R.I.P. to the General. But, how does a fully vaxxed person die of Covid if the Vax is efficacious?

By having multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that that destroys your immune system. The drugs used to treat the disease also destroy your immune system.

It is a crummy disease. I hope that neither you, nor any member of your family ever suffers from it.

Great statement by Trump on Powell's death. Truth to power.

Berating the dead isn't truth to power. It is rude and boorish.

Clutch your pearls harder, missy.

Et tu. Brute.

The good news for democrats though is that Powell can still vote democrat for decades to come.

Colin Powell has voted for Democrats for the past twenty years.

Nothing will change now that he's dead.

Does Soros actually pay you for this drivel ?

No, but his mom does bring his dinners down tho his room in the basement.

For the ambitious, being a fake Republican has in the past been a good career move. During a Republican administration, you're a safe candidate for a position since the press won't yelp and demonize you. And during a Democratic presidency, you're also useful to demonstrate how "bi-partisan" the administration is being. It matters not if you have any talent. Up that career ladder you go.

The problem for such people? This scam has been going on so long that the voting public is growing wise to it. That's why this sort of "Republican" is becoming an endangered species. And to quote the most Republican of Republicans:

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” —Abraham Lincoln

There were a lot of "Republicans" who never saw a spending bill they didn't like, who were fine with illegal immigration (didn't take THEIR kids jobs), who thought we needed to try harder to get along with the Soviets, and thought taxes were fine (theirs was safe in trusts, etc.)

They would send their kids to the same tony private schools as their Liberal "Opponents" and frequently play golf with them.

It was a very civil, nonpartisan time, and we are good to GET RID OF IT.

You are right. we should never underestimate the seductions of the Beltway. Go with the flow, and you'll draw far more in pay and benefits than those of us in the hinderlands and can rest assured that no mistake you make will have negative consequences. Incompetence is rewarded.

That said, reform is coming at the state level and those who don't make it there are going to have a harder time going national.

Thank you Virginia Democratic Party for that....because true or not...McAwful is the ONLY OTHER OPTION

"As Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote in a hugely important study back in 2012..."

Cillizza shouldn't be writing term papers for money.

Who does Ed vote for? Inquiring minds want to know.

“In most cases my view on the passing of public figures is to, out of respect, let the grieving process roll through for the family for a while…”

In addition to the content of this tweet being idiotically cringeworthy, the grammar sucks. It’s a badly written sentence with an infinitive split all to hell.

The reporter's assertion that they, or someone else is a Republican is as accurate as their other reporting.

Cillizza is the master of boneheaded takes that are so glaringly obvious that they come off as just dumb. My best guess is that he functions like Big BIrd- who was supposed to be the dumbest character on Sesame Street. If Big Bird understood something, the slowest kid at home has likely got the concept by now. I assume that's why the MSM keeps Cillizza around?

"Big BIrd- who was supposed to be the dumbest character on Sesame Street."
Are you sure he was the dumbest?

Colon Powell illustrated
Leaks xis displeasure at Hillary's People cornering xim at a party in The Hamptons. Xhey want xis endorsement. Powell is upset& let's it be known xe's not ready to endorse Xer, yet.
Perfect Powell
Leaking
Party IN.THE.HAMPTONS.
Hillary begging xim
Xe told xhem to wait.

Was there a more vainglorious little tale told?

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There was a time when flag officers were apolitical, seriously honoring the notion that the military serves the republic as a whole, and does not take sides in partisan affairs. It was even common for them to never vote, as that would indicate chosing a side.

That no longer applies when LITERALLY HITLER becomes President!! They must SAVE THE COUNTRY and not let HISTORY repeat itself!! /sarc

The Orange Ogre will start a WAR....Hold it, every POTUS does that....uh, let me think

Those were GOOD wars! Orange wars are BAD wars!

He didn't make any, that's what was BAD. Who's gonna send Fat Leonard's offspring to finishing school if there are no wars?

Yet I still remember certain conservatives having conniptions when Trump used a MOAB and attacked Syrian airbases. They raved that he "sold out to the globalist neocon warmongers".

Perhaps we should just let him rest in peace and send condolences to his family.

P'raps....but NO.

your choice--I was not a fan of him but he's gone.

Yes & I'm sure xis family misses xim, me not so much

The good General was a Republican like Jen Rubin, Max Boot, David French, Bill Kristol, Mitt Romney et.al. are Republican.

at first I liked him but as time went on I didn't for all the reasons others have stated, now his dead carcass is a pawn in the Covid War.

that fits somehow

"...As Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote in a hugely important study back in 2012:

"The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."

Funny...that seems like a perfect description of the Democrats...

A GREAT many people of Powell's cohort and type are, imao, VASTLY over-rated. But having said that, my sympathies to his nearest and dearest. Over-rated he might well have been, but in the big picture that's not much. And the ancients were probably right as they often are.
Nil Nisi Bonum.

We spik Ainglish y'har....

He meant to add, De mortuis.

Ain't he guv'nor a' Floe-Ridduh?

No, he lost after passing out in that trap house with the other Rhodes scholars on meth.

For someone as accomplished - whether you use that term in earnest or derisively - as Powell, he had an unquenchable thirst for cheap media flattery. Long before most of us had heard of Tony Fauci, Powell was always at the ready to bloviate on TV and, as the pattern showed, always at the ready to insert the stiletto between someone's shoulder blades.

Beyond tacky to make such a statement on the day the man died. But, in retort, the “blue dog” Democrat died during the Obama administration and no longer exists either. Both parties have been running to their extreme ends its just the Democrat extreme will result in anarchy and autocracy.

No, nice try at moral equivalence, several studies show that the Democrats have moved LEFT, the GOP has not moved...the D's got more extreme, widening the gap. Not both parties moving away from each other

The GOP runs left but can't keep up.

The GOP now has a Climate Change Caucus. Last I heard, there were 60 members.

https://bit.ly/3n573rP

Zackly

Uh NO, we still have Fred Upton, the Democrats have almost run they all xheir Zell Millers off

"Extreme ends" like not wanting Washington DC to rule everything in my life from toilet flow, to dishwasher temperatures, to medical treatments, to subsidizing companies who ship jobs overseas while taking a third of my paycheck?

Yeah, phuque you.