So the GOP clown car, with Donald Trump at the wheel, continues to hit-and-run the Republican Party — perhaps fatally. This reasoned argument by 538's Nate Silver lays out exactly what may be in store for the Party of Lincoln. Of course, if you want to read it, you have to: 1) be willing to invest some time beyond sound bites, 2) consider a bit of history, and 3) employ an intellect a lot higher than your typical Trump supporter's. Just sayin'.
You know what rule applies when your enemy is destroying himself? Never interfere. The second rule is this: Don't do anything silly in your own neck of the woods, either.
So we cats are mystified about Bernie Sanders. We buy the whole give-Hillary-a-primary-opponent-so-she-hones-her-chops-for-the-general-election thing. But in light of Sanders's meeting with President Obama at the White House today, we're wondering if Obama happened to raise the issue of Dr. Robert Califf with him.
Califf is the adminstration's nominee to head the FDA, and Sanders has put a hold on his nomination. Too many ties to the pharmaceutical companies, Bernie says. Never mind that the position has been vacant for nearly a year.
This drives us cats crazy. Is it because we love Big Pharma? Heck, no. But we have to think that any nominee to the FDA from a Democratic President is going to be way superior to a nominee from the other side. And goodness gracious — we Democrats don't need to be putting a hold on our own Chief Executive's nominations, do we?
Ah, but then we remembered: Bernie Sanders is not really a Democrat. He's an Independent who just caucuses with us. And while it's always interesting when people put principle over politics, at a time when the Democratic Party is rallying to oppose the off-the-charts nutcases who will choose a nominee in Cleveland this summer, we need not to be doing stuff like this. We hope President Obama got Sanders to release his hold. And we HISS.
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