In a major setback for Republicans in Virginia, Democrats swept control of both houses of the state legislature!
Trump has no shirttails.
This election and the election in Kentucky should send a message to the a Republican majority in the Senate. Will Democrats sweep both houses of Congress next year as Mitch McConnell and every other Republican Senator stick by Trump to the bitter end?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
YAY! Those who stand by Trump are asking for a lot trouble and and deep regret and sorrow.
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If Repugnicans had any sense, they would take the opportunity provided by the House impeachment probe to oust IQ45; Vlad’s Asset Orange; the Don, Cheeto “Little Fingers” Trumpbalone, and get a candidate who has a snowball’s chance in Death Valley of getting elected in 2020. That they aren’t is pretty hilarious.
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In my dreams, a group of Republican senators holds a meeting with Trump and asks him not to run again. They threaten to vote to convict him on impeachment unless he steps down.
He goes on national TV to announce that he won’t run because
1. His son Baron needs more time with him
2. His business needs him
3. He wants more time to play golf
Then our problem is that religious zealot Pence.
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I think that Trump would love an escape route. He knows that once he is out of the Offal Office, he faces a long, long, long, long list of criminal charges on a dazzling array of crimes. But what you are suggesting could happen. It will be quite interesting indeed to see this play out.
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Yeah, but Pence will have a short time to do serious damage, and he is completely unreelectable.
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Pence looks like an elf on the shelf. Or a deer caught in the headlights.
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And it looks as though the Democrat, Beshear, is going to win the governor’s race in Moscow Mitch’s home state of Kentucky. LOL. A Public Policy poll recently showed that the Turtle now has an 18 percent approval rating in his own state, and only 37 percent of Kentuckians said that they would vote for him in 2020. http://ourlivesontheline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/KentuckyResults.pdf
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Here’s some more recent info re McConnell: https://wfpl.org/analysis-how-kentucky-ended-up-with-the-most-unpopular-governor-and-senator-in-america/
And, nationwide, he is the most unpopular Senator currently in office.
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The Republican in Kentucky, Bevin, is, ofc, the governor who blamed the shooting of a Kentucky student on striking teachers. This was an accidental shooting of the girl by her brother.
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Pray!
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“May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.”
–Psalms 109: 8
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Today’s elections were not outliers. There have now been blue waves in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Wait til 2020. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
Repugnicans, get a clue. Reinvent yourselves, or disappear. History will laugh at you.
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Well, why give republicans advice? Just let them disappear.
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My giving advice to Republicans is like my giving advice to the stump in my backyard. (“Hey, I know things look bad, but you can try resprouting.”) As the Republican Party has dwindled among younger, more educated voters, it has had to stay alive by attracting increasingly fringe groups–Nazi skinheads, snake-handling evangelicals awaiting the Rapture, millennialist gun groups, fascist supporters of strongmen around the world. They’ve made themselves the new American Know-Nothings. But we are watching their slow-motion disappearance. Were Richard Nixon alive today, he would be drummed out of the Trump Limbo Party as some kind of libtard snowflake, what with his creation of the EPA, his price controls, his federalization of Medicaid for poor families, his support of a negative income tax, his support of an employee healthcare mandate and lowering the voting age to 18, and his signing of the Clean Water Act and the Environmental Protection Act.
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a very astute understanding of the national divide: like giving advice to the stump in my backyard 🙂
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Good old Dick now sounds like a socialist!:)
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From the current GOP line of attack, Eisenhower was a socialist! So was Nixon! Of course, FDR and Truman too! Also Kennedy!
Trump is their God. Pence is his hand-maiden.
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This was – by all accounts – a historic election in Virginia. As one observer put it, Virginia Democrats beat both gerrymander and Jerry Falwell Jr.to take control of the statehouse.
And, as Molly Ball noted at Time magazine, “In Manassas’s exurban county, the county board previously chaired by a Trump-loving, anti-immigration neo-Confederate is now majority Democratic for the first time in decades…In the statehouse, party leaders plan to use their new majorities to enact gun control and LGBT anti-discrimination laws, raise the minimum wage and pass the Equal Rights Amendment.”
Virginia conservatives lost control, and rightfully so. Though, numbskulls like former Republican House majority leader Kirk Cox and Todd Gilbert got re-elected. Cox is a former government teacher…though not a very good one, and one who definitely understood little about the Constitution that should have been at the heart of his teaching. Gilbert is a Shenandoah County cretin who says most all abortions are merely a matter of “lifestyle convenience” choices, and who treasures his NRA ties and support. Gilbert’s never met a gun he didn’t like.
There’s lots more work to do in Virginia, but voters are on the right path.
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Dems also overcame Fox, A.M. talk radio, the 5 Sinclair-owned broadcast stations in Virginia and, the broader religious right wing
(Falwell’s political brethren in denominations other than evangelical).
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The Family Foundation of Virginia (something similar exists in Kentucky) produced a voter guide to hand out in “churches or to community groups”. Political candidates, Cox (R) and Gilbert (R), match up with the issues important to The Family Foundation.
