Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

“But what about the lurkers?”

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Bark louder, little dog.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

It’s the corruption, stupid.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

We won’t go back.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

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House Democrats are taking the first steps toward issuing subpoenas for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s entire report, as well as for documents from five former associates of President Donald Trump, setting up potential legal showdowns.

The House Judiciary Committee plans to hold votes on Wednesday to authorize the subpoenas, the panel said Monday in a news release. Three days earlier, Attorney General William Barr said he would provide Congress with a redacted version of Mueller’s report on his investigation into Trump and Russian election meddling by mid-April.

“Congress requires the full and complete Special Counsel report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence,” Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said in an emailed statement Monday. “Attorney General Barr has thus far indicated he will not meet the April 2 deadline set by myself and five other Committee chairs, and refused to work with us to provide the full report, without redactions, to Congress. The Attorney General should reconsider so that we can work together to ensure the maximum transparency of this important report to both Congress and the American people.”…

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  1. 1.

    Chris Johnson

    They need to get aggressive on this, because the alternative is rolling over to fascism just when it was most important.

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @rikyrah: Blech.

    @Nicole: May you soon fall into the sweet embrace of your doctor’s choice of opiate, but not so deep as to never relinquish it.

  22. 22.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @mrmoshpotato: Apparently so, never saw anything move out of the House; even though the Republicans controlled the House from 2011 to January of this year.

    ETA: Though I do believe there were like over 150 votes to repeal the ACA.

  32. 32.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, I was ridiculing his idiocy. The answer to his question was of course, “EVERY.FUCKING.BODY.WITH.HALF.A.FUCKING.FUNCTIONING.BRAIN.”

  33. 33.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @OzarkHillbilly: I think they call it “selling insurance across state lines”.

    ETA: I see that David has a post on Graham-Cassidy upstairs, looks like the Fuck California Healthcare Act of 2019 to go along with the Fuck California Tax Act of 2017.

  34. 34.

    A Ghost To Most

    $12 million for Harris. That’s what I’m talking about. Average contribution: $20.
    212,000 contributors.

    Pete who?

  36. 36.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    “selling insurance across state lines”.

    Yes, their exclusive “no-claim policy” in which you are fully covered until you make a claim.

  37. 37.

    debbie

    The dollars prove there’s enthusiasm, but I can’t help but feel it’s wrong to be all about the dollars.

    My other question: Will there be a gap period between the end of ACA and TrumpDontCare or will ACA stick around until it’s ready to go? I can’t imagine there would be, but with this clown in office…

  39. 39.

    Patricia Kayden

    Good. Glad to hear that Democrats are exercising their subpoena powers. There’s so much to investigate. Most of all I need to hear from Mueller and Barr while we’re waiting for the unredacted report to be released.

  41. 41.

    Immanentize

    @debbie: If a three judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the crazy Federal District Court judge ruling from Texas striking down all of the ACA; then the Fifth Circuit can and likely would decide to hear the case en banc which means all the appellate judges on the Fifth Circuit (I think it’s eleven or so right now) rehear the case (new briefs, arguments, etc.) And if they also uphold the total annihilation of Obamacare, then the case will go to the US Supreme Court and be decided there. If any of this happens, there will be a stay, like there is now, giving the ACA another three years of life before final decision.

    But none of this will happen. The three judge panel in the 5th will reverse the crazy judge and although there will be other appeals, no other Court will be hearing it. My prediction.

  43. 43.

    debbie

    @Immanentize:

    Thanks. Better your prediction than Trump’s pronouncement that “his” Court will support him. :/

    Do you believe that Roberts will protect the Court’s “integrity”? I listened to a Fresh Air interview with Joan Biskupic, the author of a new biography. I don’t know anything about her expertise, but she seems confident that Trump will get nowhere.

  45. 45.

    Immanentize

    @debbie: Trump’s are not the ideas the Judges he chooses are protecting. They can reverse his crazy often, but at the same time swing the law to a very unpleasant place. Roberts will not let the Court devolve into total partisan decision making, nor will he become a steadfast liberal.

  46. 46.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Immanentize:

    but the odds….. are ever in our favor.

    So, out of a random 24 jackals picked by lottery, one of them will be allowed to live? Boy, do I feel better now.

  47. 47.

    Betty Cracker

    So, in our local newspaper, there’s an account of a recent Coast Guard rescue of some boaters whose craft capsized in the Gulf of Mexico. Everyone is okay, thank goodness. But there’s a self-proclaimed boating expert in the comments section scolding the survivors for excessive speed (there’s nothing in the story indicating they were going too fast), criticizing life-jacket stowage, issuing advice about wind knot speed tolerance, and incorrectly identifying the hull type (there’s a photo, FFS) and criticizing that. God, what a self-important asshole. I would bet $1K that this person is a man and $100 that he voted for Trump.

  51. 51.

    Raven

    We’ve been coming to the bakery at 7am for almost 20 years. I was just informed that they will now open at 8 on weekends. White people problem.

  60. 60.

    rikyrah

    @Raven:

    We’ve been coming to the bakery at 7am for almost 20 years. I was just informed that they will now open at 8 on weekends. White people problem.

    BWA HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH

  62. 62.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Raven: Say WHAT???? How dare they! We should organize a boycott to begin promptly at 7 AM every Saturday and Sunday mornings, ending sometime after 8 AM so we can all have coffee and a danish.

