Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
A college classmate went on an Alaska cruise. She loved it. I look at the advertising photo and think: “Seriously? You’re all lined up to look at a snowbank?
Where the hell are you from, that a snowbank is a big deal?”
I could make a fortune showiing people snowbanks along rural North Dakota highways…
In Saint Paul, on top of the feds, the state, the county and the city, we have a de facto fifth level of government, the “Community Council”. They’re not technically “government”, but they administer much of the city’s planning agenda, and serve as a group of ready labor for cajoling, shaming and bludgeoning neighborhood businesses into line.
Their boards are “elected”, but the elections are kept a fairly closely guarded secret to avoid any dissenting voices joining. They are essentially training grounds, and sometimes salaries, for the DFL farm club in Saint Paul.
And some of them go through money they don’t have like it’s going out of style.
The Pioneer Press is covering the ongoing collapse of the Dayton’s Bluff Community Councijl, on the lower East Side. In the report – you can read it here – you can see a lot of the hallmarks of DFL control writ small; a paid administrator with big ambitions and dubious command of finance; a “cultural director” with a mutual-back-scratching arrangement with the council, and a board elected by a neighborhood that bleeds blue and wouldn’t know what “dissent” is in a one party town.
The results? Among many others (and you should read the whole thing):
In an interview, Abbott-Foster acknowledged that the council’s 2017 proposed budget was about $470,000 — and they’ll likely only pull in $300,000.
“It was probably a crazy budget proposal. But every year we’d gone up. That was on trajectory,” she added, noting the 2016 actual budget was in the $400,000 range.
She said her own salary was $83,000.
“When I started we were on a $70,000 budget. And each year I was there, we increased the budget by $70,000,” she said.
She blamed the shortfall on several factors: two regular funders, including the St. Paul Foundation, pulled out this year. Their radio station didn’t get any significant underwriting.
DFL governnance: cover the luxuries, and the necessities will take care of themselves.
…it’s because they want you to focus on the one big “conservative” failure of state governance in recent years [1] – and ignore stories like North Carolina, whose economy is booming under conservative leadership and policies.
Or North Dakota, which weathered the deflation of the oil boom in style (the unemployment rate has never gotten less than a half point lower than Minnesota’s, even at the worst of the deflation).
Or Wisconsin, which after years of heckling from DFLers urging people to compare Mark Dayton’s performance with Scott Walker’s, are pretty silent these days; it took Wisconsin a few years to shake off the dross of six decades of “progressive” control of the economy, but today it’s unemployment rate is statistically identical with Minnesota’s.
Or that of solidly-red Idaho – the nation’s fastest-growing state.
Of course, percentage growth differs from numeric growth — that top title went to Texas, [Huh. Don’t that beat all? – Ed] which brought in an additional 400,000 residents between July 2016 and July 2017, bringing the Southern state’s total population to 28.3 million people.
Warning to Idahoans: screen for people fleeing California, Seattle and Denver. Even as they flee the results of progressivism, they bring the contagion. Build a wall.
As contrasted with the jewel i the “progressive” crown, Illinois, which is losing about 300 people a day.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
On the phone, waiting to talk to my bank. They play ads during the hold Muzak.
“Need extra money this holiday season? Whether it’s to take the family out of state, buy gifts, or host that holiday party, we have holiday loans available. Whatever the additional expense may be, use the funds to stretch your budget further. Qualifications apply.”
Wait – you’ll give me a loan to host a holiday party? Cars and homes, sure, nobody can save up enough to buy one for cash. A party?
If lending standards have loosened this far, the nation must truly be prosperous. What could possibly go wrong?
Joe Doakes
Perhaps…Bitcoin?
That story that Trump has instituted a list of “banned words” at the CDC?
The one the WaPo reported on?
You might as well be reading Buzzfeed.
The terms are “fetus,” “transgender,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “evidence-based” and “science-based,” according to a story first reported on Friday in The Washington Post.
But Fitzgerald said in a series of tweets on Sunday said [Note to correspondents at PBS: check your work. Sic. Ed] there are “no banned words,” while emphasizing the agency’s commitment to data-driven science.
Oh, there was substitution suggested…:
A group of the agency’s policy analysts said senior officials at the CDC informed them about the banned words on Thursday, according to the Post’s report. In some cases, the analysts were reportedly given replacement phrases to use instead.
