HUBRIS

Donald Trump doesn't think he needs to play by the same rules as everyone else. He doesn't think he needs the Republican party. He doesn't even think he needs Fox News. One way or another, at some point, he is headed for a historic meltdown. It will be fun to see

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-pulls-out-of-fox-news-debate
Trump Pulls Out Of Fox News Debate

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/26/here-are-the-megyn-kelly-questions-that-donald-trump-is-still-sore-about/
Here are the Megyn Kelly questions that Donald Trump is still sore about 

Smart move? Dumb move?

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10840002/donald-trump-debate 

They're begging him

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/fox-news-needs-show-some-spine
Trump source says Trump isn't taking Ailes calls. Hannity just tried calling trump as an emissary. Trump only wants to deal with Murdoch now . . . Trump's position now is he is chairman of his company and he will only deal with Murdoch at a chairman-to-chairman level

More: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/trump-debate-boycott-throws-fox-news-into-chaos.html 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/27/donald-trumps-statement-on-the-fox-news-debate-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed/
Donald Trump’s statement on the Fox News debate has to be seen to be believed

"You're a jerk!" "No, YOU'RE a jerk!" GOP politics descends to playground insults

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/donald-trump-ted-cruz-hes-liar-and-looks
Donald Trump On Ted Cruz 'He Looks Like A Jerk.'

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/trump-plays-nemesis-word-association-games.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/14/1469785/-Jeb-Bush-devotes-entire-ad-to-premise-that-Donald-Trump-is-a-jerk
Jeb! Bush devotes entire ad to premise that 'Donald Trump is a jerk'

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/26/donald_trump_is_a_delusional_narcissist_and_an_orange_faced_windbag_rand_paul_tells_wilmore_what_he_really_thinks/
“Donald Trump is a delusional narcissist and an orange-faced windbag”: Rand Paul tells Wilmore what he really thinks

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/chris-christie-scolds-young-nj-girl-you
Chris Christie Scolds Young NJ Girl: 'You Want Me To Go Down There With A Mop?'

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/most-disgusting-ad-of-season-so-far.html
Most disgusting ad of the season (so far)?

I know the GOP establishment is fretting over the pathetic state of the race. But who can they blame really? (someone grab a mirror)

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_01/the_insanity_started_a_long_ti059404.php
The Insanity Started a Long Time Ago

Heh heh: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0126-goldberg-conservative-crackup-20160126-column.html
This time, the conservative crackup is real 

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/27/the_gop_civil_war_burns_to_the_ground_partner/
GOP burns to the ground: Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and the self-immolation of the Republican establishment

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/republicans-point-fingers-who-let-trump-get-this-far-218260#ixzz3yRgXGy4m
With less than a week to go before Iowa, the GOP's blame game has already begun. 

Crazy land

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/paul-lepage-brings-up-guillotines.html
Maine governor Paul LePage, who earlier this month said that drug traffickers "by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" were impregnating "young, white girl[s] before they leave," said today that he thought drug dealers should face the death penalty, or at least very long prison sentences. . .“What we ought to do is bring the guillotine back. We could have public executions. . .” 

The Oregon standoff takes a violent turn

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/oregon-militant-leaders-arrested-one-dead.html
Oregon Militant Leaders Arrested, One Dead

Hillary still has email trouble

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/26/hillary-clinton-still-doesnt-have-a-good-answer-for-questions-about-her-emails/

It may be the right thing to do, but this is why Bernie CANNOT win in a general election. Sorry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/bernie-sanders-openly-admits-he-wants-to-raise-taxes/2016/01/26/0f0261a4-c465-11e5-b933-31c93021392a_video.html
Bernie Sanders openly admits he wants to raise taxes

More: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/27/bernie-sanders-isn-t-electable-and-here-s-why.html

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/26/i_have_had_it_with_naive_bernie_sanders_idealists/

