Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has announced that she's receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of her liver cancer, unrelated to her recent hospitalization. "My most recent scan on July 7 indicated a significant reduction of the liver lesions and no new disease," she said. "I am tolerating chemotherapy well and am encouraged by the success of my current treatment.
"I have often said I would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam. I remain fully able to do that."
RBG may be (please God) smacking down cancer again, but she's giving the rest of America a heart attack.
The country would not be able to stand another Supreme Court vacancy before Election Day. We're going through enough already, so even the thought of it is tail-raising. As if nearly 140,000 dead Americans and a ruined economy aren't reasons enough to run the Trumpsters out of town, Justice Ginsburg's health issues are a gut-wrenching reminder that we absolutely must, must, must, must win in November.
On that note, though, a few positive news items:
Joe Biden has raised a ton of money in the last couple of months, and has narrowed the fundraising gap between him and Benedict Donald to $50 million. He's gotten major gifts from people like Laurene Powell Jobs, Jeffrey Katzenberg and — gasp! — Meg Whitman. But still, $50 million behind is $50 million behind, right? Not necessarily. When you consider how much money the Trumpsters have had to spend lately in states they should already have locked up, the two campaigns are basically tied. And P.S.: One of them is ahead of the other by double digits. (People like to give to winners.)
The Lincoln Project is launching Operation Grant in Ohio, a grassroots organizing and advertising campaign to deny Benedict Donald the Buckeye State. This is grand news — not just because they're right that if Trump loses Ohio, he loses, but because it's sure to get under his very thin skin. However, may we make a suggestion? It would also be swell if the Lincoln lads would target Iowa. It's a state that flipped from Obama to Trump, and we'd love to get it back — and the Joni Ernst Senate race is a hot one that Democrats can win. You've also got a couple of House seats we can flip (and one we need to defend). And it's cheaper to advertise there. Think about it, Rick/John/Bill/et. al.
Finally, our Trumpy Republican Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, is between a Stone and a hard place: Convicted felon Roger is yapping that she and Kevin McCarthy lobbied against the commutation of his sentence. Stefanik is denying this. But these days, who are you gonna believe — Elise or Roger? Either way, this story is going to make Stefanik no friends: It reminds Democrats and anti-Trumpers how disgusting she is, and the MAGA crowd is going to be mad. We cats PURR.
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