But in follow-up reporting, The New York Times cited “a few” CDC officials who suggested the move was not meant as an outright ban, but rather, a technique to help secure Republican approval of the 2019 budget by eliminating certain words and phrases.
In other words, it was internal PR.
I know a few reporters. I know they try hard to get facts, even partisan facts – sometimes even partisan facts that jostle their own partisanship – correct.
But people who believe the mainstream legacy media doesn’t operate from systematic political bias are starting to rank down there with moon landing deniers.
is it bad that I take so much joy in watching the Left eat its’ own?
Two days ago I happened to write an article about the amazingly stupid conspiracy theory that the Green Party, which has run a presidential candidate every election since 1996, ran a presidential candidate in 2016 because of a Russian plot to sabotage American democracy. Today, Buzzfeed News reports that the Senate Intelligence Committee has asked Jill Stein’s campaign to comply with a document search.
This is what Russiagate has come to. This psychotic conspiracy theory is now so desperate to turn this endless fountain of nothing into something that it is rifling through the documents of a campaign which received one percent of the popular vote because its candidate had dinner in Russia two years ago.
Jill Stein – who took the same one percent from Democrats that the Libertarians took from Trump – is coming in for some of the same weaponized wrath that befell the Greenies in 2000.
Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has initiated a new feature – “Anti-Leaks”. As the GOC describes it, the feature will show leaked communications between gun-grabber groups, documenting the depth and depravity of the conspiracy against your Second Amendment rights.
Yesterday’s installment was a funny one; former Maplewood police chief Paul Schnell – who has been the cop for hire on many of “Protect” Minnesota’s dog and pony shows – got an email from a PR firm working for Gabby Giffords’ organization:
They are, in effect, putting words in the chief’s mouth:
No, I didn’t expect better.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Senate Republicans can rejoice that the pervert lost. They should rename themselves The Purity Party: only the truly virtuous may apply. If they get choosy enough, they can save on convention expenses – meet for coffee at the local Denny’s, plenty of room for The Chosen Few.
92% of Democrats voted, only 50% of Alabama Republicans. Disheartened? The Establishment, the media, everyone against them, and some people probably had legitimate concerns about the allegations. Still, it was close. Democrats learned the tactic will work but they need to adjust the timing. Republicans learned . . . what?
What everyone in The Purity Party forgets is that Democrats vote as a unified monolithic block, marching to the same party line with no thought of principles or morals. Senate Republicans are like herding cats, which is why even with a majority they can’t get anything accomplished. One fewer person in their saintly congregation isn’t going to make it easier to roll back Obama’s successes.
Which makes one wonder: do Rockefeller Republicans care about that?
Joe Doakes
On the one hand, I’d very much like to see the GOP get a lot better both at vetting candidates (if Moore did do what’s been alleged, I find it hard to believe it surprised everyone) and defending against this sort of thing (why did Moore not sue every single accuser for defamation, as fast as possible, if only to get their statements – perjured statements? – on record immeidately?)
On the other? I thinks this is a continuing lesson to Republicans that are paying attention – especially if the charges against Moore wind up being frauds. I say “continuing”, because the election of Donald Trump itself proves that an awful lot of voters are starting to ignore the noise machine.
We’ve fallen a little behind on our World War I series. Over the next few months, we’re going to work to get caught-up to the calendar.
For the better part of a year and a half, the British General Staff had tinkered with the plan. The lessons of failed offensives and technological innovations had repeatedly changed Sir Douglas Haig’s tactics but not his overall strategy. On June 18th, 1917, the commander of the British Expeditionary Forces signed off on the most ambitious amphibious attack since Gallipoli – an invasion behind the German line via the beaches in Belgium.
Massive newly designed landing crafts would drop off 13,500 British troops, tanks, artillery and even a motorized machine-gun unit. Coupled with a joint British/Belgian/French offensive from Ypres, Haig had envisioned a quick strike behind the fearsome new Hindenburg Line, driving deep the behind German front to sow confusion, forcing what the British believed were weary German defenders to abandon their fortified trenches. For a commander who was already earning the gruesome moniker of “Butcher” for his seemingly callous disregard for British lives, Haig appeared invested in finding a solution to the trenches short of yet another frontal assault.
