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I don’t know. Just so excited to see Jon Lovitz.

It’s all acting

Oh, you want news.

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Well, I could have told you they wouldn’t endorse Sanders or Warren.

First of all, New Hampshire has always hated Massachusetts because they have Crimean ambitions that the Seizure of Cape Cod will increase their warm water ports (New Hampshire has a scant 18 miles of coastline) and they wouldn’t let them expand North over the Piscataqua River into Maine (at the time a disconnected part of Massachusetts).

Likewise there are still a lot of hard feelings about that Vermont thing. New Hampshire was the first state to organize an Independent government separate from Britain, kind of unfair to have the 14th state carved out of it right after the Revolution. Connecticut held on to the Western Reserve (which includes the Land of Cleves and Youngstown) until 1800 and only gave it up after having sold it to a group of suckers from Suffield (yes, we fleece our own) and the Pennamite War with Pennsylvania (They didn’t teach you that? You are under educated.). Virginia made bad choices in the War for Race Slavery.

Manchester is the largest “city” in the State and is part of a Nashua-Manchester Metro Area where the driving economic engine is tax disparity with nearby Massachusetts.

Live Free or Die. Did I mention they hate Massachusetts?

Anyway, the Union Leader has the largest circulation of any newspaper in New Hampshire but that’s not saying much. Practically every town of notice has their own daily or weekly and they’re far more widely read in their location than the Leader is.

Concord, the State Capitol, is at the Western edge of “Manchester Metro” (I’m sorry, I live Tri-State, no big deal to get to The City) and they have their own paper, The Monitor, which is a little more like the Times or Boston Globe than the New York Post. It’s also circulated statewide and the “National” publications I mentioned are universally available and popular.

Since the Leader is rabidly Republican and Conservative, it is unsurprising they have chosen to endorse Amy Klobuchar, one of the most conservative and non threatening Democrats in the Field.

Warren? Sanders? Too Left. And we hate them anyway. Buttigieg? Too Gay.

Well why not Biden? He’s a villain, read the paper (and he is you know, all that Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid stuff is true). We’re going to thrash him in 2020 and he is our preferred opponent for whom we have spent 4 years preparing but too is hot to handle at the moment.

Why not… why not pick the lowest polling most Conservative “Democrat” standing?

I congratulate you on your endorsement.

As a side note: I am finalizing arrangements to transfer operations to North Lake. Expect coverage similar to the Mint 400 where, after you watch them take off in a large cloud of dust and see several smaller dust clouds spin by, you realize that it’s hopeless in person and go back to watch it on TV.

That about sums it up for me.

All the anti-Republican Senate ads Democrats could possibly want
By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post
Jan. 24, 2020

The impeachment trial will not result in President Trump’s removal, but it could well result in Republicans’ removal from the Senate majority. A slew of Republican incumbents were below 45 percent approval even before the trial began, including Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Martha McSally (Ariz.), Cory Gardner (Colo.) and John Cornyn (Tex.). In their refusal to allow new witnesses and documents, their determination to acquit even before the trial began and their conduct during the trial, they are creating a plethora of opportunities for opponents’ ad makers.

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project has already launched one against Collins:

Think of the ads that may highlight the total lack of professionalism by senators who read books, doodle, wander off, fall asleep and sneer at the House managers.
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There are the lawmakers who play dumb, suggesting that there is no evidence of guilt. There are senators who whine that they are bored. Some simultaneously claim that there is nothing new and that they don’t need to hear from witnesses. Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) were peeved that House manager Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) suggested that refusing to allow witnesses was akin to enabling Trump’s cover-up. (Wouldn’t it be?) If only they found the president’s lying, abuse of power, obstruction of Congress and betrayal of national security as vexing.

There are the senators such as Republicans John Neely Kennedy (La.) and Ted Cruz (Tex.), who have regurgitated Russian propaganda. There are the senators who parrot the utterly discredited position that abuse of power is not impeachable.

Other senators, such as Ernst and Gardner, simply run from answering the most obvious questions. Why won’t you subpoena more documents and testimony from witnesses if you think the evidence is in doubt? Would you allow a Democratic president to refuse to produce any documents in a congressional investigation? Do you think it is acceptable for your political opponents to go to a foreign leader to announce a bogus investigation of you?

So far not a single Republican has upheld his or her oath to “administer impartial justice” by demanding to see all relevant new evidence, although hope springs eternal that some may come around after the two sides have presented their cases. In behaving as they have, Republicans are managing not only to deprive the president of a legitimate acquittal in the eyes of Americans (who overwhelmingly want a real trial), but also to convince voters that Republicans should not be entrusted with power.

Republicans should not be entrusted with power.

In the moment I thought most of it a mixture of lies, mischaracterizations, and InfoWars Conspiracy Theories. On reflection I worry that the cherry picked video clips of testimony may provide a fig leaf for some.

Don’t get me wrong. It was all frothing raving madness.

Assessing the Trump team’s 6-point impeachment defense
By Philip Bump, Washington Post
Jan. 25, 2020

President Trump’s legal team in his impeachment trial began its defense on Saturday morning with a slightly more lawyerly version of one of Trump’s favorite tweets: read the transcript.

“They didn’t talk a lot about the transcript of the call,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the assembled senators in the Senate chambers at the outset of his remarks, “which I would submit is the best evidence of what happened on the call.”

That line, in itself, is a neat encapsulation of Trump’s case. It focuses on the rough transcript of Trump’s July 25, 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as exculpatory — while also asserting that the central issue is the call itself. It isn’t. The presented evidence shows a broad campaign of pressure of which that call was only one part, a campaign that is harder for Trump’s team to refute.

Cipollone soon transitioned to Michael Purpura, the deputy White House counsel. Purpura began by articulating a six-point defense that his team would offer during its presentation. Those six points, like Cipollone’s claim about the rough transcript: carefully worded, constrained — and often not hard to undercut.

Cipollone soon transitioned to Michael Purpura, the deputy White House counsel. Purpura began by articulating a six-point defense that his team would offer during its presentation. Those six points, like Cipollone’s claim about the rough transcript: carefully worded, constrained — and often not hard to undercut.

Here’s each point as he stated it, and what the available evidence says about the claims.

Now I’m going to stop there and urge you to click though because Philip Bump strongly refutes each of these points, but it’s a bit too long for the page so I’ll simply list them-

1. “The transcript shows that the president did not condition either security assistance or a meeting on anything. The paused security assistance funds aren’t even mentioned on the call.”
2. “President Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials have repeatedly said that there was no quid pro quo and no pressure on them to review anything.”
3. “President Zelensky and high-ranking Ukrainian officials did not even know — did not even know the security assistance was paused until the end of August. Over a month after the July 25th call.”
4. “Not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else.”
5. The security assistance flowed on Sept. 11, and a presidential meeting took place on Sept. 25 without the Ukrainian government announcing any investigations.
6. The Democrats’ blind drive to impeach the president does not and cannot change the fact, as attested to by the Democrats own witnesses, that President Trump has been a better friend and stronger supporter of Ukraine than his predecessor.

I would like to assume my body of work makes it clear that I think all these arguments are garbage but let me repeat it.

What? You thought I stopped doing this? Sheesh, do something different for a couple of weeks…

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