God, remember back when we all thought she was just the battiest goddamned thing to ever come out of politics, and how it was amazing someone that unprepared for office was anywhere even near the presidency?

That’s his legacy. Nothing he did before (certainly not McCain-Feingold) or since is ultimately going to matter, but THAT choice has to be brought up every time we talk about his impact on GOP politics. 

Considering Sarah Palin normalized rank stupidity, I’d say there’s (at least) one other prominent dipshit he’s got to apologize for.

… isn’t he the only R in congress promising committee hearings into the Russian connections…

The only time John McCain was a good idea was when the alternative was George W. Bush.

I’m not worried about the number of nukes (100 can kill us all off). START was predicated on the understanding that sane, sensible people will equally reduce their arsenals, and that sane, sensible people would safeguard them. START was important, not because of the reduction, but because of the intent behind it. It…

Great article. Thank you. I appreciate you reviewing the history of the treaty and its importance then and now.

I am a 46 year old Canadian. I have a wife and two kids. I was 13 when 99 Luftballons was a hit. When I was 15, I was terrified that the Persian Gulf Crisis would spill over and create a nuclear conflict. My parents talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis and have more than once, said that they seriously debated bringing…

Actually I think that grammar issue was on purpose, in reference to Zoolander

Michelle Obama has been one of the classiest, the most educated (two ivy league degrees), perhaps the smartest, and yes one of the most beautiful first ladies we have ever had. We will be lucky to get another one like her. People who hate on her are ignorant racists. She is so many things that all of us strive to…

The constant flood of Michelle Obama comments over the last 8 years really do flummox me.

I wonder if, in later years (should we survive this administration) folks will speak of the Trump Baby Bust in contradistinction to the Baby Boom. You are only one of many many people I’ve heard say they are now reconsidering having children.

My husband has major baby-fever, and there was a super cute kid at the place where we had dinner last night. You start to think, “What if ...”

And then you read shit like this. Nevermind.

How did those selfish idiots (including those in non-swing states) not see that even if Clinton was far from their perfect candidate, Trump and the rest of the climate-change denying GOP will stifle the environmental sciences, destroy our public lands and parks, and intentionally drive us straight into environmental…

People keep hanging onto the idea of that laws and tradition will see us through the next four years. But, this is clearly not how the incoming admin. plans to operate.

I am in law enforcement and the military. Many of my colleagues were public, vocal, and sometimes vicious about their disdain for President Obama. I never agreed with it (politically, and in principal), but I never criticized them for their right to express it. That was their right.

I was told the only way to save the environment was to protest monsanto and eliminate vaccines. Stein 2020!

I thought that the firing of federal workers for purely political reasons was against the law? Bush got into trouble for politicization of firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006.

Wow... I bet all those “Never Hillary” morons are so glad that their vote didn’t count and Hillary won the election anyway...