Thursday, June 16, 2022

THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS ARE THE FIRST 2024 REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

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I've been assuming that many Republicans have decided to cooperate with the January 6 committee because they hope the committee will mak...
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

CONSEQUENCES? WHAT CONSEQUENCES? (updated)

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I don't understand how you can live in this society and write a piece like the one John Stoehr just published at The Editorial Board: D...

WILL THERE BE MINI-INSURRECTIONS THIS YEAR? (updated)

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The New York Times is trying to warn its readers that election truthers are getting close to power in many potential 2024 battleground sta...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

IT SHOULDN'T MATTER WHETHER TRUMP THOUGHT HE WON

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Jennifer Rubin writes : Legal scholars have entertained the argument that defeated former president Donald Trump can avoid prosecution for ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

LET'S REVISIT THAT DISCUSSION OF DEMOCRATS' "EMOTIONAL GIVING"

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Back in January, in an interview with Vox's Sean Illing, James Carville griped : Just look at how Democrats organize and spend money. Fo...

CALLING IT NOW: THE GUN BILL WON'T PASS

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This announcement seems like a breakthrough, but ultimately it won't be one: A bipartisan group of senators announced Sunday that it h...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

THE POWERFUL CAN DEFY THE PEOPLE FOR A LONG TIME

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Pundits often tell us that the right-wing backlash we're beginning to experience now will be unsustainable. They claim that a party of w...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

JOE BIDEN: BOTH A BUMBLING OLD COOT AND AN ALL-POWERFUL SUPERVILLAIN

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Here's one common right-wing perspective on the president: a National Review piece by Rich Lowry titled "Biden Is an Old Man Overw...
Friday, June 10, 2022

DAVID HOGG, BABY BIDENIST

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We associate the futile hope that Republican ideologues might listen to reason with Democrats of an advanced age -- Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi,...

BUT THEY'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS

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Liz Cheney had one of the most quoted lines from last night's January 6 committee hearing : “I say this to my Republican colleagues who ...
Thursday, June 09, 2022

WE PROBABLY NEED A LOT OF COMMITTEES

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I don't have to tell you that I expect the January 6 hearings to change very few minds. Nevertheless, I think it's a public service...
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

SO I GUESS IT'S NEVER "TOO SOON" TO "POLITICIZE" A GUN CRIME IF THE TARGET IS A REPUBLICAN

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This happened today: A man with a gun and a knife was detained by police early Wednesday morning near Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Maryland home af...

ARE THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS REALLY GOOD NEWS FOR RON DeSANTIS?

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Jennifer Rubin wrote yesterday that the January 6 hearings are probably excellent news for Ron DeSantis: To the extent they pump up Democra...
Tuesday, June 07, 2022

DESPITE FIERCE COMPETITION, CARL PALADINO, IF ELECTED, MIGHT BECOME THE WORST PERSON IN CONGRESS

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Media Matters reports that former GOP gubernatorial nominee and current congressional candidate Carl Paladino is a mass shooting truther, be...

PUBLIC HEARINGS ON JANUARY 6 WON'T SAVE THE DEMOCRATS IN 2022

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Remember the video? It was played during Donald Trump's second impeachment trial, and it was supposed to Change Everything. Politi...
Monday, June 06, 2022

DEMOCRATS NEED TO WORK ON THEIR MESSAGING, AND DAN PFEIFFER ISN'T HELPING

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Vanity Fair has published a long excerpt from Battling the Big Lie, the forthcoming book by former Obama communications director Dan Pfei...

DISINFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE

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I'm back. Thank you, Yas, for enlightening posts while I was away. Yesterday, Margaret Sullivan of The Washington Post was lamenting ...