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He can't shut up. He's a narcissistic sociopath with dementia. He's incapable of any self control.

If this tax scam goes down that will be the best gift we could get for 2018 because a lot of GOP donors will cut the purse strings. Speaking of gifts, there's a Republican launching a write-in campaign in Alabama because he doesn't want Roy Moore to win. Fingers crossed that he manages to split the vote. https://www.thedailybeast.com/marine-col-lee-busby-announces-hes-running-against-roy-moore

Democrats need to focus on turning out voters of color, the poor and maybe the young assuming they aren't completely lost causes. One need only look at who the Repubs (and the far left) try to keep from the polls in order to see where the power is. That means working to help people get around the various ID requirements and helping to take people to the polls.

A lot of this Clinton based navel gazing is coming from the far lefties still trying to justify what they did to this country out of spite.

The fixation on the Clintons is pretty much a national sickness. I was talking to some millennials who started reciting all the debunked Clinton stuff and I realized there's an entire generation of Americans who have never known a society that wasn't awash in Clinton hate. Just like Chris Hayes' stupid ass saying that given all these stories about sexual harassment it's time for the left to "reckon with" Bill Clinton. I'm sorry but I lived through MonicaGate. It was nonstop reckoning. Day after day in the news, night after night on the talk shows, for years. Linda Tripp, the Starr report, the blue dress, the cigar, etc...there was nowhere to get away from it. The truth is a whole media industry grew up around hating on the Clintons.

Seriously? You are exactly the person we need more of on juries. Promise me right now that if you ever get a summons, you will serve. Look into my ancient eyes and promise me.

I'd put Ohio politics up against any southern state for the sheer cracktasticness of our elections.

My senator.

This Franken thing is a pretty obvious attempt to muddy the waters and of course the far lefties have jumped right in to help.

Dems have flipped yet another state seat in Oklahoma. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/democrats-flip-1-more-seat-in-oklahomas-gop-led-legislature/ Seriously @Khan, maybe it's time for you to think about running for office.

Doug Jones is trying to give decent Repubs (all ten of them) cover to vote for him.

I'm still waiting to find out that he's got some boys in his past. People that homophobic tend to be pushing down urges.

I saw some discussion on Twitter that that's part of the reason Virginia was such a definitive vote for Northam. VA is filled with Republicans who are NatSec workers and Trump is running down the work they do.

I'll be honest, I hope Moore stays in the race. If he does and the Repubs run a write in candidate like Murkowski wants, we just might get that seat.

That cracked me up. It's been kind of amazing to me to see that the hatred for HRC persists even though she lost. She has no power and yet both the right wing and the Berners behave as though she's Lex Luthor.

The soap fan in me fully expects to learn that Carter Page and Stephen Miller are brothers. Seriously. Look at them. They've both got the same dead eyes and pattern baldness.

Seriously. The party defines itself by the people they hate. As long as they can beat "them" that's all that matters. The "them" always changes but the mindset is the same.

Much like with the Catholic pedophilia scandal we're going to see how a lot of Evangelicals use their religion to justify their perversion.

As you can see, it doesn't matter. Right wingers don't care. This is the party of Hastert, Ailes, and O'Reilly.

Yeah, this isn't going to make a difference to GOP voters. We've seen time and time again they have no morals. They'd willingly offer up their own children to stay in power. Hopefully this will at least make independents and moderates abstain from voting for Moore even if they won't vote for Jones.

Do you really think it's doomed? It's literally the only thing that matters to them and if it fails their donors will leave them twisting in 2018. They've made it very clear that they are willing to risk everything, even nuclear war, in order to give the rich tax cuts.

That's an interesting feed. Thank for posting these. It's always good to get impressions from local people. I hadn't even considered that Virginia is filled with people who work NatSec and that the Republicans have been spitting on those people by entertaining Trump's attacks on people who work in intelligence.

This is actually good. Almost every candidate endorsed by Bernie loses. He's ballot box poison. The Republican Governors Association has been all over this story because they WANT Bernie to endorse Northam because they know it will hurt his campaign. Frankly, I'm surprised Bernie didn't endorse him out of spite like he did Ossoff. I'm hoping we can keep his crusty ass out of the Alabama Senate race too.

Robert Mercer is stepping down from his hedge fund and selling his stake in Breitbart. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Mueller's investigation. http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-mercer-leaving-rentech-breitbart-news-2017-11

Some of us are remembering that. I've been beating up on my feckless senator about CHIP for weeks. As for Brazile, I honestly don't know what her goal is with that piece. I haven't gotten through it but it pretty much sounds like the Clintons kept the DNC solvent. As for Bernie, his cult is always looking for an excuse for his losing beyond the obvious: he was a shitty candidate who alienated key constituencies.