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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…

Republican Candidates for Congress Just a Couple of Old White Guys Yelling at Their TVs

By Alby August 30, 20183 Comments

Give Donald Trump credit: He has inspired thousands of people to run for office who never considered it before. Among Democrats, that has meant a wave of female and minority…

Aug. 30 Open Thread: We Want Democrats Who Aren’t Afraid to Fight

By Alby August 30, 20183 Comments

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…

Aug. 29 Open Thread, Late Edition: Monkey in the Middle

By Alby August 29, 2018

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"…

Aug. 28 Open Thread: Google Is RIGGED!

By Alby August 28, 20186 Comments

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…

Aug. 27 Open Thread: A Plague of Frogs

By Alby August 27, 20181 Comment

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…

Aug. 26 Open Thread: McCain Won’t Get to See Trump in Prison

By Alby August 26, 201824 Comments

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…

Aug. 25 Open Thread: Gravedancers’ Ball

By Alby August 25, 20182 Comments

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…

Aug. 24 Open Thread: Dead Elf Walking

By Alby August 24, 20186 Comments

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,…