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Three Perspectives on Trump Meltdown: Red State, Direct Mail and Reddit

As Donald Trump and his rabid followers try to deal with the sudden flood of new stories about his sexual predations, raw language and continual search for self-gratification, I offer three different...

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Let us now consider Billy Bush and his future with NBC w/Poll

Almost forgotten amidst all the furor over Trump’s astoundingly tasteless remarks aboard the Access Hollywood bus as he headed for the stage of the soap opera Days of Our Lives for a cameo performance...

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Charlie Pierce Reminds Us: Trump's Election Intransigence Continues a...

Once again, the finely sharpened pen of Charlie Pierce is flung into action at Esquire, this time to remind us that Donald Trump’s refusal to say he would accept the results of the upcoming election to...

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I Am Predicting Hillary 6-8%. What's Your Prediction? w/poll

OK….two days before election day...hard to believe there are really any “undecided voters” out there although here in PA, we are being bombarded with robo calls and so many TV ads (literally back to...

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Documenting the Lies: Let the Archive Begin

Donald Trump’s Inaugural Address — January 20, 2017:From this day forward, it's going to be only America first. America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will...

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The Dutch Introduce Trump to Their Country....in His Own Style (Hilarious)

A Dutch satirical TV show put together this “Introduction to the Netherlands”, crafted in the style of Donald Trump.  Nothing more to add.  EnjoyxYouTube Video

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You May Force Your Representatives to Hold Town Hall Meetings - But You...

Opened up the paper this morning to find a front-page article about how hard it is for Pennsylvania constituents to get in touch with their Congressional representatives, especially Republican US...

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Congress Wastes No Time - Guts Regulations Barring Mountaintop Mining and...

The Senate today followed up on Wed. House action, and gutted a series of regulations imposed by the Obama administration that had halted destructive and highly polluting mountain top coal mining and...

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You knew it was coming. Just not how bad: GOP's plans for gutting Consumer...

CNBC has just reported on the contents of a memo from Jeb Hensarling, (R-TX) the head of the House Financial Services Committee.  We all knew that with Trump in office and the Congress in full...

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UK trying to minimize scope of planned Trump visit w/poll

The Guardian is reporting that nervous Brits are now working to diminish the potential blowback from a planned UK visit by U.S. President Donald Trump later this year:The government has abandoned the...

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Now it is Conway in the Crosshairs - Ethics

Now Kellyanne Conway is facing the crosshairs:  Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Donald Trump committed a “clear violation” of ethics rules when she hawked Ivanka Trump’s clothing line on Fox...

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So Here's the Big Question: Can Only Jeff Sessions Name an Independent Counsel?

I am not a lawyer, but having lived through Watergate and Clintongate etc. I have had occasion to be present for the government’s use of Independent Counsels to conduct investigations which might...

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Now we know what DHS stands for: Department of Heartless Sadism

First a tip to Frank Vyan Walton’s diary with video documenting the DHS arrest of a father in front of his children as he was dropping them off for school.  You certainly got a bad dude there guys.Add...

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You can comment on new GOP Healthcare regs...until midnight TONITE. Here's how!

Yup...you read that right.  The GOP is SO eager to pass its repeal and replace monstrosity (hearings tomorrow in committee and then to the floor for a vote before end of the week it appears) that they...

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If this site is correct, we're just scratching the surface of the...

Reading some comments in another blog this morning I suddenly stumbled across a graphic that turned out to be the lead part of an absolutely astounding article on a website called The Trump WatchdogThe...

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The Ryan Powerpoint Doesn't Tell You How Fast His Plan Guts Medicare - With Poll

In your heart you knew it was there, and you knew it would be buried in the fine print, and it would be bad….but trust me...it IS there and it IS BAD!  Paul Ryan’s disaster of a Replace Plan contains...

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Want Help With a Letter to the Editor? Here's How! w/poll Updated

Have you ever written a letter to the editor of your local newspaper?  It’s not that hard, and LTEs are a highly effective way to communicate on important issues at the grass roots level.  They get...

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An Urgent Appeal to Democratic Candidates in the GA 6th House Special Election

I know I speak for many across the country in sending the following message to any and all Democratic candidates for the special House seat election in Georgia’s 6th District:If your name is NOT Jon...

