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Trump “INDICATED”
I was playing the first set of a Happy Hour gig at a local jazz club when I heard someone in the audience comment that Trump had just been indicted. There was no cheering, dancing or horn honking in the streets. It wasn’t like Election Night 2020. It might as well have been a casual…
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Republicans are Stabbing Each Other in the Throat
So Kevin McCarthy created history by losing the first three rounds of voting for Speaker of the House. This increasingly dysfunctional GOP also started the clock on its next not-so-proud record: the longest that a House has gone without a Speaker. That was set back in the 1860s. House rules say that a simple majority…
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The Red Spurt
We’re already seeing what was predicted by pundits on both sides following Biden’s inauguration. I mean political experts including former Republican pols, not cable news hosts. After January 6th most said that Trump was a liability on the party’s future and that Republicans needed to marginalize him if it didn’t want to see the GOP…
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Why does Trump still have such a hold over the Republican party?
Because what else have they got to fall back on? Trump and his cabal effectively killed the few remaining scraps of traditional conservative ideology in the GOP. If you’re an ambitious Republican puppy dog, what have you got to build on that doesn’t stink of Trump? Who will be your mentor and rabbi? Kevin McCarthy?…
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What’s with the lying?
A contributor on Quora asked yesterday: It’s because the GOP is rudderless and has been since the Neocon/Teaparty takeover of the party in the 1990s and 00s and it RINO’d out all its independent voices. The Republican party is so devoid of political, economic and social principles now, conservative or even patriotic, that it ran…
We’re Immersed In Yet Another Witch Hunt!
It’s amazing how many “witch hunts” Trumpers complain that their precious Bloatus is being subjected to: January 6th, NYS v. Trump Org, Georgia v. Trump, SDNY v. Trump, DC v. Trump… all just this year. Wow. Dear Sean: A “witch hunt” is about prosecuting an innocent person for a phony crime. This isn’t about finding…