Discussion: Paul Ryan Backs Up Trey Gowdy In Pushing Back On Trump's 'Spy' Claims

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So brave Paul. Are you searching for your next job???

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stopped clocks and all that…

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The voting patterns in the primaries are important, but here’s my take. The Republican donor class is getting pretty upset over TrumpTradeWar™. The Kochs are now supporting Heidi Heidkamp in North Dakota!* We maybe starting to reach the point, when Trumpchaos™ creates some critical disturbance in the money flow. The rentiers want predictability and stability in addition to rapacious fleecing of the public with impunity. The Trump benefit/cost ratio may be getting below 1.

*Chacon a son gout.

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It was only a primary, right ?

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Soon to be next CA Governor Gavin Newsom is going to be all over trumpp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/primary-elections-california-alabama-iowa-new-jersey-montana/2018/06/04/5a4946c4-6764-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?utm_term=.1dba66cbce08&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

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Ryan is looking like a jello that is hardening in its mold (almost has some sort of solid properties), for today.

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Some results can be foretold

In the Central Valley’s 22nd District, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of Tulare was at 58 percent and Democrat Andrew Janz was at 32 percent. While Nunes’ district is tailor-made for a Republican, Democrats are hoping that his close ties to Trump and his controversial work on the Russia probe as head of the House Intelligence Committee may make him vulnerable in the fall.

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Janz doesn’t get to run against Nunes in the general?You’re implying that if one of the candidates gets >50%, they win outright and don’t have to run in the general. Is this true? If so, how bogus a system is that?

ETA. Okay. Your next comment makes this clearer. I was one of Nunes’ constituents years ago. The district contains some of the poorest and most culturally backwards parts of the nation. And as long as Nunes is there it’ll remain that way.

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Too little, too late, boss.

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Oh, I forgot CA got that crazy “The first two compete in the fall” system…

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Wow. Paulie keeps going like this he will have grown a pair of squirrel nuts by the time he leaves office

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There are some signs that comments like “I can pardon myself” are not as popular as one might think.

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http://www.latimes.com/la-pol-ca-california-primary-june-live-rep-devin-nunes-will-face-andrew-janz-1528267631-htmlstory.html

He will face Democrat Andrew Janz, a former county prosecutor, who as of mid-May had raised almost $2 million as cash poured into his campaign from around the country from those who want to counter Nunes.

Janz, who collected 32% of the vote, will be running an uphill battle for Nunes’ House seat in a district where registered Republican voters outnumber Democrats by 10 percentage points and Trump won with 51% of the vote in 2016. He has not been shy about employing mockery to get his anti-Trump message out: Late last year, Janz bought a highway billboard near Jimbo’s Bar in Clovis depicting Nunes and Trump clad in diapers, with Russian President Vladimir Putin pulling them by leashes.

You have to love the billboards Janz put up, I posted images of them a few times.

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“I would comment further upon this matter but I must go back to my office so I can attempt to finally finish ‘Atlas Shrugged’. I’m at the good part where John Galt is going to eat the Mexican baby!”

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I used to live in a little foothills town 35 mi. from Visalia

“Shithole Country” And it won’t change as long as Nunes, or any other local Republican is the representative.

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There was a Board of Supervisors primary (city council) yesterday, the winner will serve until November when they’ll run against each other again. It’s complicated.

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Looks to me like he got 58% of the vote but still has to face a Democrat in the general. But barring an indictment or something, I’d say that his reelection is a foregone conclusion with that number. There’s talk that the Latino and Asian-American votes in his district “remain untapped potential,” but at this point it’s hard to hear talk about the Latino vote without thinking about how fusion power has been thirty years away every year for the last sixty years.

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If you look at a map of CA you’ll see it’s almost equally divided down the length of the state into blue on the left coast and red on the east, inland side. Tech comes out of the left coast (as well as the film industry and more) and methane comes out of cow country. Nevertheless, there is great optimism about picking up those down state districts which could lead to the blue wave

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That would explain why he perpetually looks like a man who has a colonoscopy scheduled tomorrow morning and has to go take the enemas in a couple of hours these days.

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good golly. i"m shocked.

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