Five years ago, TFF had a Rally for Marriage. The speakers included, Josh Duggar of the Family Research Council and, representatives from the Frederick Douglass Foundation, “the largest Christ centered, multi-ethnic and Republican ministry in America”, National Organization for Marriage (an organization warranting coverage at the Catholic Information Center- D.C. site), Manhattan Declaration, which is Charles Colson’s organization, and, the Virginia Catholic Conference.
Other TFF activities have been supported by Independent Baptist Ministers.
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Gerrymandering, I wonder why the GOP didn’t even bother running an unfunded vanity candidate for Delegate in my district (Charlottesville City). It was an open seat because our Delegate didn’t run again. I voted for Sally Hudson anyway
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This is such great news!
The only thing that makes sense to me, lately, is that everything the Republicans are doing re Trump is a stalling tactic. They know they don’t stand a chance if he’s officially and, most importantly, legitimately impeached; so they’re just trying to make it past the election. At least they stand a chance that way. I don’t think they care what happens to him at that point. They’ll still have Pence in the Oval Office, letting them continue to dismantle the Fed to their hearts’ content.
Or: there are a lot of them who are under the influence of some pretty shady characters. There was a scandal in England regarding politicians and the influence of Russian oligarchs. That got hushed up fairly quickly here in the States and I’ve wondered why.
Or: both A and B are correct.
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Impeachment doesn’t mean removal.
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“Impeachment doesn’t mean removal”
Understood. But a legitimate impeachment, with all the facts laid out on the table, including the reversals of testimonies (AKA: exposed lies) of Trump’s appointees will go a long ways towards awakening some of the public.
I know more than a few Republicans who are on the fence but, unlike the Trump faithful, do actually pay attention to news sources other than FOX. They were done with the Mueller investigation, but this one is much more in the open, faster moving, and a very serious offense that can’t be overlooked by anyone who’s sincere in their belief in upholding the laws of our Constitution.
I’m thinking that he stepped too far over the line on this one.
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The GOP Controlled Senate is not likely to remove Trump. It for the rest of history, he will bear the stain of having been impeached. And the Senate May flip if the public is sufficiently disgusted by their spinelessness
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Now just move this progress down furher south, say, to Tennessee.
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Democrats I Tennessee used to look pretty much like Representative Jim Cooper. Fiscally conservative, fair, and interested in a better society. These thing might not be perceived as compatible, but even republicans were on board with them sometime ago. No longer, it seems.
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Not anymore, indeed.
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I give the bird to the Trump Tower in Chicago whenever I see it. I LOVE good news.
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Woman Who Gave Finger to Trump Motorcade Wins Election
Juli Briskman lost her job after a photo of her flipping the bird at Trump’s motorcade went viral two years ago.
A Virginia woman who famously lost her job after she was photographed flipping the bird at President Donald Trump’s motorcade in 2017 has won a seat on a county board of supervisors. Juli Briskman became an unwitting hero to many when she was revealed to be the cyclist pictured giving the middle finger to Trump and his caravan of SUVs as he pulled out of one of his golf courses…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/juli-briskman-woman-who-gave-finger-to-trump-motorcade-wins-election?source=email&via=desktop
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What a heart-warming story!
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Virginia also elected the cyclist (Democrat, single mother) who was out of a job two years ago, after she expressed her dislike for Trump in the same way he showed his dislike of a female gymnast (videos of both online).
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Trump appointed 158 life-tenured federal judges. No comment. Here is the updated crapola from the WH:
West Wing Reads
Real Talk: Impeachment Is Going Poorly For Democrats and The Media
“Inside of newsrooms, broadcast studios, and Twitter, impeachment is going according to plan,” Mollie Hemingway writes in The Federalist. “Outside of those bubbles, it’s not.”
Just how badly is it going? “The impeachment inquiry, such as it is, has tremendous struggles. It’s been conducted in secret, with heavy control from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the man who falsely claimed for years he had evidence of Trump’s treasonous collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election.”
“President Donald Trump is keeping his word and getting America out of a bad deal. The poorly negotiated Paris climate accord imposed unfair, unworkable and unrealistic targets on the United States for reducing carbon emissions,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) writes in USA Today. “Countries like China got a free pass.”
“President Trump has appointed, and the Senate has confirmed, 158 life-tenured federal judges . . . Few legacies will be longer lasting than this judicial one. These new judges are principled constitutionalists who have demonstrated excellence and professionalism throughout their legal careers,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) writes in Fox News.
As part of her signature Be Best initiative, First Lady Melania Trump is visiting Boston Medical Center today “to highlight a treatment program for infants born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome,” Travis Andersen reports for the Boston Globe.
“For all the demands from talking heads that the US deploy military personnel to police tribal disputes along the borders of Turkey, Iraq and Syria, the real border crisis facing the US is happening in our own backyard. Fact is, the situation in Mexico poses a far greater threat to American security. Our Southern neighbor is rapidly becoming a narco-state run by cartel drug lords,” Sean Davis writes in the New York Post.
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