The offensive had been silently built up for months, hence the codename of Operation Hush. Yet for all of the supposed secrecy, within 24 hours of the offensive’s approval, the Germans would know exactly what the British intended – and would counter it.
Operation Hush – a naval-based flanking maneuver designed to finally circumvent the German trenches, the operation would be batted around the halls of the London War Office for almost two years
Since the earliest days of the Great War, Britain had obsessed over the opportunities that the Belgian coast provided their armies. As early as October of 1914, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill had advocated for a naval landing behind the recently occupied Belgian front. Even officers as relatively cautious as the British Expeditionary Force’s first commander, Sir John French, backed the concept until it was shelved for the similar Gallipoli operation. Read the rest of this entry »
When is lack of “privilege” a good thing?
When you commit a crime that’s part of “Feminism’s” narrative.
When a rape is committed against women at “elite” institutions (or not even actually committed, in some cases), by fellow student’s, it’s national news.
When the victim is a girl that works for a living, and the perp is just a common criminal? The crickets care:
Is it just hypothetically possible that Saint Paul – a city run by people whose only experience with business is working for non-profits that harass actual productive businesspeople – has gotten the city into an epic Ponzi scheme?
Neil DeMause at Deadspin talks with a group of sports economists that aren’t especially bullish on this year’s hipster diversion, the MLS:
“When Forbes last looked at MLS finances, it had to perform mathematical contortions to explain why franchise values are rising even as annual losses continue to mount.”
“That business model and this financial trajectory suggests that MLS’s sea of red ink is either a loss leader or a Ponzi scheme, and it’s not always easy to tell the difference between the two until it’s too late. Several sports economists, though, aren’t optimistic.”
“The best indicator of expansion franchise worth is success at the bottom of the league” in revenues, says Stanford economist Roger Noll. For MLS, “that still looks more like AAA baseball except for a few million per year more in TV revenue.”
But as DeMause explains, the TV revenue isn’t going to happen – not the way the league is currently run – because there are already better leagues on the TV. Mexican “Liga MX” games get better ratings; English Premiere League games on Saturday mornings get better numbers than MLS games in prime time.
Why?
Because they have better soccer.
But won’t the MLS improve?
Not the way it’s currently set up. Unlike *every* successful sports league, all MLS players get paid by the league – not their teams. Instead of teams competing with teams around the US and world for talent that’ll make actual soccer fans interested, the league as a whole competes with leagues that are made up of teams that are competing with each other, and the whole world, for talent. As a result, the payroll for the *entire MLS league* is lower than the *average* payroll for a single Premiere League team. MLS spends at about the same rate as the Bulgarian national league . The MLS model is designed to *control espenses*, not foster the competition that creates a watchable product.
So all those new immigrants that are supposed to keep MLS afloat? They’ve already got *good* leagues to watch. MLS is to Premier or the German Bundesliga or even Liga MX as the Saint Paul Saints are to the Twins, in terms of talent. Why would people from parts of the world were soccer is the main sport bother with a product that’s not only inferior, but *designed to stay that way*?
“Whether current MLS honchos actually have this in mind now, or are still guzzling their own Kool-Aid, is tough to say. But for most big-market teams and early adopters, even if the expand-o-ganza goes south, it’s a fair bet they’ll be left with a chair when the music stops—franchises like New York and Los Angeles should be safe and potentially profitable, even if the likes of Raleigh or Nashville might be screwed.”
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Governor Dayton appointed a Hmong woman to fill a vacant judgeship in Ramsey County. He has a track record of history-making judicial appointments: first Native American woman, first openly gay woman, first Hispanic appellate court judge . . . all very progressive and helping to increase the diversity of people sitting on the bench. But I wonder . . . does it do any good?
Suppose I am a Black man who has been accused of robbing a gay man. Can I request the Black judge instead of the gay judge? After all, isn’t that the purpose of increasing diversity on the bench — to have people with different backgrounds who can bring empathy and perspective to the proceedings? If I can’t pick my judge, then what difference does it make to have diversity on the bench?
Worse, if we empty the bench of hard-hearted old men who judge the case on the law and the facts without regard to who the parties are, and replace them with empathetic young women eager to understand the plight of underdogs, will the rest of the judicial system become like family court?
