The Deep State has seeped into Republican Congressional offices?
Where do I sign up? Are their benefits any good?
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trees.
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Sounds like a real douchebag.
FWIW: I see at least as may typos and grammar blunders in AP articles as in the home-grown TPM ones. Thatās even worse because they have so much wider distribution. A simple browser add-on like Grammarly can catch this stuff. (Itās active as I type now.) Itās too persnickety about commas, but otherwise not too intrusive.
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I wish they would use it. I despair of our language because the media is not using it well. Some of the things I hear come out of the mouths especially of local talking heads makes me weep almost.
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Maybe, instead of revenge, he wants to know which ones he needs to āmake amendsā with according to his 12-step program? Yeah, thatās more like it.
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Himself. In the foot.
Has their ever been a Rethugliklan, a member of the party of personal responsibility, who resigned due his abhorrent behavior that didnāt blame it on something or someone else? Just one?
In this case itās alcoholism. But in every case itās never really their fault. Itās never due to their wanton amorality, their complete lack of character. Itās always some outside factor, always some variation on āThe devil made me do it.ā
Pathetic.
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Dunno about Nicole, but itās pretty clear Josh often uses speech-to-text to dictate his articles, and sometimes it gets it wrong.
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Spee-check is fine, as long as autocorrect is turned off. Grammar checking is a PoS in every program Iāve used. MS Wordās is wrongādead wrongāfar more often than itās right. I would never suggest that anyone use it. Better to learn some grammar. I seriously doubt that grammar checking would have caught this. Itās either a neowrongism [sic] in the nature of step foot for set foot, many examples of which Iām far too tired to remember after having worked all night, or itās the result of a typo combined with autocorrect.
@thunderclapnewman I was about to suggest exactly the same things, but upon checking with Merriam-Webster, I find that free-wheeling has evolved into freewheeling. Either one seems OK to me. The lack of a copy editor is, beyond peradventure, a glaring weakness of this site.
[edited to correct sloppy genitive]
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I know itās common without the hyphen, but Iām old and a grammar traditionalist.
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Well, have you noticed that you are addressing a Prime Member? Glass house, say hello to stone.
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Iād forward your resume. Sounds good to me.
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With my old eyes I thought it was āfree weldingā and maybe I could get some of my old Bondage, er, āBondoā repairedā¦
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At seventy, Iāve become more punk than punctilious, but I tend to agree. The usual course, though, is for a familiar two-word phrase to become a hyphenated [pair of] word[s] as it becomes more common, and for a hyphenated pair to become a single word with time and continued popularity. My only beef with M-W on this one is that they donāt present free-wheeling as an acceptable alternative.
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A lot of these look like autocorrect turned on to me.
So anyone want to bet that if he finds the leakers he fires them and then decides to run for re-election after all?
Hey! Point that thing somewhere else.
What?
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Why would he want to investigate his own staff? Well, Duh!
He simply wants to find outā¦
What did they know?
and,
When did they know it?
And the time and date they sent that information to Muller.
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They are eating their own and have been for some time. The GOP are filled with hatred and rage. They try to take it out on Democrats but we just keep getting stronger so they turn on each other. It is happening everywhere. You see it in the vicious attacks between Republicans in the primaries. You see it with individual R congressmen attacking each other . The added fact that many of them took Russian money and/or help makes things more fraught. The toxic combo of hatred and rage has morphed into certain knowledge they are losing and it is not a pretty sight.
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