For balance

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/27/robert_reich_bernie_is_our_only_hope_for_real_political_change_partner/
Robert Reich: Bernie is our only hope for real political change 

Remember: the Iowa primary isn't a vote. That could be trouble for Sanders

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/two-big-obstacles-to-a-sanders-win-in-iowa.html

Obama changes prison rules on solitary confinement. Here's why it matters

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/26/10834770/obama-solitary-confinement-changes

Obama also expands school lunches

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/27/obama-administration-announces-plans-to-increase-access-to-school-meal-programs/

If Clinton wins, a Supreme Court seat for Obama?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/26/could-obama-be-the-next-supreme-court-justice-hillary-clinton-is-intrigued/

Theocracy watch

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/federal-judge-orders-kentucky-subsidize
Federal Judge Orders Kentucky To Subsidize Creationist Theme Park

Bonus item: Colbert on the ultra-nice tone of the Democratic town hall

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/27/wow_stephen_colbert_is_so_over_the_democratic_primary_too/

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HEAD OR HEART?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/25/hillary-clintons-answer-to-democratic-voters-torn-between-their-head-and-heart/
Among Democrats in Iowa, the story is often the same: voters torn between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders say it's about their head battling their hearts. . . . 

More: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/democrats-make-final-jabs-in-awkward-town-hall.html
Democrats Make Final Jabs, Field Awkward Questions at Iowa Town Hall  

Obama offers a boost for Hillary

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10827378/obama-sanders-insult

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/01/25/make-no-mistake-obama-just-tried-to-undercut-bernie-sanders/

More: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10829662/obama-on-clinton-media

Next!

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/bernie-sanders-the-new-barack-obama.html
Is Bernie Sanders the New Barack Obama?

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/bernie_sanders_could_be_the_next_ronald_reagan/
Bernie Sanders could be the next Ronald Reagan

https://www.facebook.com/Vets4Sanders/videos/513112522172784/
Bernie Sanders could be the next FDR 

We had Paul Krugman's cautionary advice on supporting Bernie Sanders - here's Robert Reich's response

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/26/robert_reich_paul_krugman_just_doesnt_get_it_partner/
 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman yesterday warned Bernie supporters that change doesn’t happen with “transformative rhetoric” but with “political pragmatism” – “accepting half loaves as being better than none.” He writes that it’s dangerous to prefer “happy dreams (by which he means Bernie) to hard thinking about means and ends (meaning Hillary).”  Krugman doesn’t get it. . . .

Something has changed. Something bad

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/17/this-is-your-brain-on-this-election.html
The word “kill” was said 53 times in the Dec. 15, 2015, Republican presidential primary debate.  . . . By contrast, the word “kill” was never used in the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate, despite the era’s dire threat of global nuclear annihilation. The “K” word was not spoken by any of 2000’s Republican candidates—George W. Bush, Alan Keys, or John McCain—in their final debate on March 2 of that year; nor was it uttered in the Jan. 30, 2008, final GOP debate among candidates Huckabee, McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney.

More: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10828770/trump-terrorist-family-appeal
Donald Trump said he'd kill terrorists' families at a rally. His crowd went wild.

"The Ever-So-Simple World of Donald Trump"

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/quote-day-simple-ever-so-simple-world-donald-trump 

There's just one eeny little problem with Ted Cruz

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/how-big-dick-ted-cruz-quiz
I have focused most of my campaign reporting energy on making the case against Donald Trump. But there are other candidates out there who are plenty loathsome in their own way, and when you say the word "loathsome" Ted Cruz comes immediately to mind. . . . Tim Murphy and David Corn make the case that Ted is really one of the all-time huge pricks. . . .

More: http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/ted_cruz_has_always_been_a_jerk_four_reasons_why_even_the_george_w_bush_team_hated_him/
Ted Cruz has always been a jerk: Four reasons why even the George W. Bush team hated him  

Heh heh heh

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/us/politics/ted-cruz-donald-trump-republican-establishment.html
As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Soar, G.O.P. Leaders’ Exasperation Grows
  
In 2002 the Bush gang had a report throwing doubts on their WMD intelligence. Guess what?

