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Diane Feinstein: I Don't Know If There's Enough Evidence for Impeachment to Support Anything But an Acquittal
Just after President Trump’s defense lawyers ended arguments in their Senate trial Tuesday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California became the first Democrat to suggest that she could vote to acquit him, despite serious concerns about his character. "Nine months left to go, the people should judge. We are a republic, we are based on the will of the people-- the people should judge," Feinstein said Tuesday, after the president’s team finished a three-day presentation in his defense. "That was my view and it still is my view." Still, she indicated that arguments in the trial about Trump's character and fitness for office had left her undecided. "What changed my opinion as this went on," she said, is a realization that "impeachment isn't about one offense. It's really about the character and ability and physical and mental fitness of the individual to serve the people, not themselves."Diane Feinstein, who employed for decades a spy for Red China in a sensitive position, is an excellent judge of character. Meanwhile, some GOPers are suggesting that they have the votes to force a final vote, guilty or innocent, by Friday.
“The overwhelming consensus is we’ve heard enough - and it’s time to move to a final judgment,” said Sen. John Barrasso, a member of the Senate GOP leadership, says after conference meeting
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 28, 2020
Bolton claims may be a bust. Senate Republicans hint after a closed-door meeting Tuesday afternoon that the GOP consensus is mostly against witnesses. The whip (vote counter), Sen. John Thune, tells us the Senate trial "shouldn't" go beyond Friday. "We are kind of on schedule"
— Susan Ferrechio (@susanferrechio) January 28, 2020
DOJ spokeswoman @KerriKupecDOJ responds to NYT story about Bolton and Barr: pic.twitter.com/F95PGGkxTH
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 28, 2020
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (oVJmc)
Feinstein wants that penthouse in Hell...she ain't voting on nothing that helps Trump.
Posted by: The people across the aisle want us silenced at best,dead at worst at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (xXx5y)
Posted by: Tuna at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (RueoN)
...and like an idiot, I reaad the fucking post.
Posted by: garrett at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (DNj86)
Posted by: Eeyore at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (ZbwAu)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (lnyJN)
*cough*
Posted by: Harvard at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (nfcV2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (NVYyb)
Collins might.
MooCow, who knows.
Alexander? don't know him and why he is fighting this
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: Harvard at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (nfcV2)
'Character' and 'fitness' can too easily come down to 'doesn't do what I want.'
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (oVJmc)
It's a fucking popularity contest to this scrunt?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (1CjJc)
OT
The size of the crowd gathering for PDT's rally tonight is pretty amazing.
and leon's getting larger!
Posted by: Anachronda at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (sGtp+)
Does dragging this out really benefit Democrats? Especially all the Democrats that won in red districts?
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (sjTfF)
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Harvard at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (nfcV2)
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Dr Spank at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (4e+hS)
If I rob 30 seconds from each sunsequent sexual congress
and live to the age of 160...
...no.
Never getting them back.
Posted by: garrett at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (DNj86)
Posted by: henry at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (J3Rfi)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 28, 2020 06:24 PM (oVJmc)
It's a fucking popularity contest to this scrunt?
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (1CjJc)
Yup, just like abuse of Power. Which THEY define as doing something Legal, but with a nefarious intent.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Fritz at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (ATCV4)
shuffles to Ivy League Barrel
Posted by: Harvard at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (nfcV2)
Pinkies out!
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (1CjJc)
We need more of what Loeffler did yesterday. The GOP needs to start calling out it's treacherous fifth column whenever a close vote comes up or this will keep happening every goddamn time.
Posted by: El Kabong at January 28, 2020 06:28 PM (datdl)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 28, 2020 06:28 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 28, 2020 06:28 PM (C1Lsn)
She has such a lovely smile. Looks like she'd be a lot of fun to hang out with.
Posted by: Furious George at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (9vQJW)
Posted by: lymond at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (Jvjtu)
Posted by: Inspector Cake of Scotland Yard at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (HmZuC)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (lnyJN)
Posted by: The Grand Ol' Party at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (VMPS/)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (nu45M)
Di- Fi might have been actually listening.
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (ZCEU2)
Maybe we should just elect Sanders and let him burn through for 4-8 years.
The rational way of solving our problems goes by the wayside with Mitt and gang.
Posted by: Drider at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (R/UH9)
Josh Hawley to Submit Questions on Adam Schiff Whistleblower Relationship, Hunter Biden Burisma Work
Josh Hawley will submit a series of questions relating to Adam Schiff's relationship with the intelligence office whistleblower and the House impeachment managers during the next phase of the Senate impeachment trial.
I guess anything can be asked?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (2B9A/)
Posted by: josephistan at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (Izzlo)
Holy shit, I never thought I'd be agreeing with "Ma'am" on impeachment. But this is exactly it, nd what has been so frustrating about the whole farce. The Dems are proceeding as if they can impeach for something Trump hasn't done yet, just because he's a "bad guy." Its OrangeManBad as constitutional theater. Absurd!!!
Posted by: imp at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (SFOr6)
Does dragging this out really benefit Democrats? Especially all the Democrats that won in red districts?
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:26 PM (sjTfF)
Inside the beltway Dems know that now Bernie is going to have a big step up towards nomination.
Brokered convention, with Hillary stepping in to take over.
So it him, or her... neither of which currently have a chance against Trump.
Their only chance is to find dirt on Trump through this process.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (NgKpN)
The LA Times misunderstood what I said today. Before the trial I said I'd keep an open mind. Now that both sides made their cases, it's clear the president's actions were wrong. He withheld vital foreign assistance for personal political gain. That can't be allowed to stand.
It's like she hasn't even been there for the past week...
Posted by: Tami at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (cF8AT)
Penumbrae pending.
Posted by: henry at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (J3Rfi)
Sorry by - not witnesses. End this crap right now.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (+DS2f)
........
THE whistleblower non-whistleblower whistleblower fake whistleblower?
Buckle up.
Posted by: wth at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: garrett at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (DNj86)
Posted by: Teh Barrel at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (gd9RK)
Goddammit, tinyurl your links. It's not fucking rocket science.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (NWiLs)
@seanmdav
Whoever runs Feinstein's Twitter account is now walking this back, saying reporters "misunderstood" what Feinstein really meant, which seems unlikely. The more likely option is that staff are now re-educating Feinstein about how she will vote.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (wiXsO)
Not one of them ever has to worry about losing office to get a real job in the dreaded private sector. They'll use their DC connections to get a lobbying job, or a nice no-show spot on a board of directors, or some talking head spot on CNN bashing the GOP. They don't give a damn if they lose an election.
