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Trump and the GOP have turned this country into a sideshow.

Lindsay Graham tells us that it’s the victim’s problem, not the perpetrator’s, Jeff Flake ends his government career betraying whatever tinge of patriotism or conscience he may have briefly experienced. And on and on. It has become a party of … Continue reading →

His blatant disregard for the truth explained by his upbringing and education. Shamus Kahn writes in the Washington Post: “This narrative of the exceptional student rests on a fiction with pathological consequences: Economist Raj Chetty has shown that children whose parents are … Continue reading →

Quoted by Raw Story, Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate told Chris Cuomo: “I watched the whole hearing. A number of my Yale colleagues and I were extremely disappointed in Brett Kavanaugh’s characterization of himself and the way that he evaded his excessive … Continue reading →

Listening again to his testimony, replayed on the Maddow podcast: A pathological liar, a political operative who has never exhibited the slightest compunction about the most dishonest, illegal behavior, his temperamental bellicosity and instability was on full view today. A … Continue reading →

believes that personal responsibility is only for the less fortunate: Like Trump, Kavanaugh has lived in a bubble of entitled privilege for so long he could not conceive of ever being held responsible for his actions.

what Trump is to presidential gravitas: no wonder Trump got off on the Kavanaughian histrionics!

Was it a half tone lower or higher than when he laughed at the litany of rape accusations on Fox & Friends?

Seth Abramson tweets: “Grassley just lied. ‘We’ve had no cooperation’ from attorneys Clune and Avenatti is a *lie*. These men have published online or on TV their *many* attempts to work with Congress, which have been rebuffed.” The GOP Judiciary … Continue reading →

Sen. Graham laughs as rape allegations against Kavanaugh are recited. David Edwards at Raw Story details Lindsey Graham & Fox & Friends’ repellent behavior.