What are our priorities for a president? Pew poll shows they’re malleable
Pew asked what more important in choosing a president, someone who held views you agreed with, or someone who set a good moral example for the country?
National
As D.C. Republicans anoint a candidate in Minnesota’s Seventh District, challengers say ‘not so fast’
“They’re basically giving the middle finger to the whole endorsing process,” said Dave Hughes, who has twice been the Republican nominee to challenge Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson.
It doesn’t matter who the Trump whistleblower is
Even if you believe he was biased, the impeachment inquiry no longer depends on anything the whistleblower wrote or whistled.
D.C. Memo
D.C. Memo: Farming corporations are people too
Impeachment hearings; farm aid; Amazon walkout; and more.
Eric Black Ink
How Sinclair Lewis described his fictional fascist president
“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his “ideas” almost idiotic,” Lewis wrote in “It Can’t Happen Here.”
Eric Black Ink
U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Taylor testimony lays out the stakes
Obviously, you’re getting the news of the first day of the public House committee hearings on impeachment from a lot of sources, but I just wanted to note one thing that struck me while watching it, in which Acting Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor (who comes across as a dream witness, in terms of credibility) […]
Eric Black Ink
Richard Stengel on how Trump has repositioned key U.S. values
“Whatever Trump means by ‘America First,’ I would argue that promoting democracy, the rule of law, modernism and a globalized world is in the interest of the United States,” Stengel said.
National
How Rep. Pete Stauber — a GOP freshman in the Democratic-controlled U.S. House — has managed to get some bills passed
Stauber’s been willing to work with Democrats on legislation.
Foreign Concept
NATO may not be ‘brain dead,’ but it’s in desperate need of new thinking
NATO is marking a couple of milestones this year. But for the moment, the alliance is focused on a rhetorical bomb tossed last week by one of Europe’s leading statesmen, French President Emmanuel Macron.
National
Federal government finalizes changes that will cost MinnesotaCare millions
When the changes were proposed earlier this year, they were widely condemned by Minnesota policymakers.
D.C. Memo
D.C. Memo: I wish you wouldn’t
New Minnesota presidential poll; Omar and Sanders rally; Klobuchar qualifies for December debate; and more.
Eric Black Ink
Still hard to accept: blatant, constant lying by a president
Do approvers of Donald Trump think he’s a truth-teller? Do they think all politicians lie this much? Do they think honesty, or at least factual accuracy, is vastly overrated?
Eric Black Ink
New KFF/Cook poll shows Warren favored by Minnesota DFL likely primary voters
The poll was jointly conducted in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Cook Political Report.
