Welcome to Thursday!
By most accounts, today’s the day the Senate will take up the House’s resolution terminating Trump’s fake emergency declaration, which is amazing because all the law on emergency declarations says is that the Senate has to take it up. So I figured McConnell just wouldn’t. But, go figure! It’s said that he will!
I am advising listeners not to hold their breath, though. It’s not good for you, and I think Greg Dworkin will back me up on this. He is a doctor, and a pulmonologist, at that. So you know how they are about breathing.
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Today, we let everybody onto the show, and none of them even had to pay to cheat on their SATs! Greg Dworkin was here! Joan McCarter was here! Armando was here! Paul Manafort, however, was back in court. And Matthew Whitaker was back before the House Judiciary Committee. And a couple dozen college kids and their naughty, naughty parents were stuck in social media purgatory. Better than where Tucker Carlson and Jeanine Pirro are stuck, though. The past week or so has been no great shakes for Dotard J. Trump, either. His whipping effort on the border “emergency” may be doing more harm than good, and even House Republicans are looking to buy some distance from him. Nor are early Republican voters in Iowa too keen on him. And I don’t know if Trump loves New York, but New York(‘s Attorney General) doesn’t love him. Calling Mitch McConnell an “institutionalist” should get you institutionalized. He and his fellow Republicans don’t think much of this “voting” idea. Still hung up on Pelosi’s comments on impeachment? You’re not alone. For one thing, Trump appears to have liked them. Although she doesn’t much like the idea of Pence’s proposed one-time pass for the boss. There’s still plenty about her with which we can be pleased. So what should Dems be doing if they can take back control of the government? And are we still better off than those stuck in Brexit hell? There are two ways to understand how bad the situation is: the long way, and the short way.
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