The '22 Senate race is heating up quickly. Here’s a quick early take on ‘22 Senate contest. Subject to change, if any further resignations, especially in swing states. Senate is currently 50-50, with Dems in majority because VP breaks ties. Repubs need to gain 1 seat, Dems need to hold 50 seats, an...

I began composing this post before the news broke [Breaking News!! Breaking News!!] that McConnell had informed his Republican conference that he’d vote to acquit. Had he announced he’d vote to convict, I’d guess there would be 10-11 votes to convict. Had he stayed silent, I’d guess 7-8. But now, l...

Looks like Nikki Haley has officially jumped off the Crazy Train - she lashed out at Trump pretty hard. She has always struck me as being a total opportunist like Cruz who will do anything she can to ascend to greater power. If I recall correctly, early in the Trump presidency she did a pretty good...

The Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis, has opened a criminal investigation into tRump. Really enjoyed listening to her on Rachel Maddow tonight. She is one tough lady. If it goes to trial there will be a real jury.085820E7-C826-4ED2-965B-76D096C0673C.jpeg Agree enthusiastically ...

These images are gonna stay with people. It's truly another 9/11 for the visceral feeling it evokes. I want to focus on dudog’s observation here to think aloud about the final act of this impeachment trial. Lots of new documentary evidence presented yesterday. I understand it’s highly unlikely Trum...

Trump as useful idiot to Russian propaganda over decades. This article, a preview of new book, won’t surprise you, but it’s worth a quick read.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... y-new-book

A Facebook friend just posted that Trump has been the best president in our country’s history, and anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t really studied history. I scrolled past it and didn’t respond, as much as I wanted to. I will be surprised if a panel of prominent historians doesn’t publish in 2021...

And people really believe all of his conspiracy theories, then we need a fleet of mental health professionals to save our country. Sadly, I think we need a fleet of mental health professionals who have experience in deprogramming cult members. That’s what this looks like to me, deep in Trumplandia....

Trump to me is a boatload too far of personal shortcomings. BUT if you are strongly pro-life, he’s your only choice. If you’re strongly second amendment, he’s your only choice. If you are strongly against PC culture, he’s your only choice. And that’s before getting to debatable issues about who has...

Wonderful post, CNC. I don’t have time to highlight every important point with which I agree, though I applaud your post.

I am composing a response to rj199, too, but it might wind up being superfluous.

As PA nears the inevitable, I think Biden's folks are setting up the Delaware stage for a victory speech. I expect that speech to be less exuberant than what we are used to. I think and hope you’re right. He can thank his supporters profusely for their incredible work. But his focus should be on pa...

Assuming he stays majority leader, McConnell is going to really dig in his heals on all of this. His position has way too much power and he is obsessed with harnessing all of this power to make himself feel important. Biden will have to balance the art of compromise with PR campaigns against McConn...

We are not the country I perceived us to be, or hoped we are. This is intended to be a friendly amendment, about an admittedly touchy subject. I say friendly, as I infer that what dismays you dismays me as well. The touchy subject is the tens of millions of people who voted for Trump, the vast majo...

And why anyone would want that in a President is something that continues to completely escape me. I just do not get it. I need a shower. How do his supporters defend this? I tag-quote these 2 responses to the Trump truck caravan merely as a jumping-off point to the larger issue: the people. I do n...

I know plenty of conservative lawyers. I know very few that support Trump. His constant attacks on the rule of law is an assault on something we all take pretty seriously. I have been sworn into, and appeared, in courts as high as the U.S. Supremes and as low as local small claims court. The oath I...

I continue to believe that Kavanaugh is the actual wild-card-swing-justice that Roberts needs to persuade to act as a non-partisan arbiter in defense of democracy and the rule of law. And I will hope that either Gorsuch or Barrett will move toward Roberts and away from Thomas and Alito. Given Kavan...

Apropos the earlier discussion about whether the Supreme Court has been so politicized that Trump’s 3 appointees will join Thomas and Alito to find constitutional rationale to steal the election for Trump. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/29/supreme-court-begging-for-legitimacy-crisis-...

I totally believe you in that the vast majority of lawyers, including conservative lawyers, are like this. But there are always exceptions, and it seems to me like Trump would not pick the 3 people he picked unless they were part of those minority exceptions who would be shills for him. That is a p...

I have been corrected OY on today’s Court decision, so the news isn’t necessarily good, as I naïvely stated above.Today the Court simply put a substantive decision off until at least Nov.3. So by tonight Dems all over the place are strongly advising (mostly tweets, I guess) that voters in PA— and ev...

Sadly, there is a darker perspective suggesting that one candidate doesn’t need to spend more money and is somehow assured the outcome will be in their favour. I want to be as wrong about this as I have ever been wrong about anything in my life. I agree with every word fuse writes here. I do not kn...