Jim Himes

The big news Sunday was Trump's executive orders after he sabotaged the negotiations with Congress for a pandemic relief bill. No doubt, his zombie followers will eat it up. No one else will.

Trump has a stronger hand than the Democrats do in the negotiations over the pandemic relief package. That's because he doesn't care about the impact on the American people and even the most conservative and corporatist Democrats do care-- or, at the very least, have to appear to.

Yesterday Neal Katyal, a former Acting Solicitor General, and Josh Geltzer, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, penned a piece for The Atlantic on why Trump keeps losing at a conservative Supreme Court. "The legal reasoning may look like it turns on obscure technicalities," they wrote, "but the administration’s cases are falling apart because of something much more deeply wrong...

The Axios headline was both disturbing and likely inaccurate: Pelosi and Graham team up to oppose Trump's Syria decision. There's a whiff of an implication that they're trying to somehow change Trump's decision.

Yesterday, in his Atlantic column, David Frum delved into a sordid piece of British history that led to the Founding Fathers including the power of impeachment in the Constitution. The recently restored Charles II of Great Britain, in need of money he couldn't get from Parliament, accepted bribes from the French Sun King, Louis XIV, in return for Dunkirk, then a British base on the coast of France (and for Charles' pledge to convert to Catholicism).

Elaine Chao, Trump's Secretary of Transportation-- and Mitch McConnell's beard-- was born in Taiwan and Trump's Secretary of Veteran's Affairs, Robert Wilkie, was born in Germany. Texas Senator Ted Cruz was born in Canada. Currently 28 members of Congress were born in other countries, including close Trump crony, Mark Meadows, who was born in France.

Sunrise, Independence Day... and Justin Amash's own personal Declaration of Independence was published in the Washington Post. "Today, I am declaring my independence and leaving the Republican Party.

I first met Jim Himes when he was running for Congress in 2008, turning a red district blue. The southwest corner of Connecticut is a pretty wealthy area and had been represented since 1987 by moderate Republican Chris Shays, the last New England House Republican at the time, clinging on to a House seat. Although Shays won 14 of the district’s 17 towns, Himes took 80% of the vote in Bridgeport, the districts largest town and also beat him in the 2nd and third largest towns, Norwalk and Stamford. He beat Shays 51-47% and today the district has a nice safe D+7 PVI.

"Do you want to see the president of the United States in jail?" That's the question Wolf Blitzer asked Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT). Himes didn't answer by disputing that Trump isn't a legitimate president who wasn't elected but was placed in the Oval Office by a hostile power.

A few days ago, Alex Kane wrote a post for In These Times, Here’s Exactly Who’s Profiting from the War on Yemen. As the poverty-stricken Yemenis and their children die, "U.S. arms merchants have grown rich." In one horrific bombing attack, "fragments of the bombs were documented by journalists and HRW with help from Mastaba villagers. An HRW munitions expert determined the bombs were 2,000-pound MK-84s, manufactured by General Dynamics.