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Perhaps My Shortest Diary Ever, but VERY Succinct!: We're Passing Something....

Everything you EVER needed to know about the GOP, its interest in workable legislation, affordable healthcare and responsible governance can be found in this one sentence found this afternoon on...

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Guardian Bombshell: Doc May Link Billionaire Robert Mercer & Data Firms...

The British Guardian Observer tonight says it has located a document it believes provides a link between two data analytic firms and right wing billionaire financier Robert Mercer. Mercer and his...

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1:45 of Recorded Trump Team Lies About Ties With Russia

nyti.ms/…I got nuttin’ else to add.  This NY Times video says it all!  Trump, Conway, Manafort, Pence, Trump Jr., Sessions, Priebus….all lying.  And they want us to believe that the meeting with the...

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Maddow: Dossier Details Could Go Public Soon & Did Hackers Feed Trump...

Rachel Maddow last night (Wed. Aug. 23) continued to pursue a story which, strangely, has so far seen little further action on the part of the MSM….namely, that the contents of the infamous “Dossier”...

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Those Healthcare Subsidies Trump is Gutting: Wait Till You See Where They are...

Yup, you read that right. www.theguardian.com/…A Trump administration plan to subsidize coal and nuclear energy would cost US taxpayers about $10.6bn a year and prop up some of the oldest and dirtiest...

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You KNOW the News Cycle is Gonzo When the Possible Collapse of NK's Nuclear...

In the last 24 hours alone, we have witnessed:Indictments of Manafort and Gates,admission of guilt by Papadopoulus,news that Manafort had at least 3 US passports,  millions of dollars and burner phones...

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What is happening in Saudi Arabia and how is Trump involved?

Trying to put 2 and 2 together on this and coming away mystified by the timing of these various events:Recently Donnie got involved on the side of Saudi Arabia over a regional boycott of Qatar....

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OK Kossacks....Let's Get All "Knute Rockne" for Doug Jones in Alabama --NOW!!!

My top political pundit Charlie Pierce at Esquire has it exactly right:It’s hard to know where this all leads. The next big test is the race for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions’ old Senate seat in...

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The Best 24 sec. Condensation of Jeff Sessions' Congressional Testimony...

As I was watching our esteemed Attorney General Jeffie Sessions maneuver his way through the latest minefield of House Committee hearings yesterday on his past statements to Congressional committees,...

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Not to Ruin Your Holiday, But Here are a Few Grim Prospects for the Weeks Ahead

The more I look into the political crystal ball stretching a few weeks to a couple of months ahead, the more despairing I become as to the future of our democracy.  The prospects for our nation under...

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SURPRISE?: Big Business/GOP Caught in Pro Tax Bill LTE Astroturf Drive! How...

Would you believe that big business and the GOP might collude together to help push the tax bill over the line by organizing a major astroturf campaign of “letters to the editor” designed to make it...

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Why Paul Ryan is Clearly Complicit in the GOP Effort to Protect Trump From...

NOTE: Part of this diary is drawn from an earlier post I wrote on the decision by the GOP and the House Intelligence Committee to release a bogus memo containing evidence gathered from US intelligence...

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POLITICO: GOP Freaking Out Over Potential House Special Election Loss in...

POLITICO today says the GOP is calling all hands on deck in a frantic effort to help keep what should normally be a strong Republican seat in Western PA, south of Pittsburgh.PA 18 has had an...

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THIS is how Democrats Need to Frame Issues for 2018: Conor Lamb PA18 TV Ad on...

Democrats are buoyed by polls showing that generically, and in a growing number of cases, actually via special elections, a potential blue wave is building for the 2018 mid-term elections.Here in PA,...

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On Friday, May 4, 2018, Dallas, TX the NRA Holds Its National Leadership...

Well lookie here.  That’s right….in just two and a half months, our good friends at the National Rifle Association will be gathering in Dallas for their annual Executive Leadership Forum. Leading the...

