Don’t break the glass and press play! This is not yet the Emergency KITM. David Waldman has postponed that for later. Relax! For now.
Instead, let’s enjoy the sight of some more blue wave that lapped across Virginia yesterday. Virginians now look forward to the election of Juli Briskman, who was Rashida Tlaib before Rashida Tlaib.
Greg Dworkin rounds up the wall-to-wall wall punditry. Trump knows his wall is useless, but knows his supporters like his wall reality show. For all others however, if you ever read Trump’s tweets, ever watched the main stream news, or ever listened to Stephen Miller, you have already heard it all: IACATBTKY. All that is left now is for Trump to surrender and declare victory. The Dems deliver trash from national parks to the White House, while the District of Columbia’s Water authority board thinks about shutting off the water.
This is great news for Jim Jordan, according to Jim Jordan, and Jared Kushner, who personally assures nervous Republicans that he is not scared and neither should they be.
Joan McCarter brings us Day 19 shutdown news. Lisa Murkowski wants votes to reopen government. A plan is bubbling up in the Senate to break the shutdown, and the House plans votes to reopen one agency at a time, and hold defections below a veto-proof threshold. Democrats also plan to hold hearings on Medicare for All. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell and Marco Rubio tried and failed in trolling Democrats, and Trump just plans on breaking the law.
An Opus Dei Priest had a special touch for rich Republicans. He also had other, not so special touches that so far cost Opus Dei about a million dollars.
Another little rotten story about little rotten Donald: The empty box scam. Oh Mary, say it isn’t so!
You got to hope Rod Rosenstein figures Bob Mueller is all set and doesn’t need his help anymore. If not, maybe Paul Manafort can lend a hand. Also Natalia Veselnitskaya might have worked more closely with Russia than she let on.