“Know what I like about 16?” Mr. Trump told one of these people, who was given anonymity to describe a private conversation. “It’s even. It’s four months.”

Todays guest Robert Draper:
- Is Meadows cooperating? Macchiavelli or Magoo?
- Who woulda thought the 2010 tea party class would become the “responsible” ones
- Understanding Inscrutable Sinema
- ode 2 The National

YouTube: youtu.be/yo_Z837o2qM?si…
Pod: open.spotify.com/episode/3f8cNF…

I can't stop thinking about this...

Michael Caine on his defining philosophy on life:

Use the Difficulty

As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play scene when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path.

He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the

NEW, by me & Michael S. Schmidt : nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/…

'I could sell ice to an Eskimo.' My story tracing Mark Meadows and over 3 decades of deceit (free link): nytimes.com/2024/02/08/mag…

Judging from what we're hearing, House GOP vote-counting has devolved into *expecting* all members fall in line and then, after they fail to do so, *expecting* that the base will harass them into reversing their vote next time. That's the modern House GOP whip operation.

On the sad occasion of the death of Cowboy Coward, the NC hillbilly who played the toothless 'he shore got a purty mouth don't he' villain in 'Deliverance,' the definitive piece on Cowboy & his buddy Burt Reynolds by excellent NC journalist Cory Vaillancourt : smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/…

The Baltimore Sun's bleak new reality makes David Simon 's depiction in Season 5 of the Wire look like a Disney movie

The spectacle of 80-year old men serving prison time is something I wrote about here (free link): nytimes.com/2023/09/24/us/…

'Despite her remarks, there is no evidence that Ms. Cheney has taken any steps toward running beyond keeping her options open while maximizing her relevancy during a book-promotion tour.'

nytimes.com/2023/12/05/us/… via Robert Draper

Is Liz Cheney Really Thinking About Running for President in 2024? [heavy skepticism implied] nytimes.com/2023/12/05/us/…

MacGowan was the bard of surly romanticism. (I would've included 'A Pair of Brown Eyes,' 'Thousands Are Sailing' and 'The Sunny Side of the Street.') nytimes.com/2023/11/30/art…

I wrote this lengthy profile in 2018 of Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅, the man who ABC disclosed said to Jenna Ellis 'in kind of an excited tone' that Trump was intending to stay in office no matter what--link is unlocked: nytimes.com/2018/04/16/mag…

The day of the riot, Nehls tweeted, 'What I’m witnessing is a disgrace. We’re better than this. Violence is NEVER the answer.'

Dean Phillips says avoiding a 2nd Trump presidency is too important to entrust Biden with that goal. He doesn't explain how a man with 0.5% name ID stands a better chance. (Other than scoring a moonshot win in NH & having Woody Harrelson as an ally.)

One more photo of my super-lucky Bald Eagle encounter in Alexandria on Saturday.

#baldeagle #uscapitol #washingtondc #wildlifephotography #raptors #birding #visitvirginia #visitALX #alexandriawaterfrontwalk

Capital Weather Gang James Spann #ThePhotoHour #StormHour #NikonZ8 #NikonNoFilter

Here is the new House Speaker in Nov. 2020 repeating 2 election conspiracy theories:
1) (at :34) that GA SOS Raffensperger 'kind of went along with it, nobody knows why'; and
2) (at 1:15) that Dominion software 'came from Hugo Chavez's Venezuela'

A national treasure

This appears to be 2 days running that Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. has skipped the Speaker vote