HELL YEAH!!!
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Their website lists Microsoft, Visa, and Chevron as notable clientsâŚ
Feel better now? Me neither. 
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Omg, is that for real? 
Itâs one thing for us all here to joke about Dotard doing something like that, but itâs quite another when itâs the DAUGHTER doing the accusing. yikes.
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I loved Ed Whelan on âBatmanâ!
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As Swift Boaters, many of them claimed to have been either with Kerry or close by. What are they claiming this time, that they were in the room where they witnessed that Kavanaugh didnât try to rape Ms. Blasey Ford? Corsi, OâNeilâthe whole bunchâare a lot like toe fungus, they wonât go away. Who pays them when they are in hibernation?
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Eggcellent post, egghead!
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like the âhuntingâ club where Scalia died.
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In a very real sense, this is all the fault of the national political press.
The âestablishmentâ press has allowed Republicans to get away with so much for so long, breathlessly filtering Republican spin into article after article, that Republicans stopped having to try long, long ago, and grew lazy, and mendacious, and careless.
The election of Donald, coming on the heels of Mitch McConnellâs theft of that Supreme Court seat (when the national political press went with the whole âBiden Ruleâ thingie, instead of just demolishing the Republicans for their corrupt and unconstitutional gambit) must have persuaded Republicans that they were getting away with it: that not only did they not need to tryâthey could do the opposite of âtrying.â
They could engage in perverse, negative, stupid activity and the press would still, breathlessly, represent them as the grown-up Party with the brilliant strategic edge.
Only a few months ago, I was still reading articles about how the very existence of Nancy Pelosi doomed the Democrats to permanent oblivion, because of course (the press assured me confidently, having been so assured by men like, one assumes, Ed Whelan) everybody hates Nancy Pelosi.
Turns out they donât: and the press was obliged to report, with some astonishment, that right now Nancy Pelosi is actually more popular than the mobbed-up old thug they helped elect in 2016, at least according to internal RNC polling.
Anyhow, this is the long form version of saying that Ed Whelan, who goes to all the right cocktail parties with all the right reporters, had every reason to believe he didnât have to break a sweat to get this nonsense launched. He had the Swiftboaters, he had Kathleen Parker at the Post, he had Senators Hatch and Grassley and their eager young staffs, he had Leonard Leo and Don McGahn and an experienced, uniquely vicious partisan hatchet man named Brett Kavanaugh to advise him, and he had Twitter (and Zillow).
He didnât actually have to come up with a brilliant plot: all he had to do was say anything and, if Kathleen Parkerâs âdoppelgangerâ column was any indication, heâd have it wrapped up by the Sunday shows. It would be the âSpringtime For Hitlerâ of political ploysâso bad it just had to be a hit.
Oops. Poor you, Ed Whelan.
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So one problem with the current administration is I no longer can keep straight what is morally repugnant, from what is criminal, from what is simply precedent-shattering abuse of power.
Josh Marshall keeps writing about the Ed Whelan story â there is a new note about which member of the Judiciary Committee was coordinating with Whelan â but I have to say I canât figure out into which category this falls. Could it derail the nomination? Does it break laws or Senate rules? Or is it, in the end, like so much of what is happening, just an incredibly bad faith attempt that flouts ethical norms in order to further consolidate power?
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I think youâll pay a Price for that.
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Well, plan A didnât work, so I guess CRC will move on to plan B. Prepare to hear Blasy Ford is not only a slut, but a prostitute. Hmm. What else"? She didnât attend Holton Arms, didnât grow up in the DMV and her California residence proves she is a Nancy Pelosi love child who grew up in (gasp!!), San Francisco.
The right-wing intertubes will meltdown.
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Is that the Bart OâKavanaugh look alike at Georgetown Prep same class as the smug rich entitled rapist?
HELL YEAH!!!
Apparently itâs not only hope that floats but shit too.
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The âdeep stateâ is inside your own party, Republicans.
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I donât know, but I wouldnât be surprised if it involved floor plans ; - )
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I donât think people are joking about it.
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And this guy is supposedly in charge of ethics in the GOP. That explains a lot. Another totally bankrupt lie that poses the opposite of what this guy claims to represent.
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I remember that, and still get burning mad thinking about the whole phony thing - kerry was a good candidate and has conducted himself well in public office since.
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