The GOP hits the “ground” running. And trips over their shoe laces.
Happy Sunday bunkies! I saw something funny on the news yesterday, so I thought I'd share it with you to lighten up your day before I hit the makeup chair … Read More
Category: Democrats
There Is Another Republican Congressman With Russian Ties Hiding in Plain Sight.
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District appears to be aping Donald Trump when it comes to the Russians: Twelve days after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the … Read More
Wrestling with Alligators.
Well, well, well, isn't this special? Axios is reporting that GOP Ohio Representative, and all around piece of work Jim Jordan has sent a letter to his colleagues, officially advising … Read More
OMG! We've gone full circle. Trump is doing 2016's “greatest hits” all over again!
You know, I'd like to blame this feeling on a flashback, but I didn't do any acid back in the late 60's or 70's. But to quote the late, great … Read More
The activism is working. A dispatch from the front.
As you read this today (I wrote this last night), we are 108 days away from the November 2018 midterm elections. Polls continue to show high levels of Democratic enthusiasm, … Read More
Example “A” for Why Democratic Voters and the Resistance Should IGNORE Cries of “SOCIALISM!”
You know the Resistance and progressives are making political headway when conservatives and their allies start to scream “SOCIALISM!” It’s the 2nd best bogeyman for the GOP to use agasint … Read More
“Trump Fatigue.” Through the looking glass.
Anybody who loves sports will get this analogy immediately. Your favorite team leaves their game in the locker room, and is down by 27 points at the half. The coach … Read More
Questions to Daily Kos Members from Nebraska.
Yeah, this is one of my many grasping at straws when it comes to flipping the U.S. Senate this year, but this caught my eye today: According to the Cook … Read More
I Ask For a Ceasefire.
Could we all just take a few moments, access our current political mess, and maybe have a ceasefire among those who resist Trump and his policies? As to my meager … Read More
The game just fundamentally changed for Trump and the GOP.
Let's start our Saturday rime together off on a lighter note. By far and away, my choice for “Comment of the Week” goes to Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor. … Read More
DCCC Decides to Help Liz Watson Flip IN-9th to Blue.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal: The DCCC, which pushes to get Democrats elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, added Watson to their “Red to Blue” program, which sends support to … Read More
NYT has another interesting column on the White Working Class voter debate
Sarah Smarsh has a well written opinion piece up in the NYT titled “Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About “Trump Country.“ To give a flavor of her piece: … Read More
KY Republican Congressman Barr Would Rather Talk About Kavanaugh Than Trump's Treason.
I find the fact that it took Republican Congressman Andy Barr of the KY-6th District several days to finally comment on Trump’s Helsinkis Fiasco and then try to change the … Read More
Bits of Information From MSNBC Today.
Over 4 million Obama voters from 2012 did not vote in the 2016 Election. 2016 was an election cycle in which Trump’s margin of victory was one of the narrowest … Read More
What to Do Before the Midterms?
Is there anything we as progressives and Americans can do about the traitor Trump that we are not already doing? I’m not asking this as some rhetorical question. I realize … Read More
Democratic Congressional Candidate Amy McGrath Does Not Mince Words.
Democrat Amy McGrath is running against Republican Congressman Andy Barr in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, and McGrath had plenty to say about Trump and his lovefest with Putin. “Today, the … Read More
Daily Kos Unmasked as Top Purity Tester
A diary has been sitting around on the rec list all evening, and anyone just looking at the rec list would be given the impression that Elon Musk is a secret … Read More
The GOP got flattened by a runaway Strzok.
Memo To: Rod Rosenstein Subject: House congressional testimony Dear Rod At your earliest convenience, but by the close of business tomorrow, please carefully review the testimony of FBI agent Peter … Read More
Will Brett Kavanaugh be Trump's swan song? Remember WHY the GOP elected him in the first place.
OK gang, hop into my trusty wayback machine with me, and let's return briefly to the dark day of November 9th, 2016. I want to do a quick comparison of … Read More
Two provocative questions that Democrats should put to nominee Kavanaugh
Many people are rightly worried that the appointment of “Conservative” Brett M. Kavanaugh will lead to the reversal of Roe v. Wade and other constitutional protections. With that in mind, I … Read More
A higher patriotism
Just in time for the Fourth of July, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of patriotism. Its primary finding? For the first time in Gallup's 18-year history asking … Read More
Republican Governor Matt Bevin of KY Continues WAR on Healthcare.
Governor Matt Bevin of KY just announced that he will ELIMINATE vision and dental care coverage for 460,000 Medicaid recipients. Gov. Matt Bevin's administration announced it is cutting Medicaid dental … Read More
The real answer to Supreme Court power politics that no one acknowledges
I’ve been as outraged as anyone about the Republicans’ theft of J. Scalia’s former Supreme Court seat — and now President Trump’s appalling opportunity to compound the damage with a second appointment. … Read More
Trump's SCOTUS shortlist is an American nightmare
I’m sure everyone will be very surprised to know that Trump’s shortlist of SCOTUS candidates is not exactly everything we’d like to see in a replacement for Kennedy. Or anything we’d like … Read More
Suggestion to Redstate Democratic Senators on the SCOTUS.
