Friday, September 20, 2019

SOMETHING SOMETHING DEEP STATE, SOMETHING SOMETHING OBAMA AND HILLARY

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For anyone wondering what the GOP response to the Trump whistleblower story will be, here you go: only took a few hours for fox and the go...

IMAGINE THERE'S NO CORPORATE POWER -- IT'S EASY IF YOU TRY

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Is this terrible? Of course it's terrible. It's not terrible the way it would be if, say, Maureen Dowd were writing it. She...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

WHY AREN'T DEMOCRATS BACKING MARIANNE WILLIAMSON? BECAUSE WE DON'T THINK LIKE REPUBLICANS.

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Marianne Williamson gets a lot of media attention every time she debates or makes a controversial statement, but it's not helping her --...

FOX POLL: DEMOCRATIC VOTER GROUPS ARE VERY EAGER TO VOTE IN 2020

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A Fox News poll released last night is the latest survey to show all the leading Democrats beating President Trump nationwide : But the...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

FIGURES LYING? LIAR FIGURING?

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Am I wrong to be a tad skeptical about these numbers? . @realDonaldTrump rally in NM was a data gold mine. 🔺45K people registered for t...

STEPS FORWARD, STEPS BACK

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Bibi backsliding. Boris flailing. Hong Kong rising. The authoritarian trend is not inevitable. Fight back. It will work. — Ben Rhodes (@brh...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

THE VIEW FROM THE CROUCH

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Here was the lead item in this morning's Politico Playbook : THIS POLITICAL PICKLE has come up in conversations with several Democrati...

JERROLD NADLER SHOULDN'T HOST COREY LEWANDOWSKI'S CAMPAIGN KICKOFF RALLY

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The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today, and it's already clear that it will be a bust . House Judiciary Chairman Jerry...
Monday, September 16, 2019

TUCKER CARLSON, YOU MAY BE THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE US NOW

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CNN reports: The US has told at least one US ally in the Middle East, that they have intelligence showing that the launch was “likely” comi...

WHY CAN REPUBLICANS BE RADICALLY OUT OF STEP WITH PUBLIC OPINION WHILE DEMOCRATS CAN'T BE MODERATELY OUT OF STEP?

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Democrats are being warned that relitigating Brett Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court would be bad for them politically. Kav...
Sunday, September 15, 2019

DONALD TRUMP'S KAVANAUGH CONSPIRACY THEORY

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Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly's new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, will be published on Tuesday . In The New York Times, Pogr...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

IS THERE A SUPERCUT OF TRUMP SAYING "GODDAMN"?

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The Washington Post 's Julie Zauzmer notes that for an evangelical hero, Donald Trump sure says "goddamn" a lot. ... on Thurs...
Friday, September 13, 2019

PICK YOUR CANDIDATE, PICK YOUR SMEARS

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Here's Greg Sargent in full Eeyore mode: The question isn’t merely whether Biden has the stamina for a grueling campaign, or whether Bi...

MAYBE WINNING DEBATES IS OVERRATED

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I think New York magazine's Eric Levitz has a point: Would You Leave Joe Biden Alone With Trump? The Democratic frontrunner cannot s...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

ON GUNS, REPUBLICANS AREN'T AFRAID OF THE NRA -- THEY'RE AFRAID OF THEIR OWN VOTERS

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Ted Cruz says what a lot of Republicans are thinking. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned on Thursday that congressional action to stop gun violen...

TRUMP IS GOING TO BE SO TICKED OFF WHEN THEY DON'T GIVE HIM THE NOBEL FOR THIS

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This is classic Trump: Tear up a deal with great fanfare, denounce it as the worst deal ever made, then, after a long period of denunciation...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

THE CRUELTY

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The cruelty is the point. A 12-year-old Bahamian girl was separated from family at a South Florida airport after fleeing the destruction of...

IF THERE'S A BOLTON BOOK, IT WON'T MATTER

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A lot of people seem to believe that John Bolton will blow the lid off the Trump administration now that he's been fired. Here was Lawre...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

TRUMP IS NO DOVE, BUT I STAND BY "WAR-AVERSE," WITH AN ASTERISK

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I'm told I tweeted the wrong thing today: The fact that Trump seems war-averse and just fired his most virulent hawk doesn't mean ...

I THOUGHT JUNIOR WOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT WHEN THINKING THAT WASN'T COOL

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For more than a year , I've been telling you that Donald Trump Jr. will be a serious candidate for the GOP presidential nomination in 2...