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As @squirreltown said some time ago â itâs just a strange feeling to look at foreign leaders and be enviousâŚ
ETA: By the by have you seen Emmanuelâs official portrait?
⌠The French Tricolor, and the flag of the European Union too. What a man.
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In the words of my late, great mom, I wouldnât kick him out of bed for eating crackers!
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OT â this is by Isikoff. Letâs see where we will find ourselves with this thing in two months, four months, six months from now. Still a long shot, but the direction itâs moving is, albeit slowly and quietly, forward, not backward.
Bill to create panel that could remove Trump from office quietly picks up Democratic support
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It may be that attacking others is the driving purpose of Trumpâs life. However, I also heard a convincing argument made by a guest on The Last Word. He said that Trumpâs ugly Mika comment was deliberately timed to distract from the disaster caused by the withdrawal of the Senate healthcare vote. He knew such a vicious attack would grab all of the media attention.
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OT but Josh has linked it on his twitter. It is very weird but so was Watergate.
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Oh wow, I literally just now finished reading it and was going to post it. It gives more context to the first and the second WSJ stories (the second of which I posted upthread). Disturbing is an absolute understatement.
p.s. And speaking of LawfareâŚ
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Wow, that was really interesting. Had no idea it was possible.
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It gave me the creeps. Campaigns do shady things to dig up dirt on opponents but this was so disturbing. Tait was unnerved by it.
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What I also found interesting is there are actually Republicans who privately approached Raskin. Donât know how many. Seems there just needs to happen something so tremendous they can safely go public and support it⌠though I canât think of anything if what has happened so far is still not enough for them.
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IIRC he is the non-scientist who was appointed science advisor to USDA.
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Wow, I had no idea that this was quietly going on! And this part
âŚcreation of an âOversight Commission on Presidential Capacity.â The commission would be a nonpartisan panel appointed by congressional leaders composed of four physicians, four psychiatrists and three others â such as former presidents, vice presidents or other former senior U.S. government officials. The commission, if directed by Congress through a concurrent resolution, would be empowered to conduct an examination of the president âto determine whether the president is incapacitated, either mentally or physically.â
I know is truly unlikely to play out but I would so love to see President Obama as a member of the commission that find Tramp mentally unfit and removes PeePee from office!
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It indeed did â it is this same feeling that I got when I read Comeyâs opening statement⌠so awfully unreal â and surreal. Itâs as if some scenes of a cheap, low-grade gangster novel turn out to be reality and leave me stunned.
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Have to say Iâm pleased that Kobachâs request got so much pushback, and from Republican states even.
I wonder if some of this reaction â beside the usual stateâs rights argument â might be due to recent reports that when the Obama administration went to the states last year and offered assistance in hardening their election systems from Russian hacking, the response ranged from âneutral to negative.â
Does anyone think that these states might have felt chastened â even burned â by that recent disclosure in the Washington Post, and that they want to take steps to at least manage perceptions? If not uphold privacy of voter data?
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I think another possibility is some of them if not all may have been pissed by Trumpâs bogus claim about voter fraud which essentially questions those state/local election administratorsâ integrity. I remember even some local Republican election officials/workers were enraged at his persistent attacks. They know his claim is bogus and baseless and only taints their work and reputation. And they know Trump and Kobach requested their data to push the bogus further. Who would want to cooperate?
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Yes, that could explain it. Thatâs been mentioned.
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That Ben Wittes agreed to publish this in Lawfare Blog, leads me to believe there is a whole lot more to this than we know. This is exhausting.
Speaking of which rumor has it WaPo may also have a story about direct collusion which they have been asked to withhold by IC. We will find if this rumor is true or not soon, but either way â the big picture will hardly change (buckle upâŚ)
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So, Kobach pretty much admits he as KS SoS canât do this with even his own state. Quite a trolling by Schumer followsâŚ
And then this.
And thereâs the 10th, of course. So⌠all they can do is threat and spread propaganda. Doesnât seem a high hurdle to clear to call their bluff. Hopefully the rest of the states will follow.
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This was my last reading today. Night nightâŚ
Manhattan Prosecutor Joins Inquiry Into Russian Meddling in Election
⌠As a line prosecutor, Mr. Goldstein was a member of the team that in 2015 won the conviction of Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who had been the longtime speaker of the State Assembly.
Mr. Goldstein is the first prosecutor to join Mr. Muellerâs team from the United States attorneyâs office for the Southern District of New York, an office known for its pursuit of public corruption, white-collar crime and Wall Street fraud, the office confirmed on Friday.
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