The way our electoral system is set up, the only people who really matter all that much in close elections are the swing voters in a handful of tipping point States. The last election was decided by less than 50,000 people in three states.

The worst case for Warren’s plan is hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Because the cost of tuition alone is averaging about $10K per student for in-State college tuition. That’s going to be 100-300 billion dollars a year. And that just covers tuition. Right now, a lot of students take out loans to cover other…

Never blame on malice what can be explained by incompetence.

Just about everyone Trump surrounds himself with is either an incompetent idiot or secretly hates Trump. That’s why he walks around with toilet paper on his shoes and stands in front of satirical Presidential seals. 

Economists have looked at Sander’s plan and basically found that the numbers just do not add up. He might as well be promising to build a rocket to the moon based on the premise that gravity does not exist once you get above the atmosphere.

1. Plenty of people did ask where the money was going to come from.

Nobody can credibly posit what Muller’s report would have looked like if Trump were a Democratic President.

You are comparing apples to oranges. The Independent Counsel investigations into Bill Clinton were ordered by congress, not the Justice Department, and operated under an entirely different legal framework and set of rules. The provision under which Starr ran his investigation expired in 1999 and has never been renewed.

But the real question is, would Best Buy return an iPad with a USB port full of KFC grease and a screen full of crayon drawings of Robert Muller stick figures saying No OBSTRUCTION, No collusion?

He’s gotten away with every shitty thing he’s ever done as an adult with minimal consequences. He’s still getting away with it. He’s not worried about the consequences of his actions because there have never been any that actually affect him in any way that is meaningful to what he wants out of life. 

When I used to hear George W. Bush speak to reporters, I always got the impression that if he were not the President, he would be coaching a high school or college softball team. For Obama, the impression was always that he would be giving an academic lecture at some university somewhere.

Anyone who tells you that they know, with certainty, the answer to that question is someone whose opinion probably should not be taken seriously.

Muller stated quite clearly in his report why it did not reach any conclusions on obstruction. And he would provide the very obvious answer if asked if it were a failure: no, it was successful in delivering the answers that were requested within the boundary conditions that were provided.

That’s a stunningly fantastic example of a circumstantial ad hominem logical fallacy.

1) Only a handful of them have any real backbone or moral fiber (true of politicians in general). Most of the Republicans with backbone, either real convictions or the “convictions” of necessity needed to run in a competitive district either retired or were replaced by Democrats this year.

Everyone knew this going in. Muller is a by the book guy and he feels his report speaks for itself. He never intended to say anything new. If there was any lack of clarity to the Muller Report, it was intentional, and he was not going to clarify it today.

Even without Muller’s testimony, there was little ambiguity as to his conclusions. He basically said:

Elections are run by the States, usually administered by individual counties or congressional districts. Electoral votes are cast by individual electors and counted and confirmed by the congress.

There are a few answers. The first is that Muller did not find any compelling evidence of a criminal conspiracy between then-candidate Trump or any of his family and staff to engage in the criminal activities for which Russians were indicted. So there is nothing to charge the President with in that regard.

The President more than likely could be indicted for that, as the Supreme Court ruled in the Clinton case that civil immunity does not extend to acts unrelated to the Presidency and one would assume that an analog exists with criminal law.