You know we covered this yesterday. ;-)

More seriously, who knows — he may have wanted out (the show completely threw his character aside); he may have other commitments (his stage-work has been prodigious lately, including the Angels in America with Andrew Garfield); maybe they didn't offer him enough money; maybe he just has better projects lined up. Or,…

Allons-Ears!

But without Russell Tovey, who was about the only good thing about the show in S2.

Especially when they've got blood coming out of their…. whatever….

Would have had the same effect in this case. :)

Possibly. His history on this is muddled, to say the least. But if angry enough, if absolutely angry enough (as he seems to have been here), he may well have really pushed others — say, Graham and/or Flake and/or Cassidy and/or someone else — to vote with him. But, McCain didn't need them as he knew how Murkowski…

BTW, in addition to below, it appears that one of the things which pissed McCain right off was Tr*mp going after Murkowski. Another was, believe it or not, the transgender ban. It's becoming increasingly apparent that McCain's vote was vengeance, or justice, or some version of "from hell's heart, I stab at thee!" …

Reinhold?!?! What kind of name is Reinhold?!?!

But now, he's threatening their actual power. They may still come to heel, but we'll see. I suspect, though, that they're going to get sick and tired of having Tr*mp shit all over them every time he fucks up.

I don't think so, not any more. Der Drumpfenfuhrer has seriously pissed off both Murkowski and Collins. Together, they can make any single dissenting R the Senate equivalent of Justice Kennedy.

My vote's for Cousin Oliver.

I think Blake can be observed from space.

I understand presidential policy: it's Fuck you for asking! and Clinton's a bitch, isn't she?

If you can achieve the silence, enjoy it. I hope you can.

If Mitch is Baelish, why does Trumpsey Bolton have such little fingers?

Obama had 3 Press Secs: Robert Gibbs (2 years); Jay Carney (3 years); and Josh Earnest (3 years). I can remember Gibbs and Carney vaguely; Earnest, not at all.

But, hey, aren't we all glad we dodged the non-stop chaos and drama of a Hillary administration?

That was a real (ahem) stretch of the imagination.

And, c'mon, they're so front-loading the insanity it's ridiculous! Like, where can the show go from here? How does it out-crazy itself by this point? A simian invasion? Learning the president's a changeling from another planet bent on Earth's destruction? Does he flee the White House and become a lumberjack? …