Facts not required, I guess

Is there a single person in the Trump Administration with brains above a third-grade level? I mean, Pence goes to Kentucky today to sell Trumpcare and makes the idiotic claim that the ACA hurt Kentuckians. Look at the chart below which shows the percentage of people in that state uninsured in 2015, five years after …

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Republican Convention, Night Two

Tuesday was “Make America Work Again” day at the Republican National Convention, which also happened to coincide with the party formally nominating Donald Trump as its nominee. But neither jobs nor Trump got much attention as a grab bag of Republican headliners Tuesday spent most of their time demonizing Hillary Clinton and talking about themselves …

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60 Minutes does Trumpence

That was painful to watch and listen to. Trump’s ego was on full display (quelle surprise!), and he interrupted and rolled over both his VP candidate and his interviewer constantly. There were half-a-dozen really uncomfortable moments in there, or they’d be uncomfortable if the candidate were a normal sensitive human being. Remember how he’s lambasted …

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Puzzled I was once I saw Pence

We saw Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey all but polishing Trump’s shoes in his attempt to be named the VP on the Republican ticket. We saw Newt Gingrich demonstrating his attack dog skills (loyalty oaths for Muslims, forsooth!) in hopes he’d get the VP nod. Frankly, neither of those things surprised me, considering the …

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Take a T and a P

Man, even the very conservative magazine The Federalist, or at least its managing editor, doesn’t like Mike Pence. Not for the reasons most decent people do, though. Nope, because he expanded Medicaid as part of complying with Obamacare and he did it the wrong way. Here’s how the people who write that magazine think: …suffice …

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