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They are too conservative and too cautious for my taste.

They do not wish to spend any political capital on trying to break the red bloc in Texas unless it's a presidential year, and turnout might benefit their chances. Congressman Castro -- to be distinguished from Secretary Castro -- is rumored to be considering a challenge to Ted Cruz in 2018, but Lyin' Ted has more to fear from a primary challenge (like Michael McCaul).

All racists are Republican, but not all Republicans are racist.

That's what used to be said, isn't it?

Let's keep calling the people in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania who voted for Obama in '08 and '12 -- and Trump in '16 -- racists, though, see if that wins the next election.

It's not difficult to consider Mary a rape victim

A supreme entity impregnated her without her knowing. Sounds like God* used a roofie to me.

Taken a step further, he brought his son into this world so that he could be tortured and killed by some other of God*'s children, also made in his own image, of course. To save us from eternal damnation, so the story goes.

It all strikes me as a bit too pathological for my taste.

*YMMV

The sky map

Used to be we called this propaganda

Freudian slip of the year

Yeahno.

I stopped long ago.

The teevee political news generally -- both MSNBC and CNN -- has been a large contributor to this horrible election cycle. Too much Trump for ratings early in the year, and now it's too much Trump for everybody (especially most Republican officeholders on the ballot).

Appears to still be falling short

brainsandeggs.blogspot.com/2016/10/can-dems-flip-house-in-2016.html

don't know

I'm not a doctor. And neither is Dean, for 25 years now.

But if you don't want to believe me that he's disgracing himself, would you believe Vox?

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/28/13089674/donald-trump-cocaine-sniffing

Not exactly right-wing media over there.

This is as bad as all that innuendo about Hillary's health. We don't want to use Republican tactics here, do we?