They also are betting that we don't have the numbers or the will to vote them out, to stay at home or vote for the Dem challenger.
If they vote to remove Trump, what are people going to do? Storm DC and drag every one of these treasonous bastards out of their offices?
Surround their homes with a howling mob? Call the cops and have them SWATted?
I'll tell you what would happen - people's keyboards would melt down in indignation, there would be chest-puffing and posts about how the Deep State has won and true patriots now need to water the Tree of Liberty. . .
But hey, the Super Bowl is coming on! Yay, America's Team! And anyway, VP Pence is there. He's an OK guy. He'll carry on Trump's work.
Hey, anybody want to call GrubHub and get some spicy wings?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2020 06:31 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (a0IVu)
Hate UT ??
ever been on a pub crawl in UT ?
no one else has either
Posted by: REDACTED at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (rpxSz)
https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein/status/
1222286544733704193
Posted by: lymond at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (Jvjtu)
Probably trolling for a bribe.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (eoQWY)
In any legal proceeding, whether motion, argument, or trial, the issues begin to get clarified into a "just what are we arguing about here" moment. THat moment appears to have arrived, and some in the Senate do not appear to be willing to impeach on speculative behavior that hasn't happened yet. I'd be surprised if we didn't see a few Dem defectors after all of this.
Posted by: imp at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (SFOr6)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (4a9Vv)
Posted by: The Grand Ol' Party at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (VMPS/)
Deep State Bolton.
Deep State Romney.
This was a set up. Another life line thrown out to continue this charade.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: REDACTED at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (aLLD1)
Mike
Posted by: MBunge at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (7Nkan)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (5QyYN)
What an execrable person he turned out to be. Sellout for what- a book and five minutes of glory?
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (ChaDo)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 28, 2020 06:33 PM (lnyJN)
Posted by: The Grand Ol' Party at January 28, 2020 06:29 PM (VMPS/)
..........
Magic 8-Ball says:
Most likely.
Posted by: wth at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2020 06:27 PM (a0IVu)
two-faced glenn beck supports romney from what I hear - a mormon thing
please
these are not men of faith
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (vEIlU)
I suspect Senators like Romney *like* sitting on the traitorous edge,
because it makes people pay a whole lot of attention to them. McCain
used to do that shit all the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 28, 2020 06:25 PM (Kpl3J)
+++McCain's last senatorial vote was to stop the repeal of Obamacare. Just had to go out in his vainglorious manner by doing the big "thumbs down" for all the world to see - sick and at death's door, that's where his ego would not die. I can see this in Romney too. There simply is no way of measuring this kind of egotism.
Posted by: washrivergal at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (+tWDL)
Posted by: Dingo at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (gd9RK)
Posted by: wth at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (v0R5T)
Even if he wants to say Trump "wanted" to withold funds from Ukraine, they weren't.
So now it's a thought crime for something he wanted?
And I didn't know Democrat corruption was against the law to expose.
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (sjTfF)
Posted by: Mittens McDemocratny at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2020 06:35 PM (a0IVu)
They really think THAT would be a brave act.
I said, what about Dems voting against it and allowing the people to decide? He seemed confused over that.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 06:35 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2020 06:35 PM (dLLD6)
because it makes people pay a whole lot of attention to them. McCain
used to do that shit all the time.
Posted by: Tom Servo
____________
This is as close as Romney can get to voting for impeachment, but he'll chicken out for actually voting for impeachment.
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:35 PM (sjTfF)
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:34 PM (sjTfF)
You must be new here.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (r+sAi)
Can we finally call Rudy a bullshitter?
And Joe Digenova?
Barr, once again, walking the fine line of temporarily appeasing the president and stabbing him in the back
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (+C1V+)
if I were elected to the House next year, one of my very first acts would be to submit a resolution calling for Schiff to be expelled. I'm sure Romney would defend him, but that's just my opinion of Romney.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (4a9Vv)
Posted by: wth at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: IC at January 28, 2020 06:35 PM (a0IVu)
It'd take a miracle.
Posted by: Miracle Max, have fun storming the impeachment at January 28, 2020 06:36 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: garrett at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (DNj86)
Posted by: Teh Barrel
Need a ruling on the margin blower.
Every thread has had one.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (7imgO)
Posted by: davidt at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (l3+k2)
Mitt Romney, angry mannequin. It's a cold anger. The slights shall not be forgiven, nor forgotten.
He's hollow. He's plastic. He's angry. He has nothing but time. His vengeance will be served cold.
Also, his son is one of the crooks.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (5S9Ex)
The LA Times misunderstood what I said today. Before the trial I
said I'd keep an open mind. Now that both sides made their cases, it's
clear the president's actions were wrong. He withheld vital foreign assistance for personal political gain. That can't be allowed to stand.
Umm, wasn't the Ukraine government looking into the Bidens around 2015 or so? IIRC, this didn't begin with PDT but was a continuation of something that started during TFG's Rein of Error. What's the deal?
Plus PDT is fulfilling treaty obligations. Has that been mentioned by the Trump team I wonder? Couldn't watch or listen to anything today.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (HaL55)
Also Minority Report is required Horde viewing to better understand pre-crime first principles!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (BiNEL)
His cardiovascular system will burn out long before the end of even one term.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (pPNCa)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (zr5Kq)
The only bright side is, think how much WORSE it would be now if the GOP hadn't picked up a couple of seats in '18.
Posted by: mnw at January 28, 2020 06:38 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: henry at January 28, 2020 06:38 PM (J3Rfi)
Posted by: IC
If he hasn't by now, he won't.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2020 06:38 PM (7imgO)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 28, 2020 06:30 PM (vEIlU)
Who left the cake out in the rain?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 28, 2020 06:38 PM (j3npP)
Serious question - what options do they have in this department? I assume plum committee assignments can be removed. They can support primary challengers, but it's not hard to see someone like Murkowski switching parties or going independent without losing her seat.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: josephistan at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: eleven at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (QLPEO)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (7imgO)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 28, 2020 06:40 PM (r+sAi)
Article 1 Section 3 mentions a tie breaking vote for the VP presiding over regularSenate business. But in placing the Chief Justice as presiding over impeachment does not grant the Chief a vote.
