tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post7351260601929716575..comments2024-03-27T18:00:02.032-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Bitter Little Blue PillsKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-34037738387695287382018-11-08T12:59:06.565-05:002018-11-08T12:59:06.565-05:00Jay,
With her age and cracked ribs, Ginsberg is n...Jay,<br /><br />With her age and cracked ribs, Ginsberg is now at high risk for a fatal pneumonia. Of course, she also beat pancreatic cancer, so hopefully she will recover from this too. A busted hip might have been even worse. I wonder if Brett Kavanaugh's foot was in the vicinity when she tripped and fell. Karen Garciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-9941332708645995152018-11-08T11:19:50.060-05:002018-11-08T11:19:50.060-05:00Yesterday Ginsberg fell in her office, cracked thr...Yesterday Ginsberg fell in her office, cracked three ribs and ended up in the hospital. In the days ahead, every breath she takes will be painful. She's 85, twenty years overdue for retirement. Talk about heroism. I doubt she can (or should) hang on until 2020 in the increasingly unlikelihood the Democrats oust Trump from the White House. Make way for Kavanaugh II.Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-40347325827789852122018-11-08T00:43:52.113-05:002018-11-08T00:43:52.113-05:00I grew up on the Illinois-Wisconsin border in the ...I grew up on the Illinois-Wisconsin border in the 1970s and 80s, and the very idea that someone like Walker could ever win in a state that was always much more progressive than Illinois would have been thought preposterous. I gather the voters there just finally got tired of his act, but I doubt it means the Dems can take the state for granted again in 2020 like they stupidly did in 2016.<br /><br />Pelosi back as Speaker is great for Trump. She is almost as unpopular as he is, and since he governs mostly via Executive Order the HofR is largely irrelevant anyway since they will no doubt give him every penny of Pentagon war spending that he wants and even more as they have been doing. No doubt what Trump really wanted he got--control of the Senate remains in his tiny hands, and even expanded slightly with three new hard core loyalists who owe political allegiance directly to him. That means he is not only impeachment proof, he can get just about any nominee, including replacements for Ginsberg and Beyer if it comes to that, approved easily. <br /><br />@Erik--I don't think Trump's "celebration" of the election results was posturing. He won where it really matters, and he did far better than Obama did in 2010 & 2014 when the Democrats got clobbered. Pelosi and her merry band of ancient neoliberals are nothing more to him than a minor annoyance.Karl Kolchaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-81471827341972425202018-11-07T18:51:24.059-05:002018-11-07T18:51:24.059-05:00Karen and Jay express my sense and sentiments exac...<br />Karen and Jay express my sense and sentiments exactly.<br />For what it's worth, here's what Frank Rich has to say: <br /><br />"Trump Won’t Change Course — He Thinks He Won"<br />http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/frank-rich-trump-wont-change-course-he-thinks-he-won.html<br /><br />Like most Democrats and those supporting the duopolist status quo, Rich recognizes that Congress won’t do its duty, and so puts his hope in Robert Mueller saving the day.<br />I hate to say it, but the fairest Mueller has taken the day off.<br />Erik Rothnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-67722215323475307152018-11-07T11:40:03.971-05:002018-11-07T11:40:03.971-05:00Times opinionator David Leonhardt's headline t...Times opinionator David Leonhardt's headline this morning: "A Smashing National Win."<br /><br />Huh?<br /><br />The Blue Wave he's applauding turns out to be little more than a few more trickles of identity politics. Break out the rainbow flags. Yeah, thank God for the women: the youngest woman ever in the House, then the first native Americans, then the first Muslim women, and still more LGBTs in the House. WOW. Everything but the powers that used to be. The House belongs (barely) to the Democrats once again (hooray), but under the same old DNC management (sigh). The bankers, CEOs and generals can sleep easy tonight. Our glorious newbies will conform or they and their progressive ideas will be buried in subcommittees that never meet.<br /><br />Real power remains pretty much, if not more so, in the same old Republican heavy and Republican light (aka Democrats) hands everywhere in Washington and nationally, that is, in the hands of Big Money. <br /><br />A knockdown in the House, true. But no knockout. Now check the tally for governors and senators and despair. A mixed bag when it comes to state referendums. Trump should be smiling through his tweets this morning. If I were scoring yesterday's fight, I'd give it to the Republicans on points.<br /><br />Republicans increased their "advise and consent" margin in the Senate. They might have an opportunity before 2020 to bless the appointment of another Trump Justice. <br /><br />The House is no more than Republican light. It won't tackle the real issues; members' new headline grabber will be the subpeona game and hearings out to "Get Donny." When the House and Senate block, stalemate or neuter each other, the imperial White House will carry on with executive orders, and the bureaucracy will continue to do––or undo––as Trump's commissars decree.<br /><br />O the brave talk heard at so many Democratic election parties last night. The blue balloon is half full; the blue balloon is half empty. Remember Karen's prophetic headline of 10 October about the Great Blue Wave: "Get Ready For the Great Blue Ripple."<br />Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.com