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/iraq-war-wmds-donald-rumsfeld-new-report-213530 

The Planned Parenthood video was supposed to ruin the organization. Looks like it's ruining the ones who made it instead

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/01/filmmakers-indicted-for-planned-parenthood-video.html#

More: http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/planned_parenthood_hoax_officially_blows_up_texas_grand_jury_decides_to_indict_video_creators_instead/
 

Bonus item: I'll bet you can guess

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/25/researchers-have-discovered-a-major-problem-with-the-little-mermaid-and-other-disney-movies/

Researchers have found a major problem with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other Disney movies

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HOBBESIAN CHOICE

So this is the state of the GOP race today. Party leaders are trying to decide which of the two front runners they find least repugnant

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/its-come-down-merely-awful-versus-truly

http://prospect.org/article/what-happened-battle-soul-republican-party

Trump tries to paint himself as the Great Uniter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/guess-which-divisive-republican-is-now-campaigning-as-a-political-uniter/2016/01/24/381e4e5c-c124-11e5-9443-7074c3645405_story.html
I think I’ll get along great with a lot of people,” Trump told a crowd of 1,500 at a Christian college in northwest Iowa. “Before I was doing this, I got along with the Democrats, with the Republicans, with the liberals, with the conservatives. I get along with people.” . . .

[NB: "Before I was doing this. . ."]

More: http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/trump-blacks-will-me-better-obama
Trump: Blacks Will Like Me Better Than Obama

Ted appeals to his "friends" to attack his "friend" Donald Trump

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lol--5

Everybody hates Ted: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/some-scary-stats.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/cruz-claims-trump-is-part-of-the-establishment.html

Just remember

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/25/iowa-and-new-hampshire-where-winners-lose-and-losers-win/
Iowa and New Hampshire: Where winners lose, and losers win

The race for . . . . third

Rubio: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/us/politics/a-resurgent-marco-rubio-sprints-to-the-finish-in-iowa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
 
Bush: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/us/politics/jeb-bush-on-the-stump-sounds-different-from-the-tv-version.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 

Obama on the state of the GOP

https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/25/obama-calls-gop-vision-unrecognizable/
President Obama told Politico that voters this year would have to judge “the degree to which the Republican rhetoric and Republican vision has moved, not just to the right, but has moved to a place that is unrecognizable.”

This is a particular interest of mine: academic psychologists were essential to the development and implementation of the "enhanced interrogation" program under Bush/Cheney. After a long debate, the APA concluded this was a violation of professional ethics. Now the Pentagon wants that reconsidered

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/us/politics/pentagon-wants-psychologists-to-end-ban-on-interrogation-role.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Bonus item: This is the time of the campaign when all the candidates want to talk about "change" (yes, Obama too). Here's why that never works

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BANG! BANG!

Yes, he said it

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/23/10820850/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-voters
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?" Trump bragged. "It's, like, incredible." [watch]

More: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/23/1474259/-Donald-Trump-knows-his-base-Says-I-could-stand-in-the-middle-of-5th-Avenue-and-shoot-people
Which says a lot about the people who support him and today’s Republican Party.

This reminds me of these clips from "Last Action Hero", in which a movie villain transfers over into the real world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIwH-OZ0I8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZc1W_--Vps

The anti-Trump movement gets serious. Is it too late?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/gunning-for-trump-from-all-sides.html

More: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-movements-trump-dossier.html

Big Phony

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/liar-liar-ergo-pants-on-fire
I was an early adopter to the belief that Ted Cruz is an odious weasel. But I did not make him out for a bald-faced liar . . .