The Senate could give him one if they wanted to (which they won't) but in ordinary parliamentary procedure motions are defeated on a tie vote.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 28, 2020 06:40 PM (7rVsF)
I got nuthin' else.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Purveyor of Locally Sourced artisinal Hogwash at January 28, 2020 06:40 PM (xPJvm)
The LA Times misunderstood what I said today. Before the trial I
said I'd keep an open mind. Now that both sides made their cases, it's
clear the president's actions were wrong. He withheld vital foreign assistance for personal political gain. That can't be allowed to stand.
Umm, no he didn't. They got the aid. Without any preconditions. The President of Ukraine said it didn't happen. The transcripts said it didn't happen. They got the fucking aide you ignorant slut.
But if your concerned about withholding foreign aid for personal political gain, then maybe look at the ducking video of Biden doing exactly that.
Ignorant slut.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 28, 2020 06:40 PM (lnyJN)
Posted by: dartist at January 28, 2020 06:40 PM (K22Va)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:41 PM (zr5Kq)
His cardiovascular system will burn out long before the end of even one term.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (pPNCa)
--------------
Yup. Imagine, Madame President Donkey Chomperz
Posted by: cornbred at January 28, 2020 06:41 PM (t0lVW)
Imagine, Hunter Biden testifying. Dem defense "This is normal" (what else can they say?) The Trump defense "Okay, let's call in some more relatives of the Bidens, and other dem politicians, to see how normal this really is."
It could be fucking Armageddon.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 06:41 PM (+DS2f)
He's hollow. He's plastic. He's angry. He has nothing but time. His vengeance will be served cold.
Also, his son is one of the crooks.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 28, 2020 06:37 PM (5S9Ex)
Bah, he doesn't have the mean streak of McCain, so even his hate is squishy.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 28, 2020 06:41 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:42 PM (zr5Kq)
Would be interesting if the book was sent for review so lieutenant colonel cocksucker's twin could leak it, which would have to be a severe violation.
Posted by: not sohave no idea at January 28, 2020 06:42 PM (HALdu)
SIMON & SCHUSTER: hey [hobo] we'd love to hear your thoughts from your service in [alternate universe posting]
ME: Awesome! here you go -
SIMON & SCHUSTER: *sweats* this looks like a science fiction epic about Persian sultans on... is this the planet Venus?
ME: It's great isn't it? When's the advance getting to me
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 06:42 PM (ykYG2)
Getting kicked out of the party is called "having the whip withdrawn".
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 28, 2020 06:42 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (ZCEU2)
Fixed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 28, 2020 06:35 PM (dLLD6)
Sincere thanks.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (NWiLs)
What kind of fucking bullshit is that? Does Trump get a defense or not?
Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (+dsLj)
"It's Tuesday evening. The vote is Friday."
Yep. The press needs something for clicks and eyeballs for a couple days so it'll be endless speculation on the witness vote. Come Friday Mitch will have the vote to end this.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: GuyFromNH at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (Gs5TH)
Makes me want to go back and vote third party in 2012.
Posted by: Axeman at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (DuZls)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (iEXgF)
It could be fucking Armageddon.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 06:41 PM (+DS2f)
Armageddon is probably a good word for it, since there are bound to be a lot of wastrels on the Republican side dumping huge amounts of foreign cash on "strippers" and blow. The Republicans don't want everything to come out any more than the Democrats.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (5QyYN)
Is it a crime for a sitting VP to use the threat of withholding aid money to personally financially benefit himself and his family?
Do you think that crime should be investigated?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (zr5Kq)
I'm so humiliated that I ever voted for Romney.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (HALdu)
Who put the bomp in the bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp?
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?
https://tinyurl.com/qq99s93
Party like it's 1961!
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 28, 2020 06:45 PM (pPNCa)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January
I think she used the word "execute", but yeah
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:45 PM (HALdu)
You do not get away with something like that and remain in your current political career position. Yet, AOC experienced little to no repercussions (on the surface). So, now Feinstein is flexing her muscles in the Dem party. That's all. She would never vote to acquit. She's just letting Pelosi know who holds the cards on this one.
Posted by: Orson at January 28, 2020 06:45 PM (vqsbe)
You probably couldn't get all 43 GOP senators to agree that ice cream is good without some of them conspiring to see how the Donks will vote and trying to work the angles for some extra porridge.
The GOP sucks.
Posted by: Mr. Wiffle Snuff at January 28, 2020 06:45 PM (0keV9)
Posted by: GuyFromNH at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (Gs5TH)
........
So proud of my dinoSenataur.
And the other one: Bitchosaurus.
Posted by: wth at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (v0R5T)
partt if they defy what is call a "three line whip" (that is a voting
instruction underlined 3 times because it is really important.
Getting kicked out of the party is called "having the whip withdrawn".
That's the problem with our Congress: not enough whipping.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 28, 2020 06:43 PM (4thlk)
---
You're right. While the Dems were speaking, they could focus on how awesome they thought the Dems were. But now, what else do they have? Republican testimony? The Republican case?
Don't be ridiculous. Some of the msm have already made a big thing out of Fox not cutting away from Bondi, and censoring her--just like all the good networks had done.
Posted by: Axeman at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (DuZls)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (Ut2e7)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (GbPPJ)
You really didn't have a choice. It was either vote for a marxist muslim scumbag, or a plain old scumbag.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (3H9h1)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (lnyJN)
It could be fucking Armageddon.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 06:41 PM (+DS2f)
Armageddon is probably a good word for it, since there are bound to be a lot of wastrels on the Republican side dumping huge amounts of foreign cash on "strippers" and blow. The Republicans don't want everything to come out any more than the Democrats.
Posted by: Ace's liver
So if it gets that close to all of them being exposed, guess which way they'll vote.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2020 06:46 PM (7imgO)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 28, 2020 06:47 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 06:47 PM (4a9Vv)
Posted by: Orson at January 28, 2020 06:45 PM (vqsbe)
AOC's seat is going to be redistricted away by New York Democrats. I would call that a pretty serious repercussion for a politician.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 06:48 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 28, 2020 06:48 PM (9FDBs)
Is it a
crime for a sitting VP to use the threat of withholding aid money to
personally financially benefit himself and his family?
Do you think that crime should be investigated?