If Redstate Democrats want cover for maybe — they are all quiet for now — not voting for Trump’s evenutal judicial nominee to the SCOTUS, I think they could argue that a … Read More
GOP Holocaust analogists furious over Nazi border policy comparisons
It was a tough week for supporters of Donald Trump’s draconian policy of separating the families of undocumented immigrants at the border. (Those supporters are overwhelmingly Republican: a Quinnipiac University … Read More
We've already had a President issue pardons in a possible effort to avoid his own criminal exposure
As press and cable media scramble to cover President Trump’s antics surrounding presidential pardons — including the possibility that he could use the pardon to interfere with the Special Counsel’s investigation of … Read More
Samantha Bee Demands Abolishment of ICE. Democrats Should Heed The Call.
ICE was created from the ill-conceived “Patriot Act” in 2003. In the wake of rampant Islamophobia, immigration changed overnight from being an economic/labor issue to a national security issue. The … Read More
What We’ve Achieved Together So Far This Year
Dear MoveOn member, The year so far has, of course, been shaped by Trump and the GOP’s ongoing and deeply destructive cyclone of chaos. But it has also been deeply … Read More
MoveOn Condemns Unilateral Embassy Move to Jerusalem and Calls on Democrats to Demand an Immediate End to Violence Against Nonviolent Palestinian Protesters
Statement from Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director, MoveOn Political Action: “In unilaterally moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Donald Trump and his war cabinet have once again rejected partnership with the … Read More
Trump claims to put “America first”. That's a total lie.
Now that President Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal that is designed to prevent Iran from threatening the United States with a nuclear weapon, it … Read More
Huge problem for Democrats in 2020: We really don't have anyone who speaks at a fourth-grade level
I’m not exactly a fan of political pundit Chris Cillizza by anyone’s imagination, although his piece for CNN’s website about a recent interview Trump did for the Fox “News” Channel … Read More
How Democrats Can Fight “Dirty” in 2020 for a Permanent Dem Majority
We didn’t lose the policy debate against the GOP in 2016—we won. We didn’t lose the “message war”, especially considering that the GOP’s only purpose is to facilitate the transfer … Read More
GOP Not Happy: Quinnipiac Poll Shows Serious $$$ Needed To Save Most Hated Senator
Who knew that being respected and liked by absolutely nobody might affect your election chances? It was just a few months ago that Ted Cruz enjoyed an 18-point lead over … Read More
Why the Democrats Are Poised to Win BIG in Tennessee This Year
Democrats are kicking royal a$$ in Tennessee. The Senate race isn’t even close right now: Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) now has a 10-point lead over Rep. Marsha Blackburn. … Read More
MoveOn Members in Texas Vote Overwhelmingly to Endorse Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23) for Congress
Members of MoveOn.org Political Action in Texas’ 23rd Congressional District have voted overwhelmingly to endorse Gina Ortiz Jones for Congress. In Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, 93% of votes were cast … Read More
Normalizing Incest Is Already Happening: “If I had a daughter like Ivanka….”
A lot of vile things have been normalized under Trump: white supremacism, misogyny, and crass behavior, just to name a few. Recently, several articles have spoken about pornography “entering the … Read More
New Major Swing City Dem Leader Was “Lifelong Democrat”, Until Twitter Happened…
As a rule, I typically don’t cover local party races. It’s not really a shock that there’s politics that get played in…well, politics. Every now and again I hear about … Read More
Even more than impeachment, Democrats need to retake Congress's exclusive War-Making Power
President Trump and the U.S. Constitution (and established norms of governing) have been on a collision course since day one of the Trump presidency, but there is one looming, and overdue, … Read More
Alice Rivlin's defense of “centrists” is a case study of myopia and denialism.
I bear no particular grudge against Alice M. Rivlin. She appears to have led a fine life of public service, and, as discussed below, considers herself a “moderate Democrat.” She … Read More
Democrats proven right—again—on tax cut windfall for the rich
Campaign Action During the run-up to the passage of the “Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” late last year, one technical paper from the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis suddenly … Read More
DCCC caught pushing some of same talking points NRA-backed politicians use regarding gun violence
At this point, it is becoming almost impossible to tell the difference between the political messaging of the neoliberal Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is an organization that is … Read More
The real State of our Union is in peril
This morning, the morning after President Donald John Trump gave the constitutionally-mandated State of the Union address, not since the Civil War has the state of our Union been in … Read More
Breaking: Why the democrat party will lose!!! According to very objective media!
Republicans will win this. For sure. Democrat politicians in trouble. The Mitch McConnell. He’s a sly one that Mitch. Did you see him speak? Democrats better do what he says, … Read More
'Equal sovereignty' of the states in the age of Trump
Less than a week into the new year, the Trump administration kicked off 2018 with one of the most cynical and craven acts of political favoritism in recent American history. … Read More
Republicans' lesson for Democrats: Next president must 'look backwards' at GOP crimes
If nothing else, Republicans over the past few weeks have delivered an important civics lesson to the American people in general—and Democrats in particular. Facing a growing mountain of irrefutable … Read More
Oprah is supported by Bill Kristol, supported Iraq War, and has helped promote very shady people
With media mogul Oprah Winfrey reportedly considering a run for the Democratic presidential nomination and a large section of the Democratic establishment being at least interested in supporting her candidacy … Read More
The difference between 2018 and the 2010 midterms? The truth
As 2017 winds to a close, press, pundits and politicians alike are saying 2018 could be the year of the “blue wave.” Led by a historically unpopular first-year president and … Read More
On this Christmas day let us remember the role High Broderism played in Trumpism
Because we should every once in a while remember. There were many fathers and mothers to our current social dissolution. But even though he is dead and cold in the … Read More
NYT article on Immigration touches on a much bigger problem.
The New York Times today has a horrifying, yet unsurprising, article about Trump discussing immigration issues in the most racist terms: “Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” … Read More
