OR, you have a book to sell and want to get in on that sweet, sweet Republican grift.

With all of these question, prior to 2016, there was a straightforward and simple answer. And if the POTUS violated a rule or norm or (as is likely here) the law itself, and then plowed on ahead anyway, they might have “gotten away with it” in the short term but there was damaging political fallout in the long term…

Not sure he can share the evidence with state AGs unless he is cleared to do so by Rosenstein. Who may not be there much longer.

Trump may simply ignore any congressional subpoenas, and then have his boy Kavanaugh pen the 5-4 decision at SCOTUS saying that ignoring it is legal

My guess is that anybody who points out that Democrats can’t just green lantern everything at all times won’t get un-greyed.

The producers of that ad are effing amatuers. Here’s how it’s done:

I wanted to be good at sports when I was young, because being a male teenager in the 80's, it was pretty much a default cultural mode. But I found myself drawn to the theater classes and clubs, and ended up doing and excelling at that. A group of people who all had to work together while excelling at our individual…

Another fantastic piece of starting at the conclusion you want and doing a massive amount of handwaving to make the evidence fit.

Just so we’re clear, 82 UNC grad students in the 1930's meant that the state was ready to go all-in on integration at that time, and there would’ve been no political backlash that removed…

Chief Justice Roberts granted an initial stay on September 15, then the full court ruled against a stay. I can’t find anything that indicates if a 4-4 vote means the stay “loses” or if at least one conservative crossed to the liberals’ side. Hard to see Alito, Gorsurch or Thomas actually doing that.

I think it all depends on the systems available to hack. Agree that the Senate is the bigger prize, and easier to manipulate, but access to say, the statewide voting system in Missouri means you can fuck with the Senate race AND congressional races there. If the Dems get the house, then they get to start…

We have a winner.

It’s because they are LITERALLY this stupid. They so believe that their worldview isn’t a projection, that it MUST be true, that when they see something like this pic of AC, their first reaction is ZING! Got him! and publish that crap post haste. It is inconceivable to them that the world isn’t like they want it to…

GOP voters in general are more reliable voters, which is one of the reasons that the GOP has done very well in non-Presidential year contests over the past several decades. Even with favorable polling, it will take tremendous effort to swamp this natural advantage. GOTV will be critical.

The optimist in me sees an ad for Josh Hawley in Missouri (running against McCaskill for the Senate) that doesn’t use the following words: Trump, Republican, Pelosi, liberal, McCaskill. He uses the phrase “big government” once, only to say that people are threatened by “big government and big business.” He sotto voice…

I don’t think the Podesta dump is the right analogy. That was a case of “here’s everything on the other team, 99% of which is anodyne and 1% can be stripped of context to be made to seem bad.”

This is more in line with a tactic the modern GOP has mastered called “simple/complex”. You do something on the surface that…

It cannot be repeated enough: Trump’s base is not the rural poor and uneducated (although they are a part of it.) His core supporters are middle to upper middle class. Think VP of regional sales and homemaker from the nice suburbs, and Wal-Mart manager and real-estate agent couples in the exurbs. Most have college…

Reading Perlman’s trilogy on the rise of the conservative political movement makes me wonder how we’ve ever advanced at all. No gains are ever permanent or fundamentally alter the landscape; there will always be self-righteous assholes still kicking and screaming against the ideas of equality and being decent to one…

Ask John Bigboote. Or any Lectroid, for that matter.

That doesn’t stop business, just slows it down. McConnell still controls the defacto calander and can maneuver each floor vote when he needs all his members to be there at the best possible times for them.

Please to be describing the process by which the minority party in the Senate (as the Dems were in 2015- 2016) has the power to schedule hearings and a floor vote for anything, up to and including a SCOTUS nominee.