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May 2, 2019

LOL: You've got to check out the Mueller Report on Amazon!

There are several versions. The best version is the edition published by the Washington Post. But another version has been published with an introduction by Alan Dershowitz.

More than 50% of the reviews of the Dershowitz version absolutely trash it as partisan crap, with many of the reviewers expressing anger about what they saw as a bait and switch since they didn't know they were getting the Mueller Report according to a Trump sycophant.

On the other hand, the Washington Post version is getting rave reviews.

The Washington Post edition is #1. Dershowitz's is #18.




May 2, 2019

A key part of the Russo-Republican strategy is to convince us that we are powerless and get us to

give up.

Unfortunately, it seems to be working on some people here.

If you're wringing your hands and insisting all is lost, they're going to steal 2020, we're DOOMED DOOMED, you are falling right into their trap. They want you to give up because they know that if you stay engaged and fight back, they can't win. They know the only way they can win is if we default.

You can whine and give up if you want, but I'm not and neither, I think, are most Democrats.

But if you're not going to help, it would be nice if you stopped trying to discourage us and harping about how hopeless you think it all is. You're not helping. You're really just getting in the way and we'll go a lot farther and faster without dragging dead weight on our own side.

May 1, 2019

Bill Barr isn't very bright.

That is all.

May 1, 2019

Sen. Kamala Harris

Damn, girl!

You could have left Barr a shred of dignity.

May 1, 2019

Mueller could have raised his objections with Barr in person or by phone.

But he chose not to.

There's only one reason to do it by letter: to create a record. And the only reason to create a record is for future use by or with third parties.

In other words, Mueller put Barr out on Front Street.

April 29, 2019

Please stop arguing the false choice between impeaching vs. not impeaching

That's not an issue. The House Democrats, with a couple of exceptions, are pretty much on board with impeachment. The question is not WHETHER but WHEN, HOW and with WHAT?

Arguing that "if we don't impeach, this will happen" and "if he's not impeached, that will happen" is a false binary. Very few people are arguing that he shouldn't be impeached. But we can't just jump in willy nilly. We have one shot and it has to be done right.

So, instead of bickering about a non-existent choice, why not focus on helping the Dems do what they need to do to get all the ducks in a row so that we can do an impeachment that sticks and actually results in the outcomes we want, instead of something that satisfies our red-meat -craving base but, in the end, just leaves us where we were when we started, if not in an even worse position?

April 29, 2019

We have lost another civil rights giant: Judge Damon Keith

Judge and civil rights icon Damon J. Keith dies at age 96

Judge Damon J. Keith, a grandson of slaves and figure in the civil rights movement who as a federal judge was sued by President Richard Nixon over a ruling against warrantless wiretaps, died Sunday. He was 96.

Keith died in Detroit, the city where the prominent lawyer was appointed in 1967 to the U.S. District Court, according to the Swanson Funeral Home.

Keith served more than 50 years in the federal courts, and before his death still heard cases about four times a year at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

A revered figure in Detroit for years, Keith captured the nation’s attention with the wiretapping case against Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell in 1971. Keith said they couldn’t engage in the warrantless wiretapping of three people suspected of conspiring to destroy government property. The decision was affirmed by the appellate court, and the Nixon administration appealed and sued Keith personally. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the judge prevailed in what became known as “the Keith case.”

Keith revisited the civil liberties theme roughly 30 years later in an opinion that said President George W. Bush couldn’t conduct secret deportation hearings of terrorism suspects. Keith’s opinion contained the line, “Democracies die behind closed doors.” A simi.lar phrase — “Democracy dies in darkness” — is now the slogan of The Washington Post, which has credited Keith.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/obituaries/revered-judge-and-civil-rights-icon-damon-j-keith-dies/2019/04/28/4570fd12-69d6-11e9-bbe7-1c798fb80536_story.html


Judge Keith was a great man. May he rest in peace.
April 28, 2019

Elie Mystal: "The only people insisting that a woman or minority can't win the presidency ...

are the ones who won't vote for a woman or minority to be president.""

Word.

April 28, 2019

Do y'all realize that the minute the investigation is called an "impeachment," the entire complexion

and narrative will shift, and not in a good way? Among other things, if this is framed now as an "impeachment," many of the people we hope and need to sway will shut down, seeing this as a purely political exercise intended to get a president out of office rather than actually uphold the Constitution. We may not see it that way, but a large proportion of the public will.

On the other hand, if the respective committees investigate and hold hearings outside of the impeachment process, as part of their regular oversight, they will have a better opportunity to produce and present the volume of evidence needed to convince the public that Trump must go than if the Judiciary Committee alone starts doing this now within the guise of an impeachment.

Let the Committees do its work, gather the evidence many incorrectly think only an impeachment inquiry can obtain and, use the evidence-gathering and information obtained and revealed to build a strong public case for impeachment and even removal.

April 28, 2019

A word of hope and encouragement: This madness will end and we will recover

The questions still up in the air are: 1) how much longer it will last; and 2) how much time and work it will take to restore ourselves as a nation and a people.

Fortunately, the answers to both questions are totally up to us.

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