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Monthly Archives: November 2019

They just can’t help themselves

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Let me start out by stating the obvious: I’m no fan of John Bolton’s. Still, it seems as if Bolton has stuff to say about the genius that the genius might rather we not hear, so, as they say, the enemy of my enemy is (at least temporarily) my friend. But as anyone following events […]

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Yet another modest proposal, this time to help the Republicans

Thursday, November 21, 2019

First of all, I want to make clear that I had the germ of the idea for this post before I read Gail Collins column this morning, in which she suggests it’s time for the genius to throw Rudy under the bus. Parenthetically, the underside of that bus is now so crowded that Rudy would have to […]

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Really, there was no need to rush

Friday, November 15, 2019

There’s an excellent article at Talking Points Memo which purports to explain: what the rush of activity was to get Vladimir Zelensky to kick off and publicly announce these investigations. After all, during the key events the US election was well over a year away. The article is well worth reading,and I guess in one sense there was some […]

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Meanwhile, under the radar

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

If I were a Republican consoling another Republican about the unraveling of the Trump administration, I’d probably start off by telling him or her to “always look on the bright side”. After all, while the impeachment drama holds everyone’s attention, it’s even easier for the ideologues operating in the bowels of the administration (and I […]

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Nothing much to see here!

Friday, November 8, 2019

Here’s another one for the What if Obama (or Hillary) had Done it? file. A state judge ordered President Trump to pay $2 million in damages to nonprofit groups on Thursday after the president admitted misusing money raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation to promote his presidential bid, pay off business debts and purchase a portrait of himself […]

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There’s something happening here…

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Two years ago tomorrow the very stable genius helped to turn the town in which I reside from red to blue. The town council went from 8-1 Republicans to 9-0 Democrats. Last night, we swept again in the Town Council and, I believe, we came within one or two seats of maxing out on our […]

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I’m definitely missing something here

Saturday, November 2, 2019

So, it appears that Republican Senators are set to enter the last stage of every Trump defense: sure he did it, but there’s nothing wrong with what he did. Okay, so maybe I’m missing something, but doesn’t that also sort of undercut the notion that the thing that Joe Biden didn’t do, that Trump wanted investigated, […]

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It’s Okay if You’re a Republican, Local Edition, the Epilogue

Friday, November 1, 2019

A few days ago I passed along the saga of David Preka, a Republican candidate for Town Council here in Groton, who doesn’t live in Groton. Some might say that he never should have been nominated, and some might also say that bringing this violation of state and local law to the attention of the […]

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