Lobenthal.com

No, they don’t want the interpreter subpoena-ed so we can find out what really went on at the summit.

No, they won’t spend any money to protect our elections.

Quite a day on the Hill.

Perhaps during Putin’s visit this fall he can stump for the GOP ahead of the midterms.

Now, will that get you out on the campaign trail, Michelle?

(An admirer of the Obamas said to me that my approach is all wrong: I should be saying, “Michelle, we need you!”)

Master Mitch finally had to pull a judicial nominee, did I read that right?

The next one needs be Kavanaugh.

Politco’s report on how the First Lady is planning on being real toe-in-the-sand when it comes to getting out on the stump this fall makes one wonder.

If she tries to play coy, she will be permanently tarnishing her legacy and reputation.

Michelle, I don’t care what your publisher, editor, personal and/or book publicists are telling you.

I MEAN,

Did Tallulah not campaign for Adlai in 1952 just because her memoirs were coming out?

No wonder Sen. McConnell is panicking.

He’s got a treasonous president to cover up for, he’s got his own record of treason to wriggle out of, and he’s got Brett Kavanaugh caught on tape at the American Enterprise Institute telling us just exactly why Trump picked him.

GET OUT OF JAIL BIGLY!

Apparently in this country foreign agents are allowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will innoculate them against he rule of law.

I called her on Tuesday, wishing her happy birthday a date late.  She said she was opening cards, surprised at who had remembered. “You’ve made a big impression on people,” I reminded her.

America has been deliberately dumbed-down, and that’s what has made Trump possible and made his cult so susceptible to misinformation and manipulation.

Bill C. Davis writes at Common Dreams:

“Poor education, a pervasive vapid culture and a constant massage of the collective lower instincts has spawned a juicy target for whoever or whatever want to bring the classic columns down. A large part of the body politic has been depleted of immunity. It can’t resist.”

Day after day after day.

That’s why President Obama should have said in 2016 when Sen. McConnell put the screws to him, threatening to cry “Partisanship!” should Obama tell the  country what the Russians were doing to ensure Trump’s victory.

Then Obama should have gone straight into the press room, called an impromptu press conference, and spilled the beans–not sparing McConnell as well.

In her 1901 memoirs, Life on the Stage, Clara Morris describes backstage as “a strange place, where nothing is and everything may be.”