Paul Ryan's toxicity

Over the weekend we ran an analysis-- How High theWave? How High theWave? How Many Republicans Will Drown In It? that predicts the GOP will lose 1,000 state legislative seats by the first Wednesday of November 2016.

White power without the white sheets and hoodsWith Trumpanzee determined to throw a bone to the most racist and xenophobic segment of his base by killing the very popular DACA program, congressional Republicans in swing districts and districts with big Hispanic populations started to panic.

About a year ago, Pew released a survey about party affiliation in the U.S. One conclusion you would have drawn is that registered voters who identify as independent might soon outnumber both Republicans and Democrats-- combined.

As I sat down to write this post, the big headlines at Bannon's and Mercer's extreme right website were a series of attacks on Trump chief economic advisor Gary Cohn, Trump Chief of Staff

Apart from Schumer and Reid having found the least qualified and most unappetizing creep to run as a Democrat-- pray Dina Titus runs-- there is virtually no one who can see a path to victory for Dean Heller in his treacherous reelection campaign. The newest PPP survey of Nevada voters looks absolutely devastating for his chances. Senators don't recover from a 22% approval a year out from an election in a state that's trending towards the opposite party, as Nevada is.

Painting by Nancy OhanianWashington is a foreign place for iron worker Randy Bryce. But he was there this week-- just before his featured speech at today's big Iron Workers conference on apprentice training in the Detroit area. But the meetings in DC were important.

Hard to imagine, but even today 42% of Americans still prefer to see Republicans control Congress. A new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal shows that just 50% of Americans would prefer Democrats take over Congress in 2018.

There were 9 states where Trump had landslide victories over Clinton, mostly poorly educated, backward states with small populations.

Have you heard "Tin Foil Hat" by Todd Rundgren and Donald Fagen yet? That's it above-- a beautifully-produced homage to Señor Trumpanzee's manifest unfitness for office, on Rundgren's new collaboration album, White Knight. Rundgren, who a couple of weeks ago warned Trump fans to avoid his shows because they will find them offensive, said that "Tim Foil Hat" was driven by his and Fagen's "common frustration with what happened in the recent election."

I've been meaning to mention that hilarious story about the hundred 8th graders from South Orange, New Jersey visiting Washington on a school trip who refused to pose for a picture with Speaker Ryan.