Yesterday, Charles Blow, noting that obstruction of justice is a crime, asked-- rhetorically-- if Trump should be impeached. Everyone of the left agrees that the Mueller report is "a damning document" that details "Russian efforts to attack our election to help the Trump campaign and the Trump campaign’s eager acceptance of that help, it paints a picture of Donald Trump as an unethical man with no regard for the rule of law.
Mnuchin and Richard Neal, who REALLY doesn't want to get the Adam Schiff treatment from TrumpworldWhen the Biden p.r. machine stirs up shit against Bernie-- which they never stop doing (it's like a pit of vipers whispering in the ears of any journalist foolish enough pay them any attention)-- one of the first things they always bring up is that he hasn't released his taxes. Really?
Mattis and Kelly by Nancy OhanianA new poll from Morning Consult offered some more bad news for Trump and his congressional enablers-- and for xenophobes in general.
Does it surprise you that Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about Trump's illegitimate presidency? Only 29% of Americans think Trump's "presidency" will be successful in the long term.
The video above is a brief talk almost a decade ago (2009) by one of America's most brilliant political theorists, Wendy Brown, a U.C., Berkeley professor, one of whose specialties is canonical political theory, and who, at the time of the video, was finishing top work on her 2010 book, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty. Obama, you'll recall, was still early in his first term when she made the video-- and was writing that book. Trump was still just a bankrupt TV clown scrambling for a few bucks wherever he could get it.
Early this morning, the Washington Post ran an opinion piece by columnist Greg Sargent, Another Trump coverup? Former FBI agents question limits on probe of Kavanaugh that didn't dilly-dally around.
I still haven't bought a copy of Fear-- but I plan to... for a plane ride to Istanbul. Meanwhile I'm depending on Rachel Maddow and, yesterday on Greg Sargent in the Washington Post-- Another big Woodward reveal: Trump’s bottomless bad faith and nonstop lying.
Yesterday, CNN reported something that most of us already knew-- that Trump picked Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court because Kavanaugh has asserted that presidents are basically above the law.
