One thing you are starting to hear is real fear that even if there is not enough republican votes to remove him it's starting to look very possible there could be a majority vote to remove him.

It would only take a couple.  I wonder if Pence can vote to break a tie since the Chief Justice is supposed to run the thing.

The reason Gabbard seems to be despised here is that she met with Assad. She acknowledges that he is a "torturer and murderer", but says that it is better to meet with these people and try to negotiate rather than engage in military actions which seem to lead nowhere, drain our treasury and kills thousands of our soldiers and their civilians. She is against our penchant for engaging in "regime change" wars.

I must admit: so am I.
We have been mired in Iraq and Afghanistan, as we all know, for well over a decade - and the toll on civilians and our troops is devastating - including suicide. And when they come home, if they come home, there is shamefully inadequate treatment for them.

If Gabbard has been disqualified in the eyes of many Democrats because she met with Assad - so be it. So to whom those of us who consider these military interventions to be a cancer on our lives - a blot on our nation - to whom do we turn?

She was basically Chicken Little.  If Warren wins it will be the end of the world as we know it.  That's almost literally what she said the article was about.  

This is The Economist

I think this kind of stuff could end up helping Warren.  Maybe if there is enough cry's of horror and fear from the corporate government people will start to believe.   And register and vote.

Senator Sanders has lost ground, 48 percent Sanders, 46 percent Trump.  In August, the poll reports 48 percent Sanders, 44 percent Trump.

Former VP Biden has also seen a tightening:  50 percent Biden and Trump 44 percent. In August, Biden was at 51 percent and Trump at 42 percent.

The Marquette poll also suggests that Wisconsinites are somewhat behind the curve at this point in impeachment/removal results.  But, that is changing, too.

Impeachment will, in my view, continue to be among top issues in the campaign.  Trump will make it so. There is no reason to believe that he will not continue to abuse power, lie, cheat and steal. After all, all of the Ukraine/China extortion scheme was about the 2020 election. If not removed, as is likely, he will just be emboldened. All out in the open. For us to see.

Medicare for All may yield to--- among ways to achieve the goal of universal, affordable health coverage.  After all, no candidate's plans will be the final one.

 But Medicare for All, although scary for some at first blush, can be explained and be persuasive on the basis of economies as well as quality.  I agree, that the problem is the political one--contrasting a corporate take-over of health care decisions with government funded universal health care.

 Just ask any Medicare recipient/retiree if they would rather pay $125/month plus payroll taxes during their working life, for Medicare coverage, or $900/month for private insurance.

 Diminishing health care markets for private insurers along with the high rollers worries that Senator Warren will take away their money, will bring legitimate questions along with trickery and deceit.

And, too, the other Democratic primary candidates have to explain their ideas: e.g. Medicare for All who Want It.  What happens if everybody wants it?   The point of single payer is that it is cheaper when every is on it.  If it is wanted when all else fails, there is a sicker/more expensive pool. In any event, all of the plans toward universal health care need a look at the details.

The decision by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff to conduct the impeachment inquiry as a de facto grand jury through closed door hearings and testimony certainly appears to have been a wise one, because it's deprived House Republicans -- in particular, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) -- of a public venue to grandstand and obfuscate before the TV cameras.

Further, it now compels the GOP caucus to rely on the dubious intellectual and legislative faculties of that dim-witted "Sage of Bakersfield," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), to defend their position, and he's clearly punching well above his weight class.

I'm speculating, obviously, but I think McCarthy will be unable to hold his caucus together once Schiff goes public with his findings and articles of impeachment are formally introduced in the Judiciary Committee, and that as many as 50 vulnerable or retiring GOP members may ultimately vote with the Democrats when those articles reach the House floor.

Whether the prospect of a coalition with B&W is enough of an incentive for Likud members to finally dump the prime minister and turn elsewhere for party leadership, well, that remains to be seen. Personally, I don't think it is.

Place: Small college auditorium some where in the mid west.
Event: Presidential debate.

Jake Tapper: "Senator Warren[or insert your fave here] what is your plan to fight corruption in Washington?

Senator Warren: Begins to trash tRump and the Republicans, in mid sentence tRump pulls out a 45 and shoots her dead.

