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Apart from cursing what we can’t control, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Cold, Cold ProspectsPost + Comments (54)
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Apart from cursing what we can’t control, what’s on the agenda for the day?
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Cold, Cold ProspectsPost + Comments (54)
This post is in: Election 2018, Republicans in Disarray!, Nobody could have predicted, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
I need you now, in Utah.
Everyone deserves #healthcare—especially kids. #Taxreform should help the middle class. Women deserve an equal shot. Immigrants deserve our welcome. #Climatechange is REAL.
With @SenOrrinHatch out, let's fight. Join me now: https://t.co/6fpg6tL4HK
— Jenny Wilson for UT (@JennyWilsonUT) January 3, 2018
5th generation Utahn and Democrat @JennyWilsonUT has been taking on Hatch from the start, long before today.
$50k goal starting NOW for the resistance to support her & show her we stand with her. Let's do this!
Chip in here and share far and wide! https://t.co/Pn3iURHcJT pic.twitter.com/swdsGoGwFO
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 2, 2018
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The professionals weigh in…
I think Romney has a chance, you guys. pic.twitter.com/pjN6Xx3zoM
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 2, 2018
The saddest moment for my #nevertrump friends will be when Mitt Romney wins a Senate seat and immediately follows McConnell, Ryan, and Rubio into the deep end of the pool of Trump shame
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 2, 2018
Would Romney really lead the NeverTrump movement? He was willing to be his secretary of state. https://t.co/PsmY6bnup8
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 2, 2018
This is the wrong question. No US Senator from Utah is going to "lead the NeverTrump movement." But would the signer of Romneycare vote to repeal Obamacare? I don't think so. Of course we prefer the Democrat win IN UTAH but let's have a plan B, please. https://t.co/ZPWvDHCaDe
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) January 3, 2018
As a fellow Masshole, I concur with Mr. Pierce:
The surest bet on the board is that Willard will get bored of being Mike Lee's junior after about 6 months, basically quit on the job, and then run for president again.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 3, 2018
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Wanna-be Breitbrat Jacob Wohl chips in with a cunning plan…
Steve Bannon should run for Orrin Hatch's Senate Seat. That would place him in a good position to run for President in 2024
— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) January 2, 2018
Securities fraudster asks alcoholic to run for Senate in Mormon state…sounds about right #notright
— Aaron Gershoff (@ajg6882) January 3, 2018
TBH, since the Fusion GPS / Wolff book news dropped this morning, I suspect Steve Bannon’s got quite enough on his plate without an expensive referendum on how much consistent GOP voters don’t like him. But it’s good to know the hardcore racist/sexist/nativist bigots will be harrassing Romney from the right while the Democrats are pushing our “leftist” (humanist) agenda!
Open Thread: Local Races, Utah Edition — High & (Very, Very) LowPost + Comments (89)
by David Anderson| 104 Comments
This post is in: Don't Trip, Organize, Election 2018, Open Threads, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Fuck Yeah!, Nazis- I hate these guys
Flag: Trump has dissolved his Voter Fraud Commission, citing the refusal of states to provide relevant info. pic.twitter.com/EG4oQtQ1EH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 3, 2018
Give a call to your state’s governors and secretaries of state tomorrow morning. For those who refused to share information with this voter suppression commission, thank them. For those that did share your information, give them a piece of your mind.
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by DougJ| 37 Comments
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I don’t think the Bannon Trump feud’s going to change too many voters’ minds. We need some money.
Here’s a fund split equally among all eventual Democratic nominees in seats currently held by Republicans.
And here’s a fund for Conor Lamb, the terrific Dem candidate running in the special House election in PA.
This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Assholes, Clown Shoes, Fools! Overton Window!, Just Shut the Fuck Up, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
The Republican opposition to President Donald Trump is poised to get a new champion: Mitt Romney https://t.co/neVJizjorn pic.twitter.com/LyxkEczbl5
— CNN (@CNN) January 3, 2018
The Republican opposition to Trump doesn’t exist https://t.co/dhgXu977h3
— JeremyConstantinople (@smartflexin) January 3, 2018
Yay! In @MittRomney, we’d get a GOP Senate nominee who is:
1. Not a sexual predator
2. Not Ignorant
3. Not Homophobic
4. Not Racist
5. Not Misogynist
6. Not Inexperienced
7. Not divisive
8. Not embarrassing
9. Not a Bannon puppet
10. Has good teeth
11. Has great hair
Run, Mitt! https://t.co/DYbjQafSwX— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) January 2, 2018
He *looks* the part of a TV-drama senator, and is not sufficiently interested in human interaction to have committed sexual battery! Yay for our side! Since Navarro is not an idiot, I have to assume this is sarcasm on her part.
The metric through which progressives can best judge the bona fides of their new NeverTrump pals from the right is how seriously those new allies take the laughable concept of Mitt Romney, Man of Principle.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 3, 2018
It's a bit silly to claim LOL Corker/Romney will vote with Trump 99% of the time, as if this is the end of the discussion.
Yes, that's true.
But it has value when GOP Senators state clearly that Trump is unfit for office. https://t.co/BivUWJoOYb
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 3, 2018
… It is useful, because a Romney run — and victory — could set an example for other congressional Republicans to follow when it comes to acting as a check on Trump’s many excesses, from his dangerous international bluster, to his self-dealing and corruption, to his contempt for norms and the rule of law. If they don’t follow that example, their enabling of these Trump excesses will be thrown into sharper relief.
That is, this might be the case, if Romney is true to his own past statements about Trump. Let’s not let this get memory-holed: In his big March 2016 speech against Trump, Romney flatly and unequivocally declared Trump unfit to serve as president. Will Romney reiterate this sentiment, when he’s running for Senate?…
Spoiler alert from a Masshole, Mr. Sargent: Nope! Willard will fold like a cheap lawn chair, because that’s his signature legislative tactic. Although he will look very stateman-like as he makes his excuses for letting Trump and the Oval Office Trumplodytes do whatever they damned well choose.
People forget. I will never forget the smile on Romney's face after he interrupted the 2012 presidential campaign to politicize Benghazi less than 24 hours after it happened. https://t.co/7vysoxDrXK
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) January 3, 2018
This is great:
Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican Party.
Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base — he’s only in it for himself.
Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.
We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.
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by TaMara| 45 Comments
This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads
Scout will be arriving a day early. So you’ll get photos by the weekend, unless I’m completely overwhelmed and suddenly realize my folly. I remember saying no puppies ever again! Nothing wrong with an older dog, I said.
Meanwhile, my heart is torn right now – the closer Scout gets, the more I miss this girl.
I may not be ready, but Bixby sure is … he looks for “his puppy” every time we go out somewhere … or anytime I return home, he practically mugs me for this so-called puppy that’s coming. Then he’ll go away and mope because I haven’t delivered on my promise yet. Ha! Tomorrow he will be in for a shock.
In other beloved pet news, commenter jacy lost her beautiful dog today. Here are some pictures of the handsome and much loved Bismarck (2001- Jan. 3, 2018), with his favorite boy.
May Bismark find heaven filled with his favorite treats and endless balls to chase.
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