Your Road Map To Understanding The House Probe of Giuliani’s Ukraine Gambit | Talking Points Memo

Rudy Giuliani’s loose lips have caught up with him.

For months, the former New York mayor and current personal attorney to President Trump hasn’t been exactly hiding his globe-trotting effort to dig up dirt on the President’s personal political enemies.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1252750

My Sharpie just ran out of ink.

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Interesting how many times questions about whether he bribed any officials comes up, and with very specific names.

Almost like Congress already has a bunch of the documents in hand, and they want to see if he lies.

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Calling Michael Cohen on the Ukrainian connections…

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confusing

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“…Giuliani’s Ukraine Gambit…”

(Are we absolutely SURE that @theghostofeustacetilley isn’t really Rudy?)

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This about sums up every Oval Office meeting these days. Enjoy!

http://www.offbalance.com/art4.html

Groucho Marx: Now pay particular attention to this first clause, because it’s most important. There’s the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part. How do you like that, that’s pretty neat eh?

Chico Marx: No, that’s no good.

Groucho Marx: What’s the matter with it?

Chico Marx: I don’t know, let’s hear it again.

Groucho Marx: So the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part.

Chico Marx: Well it sounds a little better this time.

Groucho Marx: Well, it grows on you. Would you like to hear it once more?

Chico Marx: Just the first part.

Groucho Marx: What do you mean, the party of the first part?

Chico Marx: No, the first part of the party, of the first part.

Groucho Marx: All right. It says the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part, shall be known in this contract - look, why should we quarrel about a thing like this, we’ll take it right out, eh?

Chico Marx: Yes, it’s too long anyhow. Now what have we got left?

Groucho Marx: Well I’ve got about a foot and a half. Now what’s the matter?

Chico Marx: I don’t like the second party either.

Groucho Marx: Well, you should have come to the first party, we didn’t get home till around four in the morning. I was blind for three days.

Chico Marx: Hey look, why can’t the first part of the second party be the second part of the first party, then you’ll get something.

Groucho Marx: Well look, rather than go through all that again, what do you say?

Chico Marx: Fine.

Groucho Marx: Now I’ve got something here you’re bound to like, you’ll be crazy about it.

Chico Marx: No, I don’t like it.

Groucho Marx: You don’t like what?

Chico Marx: Whatever it is, I don’t like it.

Groucho Marx: Well don’t let’s break up an old friendship over a thing like that. Ready?

Chico Marx: OK. Now the next part I don’t think you’re going to like.

Groucho Marx: Well your word’s good enough for me. Now then, is my word good enough for you?

Chico Marx: I should say not.

Groucho Marx: Well I’ll take out two more clauses. Now the party of the eighth part –

Chico Marx: No, that’s no good, no.

Groucho Marx: The party of the ninth part –

Chico Marx: No, that’s no good too. Hey, how is it my contract is skinnier than yours?

Groucho Marx: Well, I don’t know, you must have been out on a tail last night. But anyhow, we’re all set now, are we? Now just you put your name right down there, then the deal is legal.

Chico Marx: I forgot to tell you, I can’t write.

Groucho Marx: Well that’s all right, there’s no ink in the pen anyhow. But listen, it’s a contract isn’t it? We’ve got a contract, no matter how small it is.

Chico Marx: Oh sure. You bet. Hey wait, wait. What does this say here, this thing here?

Groucho Marx: Oh that? Oh that’s the usual clause, that’s in every contract. That just says, it says, ‘If any of the parties participating in this contract are shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified.’

Chico Marx: Well, I don’t know.

Groucho Marx: It’s all right, that’s in every contract. That’s what they call a sanity clause.

Chico Marx: You can’t fool me, there ain’t no sanity clause.

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Your OneWordAnswer™: No.

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Actually, we are - @theghostofeustacetilley goes quiet for weeks or months at a time, Rudy Ghouli can’t shut up for an hour to save himself from self-incrimination…

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That’s because he forgets the password… So no guarantees there.

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If it’s Rudy we’re talking about, he might just start typing his posts in a search box, assuming he’s signed in to TPM and responding to a post.

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They don’t make markers like they used to. I have one of the old Sanford Deluxe markers from the 80s or maybe early 90s, the kind that smells like benzene and brain cancer, and it’s still going strong. And not just with the smell, which can empty a room.

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Maybe we need their faces on playing cards similar to the one’s they used during the Iraq War.

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I would pay money for that just to leave to my kids…

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Ah, the good old days, huffing markers in middle school…

WRT bribery, it doesn’t matter if he lies. As Josh recently reminded us, bribery is one of the grounds for impeachment specifically mentioned in the Constitution: “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The last eight words of Article II.

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[quote=“becca656, post:7, topic:146911”]
Chico Marx: Hey, how is it my contract is skinnier than yours?

Groucho Marx: Well, I don’t know, you must have been out on a tear last night.
[/quote]FTFY.

So proud of our girl Sneed. First, she is name-checked in the Mueller Report, and NOW: retweeted by Devin Nunes’ Cow. Stratospheric! Josh will need to give her a raise.

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