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Time flies when you're having fun.
Conversely, things seem to drag out at excruciatingly slow speeds when you're not having such a good time.
15 years ago today the Supreme Court handed down a disastrous decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, removing limitations on the amount of money corporations and special interest groups can spend on elections.
Read MoreDoesn't this all feel a little familiar?
The slow drip of information about the heinous policies in store for us after January 20th, the seemingly endless stream of nonsense quotes from cabinet nominees, even the re-emergence of old characters in our national nightmare (remember Steve Bannon?).
Is this 2017 or 2025? I'm getting a little deja vu.
Read MoreIn this first week of the 119th Congress, the new Republican majority has already treated us to one of their signature internal (but very public) power struggles in the process of electing a new Speaker of the House. Mike Johnson won again by the skin of his teeth. But he is already under pressure to please the MAGA extremists in his conference with unworkable, unpopular, and very possibly unpassable legislation.
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