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Breakfast will take a vacation starting on Dec. 25th, returning on Monday,
January 4th. Have a wonderful holiday season!
MORNING MESSAGE
What
follows are the biggest, foulest nuggets of wingnuttia we’ve dug up in the past
year. Drop a few into the holiday dinner conversation, and your wingnut
relatives will either choke trying to swallow/defend them, or fall silent
because they can’t actually stomach this stuff much better than you or I can.
Either way, your holiday dinner will be a bit more fun, or a whole lot
quieter.
Clinton Has Granite State Blues
Clinton
team sweats NH. LAT: “In every other early voting state, Clinton has gained
a comfortable lead. In this state, she has been unable to replicate the formula
… The Sanders team sees New Hampshire as its ticket to redefining the race.”
Sanders
snubs Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. W. Post: “‘If the question is do I want
or need Rahm Emanuel’s support for president, with all due respect for the
mayor, no I don’t’ … When asked about Emanuel, Sanders pointed to [Emanuel 2015
opponent Chuy] Garcia, and said, ‘This was my guy,’…”
GOP Leaders Worry About Trump
“If
Trump wins the nomination, prepare for the end of the conservative party,”
says W. Post’s George Will: “…by his embrace of Putin, and by postulating a
slanderous moral equivalence … Trump has forced conservatives to recognize their
immediate priority … prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in
this, the GOP’s third epochal intraparty struggle in 104 years.”
GOP
leaders fear Trump and Cruz alternatives are dividing the NH vote. The
Atlantic’s Josh Kraushaar: “New Hampshire typically crowns an
establishment favorite … But the fear among party insiders in the state is
that the verdict will be muted because support among the four center-right
candidates will be badly splintered.”
Breakfast Sides
Gyrocopter
protestor to challenge Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. W. Post: “[Douglas]
Hughes said in an interview Wednesday he was ‘very deliberately targeting’
Wasserman Schultz’s district because Wasserman Schultz was the ‘poster child of
establishment politics on the Democratic side’ … He said she seemed to favor
particular candidates and that it was problematic that she had scheduled fewer
presidential primary debates than the Republicans, including some on
Saturdays.”
Sen.
Mitch McConnell waging lonely battle for coal. Bloomberg: “[David] Doniger,
the NRDC climate expert, says McConnell is waging a cynical—and ultimately
losing—battle … Doniger points to a speech in October delivered by [Charles]
Patton of Appalachian Power in which the utility executive, a foe of the Clean
Power Plan, conceded that in the long run coal can’t bounce back…”
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