Thanks Chuck, you and Maggie Haberman ever just kill a bottle and talk about how passe this whole democracy thing is? 

Wait. I know you’re a troll but please explain how losing the popular vote by millions and pulling out a heavily aided electoral college victory thanks to razor thin (under 1%) victories in MI, PA and WI constitutes “easily” beating Hillary? 

Because you have to let the opposition ask questions in Congressional hearings?

Honestly, I think at least for some of them they’re actually scared of what the base would do if they turn on Trump-- not just politically (and remember he still has 90%+ approval among die hard Republicans) but physically-- the Red Hats aren’t the most stable of cohorts and zealots have always hated traitors and…

Conversely, why would it being “tough” be a selling point for leather in this car? 

Are they really more luxurious though-- I mean is Trump’s gilded apartment more luxurious than say a mountain top chalet-- luxury isn’t an objective quality it’s an attachment heavily weighted in the cultural mores of a place and people. 

Cachet plus culturally distinct standards of luxury-- I’d imagine that most Rolls buyers would look at the Century as both boring and a Toyota, while the Century buyers would see the Rolls as vulgar (in American terms- the Century folks probably see the Rolls the way a lot of us see say Trump’s interior decorating…

Yeah because what an executive really wants is to feel and hear his driver running through gears or god forbid stalling out in Tokyo traffic. 

I think there’s a difference though-- I’d rather have leather for a heavy use product likely to see multiple users in it’s lifetime (airline seats; mid-range luxury and sports cars, etc)-- for a product with a target market that will either use the item until the point of failure and/or be the only user-- high end…

Well there is the confirmation of Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor 

“could go off the rails” ..... I mean come the fuck on, it’s Gohmert, where he lives there are no rails.   There isn’t a bookmaker alive that would take money on “will Gohmert say something crazy” for any random day ending in “y” much less today. 

Hasn’t Omar sponsored a bill dealing with FGM in Congress?   Given that shouldn’t her position be relatively obvious?

I’d ask for a “Surviving Donald Trump” series but I don’t want to jinx it. 

Nelson should be in the headline, Sanders shouldn’t- Nelson is rising figure in labor and (given her own union) has significant ties to this strike. 

The Hatch Act is the one item on your list I hesitate about-- it feels like something that could be weaponized way, way too easily. 

I’m sure Obama would have loved it if they’d retired but it wasn’t exactly his call. This isn’t an Dem/Republican thing it’s a “Justices are hugely stubborn and don’t often want to leave the bench” thing-- the converse doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should politically but Justices are human too. 

This.  And that all the stuff we politically obsessed people assume is common knowledge regarding the Mueller report really isn’t-- if people had actually read the report Trump couldn’t use his “NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION” bullshit. 

Downside (for them) of being so echo chambered is that you occasionally walk right into a trap that normal people would see a mile away see Rep. Buck giving Mueller a chance to get around his ethical quandry about how to accuse someone who can’t defend themselves in a court of law-- just ask Bob if the President can…

The real upside for those opposing Trump to the Republicans going so crazy on this is that it makes the Dems look a lot better...also it appears to be pissing Mueller off to the point that he’s going to start taking names.

I love that the second Congressman, Ken Buck of Colorado, is a Republican and clearly thought he was being clever but ended up essentially throwing Mueller an alley-oop.