When the President is not doing his job, send the Prime Minister?!

Speaker Nancy Pelosi led a bipartisan delegation to meet the Jordanian king as an American-brokered truce with Turkey in northern Syria continued to stutter. By Patrick Kingsley @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 20

By Matthew Rosenberg & Kevin Roose @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 20  detailed long-form with substantial evidence, 6+pages printed

[....] That campaigns are now being fought largely online is hardly a revelation, yet only one political party seems to have gotten the message. While the Trump campaign has put its digital operation firmly at the center of the president’s re-election effort, Democrats are struggling to internalize the lessons of the 2016 race and adapt to a political landscape shaped by social media.

Another sane one throws in the towel.

By Melanie Zanona, Matt Dixon & Christian Vasquez @ Politico.com, Oct. 19

Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), who was the first House Republican express openness to voting to impeach President Donald Trump, announced his retirement on Saturday.

“I thought the idea was you came and did your public service and left, you accomplish what you want to accomplish and you left," Rooney said on Fox News. "And that’s what I want to be an example to do. And I’m also tired of the intense partisanship that stops us from solving the big questions that America needs solved.” [....]