If you're a regular DWT reader, the Washington Post and NY Times pieces from earlier today should come as no surprise: Blue Dog and fake-Democrat Jefferson Van Drew is jumping the fence and becoming a Republican instead of just voting like one.
Recall when Lev and Igor were caught laundering Russian money into the Trump campaign and the campaign of dozens of Republicans in Congress? Yesterday, Christian Berthelson reported that Lev-- one of the Giuliani criminal associates was handed a million bucks from Putin in September "a month before he was charged with conspiring to funnel foreign money into U.S. political campaigns.
by NoahIn case you missed it, subpoenaed telephone records have revealed that the Republican Party had one of its House Intelligence Committee members, its highest ranking one, in regular contact with Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani (and his associate Lev Parnas) in a set up that was presumably feeding the Trump team with whatever information the committee was uncovering or investigating.
3 conservative Democrats; Slotkin on the rightMichigan New Dem Elissa Slotkin is one of the most worthless wastes of a House seat Democrats elected in 2018. A cowardly careerist she has spent the last year shaking in her seat that she might say or do something wrong and lose her reelection bid. ProgressivePunch rates her a big fat "F." That's why she should lose her seat in the Detroit suburbs.
Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig's Politico "Big Idea" essay yesterday tackled something that's been worrying many of us-- how severely divided we are as a people inside fundamentally dysfunctional political system. The essay is based on his book about creating a moral, unified America, They Don't Represent Us. He identifies 5 fundamental non-partisan problems of our democracy that are "all dimensions of a democracy which means that we are not, as citizens, equal with anybody else," and that must be tackled before we can move forward:
Those three law professors-- Pamela Karlan (Stanford), Noah Feldman (Harvard) and Michael Gerhardt (University of North Carolina)-- who Nadler called to open the formal Trump impeachment proceedings this week, were very impressive. Two days later, 500 law professors from around the country signed an open letter calling for Trump's impeachment. "We, the undersigned legal scholars," they began, "have concluded that President Trump engaged in impeachable conduct. We do not reach this conclusion lightly.
The New Yorker's Susan Glaser interviewed Adam Schiff on Thursday. She asked him if he hates Señor T.
by NoahThe Republican Party has now officially quintupled down in its alliance with Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin. They would have us believe that there was no Trump abuse of power in the matter of Ukraine or anything else, no obstruction, and that their Dear Leader Trump has done nothing wrong.
Me The People by Nancy OhanianMost Americans seem to understand that the gravity of impeachment goes beyond mere partisan considerations. To put it simply, if Trump isn't held accountable for his criminal behavior, that lack of action will serve as a green light for future criminal behavior, not just by him but by any asshole who comes after him.
