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| This week in the war on voting: Kris Kobach loses round on citizenship proof; trickery in GA and TX Welcome to the latest edition in our war on voting series. This is a joint project of Joan McCarter and Meteor Blades.
• Appeals court gives Kansas Secretary of State poke in the eye on ... |
Meteor Blades | 09/10/2016 | 12 |
| Open thread for night owls: Driftglass tears David Brooks a(nother) new one Driftglass tears David Brooks a new one (to add to the many he’s torn him in the past):
[T]ravel with me back, back, back to the Age of Dubya when a shamelessly self-promoting Iraq War pimp and prophet of false equivalence named David Brooks was... |
Meteor Blades | 09/09/2016 | 63 |
| Richard Burr suddenly doesn't seem to think his Medicare voucher plan is so great
All of a sudden, now that his job is in serious jeopardy from a challenge by Democrat Deborah Ross, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) is rethinking some of his big ideas. Like how ... |
Joan McCarter | 09/09/2016 | 4 |
| NC board restores some early voting hours, but this county-by-county disparity needs greater reform Not crumbs. But not quite half a loaf either. The State Board of Elections of North Carolina made some improvements in several counties’ heavily reduced November voting schedules Thursday. These were, as reported here yesterday, a reeking bag of... |
Meteor Blades | 09/09/2016 | 25 |
| Supreme Court vacancy watch Day 208: McConnell plots early exit, which screws Paul Ryan It's Friday, September 8, and Day 208 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 177 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President Obama... |
Joan McCarter | 09/09/2016 | 17 |
| Midday Open Thread: We just had the hottest summer nights in 121 years; North Korea's nukes 59 days remain until the general election. Are you registered to vote? Click here to be sure.
Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is Turning a corner:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
Only Hillary Clinton will continue the Obama jobs... |
Meteor Blades | 09/09/2016 | 26 |
| Republicans are nervous about Trump damage downballot. Let's make them even more worried. The prospect of Donald Trump at the top of the ballot continues to terrify Republicans, who have started pouring money in to bail out downballot candidates in many states:
The Republican Governors Association in recent days has quietly funneled... |
Laura Clawson | 09/09/2016 | 8 |
| Donald Trump lays out his education plan: Gut public schools Donald Trump gave a big education policy speech Thursday afternoon, choosing to deliver it at an appropriate location: a poorly performing charter school with a lot of lobbying money in its background. Trump offered up the usual Republican... |
Laura Clawson | 09/09/2016 | 75 |
| John McCain still doesn't want to talk about how he continues to support the unqualified nominee Cranky John McCain is back not wanting to talk, at all, about how he is still supporting Putin-lovin' Donald Trump to be president. Here's a clip run on MSNBC from his talk at the Heritage Foundation (watch it below the fold):
Question: Given the... |
Joan McCarter | 09/09/2016 | 38 |
| The media disparity between Trump and Clinton is real, and it's willful Let’s start with this:
Chase it with this:
Two and a half weeks later, the Associated Press has gotten around to deleting a tweet that misrepresented the AP’s own reporting, which was heavily slanted [against Hillary Clinton] to begin with. ... |
kos | 09/09/2016 | 365 |
| Federal courts in Utah and Wisconsin give reproductive rights advocates two more 2016 victories It’s been a year of victories for Planned Parenthood and anybody who believes in reproductive rights. This week brought two additional ones.
On Sunday, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson, a George H.W. Bush appointee, reinforced a July ruling by the... |
Meteor Blades | 09/09/2016 | 21 |
| Two weeks later, AP finally removes false tweet smearing Hillary Clinton Two and a half weeks later, the Associated Press has gotten around to deleting a tweet that misrepresented the AP’s own reporting, which was heavily slanted to begin with. The AP’s story drew a questionable distinction between Hillary Clinton’s... |
Laura Clawson | 09/09/2016 | 27 |
| Marco Rubio 'hopes' Trump will change his mind on Putin Republican candidates in general are having a hell of a time defending Donald Trump's Vladimir Putin love. But none of them, none of them is as lame as Marcio Rubio.
"Look, I have tremendous policy disagreements with President Obama, but Vladimir... |
Joan McCarter | 09/09/2016 | 39 |
| If Donald Trump can be duped by Larry King, what are world leaders going to do to him? So Donald Trump went on state-owned Russian television to complain about the American media and foreign policy. But it’s not his fault! He was duped by Larry King.
