Dobbs Is SO Last Summer!

Biden: "If you care about the right to choose, then you gotta vote. That's why these midterm elections are so critical ... if we do that, here's the promise I make to you and the American people. The first bill I will send to the Congress will be to codify Roe." pic.twitter.com/0a350e8q6a

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2022

All political pundits know the electorate has a memory shorter than the life-span of a fruit fly. So there's no way people will vote on abortion in November!

Pelosi on if she really would've punched out Trump on January 6: "He wouldn't have had the courage to come to the hill. He's all talk." pic.twitter.com/O7ZPrRNB2m

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 18, 2022

And the important news is gossip! Would Pelosi really punch Trump? Our panel of experts weighs in next. In the meantime: Don't cry for me, Argentina!

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— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 18, 2022

For years we watched the GOP defenestrations: Will Hurd, Jeff Flake, George W. Bush, the memory of John McCain, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and any other Republican who stood up to Donald Trump—or even just opposed Trump’s attempted coup. Some fell on their swords. Some were tossed aside involuntarily. The result was the same.

Wait a minute.  Flake?  Shrub?  Ryan, Cheney (father or daughter, I don't care)?  I'm supposed to miss these people?  And that's the third paragraph in!  It starts here:

Ben Sasse is retiring from the Senate at the youthful age of 50. We know why. Politicians who thought they could wait out Trump now see the writing on the wall.

The party’s over.

The party's over because Ben Sasse went to Florida, Will Hurd got tired of electoral politics and Shrub rode off into the sunset like former Presidents are supposed to do?  Hell, Paul Ryan finally got his heinous tax cut for the uber-wealthy through Congress and retired to a sinecure on the grateful moguls.  The GOP was over when Newt Gingrich issued his Contract on America.  This is just that fate finally becoming clear.

Eh, I'm out.  I can't read further.  Even the laughing minions are not mockery enough for this crap.  But if all the "good" Republicans are gone, what's the actual headcount on the remaining "70% of Republicans" totally devoted to Donald Trump?  'Cause it can't be anything like 70% of 50% of the electorate, the way that number is usually bandied about.  I mean, almost everyone at the Lincoln Project was a Republican, but they're more Democratic than Joe Biden now.  So either the polls showing all these close races are full of shite, or the statistics tossed around about how much power the GOP has under Trump are as imaginay as Trump's perfect phone calls and large crowds.

Of course, both of those could be true....