"Who's going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys?...Who cares?"

A lot of the points made in this amusing video are pretty obvious, but it's always a good idea to remind ourselves that trolls want you to get upset and angry at them.

I'm not sure I agree that ignoring trolls is the best tactic in all cases, though; usually it is, but sometimes it's better to respond in ways that subvert their sadistic intentions -- with facts and mockery, refusing to take their outrage bait and ignoring their transparent leading questions

Something was a little different in the Senate on Tuesday morning. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski noticed it.

The Alaska Republican was one of only a few lawmakers in the Capitol building following the weekend blizzard, and it was her job to handle the formalities of delaying Senate business until her colleagues could get back to work. After finishing a bit of parliamentary business, she described what she saw in the ornate chamber.

"As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female."

I would argue the people that voted for Obama made the best decision, and if they are gonna vote for Bernie, they have a proven record of voting for the best decision.

I am not locked in on Bernie at all, but GD that rationalization and pretzel twisting as to why he is a poor, poor, choice leads me to believe that if that is all they have, 'voting for a slogan' Bernie must be doing something right.

But considering you went from Reagan to Clinton and Clinton went from Goldwater to Clinton, the whole Churchill bit doesn't jive with that, nor does your original comment.  Many D's have never been R's, including me, and many of us have moved further left.

For the record, if a I ran into a younger me, he would not call me a sellout like your younger version would.  I would imagine he would ask for some cash, to borrow my car, and if my GF was around he probably ask where she can be found in his time continuum.

I would slap him, give him a couple bucks and tell him to get lost, but that is me and even at as a youth I disliked Reagan probably more than GWB in that I was experimenting with the things he was telling parents and kids to call the cops and report their loved ones over.  He effected my youth greatly and ensure everyone that age and younger who experimented, would have to deal with years of the police state.  

You found that appealing, OK.  My parents loved Reagan and I don't have the stones to ask about GWB because I fear I know the answer.

Maybe you are wrong about Sanders, you know, like how you were wrong about Reagan.  Joking, but you clearly don't get Sanders, and I would argue it's because you are the very word you said younger Donald would call you.  If you want to call that temperamental or age educing wisdom, so be it, but to insist that only the foolish would vote for Sanders because you were foolish and voted for Reagan, is without a doubt, projecting.  Maybe some of those people are leaps and bound ahead of a younger you or even current you in their believes and their convictions.

Maybe my favorite part is seeing "liberal lions". Rush to the barricades to defend a hack like Megyn Kelly and her foul employer FOX news because it serves their purpose of the day.

Let's be honest about that first GOP debate hosted by Brett Baier and Megyn Kelly: we were all impressed that Megyn asked Donald Trump some substantive questions. Of course, the backlash from Trump and his sycophants somehow made the man even more popular, contrary to what usually happens to candidates when they appear so defensive. The yammerers at Morning Joe were discussing this latest kerfuffle between Fox News and the Donald, as expected

"We can't give in to terrorizations of any of our employees," said a company spokesman. "Capitulating to politicians' ultimatums about a debate moderator violates all journalistic standards, as do threats including the one leveled by Trump's campaign manager ... toward Megyn Kelly."

To be clear, this is what started all of it:

You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals, does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president? And how do you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton - that you are part of the war on women?

I do like Cruz's new pitch, 'Ducking Donald' followed with this lameness:

the Texas conservative joked that Trump was "a fragile soul [whose] hair might stand" if hit with tough questions.

Megyn Kelly.

We're in three wars.

Trump drops out of Fox News debate.

We're in three wars.

Will Sanders launch an attack ad?

We're in three wars.

Hillary loves Bernie loves Hillary loves Martin loves Hillary and Bernie.

We're in three wars.

I have spent the past two years somewhat concerned about the effects of national amnesia, largely because I believe that a problem can not be effectively treated without being effectively diagnosed.

For me, "national amnesia" is a state that is deliberately encouraged by our national leadership, so that they can keep doing to us what they have been doing to us for generations.

In recent, relatively recent, history, I think of the lessons not learned from our horrible involvement in Vietnam. Lied into war. Told of dire consequences if we were to leave. In fact, told that we were winning the war over and over again. For years and years. And that we couldn't just leave.

So, with amnesia in full swing, Bush did unto us what Johnson et al did to us decades earlier.

And now, a decade and a half later, we are being told that we are winning the war, that we can't just leave, that it is not our fight and that we must lead the fight.

And it is not a subject of much discussion.

Even here, when I mention these wars, I am usually greeted with either indifference or contempt. Like I'm Johnny One Note for focusing on an issue which has killed hundreds of thousands, maimed hundreds of thousands, has been the excuse for robbing us of our liberties, and ultimately threatens our lives.

I do not wish to criticize anyone. And I don't actually feel critical of anyone. It's just the way it is.

That is someone who gets people to come into the tent in order to make money for the circus.

Martin O'Malley is pissed at Bernie Sanders. With the Democrats on track to add a new debate for their presidential candidates between Iowa and New Hampshire, the long-shot candidate ripped into Sanders (who has yet to agree to this debate, while Hillary Clinton has) with an odd charge. He claimed that Sanders' public calls over the summer for additional debates had been "totally disingenuous" and that Sanders had privately worked against more face-offs being added to the lineup. "Bernie Sanders didn't want any more debates, from the beginning," O'Malley said following an event in Grinnell, Iowa, on Wednesday night.

Speaking with reporters from Mother Jones and MSNBC, O'Malley seemed to fault Sanders more than Clinton for the limited number of debates on the Democratic side. The number of debates was set by the Democratic Party, and the rules it established prohibited candidates from participating in debates that were not sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. O'Malley claims that, once these rules were announced, his campaign reached out to the Sanders camp seeking their support in pushing for more debates. But, O'Malley says, Sanders declined. "We knew as soon as those rigged rules came down, we knew that if [Sanders] would agree to do more debates, we would have more debates, but he would never agree," O'Malley said. "He didn't want more debates." O'Malley's charge, however, is a bit hard to square with Sanders' actions at the time. The Vermont senator was in fact sending letters to the DNC and posting petitions to his website rallying supporters behind more debates.

In the concluding analysis, the issue of getting things done arises, particularly some of the Sanders' proposals, like Medicare for All.  Sanders is depending on the people sending a message so strong than even the Congress can't ignore it.  Q. wow, do you think that could happen? A. That's the bottom line of the whole contest.  Vote for Bernie: Send a message. Vote for Hillary: She knows how to make things work.