Alan Grayson's new book, High Crimes, just came out this week. Grayson is a brilliant researcher and a witty, insightful writer. Alan wrote that he doesn't believe that Trump should be impeached for throwing paper towels at the devastated victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and telling them to "have a good time" nor should he be impeached because the bereaved widow of a dead U.S.
Craig Whitlock broke the story-- At War With The Truth-- The Afghanistan Papers-- in the Washington Post... and it's a doozy. I imagine Barbara Lee, the only member of the House to vote against attacking Afghanistan, is walking around with a big smile on her face today. Admiral Mike Franken (Ret) is a progressive Democrat running for Joni Ernst's Senate seat in Iowa. I asked him about the Afghanistan Papers since he was active duty for much of the war.
The Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative (Amendment 4 to the Florida constitution) passed overwhelmingly on November 6, 2018, 5,148,926 (64.55%) to 2,828,339 (35.45%). The amendment was sponsored by a wide coalition including the ACLU, the Christian Coalition and the Koch Brothers' Freedom Partners. It was generally supported by Democrats, independents and moderate Republicans. Far right and extremist Republicans like Ron DeSantis opposed it. DeSantis, an anti-democracy Trumpist was on the ballot the same day.
This morning when I woke up I found an email from my old friend Toon in Amsterdam. He had heard about the fires ravaging L.A. and he wanted to make sure I was ok. Then he started going on about how Trump and Boris Johnson are ruining the world. That led him in two directions-- were Bernie and Elizabeth too old to get the job done-- I assured him they weren't and that either could-- and then he started writing about how during World War II, "A lot of Dutchmen were completely indifferent about German occupation.
A gang of Republican thugs that varied in number between between 6 and 20 and led by clownish Floridian Matt Gaetz, staged a noisy disruptive sit-in in the secure hearing room (SCIF-- Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility), refusing to allow a scheduled deposition in the impeachment investigation-- which have been devastating for their Regime-- to continue.
Gangsta President by Nancy OhanianYesterday, in response to a question I asked him about a letter he sent to the FBI, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Ted Lieu wrote this: "In my experience as a former prosecutor and later as a securities lawyer, there were multiple large trades on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange that raised red flags. These trades occurred shortly before a major geopolitical ev
I have a recollection from a history class that after World War I, the Treaty of Versailles prohibited the unification of Germany and Austria-- Anschluss. Unification was one of the goals Hitler laid out in Mein Kampf. In 1934 Austria's fascist Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated by pro-Anschluss Austrian Nazis in a failed coup.
I don't know that there are too many honorable people working for Trump's regime any longer. I imagine most of the left behinds are one version another of lowlife Jewish neo-Nazi Stephen Miller. The actual honorable people have fled mostly long ago.
In 2018, corrupt conservative, Darren Soto, pretended he was a progressive during his primary battle with Alan Grayson. After he won, he stopped pretending and admitted he's a member of the right-of-center, Wall Street owned and operated New Dems. Yesterday, like virtually all the New Dems, Soto voted against impeaching Trump. It reminded me on one of Grayson's brilliant TV spots which focused on impeachment. Watch closely. The point is simple: "I'll vote for impeachment; Soto won't." And Grayson was... clairvoyant?
