https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/onetime-pelosi-foe-reverses-course-announces-support-for-her-house-speaker-bid/2018/12/07/75ae1a94-fa34-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html

I think at this point it’s kabuki theater. Enough people want the same more-or-less reasonable thing, and everybody knows they’re going to get it.

«Lynch, in a statement, said he was assured that “the priorities of average working families” will be foremost in the new Congress.

“In the recent past, working-class Democrats have felt that they were taken for granted in our party and candidate Donald Trump exploited that perception,” he said. “My goal was to get some reassurances that we are going to adopt an agenda that will include a real focus on issues that will make life better for the every working family,” he said, citing such issues pension reform, infrastructure, roads and bridges and college affordability.»

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/ammon-bundy-helped-bolster-the-militia-movement-now-hes

Anti-government extremist figurehead shocked to discover that anti-government extremists are not nice people. :eyeroll:

«”I expected to get a decent amount of pushback, but I also believed that I could explain to them why I’d taken those positions and why,” he told BuzzFeed News. “But you know, I’ve always had these kinds of thoughts that people were not really listening to the principles of things, that they had aligned with me for some other reasons, and that some of those [reasons] are good and some of those might not be, but this last video kind of confirmed that.”

So on Tuesday, Bundy shut down his social media accounts and said he was stepping away from the public light and the “patriot groups” that had gained national attention while supporting the Nevada ranching family. The decision to quit wasn’t an easy one, Bundy said, but the movement’s unforgiving opposition to the migrant caravan and what he called a dangerous and blinding support of President Trump left him with no choice.

….

“The time we find ourselves in now that is closest found in history is Germany in the 1930s, and they had a leader that was loved, and it was the same kind of following,” he said. “I don’t want to say there is that extreme similarity, but it very well could go that way, and people just give up their thinking, their rights, and they give up their government because they were so willing to follow him.”»

But note: https://twitter.com/SalHernandez/status/1071129145155801089?s=20

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/mike-pence-2020-mueller-trump

It would be hi-larious if Nikki Haley became the first female President of the United States.

«Last month, The New York Times reported that Trump had been privately asking advisers if Pence could be trusted, and that outside advisers have been pushing Nikki Haley to replace Pence.»

https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1070372193601753089?s=17

Ok, there’s your line:

Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) Tweeted:

Senator Alan Simpson: “Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.” 🔥

A quote that stuck out to me.

#GeorgeHWBushFuneral

https://twitter.com/BennOttenNC/status/1069771499085672448?s=17

Benn Otten (@BennOttenNC) Tweeted:

These costs aren’t included in the $5.3 million figure that’s been in the media, by the way. If the panel’s recommendations were adopted in full, you’d have an initial cost of almost $6 million and a yearly cost of $3 million, just to protect a statue.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/4/18126256/weekly-standard-never-trump-magazine-closure

Hmm.

«At the heart of the troubles is the Weekly Standard’s turn against Trumpism, which has proven a losing bet in a conservative movement that has increasingly embraced the president….»

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-no-labels-mark-pocan_us_5c06b110e4b0cd916fb0b042

“No Labels” did seem a little bit “doth protest too much.”

«First, the organization spent almost twice as much helping re-elect Republicans as it spent helping Democrats. Second, reporters reviewed email correspondence that showed No Labels contemplating a plan to attack Pelosi and use her leadership as a wedge to divide congressional Democrats. And third, it’s clear that No Labels never had any meaningful ultimatums or demands on rules for leadership during eight years of a Republican-led House, or over the last four years of a Republican-led Senate. No Labels only has challenges for Democratic leadership in the House, specifically, for our next speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

That sure seems like a label to me.

Look, I get it. No Labels is slick, and I got duped. But no other current or newly elected member of Congress should fall for its shtick. No Labels is a centrist, corporate organization working against Democrats with dark, anonymous money to advance power for special interests. Period.»

https://twitter.com/JoshClarkDavis/status/1068899166020124672?s=17

Hmm. (Part of a thread.)

Joshua Clark Davis (@JoshClarkDavis) Tweeted:

This is a major part of Bush’s legacy. It’s what his War on Drugs did to just one person. But it shows the human costs of that war in miniature detail. A high schooler was lured to the WH to sell crack and spent 7+ years in prison, so that the President could make a point on TV.

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1068898810737250305?s=17

This.

Jeff Yang (@originalspin) Tweeted:
Yes, election fraud is a problem. But it’s being practiced by Republicans, via racist gerrymandering, vote suppression and more direct means—like the incredible shenanigans being revealed in the #NC09 congress race @McCreadyForNC lost by 905 votes. Read.
https://t.co/KYxvkOUUOy