Taking this thing to a vote when it is guaranteed to fail in the senate is the political equivalent of mass suicide, frankly.

My concern is that, unless GOP gerrymandering is dismantled, it’ll continue to be very difficult for Dems to win seats. It seems very optimistic to expect sufficient progress by 2018.

This is exactly what I pointed out back when they first devised this crackpot plan.

Also in today’s news - former congressman John Walsh decided to take a swipe at Jimmy Kimmel for talking about his sick child, then during an interview today decided to imply that we should do away with insurance altogether “to create a market economy”, before blaming American’s health care costs on America’s…

Trump is expected to sign an executive order tomorrow making it easier for churches and religious groups to participate in politics.

A predator protecting a predator, what a bleedin’ surp-

It was entertaining that one of his complaints was that the old fence was easy to prop things up on and climb over, and his new “wall” is.... Also easy to prop things up on and climb over?...

“For the love of Satan, please, just someone praise us!” - Spicer

Honestly, her ability to hold the line on votes is the entire reason the budget didn’t become a complete nightmare. The Republican vote managed to fracture to the point where Democratic votes were dictating the baseline, leaving us with a moderate Republican budget.

You know, I also blame a lot of that on America’s willful blindness in believing that we’re voting for a person instead of an administration.

Probably the part where people are a lot less willing to compromise on pro-worker anti-wall-street stances than they are on protections for women and people of color. A lot fewer people walked away from Sander’s endorsement of the mayor than walked away from Clinton and Obama giving speeches to Wall Street.

A jury convicted Fairooz, Barry and Bianchi on Wednesday after a two-day trial.

But her statement rang hollow to me as women have never stopped fighting for those rights—and yet seem closer than ever before to losing all we have gained.

Ah... I’m afraid not off the top of my head, no. Sorry! I was already reading it back when the elections started, and I didn’t really pay much attention to what would be a good starting point for a new reader.

The way I always like to explain my own reaction is, “You expect evil from Republicans. Someone you trust voting for the Green party feels like a betrayal.”.

Oh, I’ve been following it in The Economist (albeit not as closely as I’d like - I’ve not had time :( ), and it has been fascinating to watch how badly France has managed to botch this electoral season. It was almost to the point where I’d wondered if they managed to blunder into destroying their own government again.

The similarities are largely superficial. It’s true that a candidate that ought have gone nowhere has managed to get far further than is comfortable, but she doesn’t have the unconditional support of ~40% of the country as the result of an entrenched two-party system, French media has been far more responsible than…

Ah, thank you for your kind words, but... You should know that I’m often one of the harsher voices involved in a given discussion ^^; . In this case, I recognized that I ought to de-escalate the tensions because you’ve commented on this site for a long time, and have an established track record of being a reasonable…

Ah, I understand what you meant now! Thank you for the clarification :) . It doubtless doesn’t help that I wasn’t able to see Messing’s defense of her tweet - if it went anything like it normally does, it must have been infuriating. And you’re right - if we could all just stop paying attention to Sarandon, she…

Well, she blamed Chris Hayes for reporting on democracy falling apart instead of 24/7 coverage of the Dakota Access pipeline. Does that count?