I genuinely do not grok why we haven't heard those questions axed by anybody.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy. #DemocratsSuck at January 28, 2020 06:48 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Suzy Creamcheese at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (Tnijr)
It's Tuesday evening. The vote is Friday.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (ZLI7S)
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Three days for a new bombshell that will surely sink Trump this time. Maybe notes passed around class that Trump hired Ukrainian hookers to give John Bolton a golden shower ... or something.
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (WqPYg)
Doesn't knock things down so much as rearrange the debris.
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (HALdu)
Amazingly, the people who told us that was the choice, are now saying we need to vote for the Marxist scumbag, because trump is a regular scumbag.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (dNzKv)
At least I know Sinema will vote to convict without all the drama queen c*ckery to go with it.
Posted by: El Kabong at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (datdl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (Ut2e7)
At that time I didn't know there was a uni-party, I didn't know that with a wink and a nudge they were, both parties, selling us down the river.
None of us knew those things.
I voted against Obama.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (iEXgF)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (zr5Kq)
This is what is usually called, "Some Fucked Up Shit."
Posted by: davidt at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: BluesFish at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (WQZ1O)
Posted by: Fritz at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (ATCV4)
Who actually prosecutes those cases? We need to lean on that individual...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (WdocV)
There was always the choice to vote for Republicans downticket and leave the top line blank, to send the message to the GOP that they are NOT to run an Obama photo-negative on their own ballot, not ever again.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (NvbIF)
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (JoUsr)
crime for a sitting VP to use the threat of withholding aid money to
personally financially benefit himself and his family?
Do you think that crime should be investigated?
And why didn't the Republitards go after Biden's ass right then and there?
Posted by: self-answering question at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (nfcV2)
Here's what's going to happen:
McConnell will say fine, witnesses. McConnell will say we'll let the Democrats have their witnesses, we'll give them 3 days, and that's it, time to move on.
If that sounds familiar, it should. It's exactly a repeat of of how McConnell allowed the Democrats to humiliate and muddy-up Kavanaugh.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 06:51 PM (+C1V+)
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I doubt the guy who was anally dildo raped by Walking Solar Eclipse Candy will be of much consequence to Trump.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 28, 2020 06:51 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:51 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2020 06:51 PM (Ut2e7)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (zr5Kq)
Totally this. I would have voted for charles fucking manson over the jug eared fuck.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 06:51 PM (9Om/r)
Who actually prosecutes those cases? We need to lean on that individual...
Posted by: 18-1
That would be No Arrests, No Indictments Barr.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 28, 2020 06:51 PM (7imgO)
Would be interesting if the book was sent for review so lieutenant colonel cocksucker's twin could leak it, which would have to be a severe violation.
Posted by: not sohave no idea
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Nobody in Washington DC is willing to make a personal sacrifice like that for a "gotcha" moment.
Bolton could have shut all of this down if he wanted to help the President.
This is a petty man that is trying to get even and doesn't care that he's fucking over the country.
Why Trump continues to make these hiring decisions I'll never know.
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (sjTfF)
But, like an idiot, I allowed Hugh Hewitt to tell me otherwise. Big government of & by & for Washington DC must end.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (xptlg)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (4a9Vv)
Q: What's your favorite color?
A: Blue... no, green! *AIEEEEEE flies off Bridge of Death*
Posted by: wth at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: mnw at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (Cssks)
You really didn't have a choice.
There was always the choice to vote for Republicans downticket and
leave the top line blank, to send the message to the GOP that they are
NOT to run an Obama photo-negative on their own ballot, not ever again.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (ykYG2)
My job is to cancel out a leftist vote. period.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 06:53 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Haiti Resident at January 28, 2020 06:53 PM (r+sAi)
Bolton could have shut all of this down if he wanted to help the President.
This is a petty man that is trying to get even and doesn't care that he's fucking over the country.
Why Trump continues to make these hiring decisions I'll never know.
Posted by: Blago at January
You seem unfamiliar with Iran Contra. Ever here of a guy named Oliver North? John Poindexter?
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:53 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 06:53 PM (zr5Kq)
I would have drawn the line at Ted Bundy though.
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 28, 2020 06:53 PM (pPNCa)
*giggle-snort-cries reading royalty statement from Amazon*
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2020 06:54 PM (Ut2e7)
The destruction of the Constitution.
If the Senate does not dismiss these charges as UnConstitutional, the new standard is that a President can be impeached over Policy differences, and bad thoughts.
Even if he is found not guilty, the precedent of the CHARGE will still be there.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 06:54 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Eli Cash at January 28, 2020 06:54 PM (67sg6)
Posted by: El Kabong at January 28, 2020 06:54 PM (datdl)
Posted by: Basement Cat at January
Kind of depends. Different for guys and girls.
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:54 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (9FDBs)
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Trump is dealing with the uncomfortable truth that almost anyone he hires will be a backstabber.
Time to fly the government solo. It'll be classy and luxurious then, bigly.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: dagny at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (nRWPy)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (4a9Vv)
Even dead, he's an asshole among assholes.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (Z+IKu)
And apparently he met with Guilani in October.
So...where is the arrest? The 4 AM no-knock raid? Seriously?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (WdocV)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (ZCEU2)
I just KNEW that Mittens Rombley was a sack of crap.
But, like an idiot, I allowed Hugh Hewitt to tell me otherwise. Big government of by for Washington DC must end.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (xptlg)
I knew Rombley was crap, too. The GOPe gave us no better choice. It is not as if a vote for anyone else or no vote would have made any difference.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (1CjJc)
What is the point of calling witnesses to testify to something subjective or untrue?
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:44 PM (HALdu)
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What is the point of calling witnesses when there is no crime? Hell, there's no assertion of a crime, let alone an actual crime committed. It's kabuki all the way down ...
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: rickb223
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It's just a little ice cream.
Posted by: A Penguin at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (9vQJW)
Here's what's going to happen: McConnell will say fine, witnesses. McConnell will say we'll let the Democrats have their witnesses, we'll give them 3 days, and that's it, time to move on.
If that sounds familiar, it should. It's exactly a repeat of of how McConnell allowed the Democrats to humiliate and muddy-up Kavanaugh."
I wouldn't discount it. But...if McConnell lets the Democrats humiliate Trump further and doesn't put the Bidens--including JOE--in the box, he won't be majority leader come next January.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (puu6v)
Bolton could have shut all of this down if he wanted to help the President.
