On Wednesday, Senate Republicans voted against an amendment to a bill offered by Patrick Leahy that would have provided $250 Million to states in emergency funding to assist in strengthening defense of the entire voting infrastructure. The lone Republican...
Matty Yglesias at Vox explains why we can’t have nice things — like a functioning Democracy.
“On Tuesday, President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address to the American people about the government shutdown he initiated and about the fake crisis at the US-Mexico border...
Beware! Here there be tygers  Stephen King
One of the big problems with trying to pin Trump directly down with anything is that Don Cheeto Cornholeone is an old fashioned Mafioso. It’s not just the fact that Trump refuses to...
Anybody who pays even passing attention to the current political climate knows that this is not a good time for President Donald Trump and his merry band of misfit marionettes. The farmers are in revolt, the economy may be...
Some time last week, Nicole Wallace noted that the women who continued to work for Trump - given all that has come out regarding him and women - must be "dead inside."Seems like a reasonable proposition, loving - even....
I swear to God, every time you think it can't get worse, it does. In the age of Trump, it has almost become a drinking game, leading to a rush or liver transplant requests, to try to see just...
Well hell, it looks like nobody got what they wanted, did we? I don't get to see Roger Stone slopping his way teary eyed into prison, and you guys don't to give me a ration of shit about being...
One doesn't get to be the Director of National Intelligence - the guy above the CIA, FBI, NSA, and military intelligence - without being able to synthesize the information one sees into a coherent theory, an explanation that one can use...
Those of you who know me, and have read me for a while, know that there is one political axiom I despise more than any other. Republicans fall in line. Democrats fall in love.
One of the reasons I hated that axiom...
Sunday in Washington was ugly. There were several thousand QAnon supporters, and other mental retreads that showed up at the Washington Monument to march to the Lincoln Memorial in a giant anti vaccine rally. Only don't call it that! They prefer...