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Wingnut Members of Utah GOP Block Romney Drive for Senate Nomination (w/ poll)

You may have missed it…..the story was buried in this morning’s always enjoyable Abbreviated Pundit Roundup….but it appears Mitt Romney’s supposedly shoo-in path to winning the Utah GOP nomination for...

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The NRA Is Climbing into Camouflage Outfits - It Won't Work Wayne. We've Got...

On Feb. 17th, after the Parkland shooting, I posted a diary noting that the National Rifle Association had a big event on its calendar — A May Executive Leadership Forum, set for May 4th in Dallas.  I...

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BREAKING: Guardian Details how Cambridge Analytica Used FB Data to Hijack...

As some followers know, I have, on numerous occasions, directed readers to a fascinating and chilling article in The Guardian detailing how the Robert Mercer firm Cambridge Analytica used data analysis...

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Cambridge Analytica & Facebook were working together at Trump's HQ During...

The more we learn, the more the dots connect, as more facts emerge or take on new significance in the saga of the Trump campaign and their relationships with both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.  And...

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European Commission Conducts Raid at London Offices of Murdoch Empire - Could...

The Telegraph is reporting that competition watchdogs for the European Commission raided the London offices of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox entertainment empire early this morning.The British offices of the...

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Inside the Battle for PA Redistricting Reform in the Face of GOP Chicanery -...

The following is cross posted from a TPM comment and expanded:Across the country, citizens groups are rising up in an effort to put an end to gerrymandering of both federal and state legislative...

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Devin Nunes Tells Damning Truth on Maddow in Secret Tape

Rachel tonite:  Secret tape of recent GOP fundraiser in WA State for GOP Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rogers.  Devin Nunes tells donors party WANTS to impeach Rosenstein and implies it must do this or...

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Eight for 18 - I Just Donated to Eight Key Fall Races & I Encourage All...

We’re down to crunch time folks….the final four weeks before one of the most important elections in the history of our country.  We LOOK poised to take the House and if all the cards fall right,...

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My Gut Tells Me We Could Win This. Am I NUTS? W/Poll

OK…first, I wrote the guts of this as a comment, but decided to put it up as a diary. I know I know….don’t jinx it, don’t get your hopes up.  It ain’t over until its over, but I have to say here that...

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Gerrymandering is Under Heavy Attack And We won More Battles Overnight

Want a good illustration of just how pernicious gerrymandering is in elections?  Let me welcome you to Pennsylvania, which enjoys a reputation as one of the most heavily gerrymandered in the country....

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Want to Save our Democracy? Join the Fight for Fair Redistricting - A Report...

Last week’s split verdict by the US Supreme Court on issues of gerrymandering has created more confusion than ever over the ongoing, and in many cases, decades-long battle to reform redistricting — the...

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Blissful Ignorance - At the Villages, the Developer Owns the Paper And...

Visiting my brother at The Villages, the massive retirement community increasingly dominating central Florida.  Its well known as a community heavily supportive of Donald Trump…..he included a stop...

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Letter to a Friend: "I'm a progressive but I have come to the conclusion it...

I posted the following as a comment in another dairy and it was suggested I consider creating my own diary using it.  Here’s what I wrote — with some additional tweaks:I am a progressive.  I  have come...

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Kossacks & Dems of All Stripes: The Time to Ante Up is NOW!!! Here's Why...

No I’m not talking about THAT kind of contribution.  I’m talking about how important it is that each and every one of us digs down deep RIGHT NOW to contribute to Democratic candidates nationwide.One...

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Mitch & much of GOP Congress are more than happy to see Donnie go. Here's...

If you stop to analyze it, you could easily argue, as I am about to do, that Mitch McConnell and many of his GOP Congressional colleagues are more than happy to see Donnie lose. While Donnie is...

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Why Collins won: Perspectives of a Maine Progressive

For several years now, my wife and I have spent a couple of weeks each year on an island off the Maine Coast….it’s a working man’s location with virtually no amenities of the type you might seek as a...

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Can YOU live on a $15 Minimum Wage! It's a start, but a truly fair MW beats...

The Biden administration has made major news by pledging to address the absolutely awful state of the national minimum wage standard, calling for a universal increase to $15 an hour.  In comparison to...

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