Lucas is pushing for Virginia Dems to gerrymander a 10-1 Dem map in Virginia (rather than 8-4 or 9-3, it's currently 6-5).

I know what you're going to say: if renewables are so cost effective why do they need subsidies?

Wait until you see how many subsidies we give to fossil fuel companies

Sweaty billionaire fluffers = top notch band name

But didn't she also stoke an insurrection that had him hiding for his life in the Capitol, days after his son died?

The piece quotes Kara Swisher — later identified as a friend of Nuzzi's — saying her piece about Biden's age was "the best political reporting out there."

But it wasn't! It came out two weeks after the debate and is just a bunch of anonymous quotes from insiders. Replacement-level stuff.

Every day brings a fresh reason to cancel your NYT sub...

Someone watched The Diplomat

That would be infinitely more palatable messaging than "Standing up to Donald Trump doesn't work." That it's not the messaging they used suggests to me that maybe it wasn't their reasoning, though, which is a huge part of what made me so angry in the first place.

It isn't the strategy I wanted. I think Republicans would have, in fact, eventually caved (by killing the filibuster). But here we are.

I'm mad about the shut down and worried about healthcare, but not letting people starve is a pretty good reason to cave on this bureaucratic fight, the more I think about it. So just say that: Republicans wanted you to starve rather than compromise, so we let this one go.