I don’t mean to add another obituary of John McCain, but only a footnote about an aspect of McCain’s background, character, and politics that the obituaries I’ve read has ignored. McCain was a member of America’s upper class and had the sensibility of a certain wing of that upper class. That’s important to understanding his contribution to American politics and his contempt for Donald Trump.
We are now just 20 sign ups shy of our goal of signing up 800 1000 new Prime members. That’s a big way towards our goal of 1000 during the first week of the drive. You can have the glory of being one of those 20! Just click right here.
This is a little embarrassing. I meant 800, not 1000. 1000 is our goal by the end of this weekend. And I just switched the two in my head. Anyway, 800 is also awesome! It gets us pretty close to 1000!!! Let’s do this!
I want to return to a point I made indirectly yesterday. I want to make it more directly. We’re heading toward a genuine constitutional crisis with the President. “Constitutional crisis” is sort of a meaningless word. But let me try to give it more specific meaning: a threat to the rule of law and adherence to the constitution which the constitution itself does not provide a ready solution to, not under present political circumstances. Read More
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Here’s an emblematic story of the Trump Era, not simply because of the shameless behavior but the telling eagerness to claim victimhood over your own shameless behavior. Meet Omar Navarro, a diehard Trumper who is waging a presumably hopeless campaign to unseat Rep. Maxine Waters in California’s 43rd congressional district. His supporters range from far-right to alt-right. Read More
Our Prime sign-up drive is a critical part of the site’s future. So I wanted to give you a quick update. Since we kicked off last week 723 new members have joined Prime. We need to get to 1000 new members by the close of this week. There are a lot of readers who want to join, plan to join, are open to joining but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I meet you on the street. I get your emails. We’ve talked about it. I need you to just take the step, take out the wallet say ‘Okay, lemme just do this’ and then it’s just done. All our current and future plans depend on. Ready? Just click right here.
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Don’t forget the big picture. President Trump has bullied GOP senators about Sessions long enough that now they’re publicly signaling it’s okay if President Trump fires him. If Sessions is replaced it will presumably be someone who doesn’t need to recuse themselves from the Russia probe. So it takes Rosenstein out of the mix or at least would allow him to be taken out of the mix. Read More
I wanted to give you a brief update on our new front page system. Join me after the jump. Read More
Basking in the morning-after glow of his victory, Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee goes on Fox and warns voters not to “monkey this up” by voting for his African American opponent. Watch.
Fascinating story out from the Times yesterday.
Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA case officer who is running against Republican Dave Bratt in Virginia’s 7th District. That’s normally a fairly Republican district. But it’s currently rated a tie. Spanberger recently learned that the Congressional Leadership Fund, an outside group tied to Speaker Ryan had a copy of her SF-86, the highly detailed disclosure form you fill out to get a security clearance. The CLF said they got it from America Rising, another GOP outside group which focuses on oppo research. They said they got it through a FOIA request. Read More