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Carrier Employees, Soon to Be Laid Off, Feel Betrayed by Donald Trump

Feinstein blames 'bad cold' for handling of Fusion GPS transcript

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein seemed to blame a “bad cold” for the controversial way she handled the release of an interview transcript for the co-founder of the firm behind the anti-Trump dossier.

"The one regret I have is that I should have spoke with Senator Grassley before. And I don't make an excuse but I've had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities a little bit,” she said.

But according to new data from a year-long SurveyMonkey assessment of Trump’s approval ratings, which Ron Brownstein has broken down for us, it seems Trump’s weakness among women is intensifying as his presidency unfolds, even — and particularly —among the white working-class women who did support him at robust levels in 2016.

The Post reports that Democratic leaders are increasingly convinced that Republicans are only interested in helping to shield Trump from accountability

Oprah Could Be Great for the Democrats. In 2018.
Stop wasting all your energy worrying about the presidency. It’s the Senate that has the real power, and celeb clout can help there, too.
By JEFF GREENFIELD January 10, 2018

the most urgent political question is whether Democrats can retake the Senate next year. While the capture of the House is more probable, the significantly greater power of the Senate is where much of the change that has taken place under Trump will accelerate or grind to a virtual halt.

And this is where Oprah comes in. She is the one figure in public life whose presence in communities around the country could make a significant difference in voter turnout. With her money, her fame and her drawing power, Winfrey could spend the next 10 months organizing public events to spur voter registration. She could bring celebrities of all sorts to her side in cities all across America, from Ashtabula to Zebulon. And she could make sure—with her own resources and others—that the logistics are in place to keep an aggressive voter registration effort alive long after she leaves.

This could all be done on a nonpartisan, tax-exempt basis; but given the fact of political life that Democratic-inclined voters are less likely to cast midterm votes, an Oprah-centric voter registration campaign such as this would inevitably mean more Democratic votes would be cast. (As a side benefit, this effort would help Ms. Winfrey learn whether she has the stomach for a presidential campaign.)

It’s understandable that the president’s biggest foes are obsessed with removing him from office—if not via impeachment or the 25th Amendment, then by voting him out in 2020. By that time, however, a Republican Senate will have put dozens more judges on the courts and sanctioned more decisions that touch American life, from the quality of our air and water to the nature of our justice system and beyond. And that’s why it makes urgent sense for Oprah to aim her unequaled personal power at the most genuinely consequential source of political power.

cotton candy hair...His eyes are ringed with fried egg white circles

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cotton candy hair...His eyes are ringed with fried egg white circles

You've written that very nicely. I'd never previously been inclined to thing of this man as an assemblage of foods.