Nebraska punted for -2 yds… pic.twitter.com/JzHkD5ZcXP — Vikings Blogger (@firstandskol) November 13, 2016 Saturday 3/4/2017 – The Twitterer in the Dark regurgitated some Brietbartian lies about Obama tapping Trump Tower. This caused a bit of a stir as one might expect, with members of the right wing demanding justice, and people who aren’t fans of […]
Category: Republican malgovernance
That shouldn’t be oiled. The president erupted with anger over the latest slew of news reports connecting Russia with the new administration — specifically the abrupt decision by Attorney
I wonder how long it will be until people who have looked at Iran on a map will be detained at his MAGAsty’s pleasure? Assuming it hasn’t happened already. A former prime minister of Norwa
There are many reasons that concern about maintaining norms when dealing with the GOP (as it exists today, not the one from 50 years ago or the imaginary one some people want to pretend exists) is inappropriate. The chief reason is that the GOP doesn’t care about norms. Senate Republicans took an extraordinary step Wednesday […]
Regulations are bad. The worst! They won’t let you do whatever you want! shouts the yammering yam at 1600 Penn. Ave. And so he took his big yuge beautiful pen in his clammy little paw and …
According to the Weekly Standard it would be a good thing if T. Rump is not engaged, but not too not engaged, but not too engaged either. Or something. Indeed, for many on the right, Donald Trump̵
He’s not offering a two-for-one sale. At least not yet. But try to guess where Trump sent his proposed policy to improve the lives of African-Americans: A. The NAACP. B. Ebony. C. Mediatakeout.com ‘The most visited urban website in the world.’ D. The Congressional Black Caucus. E. President Barack Obama. F. The National Museum of […]
The people who just want to be left alone to discriminate against people in peace, of course. The Justice Department notified Gov. Pat McCrory in a letter Wednesday that the state’s House Bill 2, wh
It seems to me that Atrios is completely right about this. I mean, what happens if this ridiculous smear campaign about the kid makes breaks mainstream? The veto is a political loser pretty much regar
One major reason I always strongly opposed the Iraq war is that my graduate training entailed some study of the difficulties of state-building. Building stable states, let alone liberal democracies, is very difficult, and usually involves alliances with other powerful actors to help raise revenues and maintain coercive authority. One reason Iraq was so disastrous […]
The Habeas Restoration bill failed 56-43; Christy has the tally. Unless I missed one, no Democrat voted “naye,” including Nelson, Landrieu, and Conrad. The ever-more-disgraceful Joe Lieber
Brad Plumer and Noam Scheiber have a good article about the loathsome GOP corporate lackey Haley Barbour, the kind of “small government” Republican who ensures that any budget deal contain