Maybe this will take the bloom off of "bipartisan appointments" - they suck.

We can't get to the bottom of Trump's Russian ties or his ex-Ukrainian runner, or Russian meddling in the election, or the actual drip drip drip of the hack attacks.... but the merest speculation of an email sighted - the horror! the horror!

And yeah, Comey signed onto all sorts of government overreach in snooping on the public. Hillary misused confidential info? The whole government did.

Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion and political opponent of Putin: Mr. Putin can no longer pretend to be a democratic leader, so his goal is to drag everyone else down to his level — and he is doing it with Mr. Trump’s help. A democracy is as strong as its people believe it to be. It cannot be destroyed from the outside, only from within.

Worth considering. Maybe Guccifer 2.0 hacked pictures of his daughter or something, needed a "quid pro quo". Now he's got one.

Environmentalists in Washington are fighting over whether a carbon tax or cap and trade is the best way to fight climate change. This is a subject I discussed briefly during the primaries when Sanders insisted that Hillary must support a carbon tax or she doesn't care about the environment. This article lays out in much more detail the reasoning behind the difference in opinion between major environmental groups and leaders on this issue.

House Republicans are already preparing for ‘years’ of investigations of Clinton.... If Republicans retain control of the House, something that GOP-friendly maps make possible even in the event of a Trump loss, Clinton will become the first president since George H.W. Bush to immediately face a House Oversight Committee controlled by the opposition party......

Trump just scratched the surface, as testimonials from all over regularly show. Here's one in the humanitarian sector, I saw one about girls who'd tried to do water rafting in Grand Canyon regularly assaulted & verbally abused, the situation on campuses including putting drunken rape on Instagram is horrendous, and then there's the variety of soldier/marauder rape gangs in all of our global conflicts (Congo being the most notorious).

And since I probably promised a song (tasteless as it might be in this context....):

Think of it as 35 million Likes

Yes, Our Lady of the God-sent Child-Saving Conservative Dolphins fantasizes over a Donald Trump who doesn't come across as an asshole by elegantly hiding his inner asshole. And somehow thinks this is a great improvement.

But thanks, Peggy, for reminding us how we got here. See, all those assholes in the closet eventually got to thinking they were normal and came out of the closet. Donald's not unique, as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich make obvious. But he does ignore the Peggy game plan big time:

Mitt Romney’s aides are making the classic mistake of thinking the voters want maturity, serenity and a jolly spirit. What they want is a man who knows what time it is, who has a passion to reform our country, and who yet holds these qualities within a temperament that is mature, serene and jolly.

Deciphering Peggy code, it's "more asshole, but less assholishness". It's a hard prescription to follow as Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell have discovered, and the Republican Party just proved it by flying off the tracks.

But sure, I look forward to Republicans recycling the recipe for even more losses in 2018 and 2020. As Burt Reynolds noted in The Longest Yard, "worked once - it'll work again".

Fox finally on the Run, or better said, is it "Miles of Aisles"? (yeah, I do this cause I know Dick's a sucker for Joni - easy "Dayly Award" for me....

Trump laid down  $10,000--didn't do any good, but we know she was "pretty enough"