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It is truly amazing how many Republicans wait until they are out the door before bemoaning all of the stuff that they cheered on while they held office. Wonder if Mitch will opine about all the needless gun deaths next.

 

I hope Mitch McConnell’s last days are filled with absolute despair. No single person greased the skids for all this more than him. He assumed he’d outlast all the demagogues and in the end stand alone as the conservative who waited out the Obama wave and emerged as the institutionalist. He tilted the court with two maneuvers that I can only personally say made me realize the GOP was never coming back to the light. He ruined the early days of the Obama administration when bipartisan cooperation seemed possible. He failed to rally his party to drive the stake in Trump after January 6.

He somehow didn’t realize humans age and die and didn’t realize Donald Trump is smarter than he sounds.

I hope he wakes up each day and has the weight of all the suffering to come heavy on his shoulders.

I don’t use the term lightly when I say he is one of American history’s most tragic characters and an absolute villain to democracy. I in ways loathe him more than Trump, because he always seemed to acknowledge he knew the correct path, but that path would undermine his life’s goals.

If accurate American history books are written in generations to come, he should be considered alongside James Buchanan and George McClellan and Henry Billings Brown and Benedict Arnold and Nathan Bedford Forest and Joseph McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Cheney.

 

Thanks eggheads for allowing these cretins to hold power.

Elon Musk calls homelessness a ‘lie’ and ‘propaganda’ — and Trump is listening

 

You’re assuming that the old, established rules will be followed; they won’t be. A Trump-era pardon will not require any admission of guilt. What entity would be powerful enough to demand it?

 

Definitely top 10. Buchanan, Roger Taney, James Calhoun, Hoover, McCarthy, Mitch, Brown. The Citizens United decision belongs on the list. Arnold is overrated as a villain, mainly because he was the "first," I think if it wasn't Forest, there would have been some other racist leader leading the Klan, I don't know where you put Trump, or Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is just in it for the dough.
The weird thing about Trump is he actually could have been a transformative President given his sway and actually passed some decent legislation - considering how much the establishment right has swallowed for the guy, he actually could have gotten them to cave, find a middle path on immigration, the Dreamers, gun rights, health care reform (it is surprising how much interest there is among Trumpers for lower health care costs, they have the same issues with health insurers as lefties do), military spending. But instead, he's like Augustus Gloop at Wonka's factory

 

It always matters. Just do it.

 

Trump named Time person of the Year

 

The Ford pardon of Nixon will be the model: a pardon for any crime the subject committed or may have committed in a given time period (conveniently open-ended).

The SCOTUS of course will be breathtakingly compliant.

 

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29 House Republicans want Trump to scrap the IRS's free direct tax filing tool on day one of his presidency

 

I may actually agree.
They point out that the IRS, in becoming tax preparer and tax collector, has a conflict of interest. It has little incentive, they say, to help people save money.

 

Always awesome that part of why taxes are so complicated to file is that companies that make software to prepare taxes lobby to keep them that way.