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it would have insisted that Bolton testify before the House and, failing that, insisted he give a press conference right now to clarify what he knows.

Saving it for the book pub reminds us of what’s really important.

The dilapidated corporate Democratic establishment is willing to drive home Trump’s re-election to ensure–so they mistakenly believe–that their own policy navigation is not challenged.

— Reinstating super delegates to subvert the will of the voters.

— Kowtowing to Bloomberg (will be interesting and instructive, however, to see how he defends his record on the debate stage).

–Claiming that policies favored by overwhelming majorities of Americans are radical and finge.

“Trump should be the most defeatable president in history,” Ralph Nader notes at Common Dreams, but the Democratic ruling class is not going to stand for it.

Nader writes: “The leadership of establishment Democrats has led to the loss of too many national and state elections to the worst Republican Party in the GOP’s history. It is time for these Democrats to shape up or ship out.”

I’ve got news for you, Corporate Democratic Establishment:
Keep this shit up and you will be consigned to the dustbin of history that much more rapidly.

Lying, crimeing, selling out their country?

And then, of course, never taking any personal responsibility–everyone else is to blame.

What kind of example do GOP parents think they’re setting?

Loss of faith in public institutions helped make possible the descent of Rome into empire and the rise of the Nazis.

Roberts is an activist and an ideologue. He has presided over a sham impeachment proceeding.

“Their party’s last vestiges of legitimacy are gone, and they know it,” Amanda Marcotte writes in Salon. “In fact, they’re voting on it in the Senate sometime on Friday.”

After confronting VP Pence over the Republicans’s immoral assault on Medicaid, Dr. Rob Davidson tweets that Pence: “either doesn’t understand, or doesn’t care about the impact of his administration’s policies on patients everywhere. I confronted him about his damaging healthcare cuts because for me it’s not about politics, it’s about saving lives. When I told him he is putting my patients’ lives at risk, the vice president deflected and denied knowledge of the policy.”

Chief Injustice thinks he can somehow ensure an exalted legacy that pays no attention to how he’s actually behaved.

Sen. Warren reminded him on Thursday that he cannot.

And Orwellian rhetoric abounds:

The only “flexibility” freed up by letting states opt out of responsive funding is the flexibility to deny health care to vulnerable Americans.

Why does parasite Seema Verma, head of the now perversely named Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, still have a job paid for by us after repeatedly being found
guilty of conflicts of interest and misuse of public funds?

And speaking of parasites:

VP Pence, who inflicted Verma on the federal government, is a religious hypocrite and pharisee whose behavior in no way conforms to Christian doctrine.

Rep. Pascarel twets: “Trump wants to destroy Medicaid while claiming to save it. This fiendish scheme is an Orwellian fable conjured up by the most shameless pack of liars to ever occupy our government. Never forget Republicans’ goal is to steal healthcare from as many Americans as they can.”

Recently I attended a joyous concert by chamber music group Frisson, performing a repertory ranging from pop to Baroque.

Demand Justice tweets that Roberts is “helping Republicans break the rules and cover for Trump.”

The corporate media feeds us a lot of hogwash about how deeply Chief Injustice Roberts thinks about his legacy and preserving the institutional reputation of the Supreme Court.

Earth to Roberts: You have sullied your reputation and the Court’s by leading one of the most activist, anti-democracy courts in the nation’s history.

Now Roberts sits on his hands at the impeachment trial and enables the GOP’s coverup and sabotage.