BREAKING: Blue America seeks the fourth vote!

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Can anyone play this game? In the critically-acclaimed film of the same name, Joseph Cotten scoured post-war Vienna is search of "the third man."

In recent weeks, Blue America's tribunes have been scouring the countryside, looking for "the fourth vote." We've had a basic reaction to that search:

Can anyone here play this game?

We would have thought that everyone had agreed, long ago, on the fallacy which lies behind that search. This morning, we finally saw Jonathan Lemire say that it will almost surely take a fifth vote to defeat one of the commander's nominees.

Even he made an error along the way. Our prediction goes like this:

We've already seen a Trump nominee receive three NO votes. (There were three such votes against Nominee Hegseth, who of course got confirmed.)

Also, we may see some nominee get rejected by a group of five NO votes. We aren't predicting that that will occur, but it always could.

Our prediction, which could always be wrong:

You won't see a nominee rejected by four NO votes. Later today, we'll explain this deathless theory, hopefully with the aid of Lemire's full statement. 

(We'll buttress our theory as we recall the peculiar timing of Mitch McConnell's NO vote with respect to Nominee Hegseth.)

Until the past few weeks, we would have thought that everyone had long since agreed on the logic behind this five-vote theory. Over here in Blue America, can anyone play this game?

Needless to say, our prediction could always be wrong! For ourselves, we'll be losing most of the day to the ongoing work of medical science. We'll post this afternoon.