The SNL fantasy trial was good for a laugh, but there is genuine and deep concern among many who have seen the damage Putin-- and Moscow Mitch-- have been able to do to American democracy on the cheap.
I don't think anyone in the House thinks they're going to get 20 Republicans to vote to remove Trump from office. They'll be lucky if they can keep Joe Manchin, Doug Jones and Kyrsten Sinema on the reservation and get even one Republican, presumably Collins or Murkowski. Instead, I think what the Democrats are trying to do is create a record for posterity and make a case against Trump's reelection. And they're been very successful in doing just that.
I think of Rick Wilson as one of the MSNBC resident #NeverTrumpers who wants to push the Democratic Party far right enough-- it's almost there-- to be the pre-Trump Republican Party. He and Jim Messina could start a transpartisan status quo firm.
by NoahLots of people say Saturday Night Live isn't as good as it once was. You know..."people are saying." They may be right. They may be wrong, but I did hear that the last episode of the season had Eddie Murphy for the first time in 35 years and was very good and got "great ratings." The only negative comments I heard of supposedly came from republicans and Bill Cosby (Now there's a pairing).
Sparks by Nancy OhanianThis letter seems too stupid snd illiterate for anyone with any sense to have written for him, but not stupid and illiterate enough for Trump to have written on his own. I wonder if we'll ever find out who helped him. Jared? Ivanka? Both of them? Hannity? Lou Dobbs? All those grievances, all that bragging, all that laying out of the Republican 2020 battle plan...
Devin Nunes has been one of Trump's most consistent defenders, co-conspirators and enablers in Congress. As Mark Sumner pointed out yesterday at Daily Kos, Nunes has been pretending to be an investigator, when he was part of the criminal syndicate all along.
Daniel Lippman's Politico piece Friday on Trump's essential nature carried a very provocative headline: He does nothing without a quid pro quo.
From Disorganized Crime by Nancy OhanianYou've heard Trump whining and moaning about the Ukraine scandal whistleblower for what seems like months already. He's always on Twitter thundering about unmasking him. That's illegal. There's a whistleblower law and a whistleblower procedure for a reason-- to catch criminals like Trump without the whistleblower imperiling his or her job (or life).
Rudy Giuliani by Nancy OhanianAfter minor TRUMP! characters, Lev and Igor, took center stage-- by being arrested by the FBI as they were trying to flee the country last week-- Trump lied to the media, saying he doesn't know them and telling the reporters to go ask Rudy. Trump knows them well and has taken immense sums in bribes from them.
Yesterday, on Fox, towards the end of his panel discussion, Chris Wallace asked Karl Rove if "Trump's continued targeting of Joe Biden may be the best thing Biden has going for him right now." Rove: "Well, it would be if Biden knew how to respond. The president started going after him the weekend of September 16th and his first real tough response was October 5th, delivered late in the afternoon on the West Coast so that none of us saw it, and it was, how dare you attack my family.
