Teresa Tomlinson

Mitch McConnell, with apprarent support from most Republicans, shut down bipartisan marijuana normalization bills this year. Several pieces of legislation passed the House as part of the must-pass spending bills.

A few hours after the House voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday, The Atlantic published a piece by Trump critic George Conway, Donald Trump Made His Own Impeachment Inevitable, asserting that Trump's "narcissism renders him unable to comply with his duties to the nation...

On Tuesday, we took a look at how Trump's electoral toxicity and his impeachment is making it worse for 3 specific Republicans in swing districts-- John Katko (NY-24), Fred Upton (MI-06) and Rodney Davis (IL-13)-- to run for reelection.

Saturday morning, I pointed out on Twitter that though Pelosi managed to hold the entire Democratic caucus together to pass H.R.-3, her rather weak drug price reduction bill, just before the vote, the Republicans offered a way to kill the legislation via a Motion to Recommit.

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.

Hole-in-One by Nancy OhanianA new poll from the Atlanta Journal Constitution, by the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs Survey Research Center, conducted between Oct. 30 and Nov.

The Chosen One by Nancy OhanianImagine this-- there are still 10 Democrats who refuse to back the impeachment hearing. Tulsi Gabbard, Kurt Schrader, Colin Alllred, Tom O'Halleran and Conor Lamb finally jumped ship from the sinking SS Trumpanzee so all that's left of the disgraced Democrats are:

Funding Trump's concentration camps was inexcusable and horrific and every Democrat who voted to follow Pelosi into it has to live with that-- as do their constituents who vote to reelect them next year. Refusing to impeach Trump, the worst criminal in the history of the American presidency by far, is another issue legislators will have to live with for their whole lives.

Quote of the week comes from Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Teresa Tomlinson, a progressive, a super-smart attorney and, until earlier in the year, the very successful mayor of Columbus:

Look at this photo.