This wasn't just another op/ed. It's a tour de force.

DAYUM does he ever nail it. And unfortunate for us all.

So do I.

We still need his voice out there. Glad he’s still there to offer it.

Whoa!

Hmmm... well, your arguments do make sense, although

my instincts with this asshole lean more toward the application of verbal 2x4s. Which he’s certainly earned.

I lean toward systematically taking away his toys. His big gold-tone brandings, his twitter feeds, his assets one-by-one. As a mother, this guy’s repeated crappy behavior screams out to me for some firm discipline. He behaves as though nobody’s ever told him “NO.” Or actually taken away his toys when he won’t play nicely with them - OR share.

I see him as little more than an overly coddled, spoiled brat-child, who needs to be taught a few things about proper conduct, deportment, limits, AND consequences for bad behavior.

Not that I’m right about this, mind you, but I’m a mom. As a mom, who’s experienced plenty of over-indulged little girls from affluent parents, and Cub Scouts with parents who don’t believe in rules for their precious little princelings, this is just an observation I’ve developed. You CAN raise kids with love and affection and support of their ability to earn their own sense of self-esteem through legitimate achievement and lots of little victories and good guidance. And positive reinforcement WITHOUT feeding their egos to an extreme (which seems to be the only thing this particular individual seems ever to have received). AND still “sparing the rod”, as it were.

Yeah, no kidding!!!

Welcome to DU, NotAPuppet!

I've felt this, too. All along. Putin found himself a REALLY useful idiot. But one other thing here is false. Hillary was NOT a "bad candidate." AND we DIDN'T lose. Anybody who gets three million more votes than the opponent did - HAS won, AND IMO has won legitimate bragging rights on the popular vote.

I think that's what I'd wish for him most of all.

His almighty fucking brand rendered completely - and permanently - TOXIC.

THIS!!!

OMG

He's facing a different kind of woman than he's used to "dealing with."

Pelosi’s no shrinking violet. She grew up watching real-time political hardball. She’s been in this business her entire life. And she can handle and oversee more than one thing at once. Plus - this isn’t her first rodeo - not by a long shot.

SHE’S the real master of the art of the deal. Anybody who still doubts that after we all saw how quickly she rounded up enough votes to secure a return to the Speakership is just simply out orbiting beyond Mars or something.