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Received this e-mail from U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D. NY) in support of his colleague, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s (D. NH) re-election campaign: The most important race happening in 2020 isn’t the race for the White House. It’s the race for Senate control. The future of everything we care about – from health…
As you all know, the big issue for me in the 2020 Democratic Primary is which of the nominees support abolishing the filibuster if we are to get progressive legislation passed. I am very happy to see this issue gain momentum and kudos to John Oliver for shedding a light on this: x YouTube Video…
As Donald Trump’s bragging about the economy reached a crescendo last fall, former Obama White House communications director Jen Psaki provided a helpful reality check for the American people. “A buffoon could have kept the recovery going,” Psaki explained, “and in fact one has so far.” That Trump had inherited an Obama boom, an expansion…
He’s so fucking stupid: In recent years, the Democrats have become the party of combating climate change, while some Republicans willingly deny the effect. This includes Donald Trump. When the Midwest experienced a 60 degree day in January, the President tweeted, “What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need…
I’ve made it clear in my past diaries that the next Democratic President and Democratic Controlled U.S. Senate must do away with the 60 vote filibuster rule. Today, former U.S. Senate Majority and Minority Leader, Harry Reid (D. NV), continues to make that case in an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times: The Senate…
I love this man: Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said this week that should Democrats take control of the upper chamber during the 2020 election, there’s one thing they could do to further efforts to tackle climate change: Kill the filibuster. “The No. 1 priority is climate change,” Reid told The Daily Beast’s…
Back in April, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D. NY) indicated that he is willing to do this in order to make the Senate work: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer won't commit to retaining the filibuster if Democrats win control of the chamber in 2020, the latest sign of trouble for the Senate's most…
I see the MSNBC segment on Pence’s visit to a border facility, and my first reaction is, “Why the hell would anyone want to allow this to be released to the public?” Then, I took a look at Pence’s, Graham’s, and Senator Lee’s body language, and I think I understand what they are up to. …
This would be embarrassing if only it weren’t so damn hysterical. Watching Donald Trump go up against Nancy Pelosi is like watching Don Knotts fight Muhammad Ali in his prime. It’s just no contest. And it’s exactly why we have a Speaker Pelosi, and not a Speaker Ocasio Cortez, or a Speaker Moulton, or a…
Many, many years ago, all the way back on November 10th, 2016 ore so, Mitch McConnell was one chipper turtle, he was living high on the hog. That’s because the hog had just gotten elected President, but hadn’t actually taken the oath of office yet, so he wasn’t actively screwing things up. McConnell looked at…
“Both sides do it” may well be the most dangerous and deceitful phrase in U.S. politics. The lazy analyst’s substitute for actual journalism doesn’t merely misdiagnose what plagues the American body politic, but fails to correctly identify the source of the disease. As Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein put it in their 2012 book, It’s…
I have a radical ides. I know, like this is a news flash, right? Just do me one favor. Read the whole damn thing, don’t just read the next paragraph, say “What an idiot!”, and then steam off to the comments section. Read it, look at what I say in political and practical terms instead…
The President is a counter puncher. When he’s hit, he hits back twice as hard Sarah Huckabee Sanders Thus us a primo example of the bullshit that I like to call the Trump mythology. In boxing, a counter puncher deflects or accepts a minor blow in order to be in position to deliver a more…
Here’s how it ultimately breaks down, in pure and simple human terms. This Friday morning, over 800,000 federal employees will wake up, hit the “brew” button, and log into their bank accounts, which will show exactly the same amount of money that they did when the employees went to bed on Thursday night. There’s what…
This is what happens when Donald Trump’s brain farts in an airtight room and no one is allowed to open a window. You get screwed, while his wealthy friends skate by pretty much unscathed. Today, The Wall Street Journal reported that the timely delivery of tax refunds could be imperiled this year because Trump just…
Received this e-mail today from CREDO Action: It's a nightmare scenario for climate and energy policy: Sen. Joe Manchin – the coal-loving West Virginian who once used a rifle to shoot a climate change bill in a campaign ad – could soon be the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.1 Sen. Maria…
Three Progressive groups want Chuck Schumer to show some courage in time to at least slow Bret Kavanaugh’s slime trail to the Supreme Court, stating that Senator Grassley has no statutory right to designate pertinent records and e-mails “Committee Confidential” but have been met with silence from Schumer’s spokesman. Huffington Post “In a Wednesday statement, three…
Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: RED ALERT: Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings start first thing Tuesday morning. This is our LAST CHANCE before Tuesday’s hearings to demand that Sen. Chuck Schumer deliver 49 “NO” votes against Kavanaugh — to increase pressure on flippable GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins to…
For some reason I woke up this morning feeling better about the future of America. If Trump is impeached and convicted, Mike Pence becomes president. And since Pence has decided to live his life as an intestinal fluke subsisting solely on Trump’s half-digested Hot Pockets and putrefying viscera, he isn’t likely to live long without his…