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I’ve argued several times against using impeachment as a campaign issue in 2018, which by and large, hasn’t happened on the Democratic side. But you know who is making impeachment a campaign issue? Republicans.
As Republican leaders scramble to...
by kos
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If Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen wasn't feeling the heat already, he's about to enter an inferno. Not only did Trump assign him sole responsibility Thursday for the Stormy Daniels imbroglio, but new reporting suggested that...
by Kerry Eleveld
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If there's one thing I love, it's watching a master at work. Randy Johnson pitching a no hitter. Michael Jordan soaring through the air, tongue wagging as the flash bulbs pop. Salvador Dali grandly stroking his brush across the canvas. Van Cliburn...
by Murfster35
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For as long as he’s been governor, Andrew Cuomo has given his tacit and not-so-tacit backing to the so-called “Independent Democratic Conference”—a group of renegade Democrats who for years have colluded with Republicans to keep the GOP in charge of...
by David Nir
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I had a conversation the other day with an old friend who does consulting for the intelligence community. He wouldn't admit to working on the Trump/Russia investigation, but I know he works with people who are working on it, and he has worked on...
by protothad
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Democrats are trying to cut off any further action by Trump.
From TPM
Dear President Trump:
The decision to release a partisan and misleading memo over the objections of your own Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director and the...
by pollwatcher
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I am not one that believes the economy is as robust as the stock market says it is. For many reasons. In fact, I believe just under the surface of typical economic goal posts such as employment and stock market figures, there is a catastrophe waiting...
by StellaRay
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A stretch of coast from east of Houston to west of Corpus Christi and reaching as far inland as the outskirts of San Antonio was devastated by Harvey’s wind and rain this weekend, and it’s far ...
by Steven Andrew
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We’ve long known that Republicans have little respect for traditional democratic norms and ideals. We’ve seen it in their hostility toward voting rights, their decimation of traditional norms in ...
by kos
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The Constitution has a very narrow definition of treason — but conservatives only seem to notice when they are denying something anyone would normally call treason.
One of the supreme ironies of this whole Russia scandal goes back to Ann Coulter’s...
by Jen Sorensen
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