Joe Doakes
Like that’s not the goal…
SCENE: Dayton, Ohio – 1904. A group of protesters – young activists from Snofe Lakes, California – chant slogans in front of the Leach and Bitwell Auto Company; “Keep The Roads Democratic!”, “What do we want? Road Neutrality. When do we want it? Now!” and “Cars are a Public Utility”. After a few moments, Arthur LIBRELLE climbs up on the soapbox.
LIBRELLE: What we seek is highway neutrality. We demand that the government treat cars and roads as the public utility they truly are. That way, in thirty years, your children will be able to buy a car like this (LIBRELLE points to a 1904 Leach and Bitwell roadster – a two seater with a hand-crank starter that is basically a glorified go-kart with a two cylinder engine and a couple of chairs which lists at $5,000 – which is about $200,000 2017 dollars) – and their children, and their children’s children, as long as California is the capitol fo the horseless carriage industry. Nobody will be able, using just more money, to buy a better car!
(Hezekiah MERG chimes in): But if you treat the budding auto industry like a utility, there’ll be no impetus for someone like, say, Henry Ford or Louis Chevrolet, to respond to the market demand and build a cars that, before long, will be every big as good as the specimen you see here, for a fraction of the price.
LIBRELLE: (Scoffing as the young people from Snofe Lakes laugh uproariously) Oh, it is to laugh! The idea that people from Detroit will ever build cars, or that technology will ever surpass what we see in front of us! No, indeed; let us regulate cars and roads like utilities, that they may ever be as successful as the crown jewel of Los Angeles’s transportation system, our streetcars!
(The crowd erupts)_.
…when I said that the Democrats were going to try to throw Franken under the bus to bulletproof them against Roy Moore.
When whenever people tell me I’m “too cynical” about Democrats, my respons is “No — I’m almost never cynical enough”.
SCENE: Walll Street, – 1983. A group of protesters – young activists from Slough Fnakes, Vermont – chant slogans in front of the Motorola headquasrters building, wielding protest signs; “Keep Cell Phones Democratic!”, “What do we want? Cell Neutrality. When do we want it? Now!” and “Car Phones are a Public Utility”. After a few moments, Ashton LIBRELLE climbs up on the soapbox.
LIBRELLE: What we seek is car phone neutrality. We demand that the government treat car phones and suitcase phones as the public utility they truly are. That way, in thirty years, your children will be able to buy a mobile phone like this (LIBRELLE holds up a 1984 Motoirola cell phone – the size of at World War II walkie talkie, that cost $10,000 in 2017 dollars plus $1,000 a month and $4 a minute for talk times) – and their children, and their children’s children, as long as Motorola remains unchallenged atop the car phone industry. Nobody will be able, using just more money, to buy a better phone!
(Hank MERG chimes in): But if you treat the budding cellular communiations industry like a utility, there’ll be no impetus for someone like, say, Steve Jobs or Victor Droid, to respond to the market demand and build device that, before long, will not only do everything the phone your holding does thousands of times better, but do it for about one percent of the inllation adjusted cost. Indeed, in 24 years, I predict that non-profits will be giving away phones that are millions of times more powerful per dollar, and criminals will buy them to use once and throw away!.
LIBRELLE: (Scoffing as the young people fromSlough Fnakes laugh uproariously) Oh, it is to laugh! The idea that phones will be a commodity, like Pet Rocks, or that technology will ever surpass what we see in front of us! No, indeed; let us regulate car and suitcase phones like utilities, that they may ever be as successful as the public education system!
(The crowd erupts)_.
Perhaps the mind-numbing stupidity of its’ leaders?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If the pre-ghost Ebenezer Scrooge were alive today, he’d be a Liberal. The post-ghost Scrooge would be a Conservative.
Pre-ghost Scrooge was asked to contribute to a fund for the poor, because Christmas is a time when want is keenly felt and abundance rejoices. Scrooge declines, citing the Poor Law, Workhouse and Prisons as places for the poor to find help, which he supports through his taxes. Those who are too proud to take government help should die, and thereby decrease the surplus population.
Bell ringers are not allowed outside Target, where good Liberals shop. The poor will get no help from holiday shoppers there.
Post-ghost Scrooge continued to support those same institutions but also donated to the fund for the poor and in addition, took a personal interest in Tiny Tim’s welfare, digging into his own pocket to pay for medical care.
Conservatives routinely give more to charity than Liberals.
“A Christmas Carol” is not only a heart-warming story of personal redemption, but also a piercing commentary on politics that has lost none of its relevance.
