On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) requested all 74 inspectors general, including the Defense Department IG, to investigate retaliation against whistleblowers after President Donald Trump got key impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman kicked out of the National Security Council last week.
“Political Road Rage” a new term to describe Trump’s behavior.
The NRA cannot lay claim to executive privilege rights when asked about their dealings with Trump and his campaign operations. Why hasn’t the House summoned NRA officials for testimony and documents regarding their laundering of Russian money through their coffers into Trump’s campaign? It’s fairly common knowledge this is exactly what happened. And saying they are hands-off on it because of ongoing DOJ investigations into the same acts is BS. The House trusts DOJ to get to the bottom of it?
Yep, pissing in the wind. Oh how quaint of Schumer. He actually thinks laws about whistleblower protections still exist under this lawless maladministration with Barr as its gatekeeper. Well, maybe we can fix this one as well later on (one of many), if we ever come together to make the rule of law part of our democracy again. Otherwise…all bets are off.
Even if Dems regain the Senate and maintain a House majority Dems will remain toothless to affect legislation and laws. Should the election boot the GOP Senate majority McConnell will just revive all sorts of obstructionist tools for the minority to employ before the new Congress is seated. Blue slips, filibuster, whatever he has to do to see to it that 48 GOP Senators still control the chamber will be done.
Investigate this too, Chuck, while you’re feeling frisky.
It’s a great idea - until the department watchdogs are all fired.
Wait for it.
Except Christopher Steele.
sounds like there are a lot more available impeachable crimes to pick from. With more being provided everyday by the wizard.
So why not Nancy,
lets do it again and include all his accomplices in the gop this time. Turn loose about 50 indictments with Barr at the top of list followed by McConnell all the way down to the mutt graham. Set them all on fire. at least keep the media on all there criminal intent day after day until the country has had enough.
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Nah, that’s too many indictments for the electorate to comprehend. Can’t be doing that. It needs to be narrowly focused on one crime. Voters will resent a comprehensive approach to all this. Didn’t you learn anything from the first impeachment episode?
We have to get Trump voted out AND flip the Senate to reverse course. And I am becoming deeply skeptical that it can be pulled off. These two expositions are hairaisingly on the mark. One an article, the other a tweet storm. And I’m gonna be honest. I don’t give a shit about novelty or aspirational candidates and rhetoric. I want to win this thing and I don’t like what I’m seeing.
But what happens if they fail, too?
Epiphany politics delays a reckoning. It promises people the change they want, but it can’t deliver it. And so the public becomes more frustrated, the politics more bitter, and both sides more desperate. Here, then, is the epiphany we need: What American politics lacks isn’t good candidates but a functional political system. And so long as that problem goes unfixed, no candidate, in the end, will be good enough.
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McRussiaWithLove has already eliminated blue slips on judges so that’s not coming back. And if he only did it part way with some judges and not others, Schumer or whoever is in charge needs to get rid of the rest of Lucy’s football strategy and finally play hardball. Harry Reid wouldn’t go all the way because he trusted that fucking turtle and was friends with him. Comity is over. Period. Time to wake up and smell the coffee. You can’t play by rules when the other side is playing Calvinball and has committed their entire strategy to legislative obstructionism. Repubs have based their strategy over the years in going after the Democratic party simply because they exist to do good for the most number of people possible. Republicans can’t compete with that and they know that. The base they’ve built up for electoral purposes won’t allow them to because they have to own the Libs rather than do their actual job as legislators.
As for the filibuster…I can see that going by the wayside too. After what McFuckface has done to the judiciary…we need to get up to speed and create new rules of the road to balance the damage they’ve done to the country. I won’t be surprised if we find many of the judges Mitch put on various courts impeached due to blatant corruption or abuses of power. So many of them are not suited to the preside in the first place, having no experience or proper judicial temperament to begin with.
I don’t understand the fascination with awarding the nomination to a century old Yoda, a heart attack just 50 feet in the rearview mirror.
Then it’s time for another impeachment. Why stop when the crimes keep on coming.
Yeah I did lol
control the narrative with the msm and all the rest is up for speculation.
who won that battle? the acquitted chosen one i believe.
Fill there plates with more than they can chew and hopefully they will just choke to a gasping whimper begging for a quiet private life to re minis about there failed coup of the country.
By the way, I’m am trying hard to be optimistic.
Now I need to see solutions beyond, let the voters decide.
Exactly. Anyone suspected of being at risk of loyalty to the country is going to go through some things.
OT, but I see the Obamas won an Oscar last night for producing the best documentary. It eats Trump alive for Obama to be recognized for an accomplishment, and getting a public award in tandem with that recognition doubly enrages him. Trump’s reactions to the Nobel and fat book contracts prove it. You just know he’s stewing about it.
I just know you’ll win the Powerball if only you’ll go down to the gas station and spend one dollar on a ticket.
Totally superfluous move, Senator.
Don’t you know whistleblowers are already vigorously protected under Federal law?
He definitely has some re-Greta’s…