Seth Meyers

A rising tide is supposed to lift ALL ships, not just the yachts.-Laura Oatman, Orange County Democrat taking on Dana Rohrabacher (CA-48)

Thursday night I was at Norman Lear's 95th birthday party. Almost everyone I talked with beyond "hi, how are you?" asked about Al Franken. I had a post in the can-- since then, published here-- that I was able to refer to when people asked me for my thoughts.

After it came out-- and kept coming out-- that Roy Moore had sexually molested underage girls and was banned from the mall he used to go to to try to prey on them-- Republican senators, one by one, started withdrawing their endorsements of his campaign. The very last to finally give in and unendorse Moore was Ted Cruz (R-TX).

We know, we know... but now even Trump's main campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, is saying that Bernie would have beaten Trump. Imagine if Obama had never appointed Wasserman Schultz DNC chair, his second worst appointment-- or maybe tied for first-- after making Rahm his chief-of-staff...Anyway, did you see that polling data about all the U.S. senators yesterday? Vey interesting stuff. The pollsters questioned 255,120 registered voters in every state about their state's senators.

Dana Rohrabacher's district, CA-48, covers 42 miles of coastal Orange County-- the primest of the prime residential real estate in Southern California. It stretches from Seal Beach in the north through Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach down to Laguna Beach, Laguna Niguel and Three Arch Bay where Darrell Issa's district starts. It's been a very Republican district for a very long time.

When The Hill's Alexander Bolton contacted Bernie about the self-indulgent, savage and gratuitous attacks made on him by the failed 2016 Democrat Wasserman Schultz stole the nomination for, he brushed off her criticisms, saying he's not interested in playing the blame game.

In a contest of congenital liars Trump may have met his match-- with North Korea. Author Suki Kim spent much of 2011 teaching English to children of North Korea’s elite at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). In 2014 she wrote Without You, There Is No Us about North Korea and she seems to know more about the remnants of the Hermit Kingdom than anyone else.

-by Sam HusseiniMany have focused on President Donald Trump's statements on Charlottesville condemning the "violence" from "both sides." Which is understandable, since the killing of Heather Heyer and overwhelming violence came from white supremacists. But virtually no one has scrutinized the first half of his remarks: Trump criticizing the "violence" of others.How is it that Trump is designated to be in a position of judging the perpetrators of violence? The U.S. government is regularly bombing a number of countries.

Tuesday night, reported Maggie Haberman, Señor Trumpanzee was in a very good mood after his press conference. Her White House sources told her he felt liberated after doing what he wanted. The next morning, Heather Heyer was buried. Neither Trump nor Pence bothered to attend. Not one of the "very fine people?" Haberman also reported that Gary Cohn is said to be deeply upset by the events of the last few days and Trump's responses, "per multiple sources," but that he's not leaving administration-- not happy but not leaving.

If your daddy was a crooked multimillionaire who left you a bundle, healthcare isn't that complicated... at least for yourself. You just go to the doctor-- even a silly one-- and you write a check. If an incompetent and ignorant son of a crooked multimillionaire hoodwinks enough people to get elected president, healthcare gets more complicated.