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He’s even started swishing, flapping, and flailing his flippers like the Demented-in-Chief.

No, Mayor Pete, the deficit drops under Democratic presidents; it rises under Republicans. In fact, Obama nearly sank his presidency in his Geithner-induced obsession with austerity.

Adam H. Johnson tweets that Buttigieg “frames his billionaire donor suck up position on “deficits” (e.g. opening up space to gut Medicare and social security) as edgy truth telling.”

Dean Baker weighs in : “It would be great if a reporter would ask Buttigieg whether he is completely ignorant of the debates over deficit among progressives for the last dozen years or whether he is just saying this to curry favor with wealthy Wall Street types.”

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews progressives’ response to Buttigieg mouthing oligarchic cant.

Managerial competence is foregrounded; substance and issues come up short.

Both of them “will get things done,” they say.

But WHAT things??

and become Hitler & Mussolini & Stalin.

That’s the reason for his sudden attempt to mandate that Neo-classical be the sole architectural brand of his despotic reign.

Josh Marshall writes on his live-blog of the debates at Talking Points Memo:

“This David Muir guy really typifies the worst of how the big news organizations approach foreign affairs. Most of his questions have centered on goading people into saying they’d start more wars, kill more people. There’s more to our role in the world than macho test questions about whether you would have killed this person or attacked that country. And it’s not like I’m a big pacifist. But that’s a really skewed, warped way of looking at our role in the world.”

is that Trump will ratchet up his rampage on America on a daily basis until he is removed. It also looks like the current psychic break he seems to be going through will make his contending in the next election unviable. Perhaps the GOP will substitute Ivanka or Don, Jr.

We know, too, that the sniveling, equally traitorous cowards that make up the GOP caucus will be exposed for their collusion with this illegal regime in ever-more-damaging increments.

The insidious, vile liar Seema Verma took to the pages of the Post to lie about what she’s doing–in front of our eyes–to destroy Medicaid.

Verma’s been exposed, and she’s not happy about it, but why would the Post play along?

Of course Trump was sedated at the State of the Union.

Thank you, Speaker Pelosi for taking the gloves off.

At the Museum of Modern Art on February 25 at 7:30 p.m. Ben Maddow’s rarely-seen Love as Disorder will be seen.

Steve Willis and I will introduce the movie and talk a bit about Diana Sands, who co-stars with Viveca Lindfors, Lee Grant, Kevin McCarthy.

Robert Reich spells it out in the Guardian.