What Would Freud Do? by Nancy OhanianEveryone's been waiting for Señor Trumpanzee to claim ignorance of Michael Cohen. "Michael who?" "Ice cream cone?" I barely kew the guy." So, true to form, yesterday he told the brain-dead crew at Fox & Friends that Cohen "worked more or less" as a "part time" employee... a lawyer for me, one of many. Didn’t do big deals, did small deals." So Trump was doing what he does best-- lying to his moron supporters. He went into a crazy rant about making "flipping" illegal. "If you can say something bad about Donald Trump and you can get two or three years… most people are going to do that. It’s called flipping and it almost ought be to illegal. It's not fair." Poor widdle victim.The Fox interview was barely over when NBC noted that "Cohen, in fact, was a vice president of the Trump Organization when he left the company in May. A former personal injury lawyer, he began working for the company in 2007 after helping Trump win a fight with the board at his condominium tower near the United Nations."Meanwhile, no doubt feeling like a cornered rat, Trump was also lashing out in every direction-- again attacking Jeff Sessions, who he said he only hired as Attorney General because he got onboard the campaign train early-- and accusing him of "losing control" and allowing the Justice Department "to go after a lot of Republicans," no doubt referring to congressional criminals Chris Collins (R-NY) and Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the first and second members of Congress to have endorsed him. Trump could never have imagined congratulating Sessions for indicting the two crooks, instead calling it "a regrettable thing."And, in light of this kind of chaos and dysfunction, a Fox News poll showed a couple of relevant factors. Democratic favorability (50%) and Republican unfavorability (56%) is another signal that the anti-red wave is still strong as the midterms approach. Normal people don't feel the economy is strong, just Republicans. Trump's job approval is still in the toilet. When voters are asked who they will vote for in their districts, it's 49% Democrat and 38% Republican, enough to overcome GOP gerrymandering and voters disenfranchisement efforts.
“The Democratic edge in battleground counties is telling,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News poll with Democrat Chris Anderson. “These are where the competitive districts are that they need to flip to put Nancy Pelosi back in the Speaker’s chair.”Voters say health care and the economy (18 percent each) will be most important to their vote for Congress, followed closely by party control of the House (14 percent), President Trump (13 percent), and immigration (10 percent).President Trump’s overall approval stands at 45 percent, while 53 percent disapprove. Last month, it was 46-51 percent. His highest ratings, 48-47 percent, came soon after taking office (February 2017). The low was 38-57 percent in October 2017.
I sure wish more Democratic candidates were running more ads like this. It's powerful and it's what most Democratic and independent voters want to see-- and Republicans have their own lame candidates and aren't going to vote for Democratic candidates anyway. Isn't this the kind of ad that will turn out the base?Oh... yeah; I almost forgot. This was part of that Fox News poll too-- Putin-Gate related stuff... which looks like it could be pointing in a consequential direction, at least to my way of thinking:
