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Monthly Archives: January 2020

Looking on the bright side

Friday, January 31, 2020

Today the Senate took a prelimary vote that all but declares that, as Richard Nixon said, “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal”. Of course, there’s an asterisk attached, in that the president in question must be a Republican. But this was wholly expected and we must now hope that the […]

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Just a reminder

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

This is one of several articles I’ve seen later pushing the meme that Republicans are hoping for a Bernie Sanders candidacy. It may very well be true. It is worthwhile remembering that four years ago Democrats thought that beating Donald Trump would be a no-brainer. Remember Hillary spending her time campaigning in Georgia, trying to pad her […]

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A shock: Republicans continue to be Republicans

Monday, January 27, 2020

I have been totally bewildered by the raft of blog posts and news articles proclaiming that John Bolton’s book excerpt changes everything! Even if it did, the Republicans would find a way to ignore it. For once, though, they’re telling the truth when they say it adds nothing to the case. There is already ample evidence in […]

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Today’s downer

Sunday, January 26, 2020

You see a lot of blog post, op ed pieces, etc., like this one, in which the question is asked, more or less: how will history treat Trump and his enablers. The unspoken assumption in most of them is that history will be written from a perspective more or less in line with today’s. But that’s […]

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Pompeo melts down

Friday, January 24, 2020

It has been a given, and still is, that the Republicans will acquit the genius, but if recent events are any indication, it may also be the case that they see the walls pressing in upon them, no matter what they do. Today, we all learned that there’s a tape in which Trump’s obvious lie […]

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A few thoughts on our glorious constitution

Monday, January 20, 2020

One of the more ridiculous arguments put forward by the genius’s defenders is that the Democrats are trying to overturn the will of the people and the election of 2016. Let’s set aside the fact that if that argument held water, any impeachment would be off the table, rendering the impeachment clause a dead letter.  […]

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Good luck with that

Sunday, January 19, 2020

I’ve mentioned before that I get a guilty pleasure out of reading the Palmer Report, inasmuch as it tells me things I want to hear. Still, I apply great heaps of salt so far as the conclusions they reach, though you can usually go to the bank with the facts they recite. In that, they […]

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Looking on the bright side

Sunday, January 19, 2020

There aren’t many things to be thankful for in the current political situation, but one is that we have a right wing president who has managed to alienate the military, which tends to be…you know…right wing. The recently publicized excerpt from the upcoming book Very Stable Genius gives us reason to hope that, should the […]

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There’s something (else) happening here

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

The stuff that has come out from Lev Parnas’s phone leads, in my humble opinion, to the ineluctable conclusion that there was something else afoot in Ukraine, other than digging up dirt on Biden. Perhaps it’s a good idea to fall back on a tried and true Trumpian rule: whenever he accuses anyone else of […]

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The earth shakes: Paul Krugman gets it wrong!

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

I turn to the op-ed of the Times religiously every Tuesday and Friday to read the latest words of wisdom from Paul Krugman. But today, I was aghast. Paul Krugman was wrong! Well not all wrong, but really wrong about one thing. His column is about health care politics. He refers to the Trump administration’s […]

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