Todd

Opinion | James Carville: It’s Time for a Daring Political Maneuver, Democrats There’s nothing Democrats can legitimately do to stop Trump, so we need a tactical pause in our fight to plan for the future.

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“It’s the economy, stupid.
Change vs. more of the same.
Don’t forget health care.”

The right message in 1992. The right message today.

I really do miss the era of Rather, Brokaw, and Jennings during which I grew up. We were better informed. They were better reporters. Russert, Brinkley, Shieffer: the Sunday News shows meant something.

Watch the film “Network.” It was like a crystal ball into the news media of today.

I live in North Dakota. The shot in the arm one gets from the first day each year the temperature rises above 40F is quite lovely.

There is no use for White House press briefings anymore save for sound bite grandstanding. This is not a new development.

Mitch McConnell reminds me of my one elementary school teacher who was really mean when I was a kid then turned nice in older age presumably to smooth their odds of getting into heaven.

Next, Gov, turn your focused eye on the physics of boot lifts.

The sooner EM and co. fall out of the president’s favor the better. Even the great and powerful EM eventually offers diminishing returns.

Adam’s set to celebrate with, let’s see, a vacay in Türkiye!

We mustn’t fool ourselves, the president’s actions and agenda are broadly popular in the country right now, and any successful opposition must start from this fact. “They’re all idiots” may be a satisfying brush off, and in some cases, true, but it also ultimately of limited utility.

Hey, ya gotta sweat out the hangover somehow.

He’ll fit in perfectly.

Funny. Neither do we.

Take it from an American. Giving in to the right wing like this gets you nothing. Concessions do you no good. I thought Starmer more astute than that. Garage would take the US since DT for use as a template for Britain.

They wouldn’t question it for a second.

He can’t manage his ketamine dosing, so, yeah, no.

Whoa, pal. Not so fast. You must be woke DEI-fied.

(I’m pretty sure that’s something the red hats would actually write.)

You’re suggesting this wasn’t carefully thought through?

He musta been a Dem during the “breastgate” era.

Ah, so this “legitimate executive power” is going to mean illegal barnstorming and wholesale implosion of federal agencies. I don’t think threading that needle will be as clean as ol’ JD thinks. But this wasn’t a musing, it’s direct threat to judicial review.

Which was probably the idea.

This is what we need to be doing. Bravo!

When even the National Socialists worry you’re a little too eager …

As surprising as the sky being blue …

Yes, though my masochistic side kinda misses being called “mother fucker” with some frequency on Twitter.

I don’t mind rocking the damn boat, but have always tried to remember to check first if the boat needs to be rocked.

To Democrats in Congress I’d offer this: less posting on the interweb and sending fundraising texts and yapping and more doing something substantive.

Then do something, Senator.

They had four years’ practice and since Election Day to have their shit together. And this is what we get. Pathetic.

Hey they’re sending really angsty tweets, though, so …