This is a petty man that is trying to get even and doesn't care that he's fucking over the country.
Why Trump continues to make these hiring decisions I'll never know.
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (sjTfF)
Note, Bolton was one of ROMNEY's advisors when he ran for President.
Some of assembly required.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (NgKpN)
I suppose I'd have supported Wombley against the Gacy / Dahmer ticket.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Basement Cat
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What's wrong with a high school football legend in the Oval Office?
Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: HGTV - Haiti at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (nfcV2)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (4thlk)
I suggested people speculate on what would be the stupidest thing a Dem Senator could ask, but nobody responded. I think they were all discussing boobs at the time.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 28, 2020 06:56 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 06:57 PM (WdocV)
Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 28, 2020 06:57 PM (+dsLj)
Also, I think Trump might have just put in forward a real two state solution.
Posted by: Moon Moon Blutarski at January 28, 2020 06:57 PM (VNfwt)
The destruction of the Constitution.
If the Senate does not dismiss these charges as UnConstitutional, the new standard is that a President can be impeached over Policy differences, and bad thoughts.
Even if he is found not guilty, the precedent of the CHARGE will still be there."
That particular train has left the station. We need to have a discussion about whether we want to continue as a union in post-constitutional America. It probably won't be discussed but needs to be.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 06:58 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 06:58 PM (ZCEU2)
I agree. he actually did it!
of course, the Palis won't accept it and will continue being vicious lunatics.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 28, 2020 06:58 PM (Rarvo)
If the NYT story is as baseless as many "bombshell" stories have been from that outfit for years now, then Bolton is disgracing himself by not immediately issuing a clarifying statement.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2020 06:58 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 28, 2020 06:58 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: trapper's girl at January 28, 2020 06:59 PM (mKEoh)
Posted by: Serious Cat at January 28, 2020 06:59 PM (RT6Hk)
Good afternnon VP Biden. Can you tell me todays date? The day of the week? Please remember this address, 42 Water Street, Chicago Illinois. And every other question they use in the cognitive tests for Seniors.
VP Biden, what was that address I asked you to remember?
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 06:59 PM (+0uDE)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2020 06:59 PM (Ut2e7)
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (HALdu)
That's what Feinstein wants, obviously, but it is to give the freakin' Bidens an out in the event the worthless Senate GOP actually can do even the simplest things.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (puu6v)
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He needs to do the same for us too. Leftists can get two states too: New York and California. We get the rest.
#Winning
Posted by: Two Weeks From Soyville at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: The DNC and RINO BIRM at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (6eEQ+)
I knew Rombley was crap, too. The GOPe gave us no better choice. It is not as if a vote for anyone else or no vote would have made any difference.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (1CjJc
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I wish there was a better way to get a good nominee. After that, the the choice is binary and even Mittens was preferable to Jug-Ears
But that's like saying a broken arm is preferable to a broken ankle.
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (xptlg)
I know from having to take the certification test every year that there
is enough evidence already in the public domain to arrest Joe and Hunter
Biden.
Who actually prosecutes those cases? We need to lean on that individual...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 06:50 PM (WdocV)
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Eliminate the DOJ and outsource their power and functions to Judicial Watch.
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (WqPYg)
Hunter Biden: well, I sometimes have gas. And my father is a major gas bag.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (4a9Vv)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (9FDBs)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 28, 2020 06:58 PM (Rarvo)
They already rejected it.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:00 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Orson at January 28, 2020 06:45 PM (vqsbe)
AOC's seat is going to be redistricted away by New York Democrats. I would call that a pretty serious repercussion for a politician.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 06:48 PM (wGeit)
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...Hence my qualifier "On the surface"
Posted by: Orson at January 28, 2020 07:01 PM (kLYLO)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 28, 2020 07:01 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2020 07:01 PM (6XlcD)
Posted by: Slow Joe at January 28, 2020 07:01 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 07:02 PM (4a9Vv)
And apparently he met with Guilani in October.
So...where is the arrest? The 4 AM no-knock raid? Seriously?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 06:55 PM (WdocV)
I have mentioned this before.
On April 3, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014 (Public Law No. 113-95). The law includes new authority, not specifically identified in previous executive orders, for the President to impose sanctions on individuals who have committed gross human rights abuses in Ukraine associated with anti-government protests that began in November 2013. The law also provides the President authority to impose sanctions on individuals and entities deemed to have engaged in significant corruption in either Ukraine or Russia. Previously, with regard to corruption, Executive Order 13660 only provided the President authority to impose sanctions on persons involved with the "misappropriation of state assets of Ukraine or of an economically significant entity in Ukraine."
https://preview.tinyurl.com/s9dpw9q
It would be nice to see Trump after winning the 2020 election impose these sanctions with respect to all the individuals (many of them impeachment witnesses) engage in corrupt practices in Ukraine.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:02 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 28, 2020 07:02 PM (Ut2e7)
Posted by: Manufactured News Network at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (yQpMk)
"If the NYT story is as baseless as many "bombshell" stories have been from that outfit for years now, then Bolton is disgracing himself by not immediately issuing a clarifying statement."
This. Bolton probably sees himself as SoS in a fantasy Romney administration.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: Mittens Rombley at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (EgshT)
What about Sen Doug Jones from Alabama? He has to know a vote for shampeachment will doom any chance he has for re-election.
Also Joe Manchin. What about his vote?
Votes from one or both would make the Republican In Name Only Senators subversion irrelevant.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (6XlcD)
It's really kind of astonishing, given how Trump has made waves by aggressively s**t-canning disastrous mistakes like Obama's insane Iran policy, and questioning other long-standing arrangements that are inertial, that he is engaging in the most ludicrous perennial kabuki there is, the Israel-Palestinian "peace plan".
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: That irredeemable guy who always says bombshell... at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (EgshT)
Everybody's graft must be protected.
Posted by: davidt at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (l3+k2)
Bolton could have shut all of this down if he wanted to help the President.
This is a petty man that is trying to get even and doesn't care that he's fucking over the country.
Why Trump continues to make these hiring decisions I'll never know.
Posted by: Blago at January 28, 2020 06:52 PM (sjTfF)
Yeah, Bolton is selling a book. He already pissed of people on every side of politics, so this is how he's planning to pay green fees. That's the long and the short of it.
