Republicans: one dick after another.
Late addition, for anyone who might benefit: the OED entry no. 6 for “dick, n.”
6: slang (orig. U.S.). A stupid, annoying, or detestable person (esp. a male); one whose behaviour is considered knowingly obnoxious, provocative, or disruptive. Cf. dickhead n. 1, and also cock n.1 11, prick n. 12c.
1966 N. Bogner Divorce xix. 390 ‘You boys form a line on the porch,…I want to see it straight as a ruler.’… Fish murmured: ‘He’s a dick.’
1979 National Lampoon Aug. 41/2 Really feel like a dick for traveling around with your mom and dad in a camper.
1988 D. Waters Heathers (film script) 31 J. D. holds up a bottle of cleaning fluid. Veronica Don’t be a dick, that stuff would kill her.
2014 T. McCulloch Stillman 8 He’s still a dick… Down the hall doing wheel spins in the car-park. He’s near thirty!
The Republicans KNOW that Trump is guilty.
Somehow that never makes it into the narrative about all of this
I emailed my GOP rep (we are at the very edge of a tortuously gerrymandered district that ends in the middle of the goddamn street and everybody on the other side has a Dem; we’re lumped in with a bunch of east Texas) ) and asked him if he had read the Mueller Report and told him if he hasn’t to do his constitutional oversight duty and read it.
He’s a git so who knows.
I dunno who this guy is behind Collins, but that pretty well captures my response to all the blather the GOP reps were putting out during the entire hearing.
Dean is an irrelevant witness, and is just being used to distract from the slow-walking strategy of Pelosi and Nadler.
It is a lot of “look like we’re doing something when we’re actually doing nothing.”
Instead of bringing back Congressional witnesses from 1974, it would be nice if the House Democrats brought back their courage.
The first sentence in this response from Dean to Gaetz was one of my favorite moments. It was delivered well.
“I appreciate you were not born at the time this all happened. It’s not by choice that I’ve done a lot of this. It’s that I’ve been dragged into it,” Dean said.
Yet again “slow walking”, find a new song, this one’s old and boring and imprecise.
Well good. Now do we get any info on what the Dems asked and Dean answered? That is was he a usefull witness?
““If your administration had lost more Supreme Court cases than any other modern president, one might question whether you were faithfully executing your duties because the United States Supreme Court repeatedly rejected what you were attempting to do,””
Methinks these are words he will have to deny having spoken later given the pace Trump is setting int he courts.
Goober, Gymmie, and Matt: Three pusillanimous examples of rethuglican ignorance and lack of conscience.
O it’s his new mantra. He might as well use his motives as his avatar he’s so transparent. He’s here to make people disappointed with the Democrats.
Tierney also posted a better summary article.
Democrats chose Dean as their star witness to put Mueller’s report in context — a choice that provided Republicans plenty of fodder to distract from what Mueller said in his report.
Of all the effing things to do-
What the the heck does Dean have to do with the Trump administration? Why have a has-been from 50 years ago “testify” when the author of the report is available?
Why don’t they subpoena Mueller? I’d like to see the repug scumbags give him a hard time, haha.
The democratic leaders appear to be either Stupid as a Stump, or they really just don’t care about Trump’s vicious criminality and treason. It’s all a big carnival of idiots.
Take the politics out of the conversation and in private messaging, he sounds almost reasonable but never far from singing the song.
I hope you saw what @irasdad put up earlier with all the trollish comments we run into regularly. Bingo with trolls. The only one he missed was the one with Susan Sarandon.
The GOP behavior was disgusting, yet also strangely comforting. If these are the best defenses they can mount, their cause is doomed.
I wish Nadler would tell Gym Jordan to put on his suit jacket or leave the room.
Parallels between Nixon and trumpp, that’s why Dean.
“In many ways the Mueller report is to President Trump what the so-called Watergate roadmap … was to President Richard Nixon,” said Dean, whose congressional testimony in 1973 ultimately led to the resignation of Nixon. “Special counsel Mueller has provided this committee with a roadmap.”
While acknowledging he was not a “fact witness” on the Mueller report, Dean highlighted similarities he saw between the two presidents, particularly on the matter of pardons and whether they were used to obstruct justice.
Hi neighbor! Whose district?
I have a similar issue. I’m lumped in Flores’ district with Waco, Bryan/College Station (Flores home) and Northern Travis County, where I live.
My inquiries are always met with BS non-germane responses followed by some twisted spin on some “good” the R’s are doing.
I considered a run against Flores but my initial polling was characterized as hitting the country boy brick wall the moment the numbers went outside Travis County.
Gerrymandering is so fucking evil.
I hope that this doesn’t turn into a drinking game, because then I cannot play along.
It will be interesting to see how much attention this gets in the general press. I generally like to hear Dean’s commentary on various shows, but I wonder how many still remember him (or Watergate, other than a name that began the -gate craze). The American memory tends to be short, especially for things that are unhappy to remember.