Sarah!s weird, wild journey

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/23/the-brief-rise-and-lengthy-fall-of-sarah-palin/

Listen to her non-resignation resignation speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBDm6xo4QUw

The BEST thing about the return of Sarah! is that it provides an opportunity for the return of Tina Fey doing Sarah!

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/24/10821774/saturday-night-live-tina-fey-sarah-palin-trump

Paul Krugman on the choice we face

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/opinion/how-change-happens.html
There’s a sort of mini-dispute among Democrats over who can claim to be Mr. Obama’s true heir — Mr. Sanders or Mrs. Clinton? But the answer is obvious: Mr. Sanders is the heir to candidate Obama, but Mrs. Clinton is the heir to President Obama. (In fact, the health reform we got was basically her proposal, not his.)  

Could Mr. Obama have been more transformational? Maybe he could have done more at the margins. But the truth is that he was elected under the most favorable circumstances possible, a financial crisis that utterly discredited his predecessor — and still faced scorched-earth opposition from Day 1.  

And the question Sanders supporters should ask is, When has their theory of change ever worked? Even F.D.R., who rode the depths of the Great Depression to a huge majority, had to be politically pragmatic, working not just with special interest groups but also with Southern racists. . .   

Just to be clear: I’m not saying that someone like Mr. Sanders is unelectable, although Republican operatives would evidently rather face him than Mrs. Clinton — they know that his current polling is meaningless, because he has never yet faced their attack machine. But even if he was to become president, he would end up facing the same harsh realities that constrained Mr. Obama.  

The point is that while idealism is fine and essential — you have to dream of a better world — it’s not a virtue unless it goes along with hardheaded realism about the means that might achieve your ends. That’s true even when, like F.D.R., you ride a political tidal wave into office. It’s even more true for a modern Democrat, who will be lucky if his or her party controls even one house of Congress at any point this decade. . . [read on]

The Sunday talk show line-ups

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/24/1473736/-Sunday-Talk-Event-horizon
NBC Meet The Press: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R).

CBS Face The Nation: Raging Narcissist Donald Trump (R); Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Roundtable: Matt Lewis (Daily Caller), Ruth Marcus (Washington Post), Ed O'Keefe (Washington Post) and Nancy Cordes (CBS News).

ABC This Week: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); Former Florida Gov. Jeb! (R); Rich Lowry (National Review); Republican Strategist Alex Castellanos; Roundtable: Republican Pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, Georgetown Prof. Michael Eric Dyson, Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) and Steve Inskeep (NPR).

CNN State of the Union: Former Florida Gov. Jeb! (R); New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R).

Bonus item: Well, here's SOMEONE who doesn't mind the huge snowfall in Washington DC

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/panda-bear-frolics-snow-smithsonians-national-zoo-36469511

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REMEMBER: FRANKENSTEIN WASN'T THE MONSTER

Why the National Review decided to attack Trump

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10815092/trump-national-review

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/22/the-story-behind-the-national-reviews-big-anti-donald-trump-issue/

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-counter-attack-lol.html

Some problems with this decision: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10814210/national-review-trump-white-working-class
It doesn’t argue that some other candidate is going to do a better job of addressing white working-class concerns about their relative decline in the 21st-century United States of America. Nor does it argue that the GOP has some other path to victory that doesn’t involve increasing its appeal to Trump’s grievance constituency.  This is the box the Republican Party has been in since the summer of 2015. . .  [read on]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/look-at-what-youve-done.html
Most Trump supporters are the white, non-college educated Republicans who really don't give a damn about civility. They want someone who will kick ass and take names. I guess these nice Republicans don't know any of those folks.  But can I just take a moment to ask where these people have been all these years as the right wing media turned into a cesspool of disgusting insults? It's not as if Trump just created this phenomenon . . . [read on]

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/01/i-review-nrs-against-trump-issue
But why was it so damn lazy? Every editor in the world knows that the easiest way to fill pages is to corral a bunch of writers from the ol' office Rolodex and ask them each to write 300 words on some topic. Every editor also knows that unless there's some serious adult supervision, these "symposiums" are usually flaccid and unpersuasive. . . .