Joe Doakes
Pre-ghost Scrooge obeyed one iron-clad “progressive” tenet; he saw people, individuals, as liabilities to be supported to everyone’s detriment. Post-ghost, he saw them as the miracles a good conservative sees.
I’ll alliow it.
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We’ve fallen a little behind on our World War I series. Over the next few months, we’re going to work to get caught-up to the calendar.
After a year that had seen carnage on a historical scale, the opening salvos around the Chemin des Dames region of Western France almost appeared as modest. 850,000 men, a joint Franco-British task force, lashed out against Germany’s Hindenburg Line with 7,000 guns and 160 tanks on April 16th, 1917.
The operation, the brainchild of France’s newly promoted commander of it’s northern armies, Robert Nivelle, had all the hallmarks of the sort of offensives that had dominated the Western Front since 1915 – massive artillery bombardments, human waves attacks, gruesome casualties and continued stalemate. Only the reaction of the men who participated would differentiate the assaults from the dozens that had preceded it.
A general with the penchant towards the dramatic, Nivelle had promised that he could bring about the end of the deadlock in the West within 48 hours of the first shots fired from his offensive. Instead, he would usher in the near total collapse of the French military.
French troops, in gas masks, await orders to go over the top. By the start of 1917, 1 million Frenchmen, out of a population of 40 million men of all ages, had died in the Great War
By the spring of 1917, the dividing lines in the Great War appeared less to be between the Entente and Central Powers, then between those nations willing to adapt and those who stubbornly refused to change. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter – especially that part that tninks Hollywood is just dreamy – is giggling that goofy giggle it laughs when it thinks it’s onto something funny.
In this case, the prospect of fundraising Twitter memes equating Senator A-Klo and Senator Mengelette with Tina Fey and Amy Pohler.
A source notes Minnesota’s senators will now be named Tina and Amy, setting up an obvious fundraiser/ad/viral video when both of them are up for reelection in 2018. #MNSen pic.twitter.com/Upm7RSH300
— Kevin Robillard (@PoliticoKevin) December 13, 2017
Tina and Amy. Get it?
All by way of getting in good with Al Franken’s ‘Hollywood money wagon.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
#metoo is the Twitter hashtag for people who want to join the parade of victims of sexual harassment – women, men, other; everyone can join. And it’s been amazingly effective at bringing down very rich and powerful men in Hollywood, the media and politics.
The same people who celebrate the success of #metoo insist all cultures are equal, but is that really so? Do we believe the female and homosexual sexual harassment victims participating in the #metoo campaign would have had identical success in, say, Iran?
Joe Doakes
Movements like that can’t exist in a place that isn’t fundamentally wired to accept them, convenient or not.
It reminds me of the story Dinesh D’Souza wrote about his high school history teacher in India, who noted that had Mathama Gandhi lived under HItler, rather than the very liberal (by comparison) British colonial system, “he’d have ended up as a lampshade”.
And…Iran? Try Japan, or China.
Pat DiNizio of the Smitherens is dead at 66.
“The who?”
Siddown, kid.
The Smithereens, from Carteret, NJ, need no introduction to anyone who was listening to the radio in the mid-eighties. Crisp, taut melodic power-pop with just enough garage to make it fun and just enough polish to make it memorable,
And against the stereotype backdrop of eighties music – glossy stylied synth-pop, slick hair metal, and of course the golden age of the Big Arena Rock Anthem, it was defiantly retro, not as a stylistic statement, but for the sheer love of the sound.
“Blood and Roses” was first:
“Only a Memory” was probably my favorite:
“A Girl Like You” was, if memory serves, their biggest hit:
But I’ve learned the hard way; never ask if it could get worse.
…the bureaucracy – any bureaucracy – runs by rules of its own. Those rules usually have more to do with sustaining bureaucracy itself than to solving whatever problem or administering whatever service that bureaucracy is supposed to be doing.
On the other? Read past the bureaucratese in this report and it appears that the Minneapolis Police Department has been shaving a lot of corners on psychological testing of its new recruits.
Does this have anything to do with, among other things, the Damond shooting? Bureaucratic checkbox-checkers running amok?
Maybe a little bit of both?
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
RINOs demand amnesty for illegal aliens before year-end.
