Mike Pence's whoppers at this week's VP Debate #PantsOnFire

From Huffington Post Politics:

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Donald Trump tweetstorm

by Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

Donald Trump is in the middle of a bizarre tweetstorm. His staff is still asleep apparently. He's bringing up #sextapes?

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Donald J. Trump cashed a thirteen cent check

In 1990, Spy magazine performed an interesting experiment to find out "Who is America's cheapest zillionaire?"

Spy sent various people a 13 cent check , and waited to see who would actually cash it. They sent the checks to the home addresses of the rich people. DJT cashed his. So did the Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi.

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Donald Trump gets taken to Chinatown

by Jack Brummet, Republican Family Values Editor

Of all the things DJT said in the Presidential Debate last night, what most offended me was when he referred to President Obama as “your President” while speaking to Hillary late in the debate. It flared up on FB, Reddit, Twitter, and other sites. Was this tied into his earlier refusal to apologize ("I have nothing to say.") for his five year birther jihad; because he believed [and still believes] the President is illegitimate and therefore not his President? To have not said Our President offended me most, but I imagine everyone has their own choices...God knows he gave the nation so many tonight.

"Not global warming, like you think and your President thinks.” - Donald J. Trump

This debate will go down as a turning point in 2016 and in the annals of great/insane debates. In the spin room, Rudy G said he wasn't sure if Donald would be attending the next two debates. Interestingly, the guy who boasted of his testosterone levels a couple of weeks ago (and by implication, last night)couldn't find the "stamina" to finish the debate.

Trump would be smart to duck out; he has nothing to lose, and would, probably, be cutting his losses. Sure, we'll call him a pussy, but all the razzing and the media barrage would be nothing compared to one more monumental f***up like this. I'm sure his base loves him still, but he lost the outliers tonight, and I'll be really surprised if his head to head national poll numbers don't show a 6% drop by next week.

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Mount Trumpmore

—artist/creator unknown—

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Mount Trumpmore

Artist Unknown

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The pivot that wasn't

By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

As many expected, Donald J. Trump's long awaited "Pivot" was wishful thinking on the part of the GOP-Tea Party.  From an interview yesterday:

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So much for the saner, on-message Donald Trump. That lasted a few hours.

At a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina this morning, Donald Trump suggested a remedy if Hillary Clinton wins the November election.

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people—maybe there is. I don't know."

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Is Donald Trump cracking up?

• “Donald Trump is not of sound mind,” conservative Stephen Hayes wrote in July in the Weekly Standard. 
• “Have we stopped to appreciate how crazy Donald Trump has gotten recently?” liberal Ezra Klein wrote on Vox.
• He “appears haunted by multiple personality disorders,” conservative David Brooks wrote last week in the New York Times.
• “We can gloss over it, laugh about it, analyze it, but Donald Trump is not a well man,” Stuart Stevens, chief strategist to Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, said on Twitter.  In an interview Stevens said that the available evidence leads to two possible conclusions: either Trump has a substance abuse problem [ed's note: doubtful] or “there is something definitely off about him.”
• “At best, this is a very damaged person,” Stevens said. “And there’s probably something more serious going on.”

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John Steinbeck explains why poor folk vote Republican

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The Donald Trump rebuttal to the Democratic Convention

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

We could go on and on about this, but suffice to say, he has come close to hitting a new low, after a couple of weeks of scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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Bernie Sanders departs the Democratic Party

by Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed. 

We knew he was just using the Dems as a vehicle. Now he gets to go back to where he was and have the benefits of being a Dem (he's always caucused with them) And still be able to walk away when it suits him. I'm OK with that because, in fact, he's more Democrat than most Democrats.

Note from Politifact:  "By 1997, [Jack note: Bernie did not move from the House to the Senate until 2007] Sanders was still not a member of the House Democratic Caucus nor a Democrat. But he voted with the party more often than the average Democrat (95 percent of the time opposed to 80 percent)"

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drawing: faces 1477/78 — agree to disagree

By Jack Brummet

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drawing: 1483 ― The Cruz Speech

By Jack Brummet

 [ 2'x2' 1/4" birch plywood + ‪#‎4B‬ pencil, pen and India Ink, and Sharpie®]

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Drawing: 1485 ― Speechwriter/Ballerina McIver: "I meant no harm."

By Jack Brummet

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Faces 1481 - Section G-17 at the GOP-Tea Party convention

By Jack Brummet

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drawing: faces 1480 - Donald Trump on the main stage

By Jack Brummet

click to enlarge

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Donald Trump: Don't ask, don't tell

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.


The Candidate, Donald J. Trump, keeps naming VP candidates and convention speakers he has never actually asked in person. Many of them decline. Tim Tebow's statement today had to be  a nice sucker punch.  

 This week they also leaked Condoleezza Rice as a Veep pick (Trump rang her up himself), although she politely said "no way" months ago.  Tim LeBow, Don King, and Mike Ditka were also named and ducked out.







By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN

CLEVELAND (AP) - Thursday morning he was among the biggest stars featured on Donald Trump's convention lineup. Thursday night, Tim Tebow declared his attendance at next week's Republican National Convention wasnothing more than "a rumor."

"I wake up this morning to find out that I'm speaking at the Republican National Convention," Tebow said in a video posted on Facebook. "It's amazing how fast rumors fly. And that's exactly what it is, a rumor."

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to questions about Tebow's departure from a convention program that the New York billionaire's team had long teased would be an extraordinary display of political entertainment. But instead of sports stars and celebrities, as promised, the campaign is relying heavily on the party's establishment for the four-day convention, which begins Monday.

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Election 2016: Did the cream rise to the top, or vice versa?

The Congressional sit-in continues

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

[image by Minnesota artist, Only Junk]

It's exciting to see another outbreak of sanity in The Capitol in this congressional sit-in. Hats off to John Lewis, Katherine Clark (yeah, Lewis and Clark), and the caucus. Dems sitting in at 4 AM. What's next? Occupy The Capitol, a new March on Washington? One small step back to sanity?  The camel's back is hanging on by a couple of fractured vertebrae.

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