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Things I Learned About the New Tom Carper

By Alby September 12, 201813 Comments

Know what I learned about Tom Carper in this election? He supports a $15 an hour minimum wage. I didn't know that about him before. For the simple reason that…

Sept. 12 Open Thread: Surf’s Up!

By Alby September 12, 20182 Comments

All year long we've heard pundits warning that maybe a blue wave was just wishful thinking, that a Democratic takeover of the House might not happen because the polls could…

Sept. 9 Open Thread: Anonymice, a Failed State and Insubordinate Hillbillies

By Alby September 9, 20181 Comment

An anonymous White House source has outed himself. No, not the writer, the one who spoke the obvious. Mick Mulvaney, one of the sneakiest rats on the USS Trump, is…

Sept. 8 Open Thread: Kavanaugh Wears a Robe Because His Pants Are on Fire

By Alby September 8, 20188 Comments

The Anomynous Controversy™ has managed to obscure the most important revelation in the Brett Kavanaugh hearings: The future SCOTUS justice is a sack of shit who thinks nothing of lying…

Sept. 7 Open Thread: Some Days I Can’t Even

By Alby September 7, 2018

It has nothing to do with the local primaries, which went as I expected/feared they would. It's rather the latest development in the ongoing reality series "White House Apprentice." The…

Sept. 5 Open Thread: Woodward Confirms What We All Know

By Alby September 5, 20185 Comments

Official Washington's reaction to Bob Woodward's book is exactly what you'd expect in Kabuki theater: People are shocked, shocked to learn that "the adults" in the White House have been…

McCain Eulogy Revives Biden 2020 Chatter

By Alby September 4, 20186 Comments

Oratory is Joe Biden's trademark as a politician, and he displays it best at funerals. His eulogy for John McCain was so good it prompted some pundits to muse about…

Sept. 4 Open Thread: Woodward Details White House Bedlam

By Alby September 4, 20183 Comments

This is what they mean when they say "the institutions are working," apparently: The Washington Post has a copy of Bob Woodward's new book, in which former administration officials confess…

Who’s Smarter, Dogs or Republicans?

By Alby September 4, 20183 Comments

I'm gonna have to go with dogs. Not all dogs, mind you. A lot breeds will do exactly as they're told, just like Republicans. But the smartest breeds, especially herders…

Sept. 3 Open Thread: Democrats Went Soft on Financial Crime, So We Have a Financial Criminal as President

By Alby September 3, 20184 Comments

Given how permissive Democrats have been about white-collar Wall Street crime, punishing no bankers for their law-breaking around the Great Recession, how can they ever convince Republicans in Congress that…

Sept. 2 Open Thread: The Fighter Still Remains

By Alby September 2, 20184 Comments

It was a heckuva week for funerals. Aretha Franklin's, in Detroit, employed stirring eulogies, heartfelt performances, and more than 100 pink Cadillacs in a 10-hour celebration of her life and…

Sept. 1 Open Thread: GOP Still Gunning for Obamacare

By Alby September 1, 20186 Comments

I'm starting to understand why Republicans aren't eager to replace Trump with Mike Pence: He's not only a dick, he's a kind of stupid one. He promised Wisconsin voters that…

Aug. 31 Open Thread: Trump Still More Popular Than Cancer, Genital Warts

By Alby August 31, 201812 Comments

New polls show Trump entering Dick Cheney levels of unpopularity, as his unfavorable rating rose to 60%, a level familiar only to the architect of the Iraq War. Andrew Gillum's…