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It must be galling for Trump to be impeached over a failed extortion attempt
I didn’t watch but from what I’ve read the GOP defense of Turnip amounts to: There was no crime becuase the aid was released anyway.
Or, in other words – The kidnapper released the hostage after 6 weeks before the ransom was paid. It’s fine.
Plus the victim didn’t even press charges so, OK.
#logic
Here is a preview of how Trump will lose the election but stay in office
Read the Kentucky election story below the fold and try to argue that it doesn’t all go down just like this:
It is nearing midnight on November 3rd, 2020. Trump has lost by lots in the popular vote and by a little in the electoral college. He does not concede. Having complained about Democratic cheating for months leading up to the election, he allows stories like the one below to bubble thought the internet. The press covers “both sides” of the controversy. Chris Coons reserves judgement in the interest of bipartisanship.
Within a day or two people of every political flavor are edgy. One night, a shot rings out. Mayhem ensues. Windows and skulls are broken. Trump declares a national emergency. Under the National Emergencies Act Trump has virtually unlimited discretionary power if supported by the Senate and Supreme Court.
He declares the election invalid. The constitutionality of that use of emergency powers is endorsed by a 5 to 4 majority in the Supreme Court.
The Joe Biden vs Chris Coons approach to the failure of bipartisanship
Both Biden and Coons think that there is some special potency to their brand of bipartisanship, but there are differences in how both men explain away the ongoing ineffectiveness of bipartisanship.
For both of them, bipartisanship is a magic key that will unlock every door and solve every problem, but when bipartisanship inevitably fails as it always does in the age of Rove/Bush/Trump/McConnell, Coons typically believes that the pursuit of bipartisanship by Democrats wasn’t obsequious enough. Coons views the failure of bipartisanship as a failure of Democrats to compromise sufficiently.
Biden, on the other hand, simply misremembers the past and lives in a fantasy world in which bipartisanship always works in spite of 30 years of evidence to the contrary.
Matt Viser
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Joe Biden remarks that he called about a dozen Senate Republicans to encourage them to vote on Merrick Garland. Then he says with Trump gone, Republicans will again find political courage.Left unsaid: Republicans stalled on Garland before Trump was nominated, or elected.
Tweet of the Day
Imagine a country where the president is fined$2 million for stealing money from charity and nobody cares. You live there. 🙁 — jestershead (@jestershead) November 9, 2019
Distasteful Liberalism
All the smart centrists agree, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is bad for the Dem brand among the rurals. What plays in the Bronx doesn’t play in Iowa. That’s a rule, right?
Democrats must keep watering down the Dem message. It isn’t 99.9% water yet. – Senator Chris Coons (paraphrased)
Trump Losing Streak Continues As He Jinxes the Crimson Tide
The stench of losing hangs heavy on the head that wears the combover. Donald Trump finally found a sports crowd that wouldn’t boo him, but his attendance at Alabama’s football showdown with LSU in Tuscaloosa turned out to be a mixed blessing for the well-heeled but slack-jawed spectators. They got to witness the Crimson Tide’s […]
Joe DiStefano Sums Up All the Biden Sleaze Delawareans Have Ignored for 40 Years
Joe DiStefano, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and News-Journal alumnus, has written a piece so damning of Joe Biden’s soft corruption that it can’t help but damn our entire state government philosophy in the process. This is what Democrats, as opposed to progressives who believe in good government regardless of party, have persistently overlooked — people voted […]
Highlands Bunker – A Bit of Rebellion
Ed Note: Awesome from begining to end. A little crackle around minute 26, but it goes away quickly. No biggie. If you aren’t doing so yet, support this with a patronage. Highlands Bunker – E40 – A Bit of Rebellion Senator Chris Coons (D-Highlands) believes that Americans shouldn’t protest in certain ways. Professor Harvey J […]
Cross my heart
If Trump promises to quit and go back to being a reality TV character, I promise to watch every episode and buy lots of stuff from the show’s advertisers.
Trump’s Crimes Explained to a 4th Grader and/or Republican
Josh marshall lays out some basic thoughts about what happened. As they say – read the whole thing.
The President used extortion to cheat in the 2020 presidential election. He used military aid dollars meant to aid an ally against his Russian patrons in order to force Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 elections, in order to remain in office by corrupt means.
There are various crimes that get committed along the way. But that is the core of it. The President is delegated vast powers to act in the national interest and he has vast discretion to determine what he or she believes the national interest is. But when he uses those powers for his own personal or financial gain
What does the Trump Party’s Loss in Virginia Tell us about Delaware?
According to 538.com in Virginia and elsewhere the Democrats overperformed (again) relative to thier “Partisan Lean”(1). Basically voters are still fucking pissed off at the Trump Party and are rushing to the polls to take it out on their local Trump Party Representatives. Politics has been nationalized. So, how will that anti-Trump Party energy look in Delaware? How will Delaware’s Trump Party people do given the fact that it is a Presidential year, when even the most disengaged voters stir themselves to vote?
Cathy Cloutier (SD-5) She is done. Not much to say about this, other than I doubt she even makes it to election day.
Anthony Delcollo (SD-7) The Dems need a half-decent challenger, but Delcollo, like anyone representing the Trump Party in New Castle County is in deep, deep, deep trouble.
Mike Ramone (RD-21) . He should already be naked swimming with the naked swimming club, but Karen Peterson prevailed on “Delaware Stonewall (not) Democrats” (c) to throw him a lifeline. Even if Peterson et al try the same thing again, Ramone is done. He is facing a strong challenger in Stephanie Barry, and being a member of the Trump Party is going to play even worse in that district this election. Good riddance.
Pettyjohn and Hocker are deplorables who represent deplorable districts full of Fox News zombies who think “creation science” is science. They’ll hang on, as will the SC representatives. Their names escape me.
Kevin Hensley (RD-9) As a member of good standing in the Trump Party, Hensley should be very beatable in the 9th during a Presidential year. He isn’t though, and that is vexing. If he was half the man he pretends to be he’d have quit the Party of Trump three years ago. That would be nice. Not happening though. He is a Trumper to the core. C’mon 9th District Dems, get it done!
Jeff Speiglman (RD-11) The 11th is America’s most forgotten Rep District. Nothing ever happens there. People are born, live there, and die without venturing out much. They view everything north of the canal as Wilmington. Speig’s will hang on.
Mark my words
I never thought Joe Biden was dumb, but when he says things like this he sounds like a stone cold idiot.
“With Donald Trump out of the way, you’re going to see a number of my Republican colleagues have an epiphany. Mark my words. Mark my words,” Biden said at a DC fundraiser today at the Sidley Austin law firm. @samstein
Biden thinks his superpower is bipartisanship. It isn’t. It’s amnesia.
Biden Polling a very distant 2nd to Bernie Warren
If Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were one person (or if one of the two suddenly dropped out) the press could dispense with the nonsense that Biden is a strong candidate. Instead of Biden (28%), Warren (23%), Sanders (17%) it would be Sandwarren (40%) and waaaaaaaaaay behind Joe Biden with a measly (28%). The upshot […]
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