But Trump didn’t do this to give the Warrus a hard-on, he did it as distraction.

I think it’s fair to say that Sonmez exercised really poor judgment. Her decision to tweet out the Daily Beast article wasn’t so much in the hours following his death as it was literally minutes after it was first reported, a period in which we knew at least four other people had also died violently and in fire and…

Nothing is “set.” Theoretically, anything could happen. What’s more likely to happen is that Sanders and Biden functionally tie and split the delegates fairly evenly between Iowa and Nevada. Sanders will win NH going away, as will Biden with South Carolina.

The argument is that Bolton submitted the manuscript to the White House/NSC a matter of days before the president acted to kill Solemani. It was self-evidently a move that Bolton (as well as several hawkish leaders in the senate) approved of. The president has been quoted (by anonymous sources) as acknowledging he did…

My best guess: Bolton can’t stand Trump, and thinks Trump is a buffoon. He also believes in a very strong Executive Branch, so he doesn’t really want to testify in the context of impeachment. He first joined the lawsuit requesting the judiciary to give him permission to go against the president’s wishes, but he did…

I’m obviously not defending the Post’s handling of that, which came after the post I made up top. I was really responding more to the way that people were in a kind of race of performative wokeness while the story itself was still unfolding—before most of the dead had been identified, they wanted to ensure that…

They have been playing along because for some goddamn reason their electorate has latched on to the moron but this could be the perfect time to throw him under the bus and move along.

I can see Warren being offered up as a “compromise” candidate. Liberal, but not Bernie-liberal; and Establishment, but not Biden-Establishment.

It really only started mattering in 1976 when Carter won. Before then, there were fewer statewide nominating contests, and the early states were frequently skipped altogether. Even that year, a significant number of candidates didn’t declare their candidacy until March 1976 (i.e., after something like a dozen states…

You are precious. Thank you for your, as always, invaluable perspective. 

Of course they talked about it when he was alive. He was still going on trial for it up until not that long before he died. But the moment he died, people (no, not me, others) either consciously or unconsciously chose to put all of that out of their heads.

They’ve already been doing that. Knowingly and actively. Even if the Democrats manage to pull the four votes they need to call witnesses, and even if those witnesses show up (Bolton won’t show up without a subpoena, so there’s probably wiggle room for those four Republicans to say “let’s call witnesses, but let’s not…

The needle has slightly moved toward witnesses, but the needle has not in any way shape or form moved toward removal. The GOP’s years are numbered, which is what explains their change in tactics over the past decade. They know the end is coming. They know they cannot avoid it, so the goal is to delay it and to make as…

Right now, the first four states seem likely to go with a statistical tie (between Biden and Sanders) in IA, a strong Sanders win in NH, a statistical tie (between Biden and Sanders) in NV, and a strong Biden win in SC.

Warren is teetering around the edge of the viability threshold in Iowa. She’s mostly lived at 15 percent, plus or minus a point or two all month. It will be an interesting test of the weight voters still give to such endorsements to see if she gains anything over the next week.

It literally took a decade after he died for people to begin to remember that Michael Jackson wasn’t a benignly eclectic genius and people are acting shocked that the media aren’t using Bryant’s sexual assault allegations as the lede in the story about him dying today in a helicopter crash.

Take a closer look at the polling. Biden is currently set to exit Super Tuesday with a massive vote and delegate lead. 

What I’m saying is that a lot of people like Sanders less because of his economic message and more because of his anti-establishment persona. They may decide they like his economic message after the fact, but that’s partly because they already decided they like him and what he represents relative to the establishment.…

Um...seriously. Those are distinctly different sentiments. A lot signifies many, as opposed to few. All signifies every, meaning without exception. A lot of Americans live in California, right? Like a whole lot! Do all Americans live in California? Not even close.

The last paragraph seems to assume that Sanders is the nominee, which is a fun and weird assumption.