Resist, Elections Officers, Resist!

Have a little attempted voter suppression with your lunch. Kobach asked the Connecticut secretary of state’s office to provide the commission with all publicly available voter roll data, including the full names of all registered voters along with their addresses, dates of birth, the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, voting history and …

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Liar, thy name is Orrin Hatch

Note the date of this tweet: I cannot support any bill that would jeopardize health care coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. #tcot #utpol — Orrin Hatch (@OrrinHatch) December 2, 2009 Note that Hatch was one of the 13 white men who drafted the Senate’s version of the health bill, called the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) …

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McConnell and Trump

Republicans in the House and Senate have implicitly made a devil’s bargain with Trump, giving him a free hand to indulge his kleptocratic and autocratic tendencies in exchange for what they want: stalwart conservative judges for the Supreme Court, and a presidential signature on whatever bills Ryan and McConnell manage to pass. And make no …

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It’s The Gong Show, right?

Just read Jim Wright’s Facebook post regarding the method the White House used to reply to a formal request from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for info about any tapes of former FBI Director Comey’s conversations with Trump. The White House literally quoted a tweet, a TWEET, from Trump’s personal Twitter account as …

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Take me back to 1968

At least, back to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Season Two, when Mason Williams debuted “Classical Gas” on the show. Here’s Williams explaining how he wrote the song. Here it is as it was recorded for Williams’ album “The Mason Williams Phonograph Record”. Backing him up: Larry Knechtel and Jim Gordon of The Wrecking Crew, …

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