Kinzinger is going to get "Justin Amash"ed. There’s no room in the Republican tent for the smart and sane.
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Amash wasn’t kicked out. He left. He probably could have kept his House seat too if he’d run for re-election instead of flirting with a presidential run
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Remind me again how Kinzinger voted on Trump’s first impeachment.
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Screw him.
He’s just trying to line himself up for a 2024 run as the “reasonable conservative”. He’s already shown he values party before country.
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Nah. He’s essentially walked away from the GOP at this point. His state party censured him and, by now, is probably toying with the idea of killing him. I mean this guy just won’t shut up and behave
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Kinzinger cautioned that “the further down this road we go, the closer we come to the end of America as we know it.”
The rest of the Republican congressional caucus: “Your point being?”
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Kinzinger at least shows some gutsiness that is noticeably absent in the GOP. Poor Lou Dobbs is still at it on the radio spouting “illegal impeachment” so you just can’t shut them up. I’m glad the Dems are going through with this, if nothing else, for the history books.
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Kinzinger, like a number of GOP Senators, should simply start talks with the folks at the Lincoln Project…see where it leads…
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Number three in the Fundamental Truths of Networking:
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
(Note: “RFC” documents contain, among other things, the key standards that the Internet is built upon. They also have a long-running tradition of humor, specifically those issued on the first of April.)
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I was in Yakutia one December and the temperature was a “balmy” minus 25 F.
One of the Russian translators remarked “spring has sprung!”.
In Montana it was minus 45 once in Glendive and I had to just run the diesel pickup all night at the motel to keep the fuel from turning to jello.
I’m ready for Arizona. I’ve earned it.
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Excellent. Hawley actually is very Himmler-like.
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“The party of whatever this is” the logical conclusion from “The party of Regan.”
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FUN THOUGHT PROJECT: Imagine that Pres. Hillary Clinton had done same. It would be (Benghazi + Emails + Vince Foster Murder + TravelGate Outrages ) x 1000 in the impeachment session managed by Republicans. But of course IOKIYAR and have an army of white-supremacist shock troops and proud boogers.
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As heartening as this report is, we can be certain that there are many within the 21 “open minded” contingent who are merely concerned and/or disturbed by Trumps actions, send their thoughts and prayers to the murdered police officers and are also open to letting Trump off if it looks like he’s learned his lesson.
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I was listening to Al Franken’s podcast with Adam Schiff yesterday, and Schiff tells about how a guy came up to him at an airport and asked wasn’t the Mueller investigation really all bogus? Schiff laid it out in detail as what would you say if Chelsea Clinton secretly met with Russians who offered dirt on Trump, and David Plouffe was there, etc., and the guy actually admitted he saw his point now.
Schiff joked that all he needed was a few million more airport conversations.
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Is a secret ballot an option? That is the only way the GOPers might actually do the right thing.
I think that was the biggest problem with the Russia story. Trump supporters didn’t think Russia’s involvement was necessarily wrong.
Everybody does something like that. Right?
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Nope, he was toast. The backlash was intense and Meijer would have beat him in the primary. He saw that it was a waste of time so he flirted with the Libertarian presidential campaign.
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It’s interesting how the Teapublican Party is often someone’s Party -be it Lincoln, Goldwater, Reagan, or Trump. But the Democratic Party has never belonged to any one person, in my view, not even powerful leaders like FDR or charismatic ones like Kennedy, because, for us, it’s really more about ideas to benefit the majority of Americans.
We ask our leaders to accomplish our stated goals, unlike Republicans who seem to follow their leader down whatever rabbit hole they want to go down.
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Even if this is theater to get elected POTUS, Kizinger’s instinct is still that the play Americans want to see is one about the triumph of Democracy and decency. Not a Shakespearean tragedy.
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