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I ♡ Marc Pocan.

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Nice thought but the AZ 5th is solidly wingnut. Biggs replaced Matt Salmon, a shitmuffin what has been featured in this mommy blog several times. That 27 vote victory was in the primary, Biggs won the general by more than 30 pts.

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No WA on this, phew!

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Dammit!

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The FBI has been hard after the Clintons for decades. They got nothing. The 'liberal' media and the GOP were reduced to pulling things out of their ass, like Benghazi, which was painful. The bottom line is, they have nothing on Hillary. Trump, on the other hand, has to be white-washed daily just to keep up the appearance of a white-collar criminal instead of a regular crime boss. At some level, they may prefer to have a president who is compromised, in case they need to jerk his chain. They certainly went to extraordinary lengths. Maybe it was Hillary who had the establishment panicked, not Trump.

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Wikileaks was never about transparency. It's always been about nihilism.

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COME-on-meY.

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For a guy supposedly leading the opposition, this isn't exactly heartening. Then again, Pompeo is far from the worst of the shitheads Trump is naming. My (faint) hope is that he's keeping his powder dry, and has some GOP senators willing to work with him where it matters more.

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Even MOAR abandon thread!

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Yes. And he left some heightened domestic surveillance powers in place. I'm sure they won't be abused.

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I'm sure he's not salivating at the thought of being the death dealer behind our drone program either.

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Comey violated the Hatch Act. He MUST be prosecuted (although he probably won't be). Good on ya, Mark Pocan.

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See Pompeo, Mike.

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Dianne Feinstein has been an asshole for decades, why would she change now?

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Why do his lips look like they're about 3 cm dilated?

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