And in my honest opinion, this resolution is an unconstitutional infringement by the Senate upon a sole and constitutionally guaranteed prerogative of the House. Should the House now similarly prescribe to the Senate how any ensuing trial should be conducted, once any prospective articles of impeachment are approved by the former?

Los Angeles Times | October 23, 2019
Morrissey is anti-immigrant and backs a white nationalist political party. Why don't fans care? - "For years, when professor Melissa Mora Hidalgo wasn't teaching classes at Cal State Fullerton or UC San Diego, the Los Angeles-based culture writer could often be found on stages throughout the region, singing songs made famous by her musical hero, British rock star Morrissey. [...] But when Morrissey closes out his tour at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday, Oct. 26, in support of his recent album, 'California Son,' Hidalgo won't be there. 'I don't have it in me,' she says with a sigh. In recent years, Morrissey has pushed a political and social agenda that she can no longer ignore."

"Major League Baseball is investigating an umpire's tweet saying he was going to buy an assault rifle and warning of civil war if President Trump is impeached. ESPN obtained a copy of Rob Drake's tweets before he deleted them from his Twitter account."

Unfortunately, the termination came only after the Astros organization had first publicly downplayed Sports Illustrated journalist Stephanie Apstein's story about the locker-room incident with Taubman, a story which turned out to be all too true. The magazine stood squarely behind their reporter and her work and other media outlets quickly confirmed her account, which compelled Astros management to retract their initial statement and fire Taubman. What year are we living in again -- 1919?

Oh, and while we're on the subject of 1919, while Major League Baseball has been celebrating its 150th anniversary, it has pretty much failed to acknowledge that this October also marks the 100th anniversary of the sport's darkest chapter, the infamous Black Sox scandal in which eight members of the heavily favored Chicago White Sox conspired with gambling interests to throw the 1919 World Series to the underdog Cincinnati Reds. The appalling tale of avarice was later immortalized in Eliot Asinof's outstanding book on the matter, Eight Men Out, which was subsequently made into a film in 1988 by acclaimed director John Sayles.

What's really interesting is that a lot more evidence has since come to light in the 50 years since Asinof's book was first published, including the federal grand jury transcripts of 1920, which belie the conventional wisdom that the players were victims of miserly team owner Charlie Comiskey and were duped by gambling interests into throwing the World Series.

Rather, according to sports historian Jacob Pomrenke, it was the White Sox players themselves who first initiated the scheme and approached the gambling interests. Turns out that they were motivated by sheer greed as the prohibitive odds-on favorites to win the World Series, and literally bet against themselves for a big payday. Ain't it funny? It was all about money.

The last time this guy Durham did an investigation it took three years.

Three years from now there will be a squib on page 16 of the Times

That said, MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance also pointed out to Lawrence O'Donnell last night that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who's heading up the DOJ probe, has also been known to use federal grand juries to conclusively put to rest public insinuations and shut down a line of chatter. So, one can hope that Durham has perhaps launched the criminal inquiry in order to show Trump and Barr once and for all that there's really no there there. But I'll believe that when I see it.

Boom!

It appears that James Baker has already been cooperating...the leverage on him, he was the leaker to the WP regarding Flynn, classified information. General Counsel for the FBI as a cooperating witness, just read his congressional testimony, he was "very uncomfortable" with what the FBI was doing in its CounterIntelligence probe of the Donald. Hopefully, severe charges and penalties will be forthcoming, to prevent another attempted coup upon the Presidency by the Deep State. Chuckie Schumer was fully serious when he laughed at the Donald, saying the Depp State has 6 ways from Sunday to get back at you. But, the head of the NSA , Mike Rogers, gave The Donald a heads up about the spying , he showed up at Trump Tower during the transition period, the next day The Donald moved transition HQ from Trump Tower to a Trump golf course in NJ. Rogers also stopped the FBI from checking the NSA database after finding over 70 %  of the inquiries, by FBI and contractors were illegal. A report was filed with the head of the FISA Court , Rosemary Collier. After Rogers visit to the Donald, without notifying anyone, Clapper and Brennan pressed The Obama to fire Rogers. That is basically how The Donald found out what was going on.

The California legislature passed a major reform two months ago, which is meant to significantly limit the use of lethal force by police. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law, and it's effective on January 1, 2020. It's considered the strictest law of its kind in the country.

"It's fun to be the azzhole

I think rudeness is incredibly funny not that I agree with it.  I'm laughing at it not with it."