Welcome to DU, cos dem!

LOL - you and I think alike!

"2 down, TWO to go."

Not just Miller. But trump, also.

Make it "2 down, THREE to go" if you add Pence. Sweep 'em all out. ALL the vermin. Drain the swamp FOR REAL.

Or how 'bout Kennedy Newsom?

Gavin Newsom is warming up in the bullpen, too. And he's young, also. He's smart, already has a lot of governing experience, and he has loads of sex appeal. TOTALLY camera-ready, which never hurts in this day and age. He'd also geographically balance the ticket very nicely. He'll probably be California's governor by then.

He just might be. I noticed him awhile ago, and every time I see him these days,

I'm impressed and then more impressed.

He gave such a heartfelt comment about WHY we need and should support the Affordable Care Act, during a TV interview a few months ago. He characterized it as "the way we take care of one another."

We don't hear NEARLY enough of that kind of message. He speaks the truth and the Teachings of Jesus and the implicit nobility of living according to those Teachings. We need that kind of talk in politics - to remind us of what we once were, and still insist we are even when our actions confirm the opposite. We NEED that. We NEED those reminders that appeal to whatever's left of America's higher self. Especially if we yearn to get that back.

And stylistically (if nothing else), there's nobody better to lead us that way than another Kennedy. I'd vote for him in an instant. I'd vote for him right now. But in 2020, he'd have a few more years under his belt and maybe the "he's too young" argument might fade a little bit by then.

Sure sounds like a latter-day concentration camp to me.

So that's where we are, America. Happy NOW?

I guess you must be. Because you voted for it.

And if you stayed home or wrote somebody else in because you somehow just couldn't bring yourself to vote for Her, then YOU VOTED FOR THIS, TOO. Deny it up one side of the room and down the other. Make all the excuses you want. But that's exactly what you did.

Happy NOW?

Everyone here who loves TheFerret's work here on DU should take note of how each of those feisty columns now underscores this message in its last paragraph. Our Ferret is now making blatantly clear how critically, vitally, massively important it is to VOTE. Like, starting with THE NEXT MIDTERMS, if not sooner! TheFerret is NOT kidding, and neither am I.

Yep.

Damn straight.

Kicking for this post!

Uh-huh. This, from the "say anything" crowd.

THANK YOU!

And YES. I'm SHOUTING, dammit.

THANK YOU!