Wow.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/14/steve-bannon-parasite-abroad-searching-new-host-kurt-bardella-column/417553002/

Bannon by himself is nothing. He is not a leader. He is not an ideologue. He is singular organism that must live off another. Like the Costa Rican parasitic wasp, Bannon attaches himself to a host, poisons it to gain control over it and builds a home from within while the host ultimately dies off.

It is a pattern we have seen from Bannon time and again. From Palin to Paul, Cruz to Carson, Trump to perhaps Le Pen, the story always ends the same way: the host loses everything and Steve searches for a new home.

(From https://www.memeorandum.com/)

Whoops.

One student was reportedly treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/03/14/teacher-accidentally-discharges-firearm-in-calif-classroom-he-was-trained-in-gun-use/

I really enjoyed looking at this map showing the shift in each district of PA-18 from the 2016 election. Even in the hinterlands of Pennsyltucky (and maybe especially in the hinterlands), which is what we consider to be “Trump country”, there was what appears to be a massive shift.

I think the Cook Report had this district as R+11 (meaning, Republican by eleven percentage points, I think). Paul Ryan’s district is rated as R+4.

From https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/13/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-house-special-election.html

With regard to the statement that the DCCC didn’t help Lamb because it’s Pelosi’s organization and he said he wouldn’t support her for speaker: something I saw before the election.

Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article204760709.html

(Here’s the article I’m responding to: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-there-a-problem.)

Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/14/17109448/pennsylvania-special-election-conor-lamb-defeats-rick-saccone

The seat had since 2003 been held by Republican Rep. Tim Murphy, who was so secure in his seat that he often failed to attract a Democratic challenger. Murphy suddenly resigned in October amid revelations that he had pressured a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair to have an abortion.

But even after he stepped down, national Democrats didn’t think they could compete in the special election, one Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) operative told Vox.

That was until Conor Lamb came along.

This made me laugh. 🙂

https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/973952134734630913

https://twitter.com/jjmacnab/status/973952134734630913

You can see all four of them in this last video. There’s a long pause between each one speaking because they apparently only have the one mask.

btw, @jjmacnab is a good follow on anti-government extremists.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/13/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-house-special-election.html

This is one of those “every vote counts” stories.

Conor Lamb leads by 0.3 percentage points, or 627 votes, over Rick Saccone with 100 percent of precincts fully reporting.

https://twitter.com/armandodkos/status/973721135698325505?s=20

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/973722896681127937?s=20