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Our First Couple were able to bask in their moral superiority as the GOP opposition became more and more lawless and extreme–and more and more lawless and extreme.

Seth Abramson tweets: “Trump is systematically obstructing justice and tampering with witnesses—in public. No one stops him, He is destroying—one by one—each public servant who knows what he did. Every day he carefully he lays the groundwork for putting himself above the law and saying he had to do it.”

The FBI is now a captive operation, hijacked by Trump. The FBI overruled in its own internal recommendations in order to carry out Trump’s instructions and fire Srzok.

But I’m just now watching A Hard Day’s Night in its entirety for the very first time.

I do remember my parents seeing it when it first came out in New York. They liked it so much they bought the soundtrack on the way home.

It’s aged very well!

Still no Twitter response from them to the outrageous firing of Strzok.

Someone has to pull this party together–perhaps Michael Avenatti can.

with the firing of Peter Strzok. Strzok’s crime is not supporting Trump for President. That is now a capital offense in our country.

The FBI Deputy Director is working as slugging arm for Trump.

Anyone concerned?

If the Dems don’t start getting militant, I mean, what is the point?

America under Trump is “rolling over in its grave prematurely,” says a friend.

of the fog and smoke machines operated by De Blasio, his kennel of poodles we call the City Council, and, of course, villainess Councilwoman Rivera.

Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, sent out an email deconstructing one-by-one the sleight-of-hand “protections,” Rivera claims justified her 180 turnaround on Tech Hub.

Impact of each of the “protections”?

“Little to none,” Berman evaluates.

It’s intended as a check, a counterweight on the Mayor.

Instead, as with Bloomberg, De Blasio’s City Council is a rubber stamp for one after another of the Mayor’s real estate scams.

To wit, this year alone: East Midtown, Tech Hub, Inwood.

And each time, a number of community amenities are used as a Trojan horse to secure opportunities for massive new overdevelopment.

We vote e for these people?

You cannot call yourself a progressive and be a patsy of the NYC real estate industry, voting for a neighborhood-destroying boondoggle like the Tech Hub rezoning.

And Congresswoman Rivera, the few tepid, toothless pseudo-protections you claim to have wrested from the Mayor after bending over for his latest real estate scam are basically worthless. You are not off the hook.

Democrats are really, really good at losing. In fact, they’ve made a specialty of it.

True to form, Nancy Pelosi goes to the sham Peterson Foundation and jaw-jaws, validating their obsession with cutting Social Security.

The “pay-go” rule she keeps espousing is a way to straitjacket government, thus ensuring the Dems keep accomplishing very little.

As Richard Eskow explains at Crooks and Liars:

“The Democratic Party’s fixation on ‘paying for’ every new initiative may have been its greatest blunder of the last thirty years. It has prevented the party from embracing the kind of bold initiatives that could have won it broader support. They include Medicare for All, tuition-free higher education and the cancellation of student debt, major infrastructure spending, and a federally-guaranteed job for every American.”

If, despite Pelosi’s best efforts, the Dems do somehow manage to retake the House, they will enjoy a fiasco comparable to Pelosi’s four years as Speaker, which saw the Democrats tailspin from super majorities to minority status.

UNLESS

Bogus, superannuated hooey like “pay-go” is finally corked and thrown overboard.