A variation on an oldie:

A billionaire, a Republican voter and a Democratic voter sit down at a table with a dozen cookies on a plate in its center.

The billionaire instantly grabs eleven of the cookies, leans over to the Republican and whispers "You'd better watch out for that Democrat---he's after your cookie!"

Is it true that anyone who chooses to register and identify as Democrat becomes a Democrat? nt

I would love to be completely wrong about this, but I just don't think there's any way

we get our voting rights legislation passed in this Congress. Our next and likely LAST chance is to elect enough Democratic Senators next year so that we don't need Manchin or Sinema to kill the filibuster and pass a federal law that will ensure a level playing field in '24 and guarantee that we can take office if elected.

We need to "leave it all on the field" in these '22 Congressional races

Instead of "infrastructure spending", how about "commonweal investment"? I know it

is an old-fashioned form of "commonwealth", but that novelty might popularize it.

It does parallel the conventional wisdom that "a rising tide lifts all boats" and it replaces the right-wing trigger word "spending" with the more "responsible" term "investment". It is a broad enough term to include all manner of "infrastructure" from roads and bridges to home health care.

Would that fly?

I nearly posted a comment about the Kremlin "monitoring" our "persecution" of the

January 6th insurrectionists, but I decided that it was too "satisfying" to be "appropriate".

RANT!!!!!!!!!

Why in hell are the talking heads and chyron saying "Flynn denies APPEARING to SUGGEST a coup---"?

"Appearing"?

Listen to the damn tape!

Did Trump "appear to suggest" grabbing women "by the pussy" was OK?

Why are we bending over backwards to avoid saying that Flynn is a traitorous criminal who belongs in prison?