Sept. 4 Open Thread: Woodward Details White House Bedlam
This is what they mean when they say "the institutions are working," apparently: The Washington Post has a copy of Bob Woodward's new book, in which former administration officials confess…
Sept. 3 Open Thread: Democrats Went Soft on Financial Crime, So We Have a Financial Criminal as President
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
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
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. 30 Open Thread: We Want Democrats Who Aren’t Afraid to Fight
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
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. 27 Open Thread: A Plague of Frogs
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
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. 24 Open Thread: Dead Elf Walking
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,…
Aug. 22 Open Thread: Witch Hunt Finds Cohen, Manafort Unable to Float
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
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…
Aug. 21 Open Thread: The Great Security Clearance Purge
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
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…