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Bye Claire

Thursday, December 27, 2018

It would have been nice had Claire McCaskill been re-elected, had that re-election led to a Democratic Senate, but as it is, good riddance. It seems Claire has the same advice for Democrats that Republicans keep giving us. We should stop suggestingthat we want to do nice things for people and express concern for white working […]

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Beto redux

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

This is truly irritating. A couple of days ago I passed on a blog post passing on an article by David Sirota in which Sirota argued that Beto O’Rourke was a pseudo progressive. There is substantial evidence that this is simply a Bernie backer (I don’t think there’s any evidence that Bernie is directly involved) […]

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My bad on Beto

Saturday, December 22, 2018

I know that there’s been a surfeit of crazy the last few days, but events move too fast for a hobbyist blogger, so let me start simply by saying that I was definitely not wrong when I diagnosed Individual-1 as being seriously mentally ill. Everything else that has to be said about recent events has […]

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Say it ain’t so, Joe

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Joe Biden sayshe’s the most qualified person in the country to be our next president. In my humble opinion, there are very few potential candidates that Trump could beat in 2020. Biden tops the list. Also, if there were a god, I’d be asking him (or her) to please preserve us from Hillary, who has been making […]

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A good start

Friday, November 30, 2018

I believe I’ve written before about what the Democrats should do with their house majority: pass legislation that people want regardless of the fact that it won’t pass the Senate and/or would be vetoed by the very stable genius. It looks like the Democrats are going to do exactly that, with the first item of business being […]

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That’s the way you do it

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Apparently at least one Democrat has learned the obvious lesson of the last several years. Incoming House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings isn’t about to give minority Republicans subpoena power in the new Congress.  Let’s step back a bit and consider the context in which we’ve learned this. The execrable Chuck Todd asked Cummings whyever he wouldn’t […]

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Democrats already proving me right

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Shortly after the election, I expressed my confidencein the ability of the Democrats to turn this thing around, and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the earliest opportunity. They haven’t even officially taken over the House, and already they’re hard at work to do just that. I’m no fan of Nancy Pelosi, for reasons […]

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The election is over, time to complain about Democrats again

Saturday, November 10, 2018

So, today there was this: Sunday marks 100 years since the end of World War I, the supposed “war to end all wars” that caused the deaths of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians. Leaders from across the globe are in France to commemorate the centennial. German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined French President Emmanuel Macron […]

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So far, so good

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

A while back I suggested that the fate of the Boston Red Sox and the Democratic Party might be mysteriously linked this year, victims or beneficiaries of some cosmic force that survives on a diet of irony. I observed that the Democrats were the Red Sox of baseball, always capable of blowing it in the end. […]

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The DCCC, an incompetent organization

Thursday, October 18, 2018

A few weeks ago I got a fairly suspicious voicemail from a recorded voice stating it was calling from the D-C-C-C. It did not use the term “Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It advised me that I would soon be getting a absentee ballot and that I should make sure to fill it out and return […]

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