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With my mind on my money and my money on my mind

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Here’s Benny, laid back.

Let’s push Balloon Juice reader Aaron Matson over the 1K mark — he’s running for State Treasurer of South Dakota.

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If you want to stick it to the man by helping defeat Scott Walker, give here to Tony Evers, running for governor of Wisconsin.

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A lot of people are interested in giving to “under the radar” races, myself include. Anne Laurie highlighted one today, FL-15, and the Democrat there, Kristen Carlson, sounds very good, so I’m putting up a thermometer for that one too.

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    Now that is a beautiful baby!!

    When you hear McConnell whining about losing the Senate, you know things are bad for Republicans. Good.

  5. 5.

    Nicole

    AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHH! THE CUTENESS! IT IS SO MUCH!

    And I really needed that today. I’ll throw in a few bucks just for the mood lift alone. Thanks.

  6. 6.

    PaulWartenberg

    Oof, I am just outside of FL District 15. But yeah, many of my co-workers live there, they were jacked that Ross was retiring, they had a good feeling the Democratic shift is good in that part of Polk County.

  11. 11.

    gene108

    We need a meet-up, so we can all take turns making goo-goo noises and faces to Benny.

    Really cute.

    Made my day.

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Chuck Todd also had a bit of mea culpa recently, but I don’t know, if they have the ability to translate it into action on their respective media platforms.

  14. 14.

    dmsilev

    Just read that the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed the Kavanaugh vote by a week, ostensibly because of additional documents which the Democrats are trying to subpoena. I wonder whether behind the scenes there are some GOP Senators who are wobbly for some reason or another, since ordinarily the GOP would be operating under its standard “ram the vote through no matter what” operating procedure.

  16. 16.

    PaulWartenberg

    @dmsilev:

    I’m thinking they’re terrified that the Democrats – Leahy in particular – will hit Kavanaugh with perjury charges the day before the vote, so they’re gonna keep delaying until they force the Dems to react.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    @PaulWartenberg: If that’s the case, isn’t the obvious “reaction” to do nothing and wait until the vote is actually called? I mean, if they want to keep postponing and postponing, I see no reason to complain about that.

  19. 19.

    Felanius Kootea

    Benny is absolutely adorable. Does Gary Trauner in Wyoming have a prayer? I gave to him after learning about him here on BJ but understand that Wyoming is so reliably red that it probably won’t make a difference.

  20. 20.

    Gremcat

    Has anyone seen the tweet from Josh Marshall, saying the fix is in for a Manafort pardon. Seems Giuliani made some comment about Manafort’s attorney being in touch with TOTUS’s attorneys. If the attorneys are working together then any negotiation with Mueller wouldn’t be about cooperating, but rather pleading guilty so that he can be pardoned.
    I’m on my phone so can’t link.

  21. 21.

    Patricia Kayden

    @dmsilev: Heitkamp has said that she sees no red flags vis-a-vis Kavanaugh’s testimony so he’ll probably be easily confirmed with some Democratic support.

  23. 23.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    Benny is really adorable. I thought I’d mention that since it doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone else to mention it.

    But am I crazy or did you reorient the photo?

    Hoping for income in next few days which will allow me to donate to these good candidates.

  25. 25.

    divF

    When I read Brazelton’s book of three case studies of infant development, a phrase stuck in my mind: “Days were easy and full of fun [for Louis]”, Louis being one of the infants being studied, and it came with a photo that looked very much like this one. Whenever I need a smile, I look up that picture.

    I would guess that Benny’s days are full of fun.

  29. 29.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: i keep tellin’ yinz, Vlad the Paler’s real endgame strategy is to permit the removal of Twitler (after Orangemandyas has done as much damage as possible to the USA) in order to have Mikey Dense installed as POTUS. Everyone will breathe a yoooooge sigh of relief that “our long national nightmare is over” when in fact Pence is the real sleeper agent (with “Mother” the most logical candidate for his controller). Mikey is too stupid to do other than exactly as he’s told & too beaten down emotionally to fly off the handle like Needy Amin.

    Think of it as Vlad sacrificing his Crook in order to promote the Crook’s Pwn, then check, check, mate.

    That, IMHO, is what Manafort is hiding. And in all likelihood Bobby 3Styx (via the IC) already knows it, but he hasn’t yet built a case he can present in open court without revealing sources & methods the IC wants to keep hidden. Manafort’s cooperation would take the IC off the hook.

    If Mueller cannot build such a case without burning some deep assets, there is going to be (maybe happening as we post) a very interesting & intricate ballo in maschero involving the SP’s office & the IC re how many minor pieces the latter is willing to sacrifice in order to sweep the traitors off the board. /jmo

  31. 31.

    jacy

    MSNBC is reporting that word is out that ICE will be trolling the shelters, so people are leery about going. I figure that it doesn’t matter whether ICE is there or not, if the rumor goes out the administration figures that it’ll effectively kill people by keeping them from evacuating, so it’s a win/win for them. I really hate these people.

  32. 32.

    PaulWartenberg

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