As far as why Trump makes these hiring decisions... well, the big problem you have when you take office as an outsider is the lack of people to fill these sorts of jobs. I'm sure Hillary had every single appointed position spoken for with two alternates, but Trump just didn't have the political network to fill in the ambassadorship to Nauru.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (wGeit)
Because to accept it would be to deny their own Palestinianhood. It's what they are. Apparently down to the DNA. To have peace is to end as "a people".
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (6eEQ+)
https://preview.tinyurl.com/s9dpw9q
It would be nice to see Trump after winning the 2020 election impose these sanctions with respect to all the individuals (many of them impeachment witnesses) engage in corrupt practices in Ukraine.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:02 PM (1CjJc)
Aren't sanctions, on an individual, without some court of laws intervention, a Bill of Attainder?
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (yQpMk)
Two weeks.
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 28, 2020 07:05 PM (OY2Y9)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 28, 2020 07:05 PM (ytC/k)
and yet I so looked up to Bolton when I was young. He told us every day on TV not to hit each other over the head with axes like the Stooges did.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 07:05 PM (4a9Vv)
**smishes Alex**
So, have you heard "smishing" is apparently some new kind of "phishing?" I think I saw it on Insty the other day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2020 07:05 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:05 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: lowandslow at January 28, 2020 06:28 PM (4thlk)
Why can't we just be frendshs?
Posted by: Zombie McLaime at January 28, 2020 07:05 PM (Vy7tf)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 07:02 PM (4a9Vv)
Nobody knows except the widow. His famous black book disappeared when he died.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:06 PM (wGeit)
Tell war monger Bolton to go pound sand.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 28, 2020 07:06 PM (ytC/k)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (wGeit)
They also went after all the Trump people with the full power of the FBI and DOJ.
Everyone knew it was going on in DC.
So who the hell would WANT to work for Trump, except someone already protected by the Deep State.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:06 PM (NgKpN)
Everybody's graft must be protected."
In the post-constitutional United States, plaintiffs don't have to testify is they are members of The Party.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 07:06 PM (puu6v)
Pulled with a small edit from the Cain Mutiny.
Posted by: Archer at January 28, 2020 07:06 PM (gmo/4)
Ted Bundy was more ethical too.
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (+0uDE)
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (HALdu)
Hey, Anna - 4 1/2 pages today! Yay me!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (Ki5SV)
What about Sen Doug Jones from Alabama? He has to know a vote for shampeachment will doom any chance he has for re-election.
Also Joe Manchin. What about his vote?
Votes from one or both would make the Republican In Name Only Senators subversion irrelevant.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (sy5kK)
As some Moron said the other day - watch Jones' vote.
If he votes for anything the Dems want, his seat is lost completely, he knows it, and just wants to stick it to Trump.
If he votes at all with anything the GOP wants, he thinks he still has a chance . . .
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (37uGP)
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Not employed a Red Chinese spy. WAS HANDLED BY A COMMUNIST CHINESE HANDLER.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 28, 2020 07:08 PM (JVsF0)
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (NgKpN)
I doubt it, but I'd consider looking the other way for a moment to let them feel the process as the punishment.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:08 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: Picric at January 28, 2020 07:08 PM (0pE3h)
Ted Bundy was more ethical too.
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (+0uDE)
Charles Manson had dozens of marriage proposals at any given time. It's facts like these that keep me from being depressed about never having been married.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: portlandon at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (+oR7L)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (ZCEU2)
Diane Feinstein: I Don't Know If There's Enough Evidence for Impeachment to Support Anything But an Acquittal
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (BsCoj)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (JVsF0)
Republicans do Failure Theater. Democrats do Success Theater. So we'll get all these rumblings about how by golly it's going to end this week. And then like crazy unpredictable magic... it won't end this week.
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:10 PM (LTAWK)
he looks ridiculous
he comes off as ridiculous
he's a goofy little prick
who would want him on their side? everyone can smell what he is
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 28, 2020 07:10 PM (Rarvo)
She already said she was "misquoted" and that Trump broke the law and he must be punished
Posted by: It's me donna at January 28, 2020 07:10 PM (6XlcD)
Ted Bundy was more ethical too.
Posted by: rd at January
When the history of chick murderers is written it will remember Ted Bundy more fondly than Joe Scarborough.
Ted Bundy had more dignity too.
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:10 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (NgKpN)
If that were true, the "no fly list" would be unconstitutional. *cough*.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:06 PM (NgKpN)
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AND If they were any good, the Deep State and a few Trump insiders would sabotage them. Examples,
John Ratcliffe
Chris Kobach
So why even apply?
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (+0uDE)
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Good thing we didn't elect that icky Christian guy...just think how he might have voted here!
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (WdocV)
Look at all the money and success that Mitt Romney has enjoyed over the years.
From Bain where he made millions, to Governor, to President of the Utah Olympics, to Senator.
Worth many millions and lives essentially where he wants to. Does pretty much what he wants to.
And now, his only goal in life is to make President Trump's life as miserable as he can.
He doesn't even care about the citizens of Utah, who elected him.
What a piece of sh*t. A human piece of sh*t.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:08 PM (1CjJc)
So the blood eagle?
Posted by: Torf-Einarr at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (2N7oZ)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (zr5Kq)
Sometimes the "jerking off" gesture is the only appropriate response. Posted by: xnycpeasant
With the fuck me Betty doll face and mouth look.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (BsCoj)
There's a "theory" out there, (youtube told me), that the World did end in 2012.
Yeah, yeah, really, but wait.
The World ended in 2012 and we don't know it yet because what "ended" the world was, get this, a Supernova (Black Hole?).
So we're experiencing a massive de-celeration in Time as we get sucked into the Black Hole. In other words, mere seconds are going by in 2012 but to us it feels like 8 years.
Thus, this is why everything is bonkers, today.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (+C1V+)
Posted by: Picric at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (0pE3h)
This is what is usually called, "Some Fucked Up Shit."
Posted by: davidt at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (l3+k2)
It might not work that way.
Posted by: Witness Reciprocity at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (iEXgF)
Posted by: iandeal at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (vgGyZ)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (ZLI7S)
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FUCK! We're doomed.
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (+0uDE)
What about Sen Doug Jones from Alabama? He has to know a vote for shampeachment will doom any chance he has for re-election.
Also Joe Manchin. What about his vote?
Votes from one or both would make the Republican In Name Only Senators subversion irrelevant.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (sy5kK)
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Yeah, I was also holding out hope that Sinema might vote against.
