Because Chuck Todd is a tool and Balloon-Juice commenters rock, here is my version of the Hillary Preparedness guide.
H/T to Corner Stone, Punchy and to Wapiti for the list.
by TaMara| 254 Comments
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Because Chuck Todd is a tool and Balloon-Juice commenters rock, here is my version of the Hillary Preparedness guide.
H/T to Corner Stone, Punchy and to Wapiti for the list.
by Adam L Silverman| 158 Comments
This post is in: Election 2016, Open Threads, Politics
Here’s the live feed:
(they’re replaying the debate as a feed within the feed while waiting for the rally to begin)
by DougJ| 29 Comments
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by DougJ| 211 Comments
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I don’t think one-on-one debates are a good forum for Trump. His debate strategy is to show up unprepared and make a few “LOOK AT ME” comments that gets attention from the media. That worked great with ten people because preparation matters less when you’re only answering ten minutes of questions instead of 45 and because getting people to look at you with ten others on stage is a challenge whereas with two the whole goddamn world is looking at you anyway. Also too, his fuse is too short to deal with prolonged mano a mano conflict.
So this didn’t surprise me at all. In fact, I predicted last night to friends that Trump would try to skip the other debates:
“If I were Donald Trump, I wouldn’t participate in another debate unless I was promised the journalist would act like a journalist, and not an ignorant fact check,” Giuliani said late Monday night in the post-debate spin room, according to video provided by Bloomberg.
Establishment journalists are such cucks that they might give into this bullying and let Trump do a 2 hour informercial in place of a debate, but they really ought to tell him to fuck himself, that if we wants to bargain, their offer is this: nothing, not even the money that they usually pay Corey Lewandowski, which would they would appreciate if he would put up personally.
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Some interesting news on hospital merger and anti-trust enforcement.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked the proposed merger of the two largest hospital systems in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, area.
By a 3-0 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ordered a preliminary injunction against the combination of Penn State Hershey Medical Center and PinnacleHealth System.
The court said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the merger would be anti-competitive.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had a string of losses this spring at the district court level when they sued to stop mergers in Central Pennsylvania and Chicago. They lose in both cases at the district court level as the judges used (according to relevant healthcare economists) an obsolete standard of assessing market impact.
The FTC is one of the major administrative levers to break up consolidated provider pricing power and as long as the courts are willing to use the FTC’s preferred methodology of determining anti-competetive action, there is a lot of space for the FTC to act on new mergers.
by Tim F| 186 Comments
This post is in: Politics, Republican Stupidity, Assholes
You know the crazy dream where you just did something with potentially catastrophic consequences and you beg the universe for a chance to take it back*? Apparently Donald Trump thinks you really can do that. Probably that is what growing up in a gilded little box does to you. Let’s say that young lord Fontleroy declares that he never called the cook awful names and daddy pointy hat backs him up. Who can say it ever happened? If your character bends that way already (#notallrichpamperedshits) then starting his work life as the rich boss would just make it worse.
How many times has this guy flatly denied he said something that you could easily find on tape or in writing? The debate added three, maybe four more examples to the list (I had a hard time keeping up). There was the one about the interview where he complained about employees getting pregnant. I predict Trump will especially regret the one about never paying income tax. That was the fatal rumor that scared the hell out of the Romney campaign. It really rubs ordinary voters the wrong way, and explaining it just makes the disconnect between you and them even worse. Instead of parrying the question and answering with transparency like Romney eventually did, Trump bragged about it like an eight year old who found a loophole in the literal terms of his curfew (“It makes me smart!”) and then he telegraphed how stupid that was by denying that he said what he clearly just said on live TV. This is such a gift to the opponent that you almost don’t know where to start. Maybe just stitch the exchange and his denial into a thirty second ad and run it without commentary.
Here’s a question that I dropped in the comments last night – does anyone have a comprehensive list of how many times Trump has denied saying something he is clearly on record having said? This is the sort of thing I used to count on from Steve Benen when he wrote the Carpetbagger blog. Any suggestions appreciated.
(*) If this means I should talk to a professional immediately, I never had that dream.
***Update***
Oh for fuck’s sake.
Trump insists ‘there was no sniffles’ during presidential debate
For the record, yeah, he sniffled a lot during the debate. Maybe he buried his face in coke in the green room, or maybe he’s just sick. Who knows. He should get that checked out.
