MORE GOOD NEWS FROM ARIZONA

According to this new poll, registered voters approve of legalizing marijuana:

The Arizona Republic/Morrison/Cronkite News Poll asked registered voters’ opinions on Proposition 205, a measure to legalize the possession and consumption of marijuana by persons who are 21 years of age or older.

• Proposition 205 — Favor: 50 percent, Against: 39.9 percent, Don’t Know: 10.2 percent (+/‐ 3.4)

VALUES VOTERS AND THE DONALD

I cannot believe Trump spoke to the Fundies because he's hardly a Christian.  I have had a low opinion of these people for years and today just confirms my belief that they aren't really Christian.

TRUMP IS RE-LIVING THE '60s

Earlier this year he blabbed about how the "silent majority" supports him just as Nixon did in 1969 and on Wednesday night he claimed to have a "secret plan" to  destroy ISIS.   In 1968, Nixon told some editors of Mid-West newspapers that he had a secret plan to end the Vietnam War.

LAUER DID FACT-CHECK TRUMP

It only happened once, according to this transcript.

QUESTION: I like what you say about supporting veterans and how they’re important. But I haven’t heard what the actual plans are to continue that support beyond words. How do you translate those words to action after you take office?
TRUMP: Well, I love that question, because I’ve been very close to the vets. You see the relationship I have with the vets just by looking at the polls. In fact, today a poll came out. And my relationship has been very good.
I have a very, very powerful plan that’s on my website that you possibly saw. One of the big problems is the wait time. Vets are waiting six days, seven days, eight days. And by the way, Hillary Clinton six months ago said the vets are being treated essentially just fine, there’s no real problem, it’s over-exaggerated. She did say that.
LAUER: No, no, she went on after that and laid out a litany of problems within the V.A.

COLIN POWELL ALSO HAD A MEMORY LAPSE...

That's being polite about his failure to admit he used a private email account when he was Secretary of State.

Powell Told Clinton He Used Private E-Mail Globally (Correct)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 2:24 AM GMT

(Bloomberg) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gave Hillary Clinton blunt advice about skirting the rules on using personal e-mail when she started work at the State Department, saying he used a private account on a personal computer to communicate with everyone from friends to foreign leaders.

'What were your restrictions on your use of your blackberry?” Clinton asked in an e-mail to Powell on Jan. 23, 2009. “Did you use it in your personal office?” She said she heard that diplomatic security personnel “knew you had one and used it but no one fesses up to knowing how you used it!”

“I didn't have a BlackBerry,” Powell responded. “What I did do was have a personal computer that was hooked up to a private phone line (sounds ancient.) So I could communicate with a wide range of friends directly without going through the State Department servers. I even used it to do business with some foreign leaders and some of the senior folks in the Department on their personal email accounts. I did the same thing on the road in hotels.”

NC STILL HAS VOTING RESTRICTIONS

Despite court rulings, a number of NC counties are reducing polling hours in what we can assume is part of a GOP plan to reduce the vote of Democrats.

Early voting reduced in 23 NC counties; 9 drop Sunday voting after NCGOP memo
By Colin Campbell
ccampbell@newsobserver.com
September 6, 2016 8:22 PM

RALEIGH
Voters in 23 North Carolina counties will have fewer opportunities to vote early than they did four years ago under schedules approved by Republican-led election boards.

The decisions came after the N.C. Republican Party encouraged its appointees on the county boards to “make party line changes to early voting” by limiting the number of hours and keeping polling sites closed on Sundays.

MORE WOMEN TROUBLE AT FOX NEWS

Greta  Van Susteren has been dismissed after she exercised a "key man" clause in her contract and asked for a raise:

The sources said Van Susteren sought to renegotiate the terms of her contract -- and asked for a big bump in pay -- after Ailes resigned.

Fox executives refused to negotiate, one of the sources said.

There was a "financial disagreement," another one of the sources said.

Van Susteren claims she left of her own accord:

"On Thursday night, I made my decision and informed Fox News of my decision that I was leaving Fox News Channel per my contract," Van Susteren wrote on her Facebook page Tuesday. "Fox has not felt like home to me for a few years and I took advantage of the clause in my contract which allows me to leave now. The clause had a time limitation, meaning I could not wait."

UPDATE: CNN Money reports that FOX pulled the trigger:

A courier arrived at Van Susteren's Washington, D.C. home at 9 a.m. Tuesday, hand-delivering two letters that said that Van Susteren "was being taken off the air" immediately, according to her husband, John Coale, who is a high-profile Washington lawyer.

Van Susteren was already planning to leave, but she thought she would be hosting her 7 p.m. program "On the Record" for a few more weeks.

Yanking her off the air without a chance to say goodbye was "a bit immature," Coale remarked.

TRUMP HAS EVEN LOST MARK "FOAMER" LEVIN

AND Levin implicitly criticized his best buddy Sean Hannity.  This is from the Washington Times:

Millions of listeners who tuned in for “The Mark Levin” heard the host rhetorically hammer Mr. Hannity’s assertion that “the Jonah Goldberg class” will be to blame if Hillary Clinton is elected the next U.S. president. Mr. Levin was careful not to mention the Fox News star by name, but left no doubt who he was talking about.

” ‘If only the #NeverTrumpers, if only Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol and Glenn Beck and this one and that one, if only they’d get behind Trump, then we’d be winning! Then we’d win big time! Oh yes!’ No we wouldn’t,” said Mr. Levin, Mediaite reported Tuesday. “As popular as many of those men and women are, they’re not going to sway anybody one way or another. This is a presidential election. People make up their own minds. […] You’re going to vote your conscience. That’s a statement of fact. […] Maybe Trump will win. Maybe Hillary will be stopped — but we nominated the wrong person.”

GOOD FOR SEN. JEFF FLAKE (AZ)

He's one of the saner Republicans in the Senate and I'm glad he openly doesn't support Trump:

DICKERSON: What’s your understanding of how he’s going to handle the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in America?

FLAKE: You know, that’s not clear at all.
(Byron York also noted an inconsistency in Trump's Phoenix speech):

First, Trump's statement that those here illegally would have "one route and only one route" to legal status seems clear. Everybody seeking legalization would have to leave and then return.

But then, a few short paragraphs later, Trump said that "in several years," when tough enforcement measures are fully in place — not contemplated, not in the planning stage, but actually up and running — then "we will be in a position to consider the appropriate disposition of those who remain."

FLAKE: Well, it becomes increasingly difficult to see that he’s going to change.
So, I don’t expect that I will be able to support him in November. I would like to, but he’s the Republican nominee. I just don’t see how I can.

UPDATE: Trump responded by insulting Flake, calling him weak and ineffective.