Sometimes experience does count, and in union there is strength. Jon Ralston, go-to guy on Nevada politics, in the Reno Gazette Journal: … Saturday may well be the day that altered the course of the Democratic presidential race, when Hillary Clinton blunted Bernie Sanders’ campaign, when she was forced to work as hard as she …
Organizing & Resistance
Open Thread: A Gift That Keeps on Giving
BREAKING: President Obama intends to nominate successor for Scalia on Supreme Court: @CNN — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) February 14, 2016 And here is a CRS report to answer all of your Supreme Court vacancy, nomination questions https://t.co/TEVUjwNcU0 — Paul Blumenthal (@PaulBlu) February 13, 2016 Last time we had this situation: Marshall retiring with a …
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Open Thread: Ted Cruz Is A Nasty Piece of Work
That moment when your father forces you to defend Ted Cruz as less fascist than Donald Trump. — Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) February 7, 2016 @dandrezner that moment when you label a constitutionalist as fascist. #hamiltonspinningingrave — timothy m. ryan (@strandleper) February 7, 2016 Hey, I was defending Cruz! https://t.co/KaBASSh2kz — Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) February 7, …
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Little Marco, Sharing His Elders’ Behind-Closed-Doors Ugliness
(Jack Ohman via GoComics.com) . Marco Rubio is a young (-enough-for-Repub-purposes) man in a hurry. His youth was supposed to be his big selling point — a shiny new face, not like that old Hillary harridan! Only problem with fresh-faced youngsters, even the quick studies, is that sometimes they repeat nasty stuff the Wise Old …
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Open Thread: “Cowboy Socialism”
Did they just go there? Yes. Yes they did. #Oregonstandoff #tonedeaf pic.twitter.com/A6Ll9lE2vg — Gargoyle (@Patztense) January 31, 2016 I prefer “welfare ranchers”, but that’s because as a citified coastal elitist I have no allergy to the word socialism. Excellent read — even if you know all this already, it’s nice to have all the links …
Terrifying Team Trump Tales
CNN decides to take a look at people who support The Donald and discovers that the people who support The Donald are pretty much exactly who you’d suspect of supporting aforementioned Donald. They are showing up in droves to see Donald Trump: Men and women, overwhelmingly white, frustrated with the country’s first black president, fearful that …
The Full Weight Of History
Ta-Nehisi Coates eloquently explains his position on the Democrats in 2016 as Hillary Clinton mentions that Lincoln was her favorite president due to his willingness to “reconcile and forgive” the Lost Cause of the South. Yet until relatively recently, this self-serving version of history was dominant. It is almost certainly the version fed to Hillary …