News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Hill for the president and his party. A republican loss might tell us more. If the gop cant hold this district, which last elected a democrat back in 1980, then its a pretty safe bet democrats will recapture the house in november. That would not only stall any trump legislative agenda but also put investigations, possibly impeachment, on the table. There are longer term questions too. If republicans keep losing in the suburbs s th, is that just are acti reaction to the Trump Presidency or a longterm shift . The president tweeted this morning, casting the democrat as, quote, controlled by nancy pelosi, among other things. That democrat is Danny Oconnor, who hopes to benefit from antitrump sentiment in the suburbs but smartly prefers not to talk about the president. Were crisscrossing this district talking to voters about Kitchen Table issues like paying your mortgage, like having access to a safe and secure retirement, like m
the conspiracy theorists claim that the second shot was a magic bullet. they argue that a bullet would have had to make a right turn then a left turn in mid-air. the reality is that connally was not seated directly in front of kennedy. if you figure out the alignment of where the men sat, and if you look down as i did it is perfectly plain, i submit to you, that the bullet that exited from president kennedy s throat, would have to strike the automobile, which it did not, or someone else in the automobile. to believe that it didn t hit governor connally, that would be a real magic bullet, one that disappeared in thin air.
let that happen and say wow, isn t vladimir putin crazy? aren t the russians relentless and ruthless? then ukraine becomes a war zone. signed application to join the european union. whose aspiration even though their government was far from perfect and probably didn t hit all the criteria was to join nato who, when asked from the mom, the 60-year-old mom to the 16-year-old kid their aspirations were to be part of of europe not to be part of repressive russia. even russians don t want to be part of russia. we will have to sit there and watch. and as much as we are beginning to move now and how heartening it is to see europe act the way they are and canada to shut up. refuse all russian oil while we sit on the sidelines and think about it? when we watch germany finally get involved. you wonder how much more prepared they would have been had we acted over the last two years when they took the donbas region in 2014 and they took
knows everybody. and so that for many of these officers as for many of these first responders that work at the fire department, the fire chief coming up there as well, they might know many of those who were injured, they might know many of those who died today personally. friends, family, maybe even family members. that is the unfortunate situation as well as potentially the beauty of the situation is this they are caring for their own. the mass casualty protocol the fire chief brought up, he also gave us an indication of the breakdown, which, you know, is probably hit you the same way it hit me. when he said, he mentioned the kids and the adults that they moved to the hospitals. he said 11 adults and 12 kids. that says a lot.