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (+C1V+)
It does explain the Cubs winning the World Series.
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (LTAWK)
as much as they liked that other Florida Lady Killer, Morning Joe
Scarborough
*gulp*
Posted by: Meeka at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (EgshT)
can I buy some pot from you?
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Picric at January 28, 2020 07:12 PM (0pE3h)
Hard to judge which outfit is less credible these days.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (wGeit)
also you're right about Mitch above. he's gonna run the same losing plays he did with Kav
does no one remember how close that was? how damaging?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (Rarvo)
Hunter Biden: well, I sometimes have gas. And my father is a major gas bag.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at January 28, 2020 07:00
-------------------
Serious question. What are the qualifications to be on any board? Direct knowledge of the business or just business experience in general? Seems I recall quite a few Fortune 500 companies having board members that know nothing about banking, brewing beer, or making athletic goods. Mainly diversity members.
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (Dhht7)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 07:09 PM (ZLI7S)
Lindsey makes me nervous.
I think at the very least he knows McCain was up to his eyeballs in Ukranian graft - Lindsey may even be involved. He wants this whole thing swept under the rug ASAP.
Frankly, at this point I don't care who in Washington gets taken down.
I just want GEOTUS to survive.
"We need this man. He fights."
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (37uGP)
Posted by: Betty Rubble at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (+C1V+)
How about the Masshole Lady Killer, Ted Kennedy?
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (pPNCa)
can I buy some pot from you?
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (ykYG2)
Shit, under some theories as you get close enough to the event horizon, time not only slows, but reverses.
So we have to go through this shit again???
F!
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (NgKpN)
witnesses Team Trump tries to call in defense, while voting to allow
witnesses the Dems call
***
Were I Trump I'd answer that by immediately releasing all the files on Epstein, Russia-Gate and Joe Bribem with no redactions. If you have to fire Barr, walk down to the DOJ and scan the documents yourself.
LET IT BURN.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (WdocV)
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (T6t7i)
I just want GEOTUS to survive.
"We need this man. He fights."
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (37uGP)
yup, this.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (LTAWK)
Posted by: Manufactured News Network at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (Ndje9)
does no one remember how close that was? how damaging?
Posted by: BlackOrchid
Yeah, that could've ended very badly for us -- with Kavanaugh withdrawing his nom, which is what the Democrats' strategy was all about. But Mitch got lucky.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (+C1V+)
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (Dhht7)
Hillary Clinton was on Walmart's board. Does that answer your question?
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (wGeit)
How about the Masshole Lady Killer, Ted Kennedy?
Posted by: Basement Cat at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (pPNCa)
We remember.
And make sure we pass on the Swimmer's story to our grandchildren.
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (37uGP)
I would want everyone that said the were voting with me to make sure that I would consider it a personal betrayal if they even thought about switching.
And that I would get their kid an internship with Joe Scarborough.
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (HALdu)
"Reply hazy. Ask again."
Posted by: The man who would be Paul Drake at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (FsgBK)
Am I the only one who thinks Susan Ferrechio is hawt?
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (T6t7i)
I'm going with yes. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 28, 2020 07:16 PM (9FDBs)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 07:16 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: rammajamma at January 28, 2020 07:16 PM (xceTB)
At that time I didn't know there was a uni-party, I didn't know that with a wink and a nudge they were, both parties, selling us down the river.
None of us knew those things.
I voted against Obama.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 28, 2020 06:49 PM (iEXgF)
Braenyard is an honest man who stands up for his mistake, even if he didn't know it at the time.
I stand beside Braenyard, as I made the same mistake. I don't regret voting for Romney, as it was the only choice against the Dog Eater. But I am angry now, angry at the complete sellout to the American way of life that Romney has so masterfully taken charge.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:16 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (PHotS)
Manufactured News Network If the President asserts Executive Privilege, Bolton can't testify to
privileged conversations unless the Court upends centuries of rulings.
Unlikely in the extreme.
ding ding ding
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (BsCoj)
The "peace plan", considering the administration's otherwise sensible
policies in the region, is pointless and harmless, like many of them
over the years.
It's really kind of astonishing, given how Trump has made waves by
aggressively s**t-canning disastrous mistakes like Obama's insane Iran
policy, and questioning other long-standing arrangements that are
inertial, that he is engaging in the most ludicrous perennial kabuki
there is, the Israel-Palestinian "peace plan".
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (El6T/)
________
+1 There can never be a peace plan when one side wants the other (whether it's merely their state or it's occupants) exterminated (the old until they stop hating Jews more than they love their children idea).
There will only be peace in the ME when one side finally annihilates the other. Israel should have made it so in early on ...
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: Carly at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (/iT+Z)
It was always going to be close. Democrats have almost as many votes and like the lunatics they are they voted almost lockstep against one of the most qualified nominees in recent history.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (wGeit)
WalMart sells vodka and adult diapers. She's qualified.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (Vy7tf)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (Dhht7)
General business sense and experience seems to be a "normal" requirement. Able to open doors for people is the typical requirement. And Crackhead fills that bill here.
The problem for crackhead and Bribem is not that he got the job and could open doors for the company. It is that they went a step beyond and bribed Ukraine to protect Burisma and by extension, Hunter and Bribem.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (1CjJc)
This "deceleration of time" doesn't include the Sun being up for like 50 days, why?
Good question.
I suppose it's because our entire Solar System is being sucked into the Black Hole, not just Earth.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (+C1V+)
it really depends
I know people in advertising who are on several nonprofit boards, and they are there because of their prowess in marketing/advertising and general business knowledge, plus connections
usually you are recommended to a board position by an existing board member and you have to apply and convince the board you would be an asset.
they don't usually pay all that much and they usually do expect each member to contribute SOMETHING even if it IS just connections
the thing that's wonky about Hunt is that he wasn't ever THERE for board meetings and he was paid an awful lot. but Burisma is not a nonprofit so I guess they can pay board members more??!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (Rarvo)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (Uu+Jp)
Posted by: Manufactured News Network at January
Yeah but that makes it harder for the squishes / smishes to support Trump. Even though it is constitutional the smishes / squishes get to claim it means he is hiding something.
Would be good for sales for Bolton.
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:16 PM (sy5kK)
I voted for Romney, and what's more, I'd vote for him again today in a contest with Obama. Presidential elections aren't an up/down vote.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: olddog in mo, uckfay ancercay at January 28, 2020 07:13 PM (Dhht7)
Hillary Clinton was on Walmart's board.
