The Ryan Powerpoint Doesn't Tell You How Fast His Plan Guts Medicare - With Poll
In your heart you knew it was there, and you knew it would be buried in the fine print, and it would be bad….but trust me...it IS there and it IS BAD! Paul Ryan’s disaster of a Replace Plan contains...
View ArticleWant Help With a Letter to the Editor? Here's How! w/poll Updated
Have you ever written a letter to the editor of your local newspaper? It’s not that hard, and LTEs are a highly effective way to communicate on important issues at the grass roots level. They get...
View ArticleAn Urgent Appeal to Democratic Candidates in the GA 6th House Special Election
I know I speak for many across the country in sending the following message to any and all Democratic candidates for the special House seat election in Georgia’s 6th District:If your name is NOT Jon...
View ArticlePerhaps My Shortest Diary Ever, but VERY Succinct!: We're Passing Something....
Everything you EVER needed to know about the GOP, its interest in workable legislation, affordable healthcare and responsible governance can be found in this one sentence found this afternoon on...
View ArticleGuardian Bombshell: Doc May Link Billionaire Robert Mercer & Data Firms...
The British Guardian Observer tonight says it has located a document it believes provides a link between two data analytic firms and right wing billionaire financier Robert Mercer. Mercer and his...
View Article1:45 of Recorded Trump Team Lies About Ties With Russia
nyti.ms/…I got nuttin’ else to add. This NY Times video says it all! Trump, Conway, Manafort, Pence, Trump Jr., Sessions, Priebus….all lying. And they want us to believe that the meeting with the...
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Maddow: Dossier Details Could Go Public Soon & Did Hackers Feed Trump...
Rachel Maddow last night (Wed. Aug. 23) continued to pursue a story which, strangely, has so far seen little further action on the part of the MSM….namely, that the contents of the infamous “Dossier”...
View ArticleThose Healthcare Subsidies Trump is Gutting: Wait Till You See Where They are...
Yup, you read that right. www.theguardian.com/…A Trump administration plan to subsidize coal and nuclear energy would cost US taxpayers about $10.6bn a year and prop up some of the oldest and dirtiest...
View ArticleYou KNOW the News Cycle is Gonzo When the Possible Collapse of NK's Nuclear...
In the last 24 hours alone, we have witnessed:Indictments of Manafort and Gates,admission of guilt by Papadopoulus,news that Manafort had at least 3 US passports, millions of dollars and burner phones...
View ArticleWhat is happening in Saudi Arabia and how is Trump involved?
Trying to put 2 and 2 together on this and coming away mystified by the timing of these various events:Recently Donnie got involved on the side of Saudi Arabia over a regional boycott of Qatar....
View ArticleOK Kossacks....Let's Get All "Knute Rockne" for Doug Jones in Alabama --NOW!!!
My top political pundit Charlie Pierce at Esquire has it exactly right:It’s hard to know where this all leads. The next big test is the race for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions’ old Senate seat in...
View ArticleThe Best 24 sec. Condensation of Jeff Sessions' Congressional Testimony...
As I was watching our esteemed Attorney General Jeffie Sessions maneuver his way through the latest minefield of House Committee hearings yesterday on his past statements to Congressional committees,...
View ArticleNot to Ruin Your Holiday, But Here are a Few Grim Prospects for the Weeks Ahead
The more I look into the political crystal ball stretching a few weeks to a couple of months ahead, the more despairing I become as to the future of our democracy. The prospects for our nation under...
View ArticleSURPRISE?: Big Business/GOP Caught in Pro Tax Bill LTE Astroturf Drive! How...
Would you believe that big business and the GOP might collude together to help push the tax bill over the line by organizing a major astroturf campaign of “letters to the editor” designed to make it...
View ArticleWhy Paul Ryan is Clearly Complicit in the GOP Effort to Protect Trump From...
NOTE: Part of this diary is drawn from an earlier post I wrote on the decision by the GOP and the House Intelligence Committee to release a bogus memo containing evidence gathered from US intelligence...
View ArticlePOLITICO: GOP Freaking Out Over Potential House Special Election Loss in...
POLITICO today says the GOP is calling all hands on deck in a frantic effort to help keep what should normally be a strong Republican seat in Western PA, south of Pittsburgh.PA 18 has had an...
View ArticleTHIS is how Democrats Need to Frame Issues for 2018: Conor Lamb PA18 TV Ad on...
Democrats are buoyed by polls showing that generically, and in a growing number of cases, actually via special elections, a potential blue wave is building for the 2018 mid-term elections.Here in PA,...
View ArticleOn Friday, May 4, 2018, Dallas, TX the NRA Holds Its National Leadership...
Well lookie here. That’s right….in just two and a half months, our good friends at the National Rifle Association will be gathering in Dallas for their annual Executive Leadership Forum. Leading the...
View ArticleWingnut Members of Utah GOP Block Romney Drive for Senate Nomination (w/ poll)
You may have missed it…..the story was buried in this morning’s always enjoyable Abbreviated Pundit Roundup….but it appears Mitt Romney’s supposedly shoo-in path to winning the Utah GOP nomination for...
View ArticleThe NRA Is Climbing into Camouflage Outfits - It Won't Work Wayne. We've Got...
On Feb. 17th, after the Parkland shooting, I posted a diary noting that the National Rifle Association had a big event on its calendar — A May Executive Leadership Forum, set for May 4th in Dallas. I...
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