Dick Polman

A female Republican’s most thankless job
There are lots of thankless odious jobs in America – sanitation worker, septic tank repairman – but surely none are worse than cleaning up Donald Trump’s serial excrement. It’s a tough job, defending a guy who also brags about ending Roe v...
Joe Biden’s State of the Union was strong. Why am I not surprised?
Al Pacino, in the film version of Glengarry Glen Ross, sat in a bar and said, “Our life is looking forward or looking back. Where is the moment? We can’t alter the past and we can’t see the future, so we should maximize the present moment...
Have we forgotten Trump’s ‘appalling response’ to the pandemic?
It’s perversely fitting that the anti-science quack whose imbecilic behavior during the pandemic resulted in an unnecessarily high death toll is now declaring that, if returned to power, he will withdraw all federal funds from public schools that ..
The damage Mitch McConnell has done to democracy is indelible
To best assess the execrable essence of Mitch McConnell, you just need to connect the dots. 6, after the dead and the injured and the feces smeared on walls, McConnell tore into Donald Trump...
Trump wants to bring Kremlin values to the White House
To the shock of absolutely nobody, and to the delight of MAGA wingnuts who worship Vladimir Putin, the Republicult’s presidential candidate broke his 72-hour silence about the murder of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny by puking this babble on soc..
Ignore the polls. When real people cast real ballots, Democrats win.
Now that Taylor Swift has single-handedly delivered a House election to the Democrats, George Santos is congratulating himself for writing all her songs...
For Republicans, chaos is the point
What a hoot it was – hoot is the mildest word I can conjure – to hear House Speaker Mike Johnson insist on "Meet the Press" that he is master of his domain. I am calling the shots. Johnson’s head is so far up Trump’s rear, he can smell Putin...
Trump looks pretty beatable. Just not by Nikki Haley.
In this week's New Hampshire Republican primary, the key statistic was not Donald Trump’s underwhelming margin of victory – he beat Nikki Haley by 11 points after crowing that he’d win by 30 – but, far more importantly, this one right here: ..
Trump is already working to undermine the next election
Donald Trump took a break from the campaign trail earlier this week to watch one of his flunky lawyers contend in court that any and all crimes he may have committed in office are hereby magically excused because he was acting in his role as monarch..
Three big reasons we can plausibly hope for a sunny 2024 election
Democrats have entered the hand-wringing phase of the election season, fretting about Joe Biden and poised to leap from their windows. I foresee many reasons why Uncle Joe is likely to defeat the worst excuse for a human being to ever fail upward...
Another ‘perfect’ phone call, this time in Michigan
Just to remind ourselves of the existential stakes at play in 2024, let’s ring out the old year by wringing one more authoritarian mess from the MAGA playbook...
Colorado’s top court read what the Constitution clearly says
Shortly after the Colorado Supreme Court declared in an explosive ruling that Donald Trump can’t appear on the state’s 2024 ballot because he’s an insurrectionist, one of the former president's flacks fumed in predictable fashion about “Geor..

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