, lost time. Foreclosures and divorces,” she writes. “Weight gain and mental-health problems. […]
Aug. 22 Open Thread: Witch Hunt Finds Cohen, Manafort Unable to Float
Even Donald Trump seems to understand that he’s finished now that both Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen are convicted felons; his Nuremberg rally in West Virginia was more subdued than usual, though it still featured the “lock her up” chant when Hillary’s name was mentioned. Things don’t look any better for him this morning. Cohen’s […]
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