Read this New Yorker article to understand Trumps gutter mind.

David Pecker of the the National Enquirer is Trump's good friend and the two of them are peas in the pod when it comes to appealing to the very base of the American mind.

Here's one quote to give you an idea of the mindset:

" For Pecker, the Tiger Woods story encapsulates the grim ethos of Enquirer readers. "Do they care about Tiger Woods? No, " Pecker said. "Do the play golf? No. But do they want to read about his indescretions? Yes. Do they want to read that someone who is that successful is now failing? Yes. These are people that live their life failing, so they want to read negative things about people who have gone up and then come down."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-national-enquirers-fervor-for-trump

What should Planned Parenthood do if AHCA passes?

Here's my idea, have at it:

Planned Parenthood should immediately give all their assets to a new corporation named, for example, Family Planning. Family Planning then continues to do all the work Planned Parenthood has been doing and collect all the federal dollars due them as health providers to Medicaid beneficiaries as Planned Parenthood has been doing for years. If the bill singles out Planned Parenthood in particular, avoiding the hex on that group should be pretty easy. If the bill doesn't mention Planned Parenthood in particular, but rather says any group that provides abortions even if not paid for by the federal government (Hyde Amendment) then let the two corporations operate in the same facilities but Family Planning would not provide abortions but rather sub that out to Planned Parenthood.

This, if nothing else, would tie up the courts for years.

Here's some background reading on the battle over Planned Parenthood.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/us/politics/planned-parenthood-health-care-abortion.html?action=click&contentCollection=health&module=NextInCollection&region=Footer&pgtype=article&version=newsevent&rref=collection%2Fnews-event%2Fahca-american-health-care-act-repeal-obamacare

I say play the Corporation game and play it smarter if that's what they want.

Democrats need to ask the question: Why don't people vote?

In the Ga. -6 election yesterday, where 50 million dollars were spent mostly on TV lies, a whopping 46 percent of registered voters turned out in early and election day voting. People were amazed at such a high turn out for a off year election. The election was determined by a 2.8% margin or about 6800 votes. That's 1.3 % of registered voters.

Democrats need to turn away from wasting time and money trying to turn Republicans into Democrats and instead give the missing 54% who stayed home a candidate they find attractive enough to bring them to the polls. Where are the surveys asking the "Did not vote" citizens what they are looking for? Is it because they don't see a candidate they like or because they figure either candidate is OK enough? Maybe they think there is no difference or is it that they think no one can change the way the country is going? Do they like the status quo well enough and are happy to just take whatever the rulers hand out?

I'll wager a Democratic candidate that brings a different more radical message would tap into the missing voters and not loose a single normally Democratic voter. This holds for districts across the country. In the recent 2016 presidential election, a turnout of 10 million more voters could easily have won the election for the Democrats. That is only about 7% of the "Did not vote" count. We're talking registered voters here, not even concerning ourselves with those knocked off voter roles because of Republican efforts with Crosscheck, Voter ID's etc.

Let's support candidates that target the majority of Americans who now don't vote, probably because they feel so hopeless.

What's the background to Trump's Air controller idea?

I don't remember any talk about this during the campaign. Was he reading about Reagan's election in 1980 or something? Seems very odd.

Truth is, Trumps plan to use Tweets to get around the Press is working fine.

If this was a normal presidency, the press would be carefully screening everything coming out of his mouth to try and preserve at least some respect for the office. Just as FoxNews is now doing. The speeches would be cut off so you wouldn't get the craziness and the aides would be brought in to make sure you didn't have to listen to the man himself.

Now we get Trump unedited. Tweeting about the absurd. Misspelling and using poor English...the whole ball of ugly wax. No need for Shields and Brooks, we can all see Trump is off his rocker, missing marbles with loose screws and it's all direct from the horse's ass.

Does any other DUer use Yahoo Mail? Having trouble.

Things have recently changed and simple emailing tasks are no longer simple. For example: forwarding an email to a list of contacts is not working as the address box doesn't recognize my lists' names....or something.

Wonder if any one else is finding trouble.

I thinking there are people at Yahoo unhappy with being bought out by Verizon and they are making things bad so people shift to other email sites (Gmail). I've been with Yahoo for years...hate to have to change my address and figure out how to get my contacts and lists of contacts shifted to new outfit.

That's one expensive Thursday night for the GOP

They will have a hard time balancing the budget with the billionaire Trump in the Whitehouse. 1.4 million for each of the 59 Tomahawk missiles adds up to some serious money.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/cruise-missiles-missile_n_840365.html

Asking DU's Senate procedural experts: No debate allowed on rules changes???

I just watched a couple of hours of C Span about Gorsuch vote.

I'm so proud of my Democratic Senators. They put a lot of effort into their speeches and really pushed all the points. I hope these talks get circulated to a broad audience.