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Moscow Mitch having second thoughts?

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Mitch McConnell has now distinguished himself as being, possibly, the Republican Senator who has voted against more of Trump’s nominees than any other Republican. It goes without saying that he deserves no accolades for this accomplishment, given that 1) not one of the nominees was remotely qualified for the position for which he or she […]

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The madness continues

Sunday, January 26, 2025

It’s getting harder and harder to think up anything to write about that isn’t already obvious to anyone who might stumble across this blog. The madness continues, but has been entirely predictable. It hardly seems necessary to document the atrocities, since they are so obvious. I do think I have to say a word about […]

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Not so sure there’s a bright side

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Like a lot of other people, from what I’ve heard, I’ve essentially refused to absorb much of the news since the election. I decided last week that as of this past Monday I would phase back in to reading my blogs and other sources of information, though I will not be perusing the New York […]

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Nothing new here

Saturday, September 28, 2024

This article in the New London Day brought back memories. The Day reports that Old Lyme Democrats are using tracking technology to find the folks that are stealing their signs. There’s no indication that Republican signs are being stolen. Back in 1980 I was actually planning on voting for Barry Commoner, but with a few […]

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Call them what they are

Monday, June 24, 2024

I am in the process of reading Radical Connecticut by Andy Piascik and Steve Thornton. I was struck by this paragraph in the chapter titled “It Can’t Happen Here”, which discusses the performance of Sinclair Lewis’s play of that name in Connecticut: Americans in the 1930s were being groomed to accept fascism as a macho […]

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Even in Vermont

Thursday, June 20, 2024

A bit out of the ordinary for this blog, but since I spend a lot of time there, I can’t help passing on this story from Vermont. It had been my impression that the Vermont Republican Party had not yet gone full crazy, at least not as crazy as most of the rest of the […]

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They can only preach to the choir

Monday, March 11, 2024

I’ve written a number of posts about the Democrat’s seeming inability to grab control of the narrative. They always seem to be on the defensive and rarely, if ever, speak in unison, unlike the Republicans who will come up with a line of attack which is repeated endlessly and by practically all of them. One […]

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Good day, yesterday

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

So, the Democrat won convincingly in New York yesterday, cutting the Republicans’ razor thin majority in the House down even more. It was supposed to be close, but wasn’t. 2022 was supposed to be a Republican wave, but wasn’t. In fact, it appears to be the case that Democrats have outperformed the polls quite a […]

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Grifters Gotta Grift

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Couldn’t resist passing this along. It truly is the case than on multiple levels the Republican Party is just a massive grift. After all, the business plan is to get Fox-addled minds to cast votes against their best interest so the Republicans can deliver for their real constituency, the selfish rich, by sucking money from […]

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New Hampshire speaks

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

…and now everyone can argue about what they said. I think it’s fair to say that reactions to yesterday’s vote are all over the map, often depending on the spin one wants to put on things. Trump won, though I understand that in terms of delegates to the convention, he came away with a small […]

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