Yeah, that's mean, but what the heck.

I guess that is why Trump is relying on Russians for money for his real estate ventures.

Remove the teleprompter and he goes full batshit crazy.

Free TV time and nothing but Trump this and Trump that. Regardless of how sickening what he is saying, he is still all over the airwaves. Refusing to back Ryan and McCain, more TV time. Trump is playing the US media like a reality TV show and keeping all eyes and ears on him. Every time Hillary starts smashing him, he does something even more outrageous. Hie campaign advisers starting to panic? Nonsense, just as scripted. Manafort? nonsense, just as scripted. Trump is playing the American public because he knows that we have a very, very short memory. Just like a TV reality show, it is all scripted.

Remember how it went with Kerry in '04? Every time he would score, the Bush administration would announce an eminent terrorist attack on the US. After the DNC convention; after Kerry walloped him in the first debate. Trump is using the same script.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/03/austin-shooting-suspect-arrested-days-later-in-atlanta.html

He had a bad week last week. He thought he had support in criticizing the Khan family, but that back-fired. Then he saw the post DNC convention polling, and Trump, being a TV reality guy, follows TV ratings and polling closely. Since Sunday he has tripled down on everything crazy that you can imagine. If the RNC finds some way to get rid of him, he won't be faced with more humiliation leading up to the election. More importantly, he won't be faced with an almost sure defeat. Mentally unstable people think things out, and Trump appears to be doing just that. He will be able to say that he was cheated out of the presidency. In his warped little mind, that works.

Congress knew it would happen, but they had to leave town before they actually had to pass a bill to help fight Zika. They didn't want to be accused of actually doing something. This thing is going to get much, much worse.

What were they trying to spell with the cards in the upper deck during the celebration? Neither of us could make it out.

They don't set policy. That is the job of the President. They don't vote on legislation except to break a tie in the Senate. So why would you want to take an influential person from their Senate seat and put them in a spot that mostly just goes to funerals?

Late in the second term of Reagan, there was a bill that was passed in both the house and Senate with huge bipartisan support. The bill was called the Fairness Doctrine. The bill would have made permanent some legislation that had been passed in the late 40's. This Fairness Doctrine made TV and radio to give equal time to all sides of a political issue. It also regulated the ownership of newspapers and TV/radio stations so that no single entity could control the news in a certain area - it allowed more than one viewpoint to be presented. Reagan vetoed the bill, and with pressure on the GOP in the house and Senate, an override was not going to happen.

Roger Ailles worked for Nixon and then Reagan. it was widely know than he was a hatchet man and went after their enemies. He also worked for Rudy G when he ran for mayor of NYC. Rupert Murdoch knew very well of the guy and when he wanted to enter the US market with his disinformation channel, he knew exactly who to hire to run it. The rest is history.

We need the next Congress to send the Fairness Doctrine back to President Clinton by the spring of next year. The hate radio has to go away and the lies of FoxNews and others with it. Newspapers need to go back to printing news instead of commentary ad opinion and no single entity can own all the news outlets for an area.