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Aug. 22 Open Thread: Witch Hunt Finds Cohen, Manafort Unable to Float

By Alby August 22, 201830 Comments

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…

The News Journal Plays the Patsy Again

By Alby August 21, 201835 Comments

A week ago the News Journal ran a front-page article on a confidential report on the state Auditor's Office and the performance of Kathleen Davies, who was second-in-command to elected…

Kaboom

By Alby August 21, 20182 Comments

In a piece of timing Iraqi terrorists setting off bombs would envy, Trump's twin nemeses were both adjudicated guilty within two minutes this afternoon. Paul Manafort is guilty on eight…

Aug. 21 Open Thread: The Great Security Clearance Purge

By Alby August 21, 201812 Comments

The Great Security Clearance Purge has dominated headlines for the past couple of days, mainly because Trump is enjoying his unfettered power to punish people who displease him and it…

Aug. 20 Open Thread: The Case of the Vanishing Republicans

By Alby August 20, 20187 Comments

The underreported story of the midterms is the exodus of Republicans from elected office. Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report notes that one of every six incumbent Republicans is…

Aug. 19 Open Thread: You Can’t Corner Someone in an Oval Office

By Alby August 19, 20181 Comment

The New York Times got Trump's dander up yesterday with the story that White House counsel Don McGahn has spent something like 30 hours in interviews cooperating with to the…

Aug. 18 Open Thread: If Power Corrupts, What Does It Do to the Already Corrupt?

By Alby August 18, 2018

Michael Gerson, the Bush speechwriter turned conservative WaPo columnist, writes a "no shit, Sherlock" column for the ages: Our republic will survive Trump, he intones, but it will never be…

Aug. 17 Open Thread: We All Know He’s Guilty

By Alby August 17, 201825 Comments

Josh Marshall addresses the only important question in American politics: The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. ...…

Aug. 16 Open Thread: Trump Is the Leader the GOP Always Wanted

By Alby August 16, 20184 Comments

The GOP is a dumpster, and Michael Tomasky raises the lid to find the source of the stink: Republicans don't just fear Trump's base, they approve of Trump's destruction of…

Aug. 15 Open Thread: Surreality Show

By Alby August 15, 20185 Comments

I really did try to ignore the Omarosa publicity tour, but give her credit -- she learned a few things from playing the foil on Trump's reality shows. Her slow…

Aug. 14 Open Thread: Death By Florida

By Alby August 14, 20185 Comments

Beyond its usual plagues of alligators, invasive snakes, sinkholes and crazy residents, Florida is in even worse shape than usual these days. Popular tourist beaches in places like Sanibel are…

Aug. 13 Open Thread: Supremacists So White They’re Invisible

By Alby August 13, 201824 Comments

Did the Unite the Right organizers really need to bother with a permit for their Sunday march in Washington? It attracted about 40 people, perhaps the biggest conservative crowd since…

Aug. 12 Open Thread: Russia Helped Unite the Right

By Alby August 12, 201817 Comments

There's little to learn from the weekend's flood of Charlottesville anniversary stories, except for this one, which has gotten almost no coverage: Rep. Tom Garrett, the Republican who represents Charlottesville…