Fallout

• From Bluedot Daily:  Pastor John Pavlovitz addresses "embarrassed for the past 8 years" of some voters.

  Were you embarrassed by his eloquence, his quick wit, his easy humor, his seeming comfort meeting with both world leaders and street cleaners; by his bright smile or his sense of empathy or his steadiness—perhaps by his lack of personal scandals or verbal gaffes or impulsive tirades?
  
  No. Of course you weren’t.
  
  Honestly, I don’t believe you were ever embarrassed. That word implies an association that brings ridicule, one that makes you ashamed by association, and if that’s something you claim to have experienced over the past eight years by having Barack Obama representing you in the world—I’m going to suggest you rethink your word choice.
  
  You weren’t “embarrassed” by Barack Obama.
  
  [...]
  
  But I don’t believe it had anything to do with his resume or his experience or his character or his conduct in office—because you seem fully proud right now to be associated with a three-time married, serial adulterer and confessed predator; a man whose election and business dealings and relationships are riddled with controversy and malfeasance. You’re perfectly fine being represented by a bullying, obnoxious, genitalia-grabbing, Tweet-ranting, Prime Minister-shoving charlatan who’s managed to offended all our allies in a few short months. And you’re okay with him putting on religious faith like a rented, dusty, ill-fitting tuxedo and immediately tossing it in the garbage when he’s finished with it.

  The whole thing is pretty pointed; the original is on the pastor's website.  With 1,000 + comments.  (Apparently I accidentally closed the originating tab.  Sorry.)
• So.  Some folks at Faux News are "concerned" that the Obamas are vacationing.

  If you thought that becoming a private citizen meant that former President Barack Obama could take a vacation without being scolded by Fox News, think again.
  
  Fox’s excuse this time is that it’s “just reporting” on left-wing criticism. Recently, on FoxNews.com, reporter Christopher Wallace (who does not appear to be the Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace) wrote an article titled, “Obamas under fire from the left for never ending, sizzling ultra-luxury vacations.”

  (News Hound Ellen, Crooks and Liars)
• Meanwhile:  Golf vacation infomercials??
• In Department of You Didn't Really Want the Answers, So You Shouldn't Have Asked the Question:  Indiana Republicans asked for "Obamacare Horror Stories."

  The Hill quoted one commenter who said that the “only horror story is that Republicans might take it away.”
  
  “I love OBAMACARE! It has helped our family. Shame on the REPUBLICANS wanting to get rid of it… BLOOD will be our your hands!!!” said another commenter.

  (AlterNet, reprinting RawStory). From Shakesville:

  My favorite coverage of this debacle is, naturally, the Indy Star's, where Ryan Martin writes with perfect Hoosier kindness that "The responses were unexpected" and "Many seemed to relish that the post didn't receive more horror stories." Ha.

  Remember to continue to contact your Senator.
  
• 44 states are refusing to hand over voter data to the Kobach "voter fraud" commission.  (Yes, it is Little Green Footballs.  Deal.  Zandar pulls together some of the state objections.

  The Trump regime's plan to assemble a national database of voters under the guise of "voter integrity" has run into not one but two buzzsaws: blue states understand full well that the information will be used for targeted voter suppression purposes, but red states know that voter registration systems have been completely compromised by the Russians. Neither group trust the incompetent Trump regime and now 44 states have rejected participation in the scheme.