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• Note to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys as opposed to letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives? It might be time to let go and save your energy for other battles. This one is getting absurd.

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  Letting Go, Giving Up, Guy

  "Arizona Suggests Forced Suicide For Death Row Inmates" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. February 18, 2017.

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• I can't fault [Donald] Trump for firing [Craig] Deare. Then again, I also can't fault Deare for going berserk. Sometimes a marriage just doesn't work.

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  Faults, Sometimes, Trump

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• During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.

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  Real, Growth, Term

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• When Donald Trump disingenuously demands to know why [Hillary] Clinton never tried to close the loopholes he used, the answer is: She did. And if there had been any way to make it retroactive, she probably would have voted for that too.

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  Answers, Demand, Way

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• Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.

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  Two, Ignorant, Battle

  "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

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• If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.

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  Fighting, Two, Sight

  "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.

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• We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

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  Isis

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• I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.

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  Thinking, Doctors, California

  "In Flint, We Are Laying Tragedy on Top of Tragedy on Top of Tragedy" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• [David] Muir tried four or five times to get a straight answer about [Donald] Trump's idiotic claim that 3-5 million noncitizens voted, and Trump just flatly wouldn't engage.

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  Answers, Four, Claims

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• Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably don’t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.

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  Years, Email, Crooks

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• In any case, to the extent that the media is dedicated to exposing lies and reporting the truth, it is indeed the opposition party to people like Bannon.

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  Lying, Party, Media

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.

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  Thinking, President, Campaigns

  "Trump Team Still Doesn’t Seem to Understand They’re in the White House Now" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 26, 2017.

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• You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...

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  Groups, Half, Compromise

  "Here’s Why I Never Warmed Up to Bernie Sanders" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 29, 2016.

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• The plain fact is that recent college grads aren’t in massive pain. They suffered during the Great Recession like everyone else, but all told, they probably suffered a little less than most other groups.

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  Pain, College, Groups

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?

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  Government, Way, Socialism

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• Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

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  Giving, Answers, Speech

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• Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.

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  Gun, Waiting, Trump

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• The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

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  Cancer, Smoking, Risk

  "Media Takes Usual Sober Approach to Latest Cancer Warning" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

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  People, Effort, Benefits

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• On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

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  Cutting, Sides, Medicare

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• Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

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  Balls, Firsts, Republican

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

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  Years, Losing, Sensitive

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

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  Impact, Voters, Bills

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

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  Party, Voting, Would Be

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

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  Hate, Vices, Vote

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