Before they all go to jail, can we please bring back the stockade, just for a day? I’ll supply the rotten veggies!
We think the Democrats are favoured to take the House
from The Economist
This is getting ridiculous… IMAGINE the uproar had Obama demanded and received a briefing from the DOJ/FBI with only D’s present. Where is the mainstream media in all of this? Why on earth are we not hearing about how the compliance with this request is SO out of the ordinary? Where the hell are the decent republicans? Not that there are many, but where are the comments on this from Flake, McCain, Collins, et al.
So, like not to take our eye off the ball or anything, but when does Mueller get around to charging Nunes with Obstruction of Justice?
Somehow, this doesn’t quite sound like an AP article. If there is any slant to it, it is anti-Trump. In particular, the following doesn’t follow the normal he said–she said bland phraseology:
The meetings were sought by Trump’s GOP allies and arranged by the White House, as the president has tried to sow suspicions about the legitimacy of the FBI investigation that spawned a special counsel probe. Initially offered only to Republicans, the briefings were the latest piece of stagecraft meant to publicize and bolster the allegations. But they also highlighted the degree to which the president and his allies have used the levers of the federal government — in this case, intelligence agencies — to aide in Trump’s personal and political defense.
The emphasized expressions paint a picture of subterfuge by the President and his men. Only the misspelling of “aid” as “aide” is a mark of the AP.
Am I the only one who thinks the White House is trying to get Democrats to cry wolf on this? They call a meeting of FBI, White House, and GOP individuals in what is a shocking and egregious flouting of accepted norms. The Democrats rightfully freak out and call wolf, then the meeting itself turns out to be nothing much. If the white house does that a few more times, though, then when we shout, “there’s a wolf, there’s a wolf,” the media will ignore the Democratic voices. And the wolf will essentially have free reign…
(with the obvious difference being that in the fable the kid was lying the first couple times while here Democrats are correctly sounding the alarm)
Or if HRC had demanded a briefing in 2016.
Situations like this are where I find Democratic messaging extraordinarily weak. Saying “we saw no evidence to support his claim” makes it seem like this was a reasonable fact finding mission. They need to begin to fight with much stronger rhetoric and call out the depths of corruption at every possibile turn.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News he had learned “nothing particularly surprising,” but declined to go into detail.
How about, I don’t want to know nothing and just want to keep doing nothing except grifting my paychecks until the midterms.
I probably will be off the taxpayers dole after that and become a lobbyist for China so the I can funnel money through the wife’s connections and become better at my job of grifting the taxpayers. That way I can get much richer, quicker.
I learned something particularly surprising, Paul Ryan apparently still has a few active brain cells. By avoiding participating in this ridiculous show, he at least managed to maintain some illusion of sanity, and that is very surprising indeed.
Of course this turd learned nothing surprising. He was informed of Russian interference in the election well before the election took place. He refused to cooperate with the Obama administration and warned them not to try to stop the Russians. He’s as complicit as Trump.
If we need more evidence, his refusal to give Merrick Garland a vote shows that he had all his chips on T-rump when no one else on planet Earth did. The Turtleman knew what was happening for sure.
Yeah that’s the big issue Mitch, you pretty much know about what went on and you and the Republican party did and are still doing not a goddamn thing to fix it. You sold your soul and now your selling and allowing the US to be sold.
Overton fatigue. So many different scandals happening at the same time that you can’t manage to scream about all of them. I remember this from the early days of the reagan administration, where he and his people put out so many lies and attacked so many safety-net programs on different fronts that no one could keep up.
Very well, Senator.
When, exactly, and under what circumstances, did you learn of this criminal activity, how much do you know, and why did you not report it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Or if a former Democratic president had a chance meeting with the Attorney General on an airport tarmac.
“Well, golly. I don’t like surprises. They scare me.”
Apropos of nothing, it was a sad day when all members of the government decided to legitimize Twitter as the Official White House Communication Medium. “Ordered via tweet”? Yeah, because that’s secure and everything that goes out has been carefully reviewed and edited prior to its release. (that was sarcasm, for the impaired) I’m of the opinion that the DoD should have ignored that very first Trump outburst, the order to get rid of all the gays, because it didn’t follow DoD’s traditional formal excessively documented chain of command protocol.
Now it’s apparently too late.
Mitch McConnell was recruited by Russian intelligence soon after Preshitident Skanky Manslut, Don Jr. and Iwanka. Mitch knew 18-24 months before that the election that the vote tallies and outcome were going to be rigged to install Skanky.