HER CAREER IS OVER BECAUSE OF HER ATTEMPT TO REPLACE HER ELECTORATE WITH ONE MORE CONGENIAL, NOT DESPITE. SO MOTTE IT BE, ALL OVER THE WORLD WITHOUT END.  AT LEAST, IF WE MEAN TO PRESERVE CIVILIZATION: Merkel, Italy, Brazil.

I VOW, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, TO CONTINUE DISAPPOINTING EUROPE.  WHO’S WITH ME? Short.

YES. OF COURSE. THE PROBLEM IS NAMED FEINSTEIN.  OH. WAIT, YOU MEAN BESIDES THAT:  Feinstein Calls For New Gun Regs After Shooting. Just One Problem.

WELL, FOR ME IT IS. NONE OF MY FANS AMBUSH ME AT A MINI-GOLF COURSE TO HAND ME A BRAND NEW GUN.  (AND HAVE I MENTIONED HOW DISAPPOINTED I AM WITH THEM FOR THAT OVERSIGHT?):  Jon Stewart Thinks It’s Harder To Get A Cat Than A Gun.

THE BALLOTS ARE BEING FOUND TO PUT HER OVER THE TOP.  SAME IN FLORIDA.  THEY’RE PLAYING WITH FIRE. IN THE CURRENT CLIMATE, THEY’RE PLAYING WITH FIRE NEAR POWDER BARRELS: I think perhaps Sinema was right: Arizona just might be “the meth lab of democracy”.

NOT BAD ONES. GO READ:  Post-Midterm Thoughts.

BUT BUT BUT… LIVING MINIMUM WAGE!  Robot grocery stores, get ready for it.

REMEMBER THAT THE ONES WHO WON WERE LYING TOO.  ANYTHING TO GET POWER: After Losing, Dem Politicians Now Say They Can Be Truthful.

IT’S OKAY, THEY HAVE A TENUOUS HOLD ON SANITY TOO…  The Tenuous Democratic House Majority.

IN THE ANNALS OF IDIOCY:  Max Boot Throws Hissy Fit Because Republicans Didn’t Vote Democrat.

MICHAEL WALSH: The Revenge of the Nerds.

BROWARD COUNTY: She illegally destroyed ballots in 2016. Now the Florida GOP worries she’s trying to steal a Senate seat.

STILL FLYING OFF THE SHELVES AT AMAZON: Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy.

FINISHED CHARLES STROSS’S LATEST LAUNDRY FILES NOVEL, The Labyrinth Index. A good read, though the stakes have gotten awfully high as CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN begins to unfold.

ENOUGH OF THIS AND THE DEMOCRATS WILL BUILD THE WALL THEMSELVES: Asian, Muslim and Latino immigrants across USA helped Trump and GOP win.

SHE’S A DEMOCRAT: Rep. Linda Sánchez’s Husband Indicted for Theft of Federal Funds.

OPEN THREAD: Make it a good one.

HMM: John Yoo: Whitaker’s appointment as acting Attorney General is unconstitutional.

Well, bring on Janice Rogers Brown then. I haven’t had time to really think about this, but my initial impression is that Yoo is right. On the other hand, we don’t want the Constitution to be a dead letter — it must grow and change with the times, and perhaps the times demand that we be more . . . flexible and pragmatic about appointments. Yeah, that’s it. Flexible and pragmatic. And modern!

UPDATE: Andrew McCarthy says Yoo is wrong: “Matthew Whitaker joined the Trump Justice Department as Sessions’s chief of staff in October 2017. The date is relevant. The president has named him as acting attorney general under the Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (the relevant provisions are codified at Sections 3345 and 3346 of Title 5, U.S. Code). There has been some commentary suggesting that because Whitaker was in a job (chief of staff) that did not require Senate confirmation, he could not become the “acting officer” in a position (AG) that calls for Senate confirmation. Not so. The Vacancies Act enables the president to name an acting officer, who may serve as such for 210 days, as long as the person named has been working at the agency or department for at least 90 days in a fairly high-ranking position. Whitaker qualifies.”

That would be the Clinton-Era Vacancies Reform Act.

AND IF WE ACTUALLY OBSERVED FEDERALISM AND ENUMERATED POWERS, THIS WOULDN’T BE A PROBLEM: What the Midterm Election Shows: America’s Two Parties Live In Divergent Worlds.

BECAUSE THEY CREATE THEM: Levin: Why do Democrats ‘always manage to pick up votes after the fact?’ In fact, they seem to be doing that in Florida and Arizona right now.

#WALKAWAY BLOWBACK: Boston Globe columnist: Memo to black men: Stop voting Republican. “So, here’s my request: Black men, vote like black women.”

Illustrated with a photo of a crowd of black men wearing MAGA hats. Hey, what have they got to lose?

CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY: Newly Unsealed Documents Show Top FDIC Officials Running Operation Choke Point. “For those unfamiliar, Choke Point consisted of bureaucrats in several independent federal agencies taking it upon themselves to shut legal businesses – such as payday lenders and firearms dealers – out of the banking system. Given the nature of the U.S. regulatory framework, this operation was easy to pull off.”

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Is pregnancy contagious? Researchers say yes.

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AN ELECTION BEING STOLEN IN FLORIDA?

Maybe a bunch of South Florida Republicans need to show up and demand an honest count, shades of the “Brooks Brothers Riot.”