  64. 64.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Immanentize: “Attention, attention, Tributes: There has been a slight rule change. The previous rule change allowing for 2 victors from the same district has been revoked and only one victor may be crowned. Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor.”

  65. 65.

    Lapassionara

    @Patricia Kayden: The Dems should subpoena Trump’s tax returns. That the Chair of the committee with authority to do this has not done it is just so mind boggling.

    Good morning everyone.

  66. 66.

    Kay

    Mike Rosenberg
    The Cleveland Plain Dealer has laid off one-third of its staff. Two decades ago, the newspaper had 340 journalists. Now it’s down to 33.

    Sad. It’s terrible news. Someone has to cover state politics and policy or state politicians will go completely unobserved. I know there’s no way to do this transfer but I can’t help but think one could fund daily newspapers in every state by just diverting some portion of national cable coverage. Ohio newspaper reporters make next to nothing. One Jake Tapper or Rachel Maddow show would be hundreds of regular reporters. If you watch local tv news, local tv news gets their content from local newspapers, so that will go too.

  67. 67.

    Spanky

    @Kay: I assume the layoffs are because the PD is losing a lot of money. And I assume they’re losing money because they don’t have buyers for their product. And I think the real tragedy is that the citizenry (not just in Ohio) has no appetite for local news. Everyone thinks they can stay informed through Twitter, or Fox News, or Facebook.

    And maybe I’m just an old man yelling at clouds.

  68. 68.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Naked Swedish police officer apprehends fugitive while visiting sauna

    “He never showed up to serve his sentence, so was naturally on a wanted list,” said Christoffer Bohman, deputy chief of police in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby. “This officer was off duty, and by coincidence – and somewhat comically – both men recognised each other in the sauna.”

    Bohman praised the officer for his calm response to what could otherwise have become a particularly heated confrontation, saying the arrest was effected in a thoroughly professional and undramatic manner.

    “It’s obviously much easier to act when you have colleagues with you, plus all the right tools and equipment,” he said. “This was about as stripped-back and bare-bones an arrest as it is possible to make, in several senses of the term.”

  69. 69.

    Nicole

    @rikyrah: Thank you! I’m at the “looks worse before it looks better” stage. I need some patience. Thank goodness for Netflix.

  70. 70.

    Kay

    @Spanky:

    They say advertising revenue is down. I don’t know if it’s true, but they say local businesses advertise on Facebook?

    I do know Facebook (and Google) have really aggressive sales teams who pitch small businesses. The Google people are particularly annoying and insistent- they’re essentially cold-calling. It’s appealing because it’s cheap but there’s a lot of skepticism from small business people because there’s no way to check their claims of how many people they reach, there’s a sense it’s something of a scam, that they inflate claims, and a scam isn’t cheap at any price. I personally wouldn’t trust a claim from Facebook as far as I can throw Zuckerberg, and I don’t buy things I can’t verify. He’s a flat-out liar. Google is also opaque. I wouldn’t know where to start to verify anything they say about their advertising business.

  71. 71.

    rikyrah

    Why Chicago’s mayoral election should matter to you
    By Ray Sanchez, CNN

    Updated 3:01 AM ET, Mon April 1, 2019

    (CNN)No matter who wins Tuesday’s election in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city will for the first time elect an African-American woman as its mayor.

    The Windy City could also have its first openly gay mayor.

    The historic runoff pits Lori Lightfoot, 56, a former assistant US attorney who describes herself as “an out and proud black lesbian,” against Toni Preckwinkle, 72, a political insider who heads the Cook County Board and chairs the Cook County Democratic Party.

    The winner will replace mercurial, two-term incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who announced last fall that he would not seek re-election.
    “Residents of every other major city should be paying attention to how Chicago manages to address the problems they have,” said Marcus Pohlmann, a political science professor at Rhodes College in Memphis. “No big city is insulated from these issues.”

  75. 75.

    Kay

    @Spanky:

    We advertise once a year on a local country music station because that’s what our customers listen to. I don’t “do” the ad because we have a lawyer who is better at it, but I decide where to advertise and how much we should spend. I listen to the station too, in the car. It’s kind of pleasant and undemanding. The station spends a lot of time on high schools sports, which is really popular. I don’t like sports but I recognize the names and since people talk about it so much I like to have some idea of what they’re talking about. We either know the kids who play or know their families or went to the school. There’s a connection

    I also buy the local daily newspaper and the Toledo Blade. The Blade just cut back (paper) publishing.

  77. 77.

    Betty Cracker

    @Spanky: I think you’ve identified a large part of the problem. But even the national digital media outlets are getting hammered (Buzzfeed layoffs, etc.), and a lot of that’s on the investment structure, which for some reason relies on the tech model. It doesn’t make sense for that product.

  81. 81.

    Dan B

    @rikyrah: It seems like a typical media bias/clulessness issue. I like Pete but Kamala is my first choice and has been, with Warren number two. I’ve been seeing four posts about Pete and two about Warren for weeks. Part of ut us the gay blogs I visit but WTF I want to hear more about Kamala from MSM and social media. Is it because she’s not making waves as big as Obama did at this point. I don’t think so. Racism and misogyny are a part (big part) of the mix but another part of it seems to be media not knowing what the story is. An openly gay pres candidate is the magic “New” that makes for an easy story. I don’t care. I want more Kamala stories!

    F**k the so-called media! Useless for democracy. Kamala is impressive. Does she have to appear on Fox / KKK media for it to be a story?

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