They should just get one of those applause signs they used to use when taping tv shows.

Gotta hand it to her, Clinton brought her A game. I almost found her endearing and that never happens.

Which proves that in 2012, some very smart people were talking out of their a$$es and were not a reflection on me.

My question: Has the relatively new management of the DMR called for an audit, as well, as to the troubled Iowa Republican Caucus ... that caucus that resulted in charges of stealing the vote & interfering with fraudulent tales by Cruz' people (see the ongoing skirmish between Cruz and Carson; and, see the public charges now by Trump to that same effect.)  My, my ... I'm guessing the an even-handed paper might want to call for an audit there as well.  

It is getting a little funny to add to the continue whine of "not fair."  Maybe we could audit all the caucuses in both parties--Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Maine, etc.--before they even start.  Whoever loses can line up to complain the next day....  

Because she's just that gosh darned impressive when she displays her innate, far-sighted genius for foreign policy.

jbindc: "Chris Villisca tweeted something ..."

... and found out that the town Villisca, IA was the site of a rather horrific mass murder of two adults and six children back in June 1912, which remains Iowa's most notorious cold case. I learn something new every day, and I'll file that in my treasure trove of obscure (and likely useless) trivia.

(P.S.: I figure you meant Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post's resident gossip columnist whose bi+chy little tweet you cited tonight, and I proudly admit that I haven't paid any attention to that silly twit since he worked for Roll Call.)

PATRICK'S STORY  (report by Dana Schuster, The New York Post, 2-5-2016)

Earlier this autumn, I got a call from a specialty pharmacy in Michigan.

My insurance would no longer cover the cost of Daraprim, a vital medicine in my Lyme disease treatment. They said the drugs would cost me $US30,000 ($41,800).

"Thirty thousand dollars a year?" I asked, flabbergasted.

"No, $30,000 a month," they responded.

"Thanks (whoever) from the arena in Arkansas, yes Arkansas that's where Donald Trump will be making his next "appearance" in this campaign."

Gawd.  What an a-hole.  That was after whoever trotted around asking people really stupid questions like "do you think Donald Trump lost Iowa?"
The look he got from the person he asked that question was pretty funny.  

The press seems unanimous in stating that the big winner was Rubio.

Men are just too obvious
Everything hanging out
All the mommy issues
All the penile doubt

But women are the earth
Layer upon layer
All rock and heat and gem
Most guys don't have a prayer.

Cuz men are much too mansy
All the false bravado
Like they'd rather just be under
Their best bro's El Dorado.

We finally got tired of that and changed the channel to our local PBS affiliate and watched "Murder of a President," which was presented as part of the ongoing anthology series "American Experience." It was about the assassination of James Garfield, who only four months into his first term was ambushed and shot in July 1881 at the Washington, D.C. train station by a disappointed office seeker, who himself was likely schizophrenic.

Although President Garfield miraculously survived the July 1881 shooting, he eventually succumbed to septic shock two months later thanks to the careless ministrations of his personal physician, who didn't believe in the virtues of antiseptics. His body ultimately wracked by massive infections, Garfield's death was a long and painful demise.

And as the show noted, although Garfield had been completely disabled by his wound and his condition was both grave and debilitating, there was no then-existing provision in our U.S. Constitution to provide for a functional transition in the White House on those occasions when an actual vacancy on the Oval Office didn't yet exist, such as the president's physical incapacity through injury or illness.

So, for nearly nine long weeks during the summer of 1881, our country was effectively without a president. Vice President Chester Arthur refused to take the reins of government as acting President while Garfield was still alive, considering that to be disrespectful to both the man and the office, and Congress refused to order Arthur to do so for the same reason. Sometimes, our country has somehow managed to persevere despite our own apparent efforts otherwise.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama is being pressed by some of his top national security aides to approve the use of American military power in Libya to open up another front against the Islamic State.

The White House just has to decide," said one senior State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity...

What that means, "The White House just has to decide.." is that they have decided, but they don't want us to know about it just yet.

The Register, which endorsed Clinton, is calling for a full audit that would include a release of raw vote totals and the results of coin tosses.

"Too many questions have been raised. Too many accounts have arisen of inconsistent counts, untrained and overwhelmed volunteers, confused voters, cramped precinct locations, a lack of voter registration forms and other problems," the Register writes.

"Too many of us, including members of the Register editorial board who were observing caucuses, saw opportunities for error amid Monday night's chaos."

The Register notes that the party's refusal to provide additional accountability "confirm[s] the suspicions, wild as they may be, of Sanders supporters."

Link to DMR

Remember Martin Shkreli, the guy who hiked the price of a life-saving drug 5,000%, from $13.50 to $750, then defended it?  It'll be hard to forget his face after Thursday, when he smirked and grinned his way through a congressional hearing instead of answering questions. Shkreli refused to testify, repeatedly citing his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. "It's not funny, Mr. Shkreli," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. said. "People are dying, and they're getting sicker and sicker." After the hearing, Shkreli removed any doubt about his feelings via Twitter:

• I wish she would/could stop trying to be something she's not - cool.

• I wish she would/could stop trying so hard to get young people to like her

• I wish she would/could tell some of the more obnoxious young Bernie supporters to "Grow the f*$% up.

I mean seriously, can't think of one thing related to her polices that you dislike ?   How is that not ABG, that is exactly the stuff he would have listed about Obama, maybe not the actual specifics, but the same low level quirks. But never in policy, no way, no how, would he ever really criticize Obama's policies.

However, a "revolution" first begins with agreement of the cause(s) of the problem. And, I have contended, as has Bernie, that the high jacking of our government was caused by the titans of Wall Street, The Corporations, and other assorted Million/Billion-aires.

I think he sees himself as the guy lighting the match which will result in the explosion, the point of critical mass, whereby the citizens unite, and throw the bums out.

It's a tough sell, I know. But, it's only meant to be a start. And, that hasn't been articulated very well by Sen. Sanders to date.