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From Ann Telnaes today:
Old pals Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the Democrats’ cave men (and women):
I will say that Ezra Klein at the NYT, who opposes the deal, does provide what I thought was one brilliant line in trying to explain this:
More than anything else, this is what led some Senate Democrats to cut a deal: Trump’s willingness to hurt people exceeds their willingness to see people get hurt.
And:
They are hearing from their constituents and seeing the mounting problems, and they are trying to do what they see as the responsible, moral thing. They do not believe that holding out will lead to Trump restoring the subsidies….This, in the end, is the calculation the defecting Senate Democrats are making: They don’t think a longer shutdown will cause Trump to cave. They just think it will cause more damage.
And Paul Krugman this morning on what hasn’t changed: “MAGA can’t help being cruel. It can’t even pretend to care about other people’s suffering. And Democrats should take full advantage of this pathology.”
Two of our modern giants come together for this: On Mavis Staples’ great new album she covers Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece, “Anthem.”
Just out today: new song from indie legend Bill Callahan, “The Man I’m Supposed to Be.
From Tunes to Toons
Bill Bramhall:
Matt Wuerker:
Daniel Boris:
Dennis Goris:
Paolo Calleri:
Jack Ohman:
Bramhall again:
Clay Bennett:
Photo Finish
My new daily feature, from my camera to you, today: “Intermission at Barge Music, Brooklyn, N.Y.”
The toons are genius today and right on target.
It occurred to me that there might be another ploy here: this will force Mikey J to call the House into session, leaving no excuse to avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva, creating
218 votes to release the Epstein files.