Don't mention Susan Collins without mentioning Sara Gideon

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Saturday February 08, 2020 · 4:32 AM PST

2020/02/08 · 04:32

Yes, we’re all outraged at Susan Collins and her “concern”, but in how many of our outraged diaries do we mention Sara Gideon? How often have I read a diary about Moscow Mitch without seeing a link to Amy McGrath? Does Jamie Harrison have a chance against Lindsey Graham?

We need to emphasize voting FOR someone as much, if not more, than voting against.

If you write a diary about Susan Collins, could you please mention Sara Gideon? https://speakergideon.com

Who is Sara Gideon, you ask? I refer you to a link which goes into a little more detail; www.thecut.com/… Excerpts here:

“She championed Medicaid expansion — a policy that Maine voters later approved by referendum and that former governor Paul LePage obstructed — and helped to override LePage’s veto of a bill that made Narcan available over the counter to Mainers under the age of 21. (Maine experiences high rates of substance-use disorders, which LePage, an admirer of President Trump, once blamed on “guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty … from Connecticut and New York.”) After Janet Mills, a Democrat, defeated Shawn Moody, a Republican, to replace LePage in the governor’s mansion, Gideon has worked more amicably with the executive branch and passed legislation that expanded abortion rights in the state.”

I apologize for the short diary. I wish I had time to research every democrat running against a republican senator. But every time we diary outrage at a republican, please consider a link to the alternative.

It’s stupid early and I have to get to work.

So what will Chairman Cummings be talking to Cohen about?

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Thursday February 21, 2019 · 7:02 AM PST

2019/02/21 · 07:02

Saw this on twitter.

.@RepCummings has set the agenda of the hearings for @MichaelCohen212.

The PresidentÃ¢ÂÂs debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election
The PresidentÃ¢ÂÂs compliance with financial disclosure requirements
The PresidentÃ¢ÂÂs compliance with campaign finance laws
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Ã¢ÂÂ Porpentina (Tina) (@porpentina2017) February 21, 2019

Get your popcorn, use your vacation time, and buckle up!

It's not just Tillerson who's out

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Tuesday March 13, 2018 · 6:33 AM PDT

2018/03/13 · 06:33

Lost in the kerfluffle of the Tillerson firing

Another long-time Trump aide is out: John McEntee, an original Trumper among w Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino, was escorted out of the White House on Monday https://t.co/haIhsITOxp
— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) March 13, 2018

Escorted out? Unspecified security breach?

The Jokes just write themselves

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Thursday December 07, 2017 · 12:33 PM PST

2017/12/07 · 12:33

Submitted without comment, because I’m sure all of you will have some:

thehill.com/…

Roy Moore to ride horseback to polling station

Not Just Another Flag Diary

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Tuesday September 26, 2017 · 6:30 AM PDT

2017/09/26 · 06:30

With all the hoopla about idiot in chief’s latest dumbass move, I think (and perhaps I’m getting into tinfoil hat territory), it’s more than meets the eye. We all know that he wallows in adulation, but I believe he throws these seemingly insane tweets out there to gauge just how close we are to the slow road to authoritarian rule.

Ok, maybe I need to breathe. After all, anyone who reads (yeah, I know, I know) knows that the pledge did not originally have the words “Under God” until 1954, when Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add it in as a response to the communist threat. And I enjoy pointing out to all my MAGA wearing family that the original pose was not hand over the heart, but hand straight out in the air (looking like a Nazi salute), so of course we changed that after WWII.

But still, until I am sure that there was no Russian influence in our election, I have this nagging fear that we are seeing the same threat my grandparents saw when they left Europe in the early 20th century. And it’s abetted by those who say nothing for the sake of family peace or those who “just don’t want to get involved in politics because it’s so ugly.”

So I resolve to keep marching, keep talking and keep working to get out the vote. As Ben Franklin said after the Constitutional Convention of 1787 when asked if we had a Republic or a Monarchy; “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Eclipse vs Trump

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Monday August 21, 2017 · 12:10 PM PDT

2017/08/21 · 12:10

Presidential retinas are stronger than your retinas.

I'm asking your opinion; When is It going to end?

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Tuesday August 02, 2016 · 12:00 PM PDT

2016/08/02 · 12:00

My, it’s been a fascinating couple of days! So we all knew the Trump campaign was going to be a circus from the very beginning and watched in horror as it took on a life of its own. But since the end of the conventions it’s been a series of breathtakingly random neuron firings of hate from him. He’s like a cornered rabid orange tuft of anger. Where does he go from here? So how does it end?

Poll

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How much longer does Trump stay in the race?

110 votes Vote Now!

How much longer does Trump stay in the race?

This afternoon

0 votes

End of the week

1 vote

End of next week

4 votes

Next month

13 votes

October

15 votes

He's in it til the election

77 votes

The Late Great Harvey Korman

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Thursday May 29, 2008 · 6:52 PM PDT

2008/05/29 · 18:52

Just read about the passing of Harvey Korman. He died in LA four months after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

For those who missed the first diary, more fond memories here..
http://www.dailykos.com/...

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Saturday December 17, 2005 · 2:19 PM PST

2005/12/17 · 14:19

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