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A lifelong Blue girl in a Red state, I'm now Senior Political Writer for Daily Kos. On any given day, I'd rather be horseback, but there's more demand for political writers than cowgirls.

Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, Saturday Evening Geek Out, Social Security Defenders, Social Security, Comics, Daily Kos Labor, VirtuallySpeaking, Transcripts and Documents, Daily Kos Economics, Five Questions

Twitter: @joanmccarter

Diaries published: 15282 (1 day since last diary on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 01:10 PM PST)

Comments posted: 36723 (1 day since last comment on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 01:10 PM PST)

Diary frequency: frequent

Comment frequency: frequent

Total Recommends: 307103

Total Comment Ratings: 82761

Most Recommended Diary: Koch brothers freak out in response to Rolling Stone expose, 548 comments, 1129 recommends

People Following Joan McCarter: 1744

Joan McCarter's Most Recent Diaries:

The newest Republican senator, Kelly Loeffler, has quickly risen to be a favorite of impeached president Donald Trump. The Georgia Republican, who was appointed to fill out retired Sen. Johnny Isakson's term, received high praise from Trump in...
by Joan McCarter
Comment Count 84 comments on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 01:10 PM PST with 81 Recommends
Moscow Mitch McConnell featured big in impeached-for-life president Donald Trump's unhinged White House campaign rally on Thursday. "And Mitch McConnell, I want to tell you, you did a fantastic job," Trump said. "He understood this was crooked...
by Joan McCarter
Comment Count 45 comments on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 12:16 PM PST with 62 Recommends
Sen. Richard Burr, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has concluded in a long review by the committee of the Russian election interference in 2016, that the Obama administration is at fault and was not "well-postured" to combat...
by Joan McCarter
Comment Count 46 comments on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 09:17 AM PST with 100 Recommends
Breaking long-standing agency tradition, CIA Director Gina Haspel attended the State of the Union address on Tuesday. Breaking yet another norm for the intelligence and defense community representatives at the speech, Haspel showed her enthusiastic...
by Joan McCarter
Comment Count 38 comments on Thu Feb 06, 2020 at 08:21 AM PST with 87 Recommends
Moscow Mitch McConnell has a poker face. It’s lipless and chinless, but it’s still a poker face. But he has a tell he can't control when he gets angry: His face gets red. His face was very red on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon after Republican...
by Joan McCarter
Comment Count 132 comments on Wed Feb 05, 2020 at 02:49 PM PST with 162 Recommends
What a day for Maine Sen. Susan Collins, huh? Her colleague, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, just provided a master class in political principle, courage, and independence—you know, all those qualities Collins has pretended to possess during her too-long Senate...
by Joan McCarter
Comment Count 150 comments on Wed Feb 05, 2020 at 12:37 PM PST with 205 Recommends

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