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Trump, the sometime soothsayer

Monday, February 15, 2016

A case can be made that of all the Republican candidates, Trump is the lesser liar of them all. Hear me out. There are certain lies that have become so ingrained in the Republican psyche that they have become articles of faith. There is objective truth, and there is Republican truth. No one, not even […]

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Rubio to world: Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?

Monday, February 8, 2016

There are a lot of asymmetries in American politics. There are many things Republicans can do that Democrats can’t. Here’s a fairly graphic example:    That’s Donald Trump, along with Rubio, Carson and Cruz, standing while they play the Star Spangled banner, or pledge to the flag, or some such thing. Notice where Donald’s hand […]

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A tiny point of light

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

George the first promised a thousand of them, but they never seem to have appeared. However, there’s one point of light about this story, documenting some shady corporate entities funneling money into Jeb! Bush’s PAC: In February, a limited liability company called TH Holdings LLC donated $100,000 to Right to Rise, the super-PAC supporting Jeb […]

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Lying liars, but IOKIYAR

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Those of us who survived the 2000 election recall the determined efforts of the media to paint Al Gore as a serial liar. Although he never said he invented the internet, they repeatedly claimed that he had, and cast him as a liar. There were other examples, most of them equally specious. But it became […]

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Jeb! hands the Dems a talking point 

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

As all the world knows, Jeb! has turned out to be a terrible politician, the latest example coming yesterday, when he announced to a room full of supporters that his brother George (remember him?) was a case study in leadership. Now, if your brother was inarguably the worst president in history, and you were trying […]

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Ryan Express derailed

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Paul Ryan has agreed to be speaker of the House, so long as the members of his own party take a solemn oath that they won’t fire him. There is an interesting dynamic in all of this, leaving this pundit to wonder whether there is any way out, for the Republicans, and, more importantly, any […]

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Lindsay Graham to leave the Senate

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Washington. In an announcement that shocked Washington, Lindsay Graham, (R-SC) announced today that he was resigning from the Senate for health reasons. Several days ago, Graham asked for disaster relief for South Carolina, which has been devastated by Hurricane Joaquin. That led to the following: Let’s just get through this thing, and whatever it costs, […]

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Republicans say the darndest things

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Federal Communications Commission member Michael O’Rielly, a Republican, had this to say recently: [P]eople do a disservice by overstating [the internet’s] relevancy or stature in people’s lives. People can and do live without Internet access, and many lead very successful lives. via Daily Kos This is coming from a man who shares responsibility for regulating […]

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Justice Roberts (and Kennedy too) gives the Republicans a gift

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding Obamacare subsidies was precisely what most Congressional Republicans wanted, except for the precious few true believers among them. They now have the best of both worlds. They can complain bitterly about the decision, thus pleasing their base, without any risk of electoral fallout at the hands of those who would […]

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A corollary

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Upton Sinclair once said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Self evidently true. I believe I have discovered an equally obvious corollary to Sinclair’s observation: It is easy to get a man to believe something, when his salary depends on his believing […]

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