This post is in: Election 2016, Hillary Clinton 2016, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat
Clinton: "Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. Know what else I prepared for? To be president." pic.twitter.com/ddgiYmNTw2
— POLITICO (@politico) September 27, 2016
Many people are saying that Trump lost the debate. Big league, as they say.
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) September 27, 2016
Pre debate: he's going to be better!
During debate: she's kicking his ass.
After debate: will he even do the next two?— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) September 27, 2016
CNN ORC poll: 62 percent say Clinton won debate. 100 million plus watched this debate. MOE 4 points. Now knock on doors and take Congress.
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) September 27, 2016
If you didn’t watch last night, rest assured: Hillary did a fine job, and Donald Trump… repeated all his Greatest Hits from the Rallies bits. He didn’t lose a single member of his devoted “base”, but he sniffled, lied, talked over the woman on the stage, claimed that America is a job-leaking hellhole which every filthy brown terrorist can’t wait to invade, lied some more, contradicted the African-American moderator (while lying), sniffled, called President Obama “your president”, took credit for “settling” the birtherism issue, and by every metric and “optic” looked like a coked-up, aging con artist in a bad suit rambling about “the nuclear” and “the cyber”. Vox has a full transcript up, and I’m guessing one of the other front-pagers will be able to post a video later this morning.
But this is the Big Fat Gaffe that will probably attract the most attention…
Clinton speculating why Trump won't release tax returns: maybe he's not as rich and/or charitable as he says, maybe hasn't paid fed taxes…
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 27, 2016
Clinton says Trump doesn't pay federal income tax. Trump responds: "That makes me smart."
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 27, 2016
Gasps in the debate press room when he cut in with that https://t.co/Vb6EJYkq2q
— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) September 27, 2016
Did Trump just answer his charge that he didn't pay income taxes by saying "it would be squandered anyway?"
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 27, 2016
First he said it was because government would waste it. Then he said it was because he was smart. That's not avoiding. That's confirming.
— Jonathan M. Katz (@KatzOnEarth) September 27, 2016
Trump now says, in spin room, he didn't say that he was smart not to pay federal taxes–which 100 million people just saw him say.
— tad friend (@tadfriend) September 27, 2016
Should not get lost in the noise: Trump did not dispute he pays zero federal income tax.
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 27, 2016
To get this straight, Trump has essentially admitted to not paying taxes, to stiffing workers, and for "taking advantage" of US law.
— Dennis Yedwab (@dennisyedwab) September 27, 2016
Yup: He won’t release his tax returns, which are “very unfairly” being audited, since he doesn’t pay taxes, because he’s “smart”, and “they’d only squander the money.” If the Still Undecided Voters hear that clip and think to themselves, yes, that’s what I’m looking for in a president!… then we can all go watch Idiocracy as an operating manual.
Donald Trump just said he did black Americans a favor by questioning the legitimacy of the 1st black president.
This happened. In real life— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) September 27, 2016
You know what, I shouldn't have been worried at all that Trump would be coherent or poised. He can't help himself. He is who he is.
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) September 27, 2016
The reaction in financial markets suggests traders erred toward a Clinton victory in the debate https://t.co/XNeLx6fyQW #debates pic.twitter.com/5LZg5Ou7Oa
— Bloomberg (@business) September 27, 2016
It's not a good sign for Trump when he says, "I have a better temperament" and the debate audience spontaneously laughs.
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) September 27, 2016
Young voters say 59/30 that Clinton is prepared to be President, 27/64 that Trump is not
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) September 27, 2016
Young voters say 69/19 that Clinton has temperament to be President, 27/62 that Trump does not
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) September 27, 2016
Clinton won this debate in part because she had more stamina for this than Trump. He flagged badly after 30 minutes. She didn't.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 27, 2016
Trump skipping the after-party that was advertised as him attending, at moment when TV coverage of his performance is far from favorable
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2016
James Carville predicts on TV that Roger Ailes will try to get the word out tomorrow that he didn't have much to do with Trump's debate prep
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) September 27, 2016
One important thing is if Hillary is seen as the winner, it will energize depressed Dems. Helped Romney immensely with Rs.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) September 27, 2016
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