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Trump’s Lawyers Found A Loophole In The Fourteenth Amendment
Quote: But Trump insisted he and his lawyers have found some disturbing holes in the amendment, which unequivocally states that anyone born in the United States is in fact an American citizen. The Fourteenth Amendment is a few paragraphs long, but I’ll just cut and paste Section One, the relevant section for this discussion. Actually, only the first sentence is … Read More
Latest Fox Poll Must Be Giving The GOP Establishment Headaches
Stat geek Nate Silver had an excellent piece the other day explaining why the polls today are to be taken with a grain of salt. In a nutshell, he writes, they are not good predictors of who the nominee will actually be, for many reasons: They contemplate a vote today, but we’re currently 174 days from the Iowa caucuses. They … Read More
Pissing On Your Best Friend
Earlier this week, I got in — not one but two — debates with good progressive friends about the wisdom of the BLM movement shutting down Bernie Sanders speaking at a Social Security and Medicaid event last Saturday in Seattle. It’s a lot of ground to cover, but I read something by Hamilton Nolan (whoever he is) at Gawker that … Read More
GOP 2016 Race Shorts
(1) IRAQ WITHDRAWAL Let’s get one thing clear, because I don’t think this is the first time it is going to come up. Regardless of whether you think it was good or bad, the withdrawal of troops from Iraq was Bush’s idea, not Obama’s. I say this because Jeb was on the campaign trail yesterday spewing nonsense: The former Florida governor … Read More
QOTD – Trump Edition
“I do whine because I want to win, and I’m not happy about not winning, and I am a whiner, and I keep whining and whining until I win” – Trump on CNN this morning. Number of points he gets for owning up to this: Zero. Can you imagine what would happen to our political system if the most persistent … Read More
State Of The GOP Race
The debate didn’t hurt Trump like may Republicans thought it might. By luck or design, Trump has figured out that the way to appeal to the GOP base is to be an asshole. Seriously. That demographic likes people who “speak their own mind” (the polite way to put it) regardless of the fact that he doesn’t have any concrete policies, … Read More
Megyn Kelly – Donald Trump Dust
I really dislike Megyn Kelly. I think her politics are terrible, and she doesn’t carry even the semblance of being “fair and balanced”. But she was an excellent moderator and while I don’t think that questions about “elect-ability” are the best questions for a presidential debate, she treated everyone equally. And even for a conservative, she’s better and smarter than the … Read More
I Doubt This Is True….
… but this is already the strangest political cycle and Trump is already the strangest political candidate. In any other year, with any other candidate, I wouldn’t even give this story the time of day. But…. well…. I don’t know…. According to four sources with knowledge of the situation, editors and writers at the outlet have privately complained since at … Read More
Bernie Sanders, #BlackLivesMatter, and The Difference Between Activism and Flaming
A Tough Weekend For Black Lives Matter, says the headline of an article in today’s Atlantic. And why? Two things: (1) an officer-involved shooting of a black youth by cops in Ferguson, Missouri at the end of a day of otherwise peaceful protests, and (2) a demonstration at a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle on Saturday. The first one was … Read More
Fox Is Breaking Up With Trump And He’s Not Taking It Well
It’s pretty clear that the Fox moderators were coming down pretty hard on Trump, and although he got the most speaking time, he wasn’t really asked much on policy. Instead, he was put on defensive (more than the others) about his elect-ability and tone. After the debate, Trump complained that the moderators asked him “unfair” questions, and criticized Fox’s Megyn Kelly … Read More
GOP Debate Wrapup
Well, I didn’t think I was going to see either debate yesterday, but I was able to hear most of the Junior Varsity debate, and I saw all of the Big Boy Pants debate. My running Tweet commentary is below, under the fold. As for the first debate, Fiorina seemed like the clear winner to me. Apparently, I was not … Read More
Nate Silver Places Trump’s Chances of Being GOP Nominee at 2%
Nate Silver writes that in order to become the GOP nominee for the 2016 election, Trump must jump the “Six Stage of Doom”: Stage 1: Free-for-all When it happens: This is the stage we’re in now; it will continue through the next couple of months. Potential threat to Trump: Increased attention to other GOP candidates. Stage 2: Heightened scrutiny When … Read More
Good Television Night For Political Comedy
At 11:00 pm EDT, we say goodbye to Jon Stewart. End of an era really. The Will Rogers of the modern era. There are and will be others in the political comedy arena, but none as astute as Stewart. I won’t indulge in a Stewart retrospective. Others are doing that, and much better than I could. I’ll just showcase two … Read More
Video I Love And Hate
On the one hand, there’s nothing better than low information Fox News voters arguing with each other (over, of all things, Donald Trump). On the other hand, these people are from my home state of New Hampshire. (Thank God I don’t know any of them). Enjoy I’m still not too worried about Donald Trump. Because I’ve seen this movie before: … Read More