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/22/conservatives_in_a_meltdown_national_reviews_confused_against_trump_issue_is_an_amazing_testament_to_the_rights_implosion/
Conservatives in a meltdown: National Review’s confused “Against Trump” issue is an amazing testament to the right’s implosion 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/22/its-official-trump-doesnt-go-far-enough-leading-republicans-argue/
Top Republicans say Donald Trump’s real problem is that he’s too moderate

And, now, the backlash

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10814046/donald-trump-national-review-response
Trump Tweet: National Review is a failing publication that has lost it's way. It's circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad! [read on]

Trump is winning this fight: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/01/22/the-gop-establishment-capitulates-to-donald-trump/

Oh, this could be fun

https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/22/clinton-library-to-release-trump-documents/
“The Clinton Presidential Library plans to release later this year a trove of records relating to Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and his business,” the Wall Street Journal reports.  “The documents, which must be released in early April unless the White House or Mr. Clinton’s office request an extension or claim executive privilege, could prompt further criticism from Republicans that Mr. Trump’s relationship with the Clintons in the decades before his presidential campaign was inappropriately cozy.”

It's why we call him the Big Phony

Yesterday: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/ted-cruz-no-health-insurance-218070
Cruz reveals he doesn't have health insurance

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/ted-cruz-is-uninsured-blames-obamacare.html
Ted Cruz doesn’t have health insurance, and to hear him tell it, it’s all because of Obamacare. . . .

Today: https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/22/ted-cruz-never-lost-his-health-insurance/
Sen. Ted Cruz has health insurance, and he had it all along, his campaign admitted to the Wall Street Journal, reversing what the presidential candidate said a day earlier. . . 

Theocracy watch

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/22/1473694/-Ted-Cruz-I-m-a-Christian-first-American-second-Imagine-if-Muslim-or-Jewish-politician-said-that
Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Christian first, American second.' Imagine if Muslim or Jewish politician said that

Lindsey has a sad

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/lindsey-graham-ted-cruz-or-donald-trump
Lindsey Graham: Ted Cruz Or Donald Trump Will Mean 'Death To The Party' 

"Mom - help!"

https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/22/new-bush-ad-features-his-mother/
New Bush Ad Features His Mother 

Bernie may do well in Iowa and New Hampshire -- but these states are lousy models for the national Democratic constituency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/01/22/why-african-american-voters-may-doom-bernie-sanders-candidacy/
Why African-American voters may doom Bernie Sanders’ candidacy

By the way: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10814798/bernie-sanders-tax-rates
Here's what the tax code would look like if Bernie Sanders got everything he wanted

Or . . . 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/22/a-new-poll-in-iowa-shows-clinton-up-big-which-is-why-you-should-be-cautious-with-polls/
A new poll in Iowa shows Clinton up big — which is why you should be cautious with polls

More: https://politicalwire.com/2016/01/22/omalley-supporters-could-decide-iowa/
O’Malley Supporters Could Decide Iowa 

Myths about the independent voter

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10814522/independents-voters-facts-myths

Is Roe v. Wade endangered?

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/22/10815708/roe-v-wade-supreme-court-weakened-abortion

http://crooksandliars.com/2016/01/will-roe-v-wade-make-it-through-another

http://prospect.org/article/anniversary-roe-v-wade-right-under-threat  

Good news/bad news

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/01/tsa-finds-record-number-of-guns-at-checkpoints.html
TSA Finds Record Number of Guns at Airport Checkpoints

Bonus item: The loop

https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/689943061456035840 
“Politics: Trump used to back Hillary, who endorsed Gore, who ran with Lieberman, who endorsed McCain, who picked Palin, who endorsed Trump.”  

        – Tweet by the New York Times‘ Nick Confessore

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