A Turning Tide? Perhaps a Storm Surge

  Conor Lamb won the house election in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, though the reepubs refuse to concede.
  The GOP is continuing to act with malice and self-serving rhetoric in their histrionic tantrum to overturn majority rule.
  The Pennsy GOP is threatening to impeach the state supreme court, in order to maintain its gerrymandered districts. It has boastingly used voter suppression (in the form of 'voter I.D.') to try to sway the 2012 election. And has followed Republicans nationwide in all but openly declaring its utter contempt for the democratic process.
  There are 24 house seats keeping the Democrats from upholding both the rule of law under the constitution, and respect for our republican form of government.
  I believe that we can do it. Indeed, we must, for it looks as if the only way to get our house in order is to get our House back.

 

(Don't) Let George Do It

  After failing even to enter the Florida primary, among others, George (Maybe if he were the only one running.... Maybe) Pataki left the presidential race today.
  The only pro-choice candidate, Pataki never garnered any real support, and was at the 'kid's table' in every debate. His defeat was inevitable, but as a New Yorker who had the distinct privilege of voting against old George when he ran against Mario Cuomo, I'm almost sad that I will never again have another opportunity to vote against him .
  Almost sad.

Baker's Dozen

  Today, Senator Lindsey Graham ended his presidential campaign.
  A victim of the Republican Party's lurch to extremism, he did rack up a few noteworthy moments during his run. He, correctly, noted that Donald Fucking Trump is an 'idiot' and 'jack-ass' and responded to Trump's giving away Graham's cell-phone number with a cuttingly funny video about methods of phone destruction. Satire is an effective and classy tool to deal with the likes of the evil clown that is Donald Trump. Graham also repudiated Trump's anti-muslim rants on the floor of the Senate, which may have been one of his finest moments.
  I said that Graham was a victim of right-wing extremism; he was also a perpetrator. Graham fully participated in the 'Party of No' strategy to deny Obama any political victories. That he failed in that strategy is a matter of fact. That he failed to realize, until too late, what was being nurtured under his nose, is a matter of integrity.

  There are now thirteen candidates running for the nomination of the Republican Party. Thirteen. A perfect number to fill a clown-car.

March 16, 2020. Note to readers, if any: I noted above that Graham's calling-out of Trump was one of his finest moments. Anyone reading today (At least one person? Please?) knows that it was his last fine moment, as Lindsey Graham has taken up residence on a shit-front lot in Trump's anal canal.