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Happy Saturday, For the Record friends!<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Our West Coast counterparts may be laughing, but we East Coasters are hunkered down as #Snowzilla passes through, watching snow swirl outside our windows and bemoaning the shoveling to come. It’s been snowing for 16+ hours now. It’s supposed to snow through tomorrow. Has it really been only one<span style="color: Red;">*</span>month since we were wondering what to do with a nearly 70-degree Christmas?
Before we start our trek to the North Mountain to convince whoever conjured up this storm to bring back warmer days, let’s recap the big moments of the week.
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[h=2]FROZEN[/h]Beware the frozen heart.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Stephen B. Morton, AP)
The Democrats spent their Sunday evening of a holiday weekend debating their little hearts out. The strategy seemed to work out for them, because the debate drew 10.2 million viewers,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the most since October. Hooray relevancy! Sunday’s event showed just how cold it’s gotten<span style="color: Red;">*</span>between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The two battled it out over their stances on guns, health care, Wall Street regulation and campaign finance. Oh, and Martin O’Malley was also there,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>doing his best Olaf impression.
[h=2]LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR[/h]"That's what I was gonna say!"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP)
Sarah Palin reappeared this week to spread the love to one Mr. Donald Trump.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>She endorsed the Donald<span style="color: Red;">*</span>because they probably finish each other's sandwiches.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The speech was loaded with classic Palin-isms: “drill, baby, drill”; “pussy-footing”; “hopey, changey stuff”; and “Joe Six Packs.” If this whole president thing doesn’t work out for Trump, he and Palin should get into the business of coining catchphrases.
[h=2]REINDEERS ARE BETTER THAN PEOPLE...[/h]But people smell better than reindeer.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: John Minchillo, AP)
At least when those people are named “Ted Cruz.” It seemed that no one was on the #TeamCruz bus this week. No, really:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rand Paul made a cartoon poking at Cruz’s loan situation,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Donald Trump said Cruz was worse than Hillary Clinton,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has no desire to see Cruz win in his state’s caucuses<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Lindsey Graham said Cruz threw Republicans under the bus with the 2013 federal government shutdown. Of course, Graham also said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>picking between Cruz and Trump was like picking between “being shot or poisoned,”<span style="color: Red;">*</span>so at least Cruz knows he’s got some company.
[h=2]FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER[/h]"I'm getting what I'm dreaming of."<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: John Minchillo, AP)
John Kasich’s making a comeback! Sort of. This week,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>he placed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sixth in USA TODAY’s GOP Power Rankings, which is the highest he’s ever been since the survey of political experts began. Now, No. 6 doesn’t sound that high, but it does mean he could make more headway<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in New Hampshire. One expert says Kasich’s now the “positive alternative” to Jeb(!) Bush/Chris Christie/Marco Rubio.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> Is the Ohio governor’s second wind coming?
OK, friends, we’re going to use the next couple days to wrap ourselves in blankets and drink hot toddies and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>belt our best renditions of “Let It Go.”<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Enjoy your weekend!
See you Monday morning in your inboxes, snow or not,
Jessica,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Brett<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Joanna
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