Let's imagine how the GOP would respond if Tip O'Neill or Nancy Pelosi had been revealed as a child molester. https://t.co/EGhLmDMV7E — Mark Lotto (@marklotto) April 23, 2016 "We all have our flaws, but Dennis Hastert has very few," wrote Tom DeLay, "he has never disappointed me in any way" pic.twitter.com/9rDHxvjKuP — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) …
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Late Night Open Thread: Trust Your Intuition
Common sense: grown men shouldn't be in bathrooms w/ little girls. @realDonaldTrump told us he could be PC, but wow. https://t.co/WB93ATZYy4 — Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) April 21, 2016 Ted Cruz aces the difficult task of being even creepier than Donald Trump. It's cool though that presidential candidates are out there sowing the seeds of the …
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Open Thread: Paul Ryan Is Not Running for President… Just Yet
Sources say @SpeakerRyan also felt this is about his own integrity…not wanting to be seen as "being coy""misleading" — Kelly O'Donnell (@KellyO) April 12, 2016 Ryan sources say Ryan wanted to do the right thing https://t.co/GRv0KXhuOr — Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) April 12, 2016 The Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver is not going away. Jim Newell, at Slate …
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Saturday Evening Horrorshow: Ex-Speaker Denny Hastert (R)
I feel like it should be a bigger story that Speaker Hastert sexually abused several high school students. https://t.co/eo4mOGvo6l — southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 9, 2016 On the one hand, this feels like pious voyeurism. On the other hand, his Repub fellows voted Hastert Speaker (to replace Newt Gingrich, who’d run into trouble over his own …
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Open Thread: The Backpfeifengesicht SCOTUS Candidate
Important alert from Ed Kilgore, at NYMag — “Why Right-Wingers Want Sen. Mike Lee on SCOTUS”: The Republican battle to make Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland go away, and the efforts to pin down GOP presidential candidates on pre-vetted lists of potential Supremes, have all led to increased speculation about the next justice. …
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Excellent Read: “The GOP’s Default Messiah”
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com). Jeet Heer, at TNR, asks whether Ted Cruz “can knit together a coalition of purists and pragmatists”: … In January, before he pulled the plug on his own presidential campaign, Senator Lindsey Graham spoke for many Republicans when he said the choice between Cruz and Donald Trump was “like being shot …
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Rooting for Injuries
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) . Lest we forget, at least us Dems aren’t faced with a choice between #1 candidate Gross Evil, #2 candidate Smarmy Evil & #3 candidate Bland Evil. From the Washington Post, “In chaotic GOP race, an intense battle for delegates plays out under the radar”: FARGO, N.D. — For months, Bette …
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