Gangsta President by Nancy OhanianLast week, Mehdi Hasan interviewed Bernie for The Intercept. I dealt with some of it last night, but not this interaction about 2020:
This morning, Aaron Blake noted at the Washington Post that "When President Trump was elected, he promised the GOP that they would win so much they would get tired of it. But for a third successive election year since then, the Republican Party has walked away the loser." Also this morning a top Democratic congressional staffer told me that she spoke to "two different Republican Hill staffers who have expressed serious concerns with how badly last night went for them.
Let's follow up on last night's pre-election special for Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi and New Jersey. The results look excellent tonight... unless your name rhymes with DUMP. Trumpanzee did the trick in Kentucky, a scorching red R+15 state... where the GOP lost the governor's mansion.
I don't know much about Democratic strategist Kevin Walling other than he was one of the founders of-- and the first political director for-- the right-of-center Inside-the-beltway group No Labels-- and that he is often called upon by right-wing media to play the role of "the Democrat," particularly on Fox New, Fox Business News, Newsmax and the neo-Nazi One America News Network (OAN).
This is the picture you can winYesterday we started a contest to win a copy of this beautiful print above, Nancy Ohanian's Congressional Terrorist. We're asking readers who would like a chance to win it to contribute to Betsy Sweet's campaign on this page by 6:00 PM (ET).
A group of conservative #NeverTrumpers ran the above ad-- or a 30 second version of it-- in DC (waste of time) and Kentucky (not a waste of time) this week. The ad was produced and paid for by Republicans for the Rule of Law, which calls itself "a group of life-long Republicans dedicated to defending the institutions of our republic and upholding the rule of law. We are fighting to make sure that the laws apply equally to everyone, from the average citizen to the president of the United States.
by NoahI wasn't saddened by the news that Moscow Mitch had taken a spill and broken a shoulder. After all, I have a Moscow Mitch voodoo doll in my bigly collection of voodoo dolls. At first I wondered if fellow Kentucky $enator Rand Paul's next door neighbor had decided to be an instrument of karma and pay Moscow Mitch a visit.
The evil queen from Kentucky: "If I'm still Majority Leader of the Senate after next year, none of those things"-- and he's talking about Medicare-for-All, free public college, the Green New Deal, a minimum wage increase, LGBTQ workplace equality, background checks on gun sales...-- "are going to pass the Senate. They won't even be voted on.
