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Nice column yesterday in NY Times about the Pygmalion Project that Donald Trump with Paul Manafort playing Henry Higgins.
I'm a Clintonista (big surprise there) and plan to vote for her in November. I hope other people do but I can't force them to vote for her. Some of the disgruntled Sanders' people may sit this one out, or may vote for Jill Stein or write in Bernie's name. That's their right.
However should Trump win, it may not be the worst thing that could happen. First, Paul Manafort is letting the cat out of the bag: much of Donald's act has been little more than an act. (Some of the Trumpkins may be in for a big disappointment if he should win. But that's their problem, not mine.)
Second, as a gay man I have watched the GOP become more and more homophobic over the last 40 years starting with Ronald Reagan's malevolent neglect in 1980's to Ted Cruz' out-and-out schmoozing of gay bashers. Trump may be a lot of things but he's also the most pro-LGBT Republican candidate since Gerald Ford in 1976. If he should win, he may reset the GOP's fetish for gay-bashing as an electoral strategy.
If you're given lemons, make lemonade…..
Frank Underwood is gay? Have you told Claire?![smiley smiley](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png)
Has Kevin Spacey?
Did you miss the episode where Claire and I had a three-way with the hot Secret Service agent?![smiley smiley](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png)
IO didn't see it. But the very notion of a secret service agent engaging in sexual misconduct is utterly absurd!
No more absurd than the two murders Spacey's character committed in seasons one and two?
It was the second murder that made my wife and me quit watching. It was just a stiff too far.
Is the opposite of "disgruntled" gruntled?![cool cool](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/shades_smile.png)
Bernie last night – this is good for the Democratic Party as markos sez:
Fine-tuning a rigged system is not the right thing to do, it's the DLC/Blue Dog/Third Way/Neolib thing to do. (Boy am I going to keep that Udall/Bennet/Blue Dog link alive forever……if Colorado Independent goes under, I'm buying the domain.)
Voters in this election are not looking at fine-tuning the Pro-Corporate, Anti-Middle-Class, Free-Market, Aged-Infrastructured Democracy that snuck up on us since Saint Ronald came into office.(Saint Ronald was never wrong, despite what Tea Partiers today would consider as disqualifying actions.)
Triangulation as a political strategy should be banished forever. Being bipartisan with a bunch of Radical, Know-Nothing, Obstructionists does not advance your cause. Having the campaign cash but not the ideas is a formula for losing elections.
Even Markos:, who wanted this over months ago, knows that a Hillary win would be empty without the necessary work of (jeez this sounds so trite now) uniting the Democratic Party with fresh blood and new (old) ideas so that it's not a less bad version of the Republican Party.
Word.
Along those lines….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-campaign_us_572040d9e4b0b49df6a9a84f
gruntled is a back formation from disgruntled
Without a "gruntle" how can you "dis" gruntle?
exactly.
perhaps a gruntle is one of those three images you posted just above….here is another![heart heart](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/heart.png)
Absolutely is, Zap. I once did an editorial demanding equal time for gruntled. The OED talks about "gruntling the cat." Equally ignored is ruth. You got ruth or are you ruthless?
I think I would rather be gruntled than ruth, if I had to make a choice.
We use ruth. It's a perfectly good word. It means compassion.
How about feck, skinny one? Do you have lots of feck or are you feckless? Gruntled, ruthful minds want to know!
Skinny is definitely well-fecked, I think.
Here you guys go….
Can see how feckless is kind of useless and worthless.
Job…….#2 – winning back the US Senate:
The DSCC seems to be in the same mode as the D-Trip(le C): every centrist is supported over anyone further left, and national party needs trump local voter wishes.
Winning the presidency without winning the senate will give us 4 more years of deadlock and will give the powers-that-be more time to get more power. Obama and Schumer and Obama got their candidates, but what else have they got?
As you know, it's about the head count, Zap. That's what you need to get leadership, control of the committees and the legislative agenda. You can't get that by only supporting pure candidates and since the "terrible" ones like the evil incarnate (eye roll…why isn't there a smiley for that?) Bennet actually supports the most pure over 90% of the time it gets us way more than it loses us to support them. And take heart. The Bernie movement is far from dead. I'm convinced that, because of the Bernistas, as annoying as you sometimes are (
), established Dems will be giving progressives more of what we want. So let's get as many warm Dem bodies elected as we can, shall we?
McGinty's win in PA last night puts a lot on her shoulders. The DSCC has placed a lot of confidence in a candidate without even a near-winning record in elections. On the other hand, Sestak scared the crap out of the DSCC, who needs PA-Sen to be a winner this year. Sestak was widely considered to be uncontrolled, unpredictable, and unwilling to even listen to advice. McGinty certainly won't be those things, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.
FWIW, I don't think we get someone more moderate in McGinty – just someone who gives the folks trying to regain a majority less heartburn.
By agreeing to be named as Ted Cruz's Vice Presidential selection, Carly Fiorina sends a loud-and-clear message to the entire world that she has absolutely no interest whatsoever in a Vice Presidency …
Is THAT what his big announcement is supposed to be?
I think it would be better if he offered it to Marla Maples. Ivana would be his best choice, but do they really want two foreigner-born candidates on the ticket…..
Sorry Republican polsters. Time to accept that Trump is what your fellow Republicans want. It's not just an energized minority. What you saw yesterday, was what the 21st century rank and file GOP has become. Well over half in three way races. Condolences to CHB. You're welcome to come over to the Dem side any time. We don't have the conservative voodoo economics you're so fond of but other than that, we've got lots more stuff you like.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/27/reality-check-republican-voters-want-donald-trump-as-their-presidential-nominee/
We also have the hottest guys and the smartest women.![smiley smiley](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/regular_smile.png)
Hot and smart aren't mutually exclusive.![devil devil](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.png)
You demonstrate that point superbly, my dear.
You two forgot to mention, we have chocolate.![laugh laugh](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.5.8/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.png)
What is happening with Wayne William's certifications for the 2 remaining GOP petitioners?
Friday is very close.
Hey, aren't these the folks who sued us because we were ruining their state with weed?
Oklahoma court: oral sex is not rape if victim is unconscious from drinking
Oklahoma, truly the America's armpit in every way. I lived there for the longest two years of my life. Being the only Jew in three counties didn't help. How do I know? Phone book.
OK: where it's illegal to be found with the back feet of farm animals tucked inside your boots. Really.
Honestly, officer, I was just helping the sheep over the fence!
Now, now, let's not kill the messenger. The problem is not the court, but an archaic statute. It wasn't long ago that Colorado's sexual assault statute would have required in a similar result. Our understanding and conception of sexual assault has been rapidly evolving – for the better I might add. We are caught in a period of transition. The real test is whether the Oklahoma legislature will do anything now that the deficiencies in the statute have been highlighted.