The great strong dealmaker leader guy duped by Larry King. What does this say about... |
Laura Clawson | 09/09/2016 | 131 |
| Trump camp is full steam ahead with sexism even as a few Republicans worry it looks bad Some establishment Republicans are fretting over Donald Trump’s sexist attacks on Hillary Clinton, not that they can change anything. You’ve got Trump himself saying Clinton doesn't have a presidential look, his son saying Clinton’s health is fair... |
Laura Clawson | 09/09/2016 | 40 |
| Republicans promise more of the same for President Clinton: Never-ending investigations Republicans have already suggested how they're going to sabotage the beginning of a President Clinton's term: they want to bog her first 100 days down with all the stuff they are refusing to do this fall, to make sure she can't use her mandate on new,... |
Joan McCarter | 09/09/2016 | 74 |
| Donald Trump will not stop lying about his Iraq record Matt Lauer may not have pushed back when Donald Trump claimed that a 2004 quote criticizing the Iraq war showed that he had been opposed to the war before it started in 2003, but Lauer’s failure ... |
Laura Clawson | 09/09/2016 | 70 |
| Cartoon: Turning a corner
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Poor Little Suzie Newsykins, she’s trying so hard to keep up and make sense of her summer spent soaking up the presidential ... |
Mark Fiore | 09/09/2016 | 11 |
| Open thread for night owls: Feingold wants to lead a new Progressive Era in the Senate John Nichols at The Nation writes— Russ Feingold Wants to Lead a New Progressive Era in the Senate :
Everyone else is talking about Donald Trump and the mess that has been made of American ... |
Meteor Blades | 09/08/2016 | 101 |
| Freedom Caucus maniacs are stirring up yet another plot against fellow Republicans Remember how a few weeks ago the Freedom Caucus maniacs were all "we're going to quit the Republican Study Committee cuz it's too establishment" and there was going to be a big splinter and the Freedom Caucus would get all the spoils and more power?... |
Joan McCarter | 09/08/2016 | 44 |
| Consumer Financial Protection Bureau strikes $185 million blow for consumers, good government This is what Republicans are still intent on destroying:
Credit cards issued secretly without a customer’s consent. Bank employees creating fake email accounts to sign up customers for online banking services. Customers accumulating late fees on... |
Joan McCarter | 09/08/2016 | 34 |
| Midday open thread: Arctic sea ice headed to 2nd lowest level; Alabama Supreme Court still all white 60 days remain until the general election. Are you registered to vote? Click here to be sure.
Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is The view from Trump Tower:
• Alabama’s Supreme Court still all white. But, hey, at least they got a... |
Meteor Blades | 09/08/2016 | 10 |
| Colin Powell explained to Hillary Clinton how he circumvented State Department servers in 2009 email Well, lookie here. There's an email from 2009 from Colin Powell to Hillary Clinton, explaining just how he used a "personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line" to communicate State Department business. Wasn't it Colin Powell who just a... |
Joan McCarter | 09/08/2016 | 117 |
| Supreme Court vacancy watch Day 207: McConnell 'fast-tracks' anti-Obamacare votes It's Thursday, September 7, and Day 207 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 176 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President... |
Joan McCarter | 09/08/2016 | 21 |
| Republican leadership picking fight with Freedom Caucus Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he is working with Harry Reid and President Obama—and suggested House Speaker Paul Ryan is on board—to come up with a short-term government ... |
Joan McCarter | 09/08/2016 | 5 |
| Even NBC execs realize Matt Lauer was a 'disaster' Campaign Action
So Matt Lauer is the laughingstock of the nation, including his media peers and even the execs at his workplace:
One executive, speaking anonymously, was blunt about it: "Disaster."
The morning after Lauer's back-to-back... |
kos | 09/08/2016 | 498 |
| Nevada Republican Joe Heck: 'Why wouldn't I' trust Trump having his finger on the nuclear button Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) is an unabashed and unapologetic supporter of Donald Trump, and he doesn't see why that's a problem, even though he's in a marked minority on that and even though he's in a very tight race with Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto for... |
Joan McCarter | 09/08/2016 | 18 |
| Hillary Clinton backs bill to protect retired coal miners Retired coal miners face the loss of their pensions due to no fault of their own, and Hillary Clinton is backing a bill that would protect their pensions so miners can live out the retirements they’ve earned:
“I firmly believe that if you spent... |
Laura Clawson | 09/08/2016 | 16 |
| Trump dishes on classified intelligence briefings: It's all about the body language Donald Trump is getting classified intelligence briefings. And if that simple statement doesn’t disturb you enough, consider how he answered Matt Lauer asking if he’d learned anything new or shocking from those briefings.
What I did learn is that... |
Laura Clawson | 09/08/2016 | 160 |
| Beltway media reminds Clinton every day this week why she should continue ignoring them Hillary Clinton is being reminded every single day why she should continue ignoring the Beltway press corps. On Monday, there was this bullshit:
Hillary Clinton took questions from reporters aboard her campaign plane Monday, but seemingly more... |
kos | 09/08/2016 | 146 |
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