Ironic that the Republicans were so exercised over the Benghazi death of a US Ambassador — about whom they could not possibly have cared less, by the way — that they held billions of hearings behind closed doors about it, only opening those doors when they sat Hillary Clinton down for 11 hours of testimony on national TV.
But in reality, they're the ones who "kill" ambassadors. Just read Marie Yovanovitch's October 11 transcript and you'll see that when the Trumpsters unceremoniously yanked from her posting in Ukraine, she felt personally threatened and concerned for her safety. Wow.
More transcripts will be released tomorrow. Meanwhile, Pundit World is yapping about a set of New York Times/Siena College polls that show Benedict Donald as far from dead in six battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Everyone's a little shocked — how could the guy who's getting impeached, and who just got booed at the World Series and the UFC in one week be so competitive?
We have a few thoughts about that.
Except for Biden, voters don't really know much about the prospective Democrats yet. Also, these polls only look at six states. What about the ones Trump claims he can flip — Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Virginia? And what about polls in states like Georgia, Texas and Iowa, which are much closer than they were three years ago?
The Times/Siena folks should re-poll after more Ukraine-gate revelations come to light. (On that note, news flash: Lev Parnas, one of Giuliani's Keystone Kop conspirators, has decided to cooperate with impeachment investigators. Whoops!) In the meantime, we're focused on the fact that Trump's approval rating has never gone above 50 percent, that those who strongly disapprove of him far outweigh those who approve, and that he "won" in 2016 with fewer popular votes than Willard Mitt Romney got in 2012.
And then there's the aforementioned Virginia. Let's see what happens there tomorrow, and then we'll revisit whether Benedict Donald will be able to flip it next year. We cats say, fat chance. And we PURR.
(IMAGE: These are actual polecats. Cute, aren't they?)
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