Sad about Marin Mazzie and feeling bad for folks in and around the Carolinas who are being deluged. We get paralyzed here in Southern California if we get three inches over a couple of days and there are parts of North Carolina getting that much per hour with no end in sight. As I will forever say about such situations, the government should spend on this kind of thing — which does happen — like it spends on prepping for wars that don't.
"More bad news for Donald Trump." That's in the first paragraph of a news item about three times a week and that's not going to change. If anything, it will get worse. If the man fantasized about being hailed as a Great and Trusted Leader by a majority of the country and being free of scandals and investigations, that is never going to happen. It will be like it is now until whenever he leaves office and for some time after.
Today's bad news is the apparent flipping of Paul Manafort. The White House is furiously telling people that what Mr. Manafort's pleading guilty to is not about Trump. That may be true but what he can testify to in other matters sure does involve Trump. Lesson to be learned: When you surround yourself with crooks, some of them are going to sing…and they'll sing about you. The next election's turning into this…
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Other issues may arise for local and statewide races. But on the national level, that's really all that's going to matter.