Yes, I know, they’re claiming it’s only for a few people, and they’re doing it for the children, and I’m a hard-hearted bastard for doubting them. But this is not my first rodeo. I remember 1986. I know a camel’s nose when I see one.
“They are American in every way except their immigration status.” That is precisely correct. They are NOT Americans, any more than the other 7 billion people on the planet who also are not Americans. We should treat all Not Americans the same.
It doesn’t matter whether they snuck across the border on their own, or with a friend, or with a parent, or rode here on top of a train. They had no right to come. Being here doesn’t give them a right to stay, to bring in their extended families, to work at jobs Americans could have had, to collect welfare benefits Americans pay to help our fellow citizens of America.
No deal.
Joe Doakes
It doesn’t seem too much to ask…
…but I dream.
SCENE: In the command bunker at the Democrat National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, December 12, 2017.
DNC Command Bunker staffers Joshua Micah COHEN-YATZKIS, Rachel ROSARIO-WYKOFF and Tad BULLWER-FLYTTON are gathered around a table festooned with computer monitors and touch-screen readers. All brows are furrowed; the smell of desperation is palpably visible.
COHEN-YATZKIS: This is bad.
ROSARIO-HELMING: Very very bad.
BULLWER-FLYTTON: As a gender-queer womyn of colyr, I am going to be most affected.
COHEN-YATZKIS: . Er… (but he shuts up when ROSARIO-HELMING shoots him a warning glance).
ROSARIO-HELMING: What are we going to do?
BULLWER-FLYTTON: I don’t know, but we’ve got to come up with something.
COHEN-YATZKIS: . Tom will know what to do.
ROSARIO-HELMING: I anyone does, Tom will.
BULLWER-FLYTTON: We sure have to hope so. As a wise Latina, I think that’s the right approach. (COHEN-YATZKIS looks at ROSARIO-HELMING, who shrugs).
(In the background a door iopens,. Tom PEREZ, chairman of the DNC, enters the room, accompanied by MyLissa SILBERMAN, from National Public Radio’s Saint Paul bureau, on special assignment to write a profile on why Tom PEREZ is so wonderful).
ROSARIO-HELMING: Good morning, Mr. PEREZ.
PEREZ: What the f_____ f___’s good about this m____r_____ng morhing? (PEREZ throws a paper coffee cup across the room, spilling coffee on an intern).
SILBERMAN (sotto voce into the microphone in her top of the line Bang and Olufson digital broadcast recorder) “Perez runs a lively office”)
ROSARIO-HELMING: Sorry, sir.
PEREZ: Goddess m____rf__k___ alive, this may be the worst c______k___ possible news we could have gotten.
BULLWER-FLYTTON: Yes sir. (COHEN-YATZKIS and ROSARIO-HELMING meekly look at monitors and try to look occupied).
PEREZ: Christ on a m______u____g crutch, I”m not sure how the _u__ we’re going to __ck___ going to recover from this s___ sandwich we’ve _____n_ dealt ourselves. F___ me to tears.
SILBERMAN: Pardon me, your excellency, but are you talking about Jones’ victory over Roy Moore in Alabama last night?
PEREZ: F__ to the f___ yes, I m____________ am.
SILBERMAN: But the Democrat, peace be upon him, won. The GOP majority in the Senate is cut by a seat. Trump was dealt a setback.
PEREZ: F___ m_____f_____g c__________ Trump up the a__ with Debby Wasserman-Shultz’s d___. Moore f____ losing this c_________ election boned us up the m__________ c_________ d___ l____g G__l-S___t banging p_____le.
SILBERMAN: How?
PEREZ: Because with that l__p-d_____ c________ Roy m__________ Moore out of the m___________ way, we’ve got no f____ f______ f_______ f_____ Republicans to bang Republicans over their m_________ heads with.
SILBERMAN: (Nods, her mood suddenly darkening in comprehension).
COHEN-YATZKIS: . We could always just make some crap up about another Republican.
PEREZ: That’s right, genius. Of m________ course we’ll f______ have to make some s___ up about some other t______ c________ w________ Republican. Get on it!
ROSARIO-HELMING, BULLWER-FLYTTON and COHEN-YATZKIS snap back to work. .
PEREZ: Jesus H m________ Christ. What a cliuster____.
SILBERMAN (sotto voce into her microphone): Perez is excited by the opportunities yesterday’s election offers…
And SCENE
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