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Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. His net worth is estimated to be well over $1 million. Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She married her second husband, then Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her personal net worth is estimated at over $8 million. This is what passes for "analysis" in the United States:

Andrea Mitchell: Peter Baker, is the congressional Democratic Party just too liberal for the country?

I think of the amazing things would could accomplish as a people and a species if we were not hobbled by being chained to such brazenly stupid people.   If we don't have the mental acuity to think beyond labels such as “progressive” and “liberal”  and instead think in terms of “people who generally favor some tangible benefit for the vast majority of people” - what hope do we have? Read the essay by Carlo M. Cipolla that Alby mentioned last week.   It explains so much about Republican Banditry and our national stupidity.

Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning an unprecedented fourth term in office. With the benefit of historical hindsight, we now know that he won by…

D's Finally Pass Something, And Send It To Biden.  If a $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure program can seem anti-climactic, the D's will make it so.  Of course, there was a caveat:…

Coons takes his holy bi-partisanship act to Glasgow Scotland today. His ready to disclose the top secret Republicans traveling with this afternoon at 1:00pm. This show of bipartisanship (if is…

It took 14 years, but Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have finally recorded a follow-up to their "Raising Sand," the 2007 LP that won both Grammy and Americana awards. "Raise…

The nothing that Biden has accomplished is too far to the left and that scared the white Virginia people.  So now he needs to be mean to AOC in public and accomplish even more nothing, so Democrats can run on nothing in the mid-terms and win by not being scary leftists.    Put me on TV!  I can do this.    #winning 

Having lost to Chris Coons by 59.4% to 37.9%, Delaware's most prominent Republican and the defacto leader of the DEGOP,  Lauren Witzke, now claims to have asked the Delaware State Police…

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2021/11/04/governor-ruth-ann-minner-delaware-dies/6285935001: Delaware's first and only female governor Ruth Ann Minner has died at the age of 86 after living a "truly remarkable story of triumph in the face of adversity,"…

Where the FUCK is Kathleen Jennings on this?   Witzke needs to be charged and locked up...today! So far, can find nothing re: State Police response to the Crazy Lady....however,…

This essay, by Italian economist Carlo Cipolla, has been around since 1976, but it remains fundamental to the understanding of human society and its defining characteristic, stupidity. Everyone should read…

For the GOP, everything is "Get out the Vote" .  Every lying facebook post, all the dumb anti-mask rallies,  and every policy decision.  It is all about getting the base fired up.  Republicans never say "but we might lose some moderate Republicans" because they know the moderates will come along. What choice do they have? Democrats dither, delay and debate.  Democrats think the base will come along, because what choice do they have?  Democrats can't acknowledge the base because they would push them off their message of obsequious unending compromise.   Also we nominate wishy-washy centrist who couldn't put together an inspiring message if all the pieces were numbered and came with IKEA directions.  It makes us bad at the pace and volume of modern politics.  The Trumper won in Virginia and is close in New Jersey.  Good news for Trump.