A reliable friend received this e-mail from Kristi Noem’s campaign team this morning: After one mention that “we’re missing,” Kylee’s pitch refers to “your vote file.”…
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In the “No Need to Burn Either Bridge Yet” Department, GOP House candidate Dusty Johnson tweets from the Hughes County Republican dinner with non-committal equanimity: 150+ at the…
Last month when the President threatened to “send in the Feds!” to address rising crime in Chicago (but of course didn’t follow up with any concrete…
On the bright side, losing the Senate race means I have time to teach and judge debate. For Scott Parsley, losing his Senate race means…
Senator John Thune says Trump screwed up, a little, with his executive order on immigration: “The way in which this particular executive order was rolled out has…
Spinning gossamer metaphors about life rafts and boats, mythologist Mike Rounds has deemed the still figmentary (or at best fragmentary) Republican health care replacement plan “Real Care.” (2020 challengers,…
I just listened to Rep. Kristi Noem completely avoid a listener question on SDPB about Medicaid expansion. Some public radio listener (not me, I promise!) asked…
In good news, House Republicans’ retreat from their sneaky effort to weaken the Office of Congressional Ethics shows that Congress will still listen to public pressure. In bad…
Boy, if there’s one thing Republicans who control the Legislative and Executive Branches hate, it appears to be independent ethics commissions. South Dakota Republican legislators sued to stop…
I predicted last night that Rep. Kristi Noem wouldn’t give up running for Governor in 2018 to serve as Donald Trump’s window dressing in the Department…