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Open Thread Dec. 5: This Is Why They Don’t Let Clowns Run the Circus
The Republican Death Star tax bill is not yet fully operational, because the House and Senate versions must be reconciled. The first think pitched overboard: some of the special deals granted to senators Susan Collins and Jeff Flake to win their votes. The party has sold the bill with outright lies about whom it would […]
Rehoboth Tables LLC Voting Plan
The one thing you can count on with almost all Delaware politicians: They lack the spine for a fight. Perhaps factory-fresh Rehoboth Beach Mayor Paul Kuhns and Commissioner Park City Kathy McGuinness thought this was the right time of year to sneak through their proposal to open city voting rolls to corporate entities. They learned […]
Forget About Impeachment; Focus on the Crimes
To anyone who lived through Watergate, Robert Mueller’s investigation is surprising in only one regard: How quickly he has put together a case that implicates not just the president but dozens of his underlings. I’ve seen headlines recently (tl;dr) about living through Watergate. Even those of us who lived through it tend to forget that […]
Open Thread Dec. 4: Your President Is Not a Crook
Oh, what a weekend it’s been. Turns out having a belligerent ignoramus in the Oval Office leads to lots of legal liability. After Ol’ Stubby Fingers tweeted out that he knew Mike Flynn lied to the FBI, about a million lawyers pointed out that he had just admitted to obstructing justice. The White House then […]
Open Thread Dec. 3: Can a Never-Raveled Chucklehead Unravel?
Pundits continue to parse the charges Mike Flynn pleaded guilty to in hopes of learning more about where Mueller’s investigation is headed. Many outlets noted that K.T. McFarland seemed to give away the game with an email about Russia throwing the election to Trump. It’s a gun, all right, but I don’t smell any smoke there. […]
Open Thread Dec. 2: Midnight for the Middle Class
Amid the furor of Mike Flynn’s guilty plea, the Republican Senate spent the day tweaking and re-tweaking its tax gut bill, finally scribbling together an acceptable compromise that passed in the dead of night. Now it just needs to go through the reconciliation process, where some differences have to be ironed out before it can […]
The Ball Is Rolling Faster Now
Talking Points Memo has been digging into the court documents filed in Mike Flynn’s guilty plea, and it’s a href=”http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mueller-trump-team-flynn-meddling”>damning stuff he’s pleading to. Flynn has now admitted that in a voluntary Jan. 24 interview with FBI he made false statements about a push by the Trump transition team to persuade officials from a foreign […]
Open Thread Dec. 1: Flynn Pleads Guilty, Cotton Unqualified
Well, now we know why Crazy Uncle Donald has been crazier than usual. Mike Flynn is pleading guilty today to a single count of lying to the FBI. Given how much else he could be charged with, this seems a pretty clear indication that he’s going to talk, if he hasn’t already. The earthquake that hit […]
They Are, Quite Simply, Criminals
James O’Keefe appears to have gotten both his nuts in a wringer by trying to sting the Washington Post, which is schooling this little schmuck on how real journalism is done. Not only did they release audio and visual tape of the phony victim squirming like a minnow on a hook when confronted with her […]
Open Thread Nov. 30: Lies and Lunacy
No, it’s not just you. Trump has been especially loony the past several days. Evidence of bad news on the way, according to pal-turned-critic Joe Scarborough. Evidence of a deteriorating mental state, says ghostwriter Tony Schwartz. Evidence that Trump is not doing this strategically, that he really is this fucked up, says David Graham. It’s […]
Hey, Feminist Democrats — What About Carper?
I awoke this morning to my wife’s triumphant claim of “I told you so.” She predicted about a couple of weeks ago that Matt Lauer would fall in the sexual-harassment purge. But my gosh, Garrison Keillor? Really? Despite my misogyny, I have no complaints about media companies and Hollywood people firing those accused of such […]
Open Thread Nov. 29: Matt Lauer, Closing Schools and Police Behaving Badly
Whoever had the Today Show’s Matt Lauer as the next media heavyweight to fall in the sexual harassment pandemic, contact management to claim your prize. The ax fell just this morning, so no details have emerged yet — that’s all people really care about, isn’t it, the dirty details? — which should keep reporters on […]
No Illusions
A number of commenters have forecast a Roy Moore victory in the Alabama special election, and the first post-Thanksgiving poll, released today, shows Moore with a 5-point lead. It’s a turnaround from polls taken in the aftermath of his purity-search scandal, and ought to serve to convince people — if November’s results didn’t do the […]
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