What nails the Biden's is their overt in your face f_ck up ness. And hookers and blow. And being on tape bragging about it.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (iEXgF)
Or maybe we're accelerating through Time while we get sucked into the Black Hole of 2012...
I dunno.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:18 PM (+C1V+)
...
he is engaging in the most ludicrous perennial kabuki
there is, the Israel-Palestinian "peace plan".
Trump is letting idiots run around in circle shouting. The only astonishing thing would be if this or the Shampeachment actually accomplished anything other than keeping assholes busy out of his way.
Posted by: DaveA at January 28, 2020 07:19 PM (FhXTo)
There has to be a money trail. Millionaires shooting for the stars here must be hundreds of billions at play here.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 28, 2020 07:19 PM (QxTuE)
Gretel and Hansel and The Rhythm Section are up this weekend. Strong Female Protagonists... so strong, that the producers haven't screened these films for critics yet and it's now Tuesday.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 07:19 PM (ykYG2)
Kobachar would jointly announce that there is no chance that the Senate
will convict "because the GOP is corrupt and won't treat the charges
fairly", say they are voting against witnesses to end the trial as
quickly as possible, and that they are doing it to "allow them to get
back to the important business of campaigning to explain to the voters
why they need to remove Trump in November".
Posted by: Dave in Fla at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (PHotS)
How is that smart? That doesn't keep Trump on stupid defense, which is the only thing they are doing.
Same thing they did with Russia.
What is different after Russia was investigated for two years? What is different now that impeachment has been going on for two months?
Nothing. The answer is nothing. Democrats are just filling time until Trump is out of office. Get used to it for another five years. They have a million of 'em.
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:19 PM (LTAWK)
Posted by: Marissa at January 28, 2020 07:19 PM (AEe1m)
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:14 PM (T6t7i)
I'm going with yes. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January
yeah, not hot
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:19 PM (HALdu)
@JRubinBlogger
can you imagine if Sekulow and Cipollone had to try a case in front of a real judge? bhahaahhahahahaha
Holy shiite!
Posted by: Tami at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (cF8AT)
he can give another thumbs down when the final vote comes around.
Even dead, he's an asshole among assholes.<<<
Cancer took one look at McCain's colon and said, "Let's focus on this imbecile's brain."
Posted by: Fritz at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (ATCV4)
Look at all the money and success that Mitt Romney has enjoyed over the years.
From Bain where he made millions, to Governor, to President of the Utah Olympics, to Senator.
Worth many millions and lives essentially where he wants to. Does pretty much what he wants to.
And now, his only goal in life is to make President Trump's life as miserable as he can.
He doesn't even care about the citizens of Utah, who elected him.
What a piece of sh*t. A human piece of sh*t.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:11 PM (sy5kK)
__________
I would not be shocked if some senator gets thrown down those marble stairs this week.
Someone will lose it. Likely a idiot in the media.
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (+0uDE)
To be clear, I do consider that A problem. I just don't consider it THE problem. Bribem bribed Ukraine with our tax dollars to protect Crackhead and himself and save Bronco some embarassment. There was no legitimate reason for his conduct.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (1CjJc)
Deep State Bolton.
Deep State Romney.
This was a set up. Another life line thrown out to continue this charade.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 28, 2020 06:32 PM (vEIlU)
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When you wrote charade did you think it like Jean Luc Picard would say it?
I hate that stupid fuck, Stewart. New CBS whatever on demand Star Trek show, that he said during his
pressers pimping that the show was anti Trump and anti Brexit.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (VYwSh)
Posted by: Eric at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (a2F+C)
Posted by: freaked at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (Tnijr)
I voted for Romney, and what's more, I'd vote
for him again today in a contest with Obama. Presidential elections
aren't an up/down vote.
Posted by: Ace's liver
Ditto. Doesn't mean I don't hate what Romney has become. Trump broke him.
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Carly
Feinstein is the Manchurian Dinosaur.
Posted by: zombie at January 28, 2020 07:21 PM (fK2gX)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2020 07:21 PM (G8B4j)
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:21 PM (LTAWK)
So, McConnell, the supposed Senate "leader," put Kavanaugh and us through hell for no other reason other than to appease the Cucks and Shit in the Senate and Fake News.
Because as we soon found out, as we will soon find about Bolton's book, Swetnik and Ramirez and even Dr Fraud we're ALL liars and fakes.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:21 PM (+C1V+)
me to make sure that I would consider it a personal betrayal if they
even thought about switching.
And that I would get their kid an internship with Joe Scarborough.
Posted by: not so at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (HALdu)
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I'm a bit late to this but whip counts are very important.
When McCain broke the whip, he did so because he was terminally ill. It was literally his last, best chance to fvck the GOP.
Anyone else who isn't planning on dying within months would permanently screw themselves.
The Dems will cheer, and then still treat them like dirt because of they lie to their current whip, they'll lie to the new one as well.
And what do they get in exchange? The Senate will probably see modest GOP gains. So all you do is screw yourself.
I know this is Pessimist Hair On Fire Central, but getting to 51 isn't hard.
Also, there are Dems that will probably switch. Sinema and Manchin, for example. Crossing over actually helps them retain support at home.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2020 07:21 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (wGeit)
WalMart sells vodka and adult diapers. She's qualified.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid, at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM (Vy7tf)
Just spit tea all over my keyboard reading this!
I can't laugh too much - I'm "behind enemy lines" in the People's Republic of Massachusetts visiting our 2-week-old grandson. Many more laughs like that, and my leftist daughter and son-in-law will want to know what's so funny.
They won't laugh if they find out.
Now for a way to sneak upstairs and watch the Trump rally without attracting too much attention . . .
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:22 PM (37uGP)
>>I just want GEOTUS to survive.
>>"We need this man. He fights."
He will and he will win re-election easily.
There aren't 20 Republican votes to oust Trump, I doubt there will be more than 1 if that.
Besides, as much as everyone is freeing out we do not know if there will be witnesses, who they will be and what exactly John Bolton will say.
So far both Mick Mulvaney and Barr have come out and said the claims in the NYT article about them are completely false. If recent history is any guide this is a leak that was either completely made up or it's 4th hand at best.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (T6t7i)
I'm sorry to sound like an ass, this shit doesn't put me in a good mood. But - Romney was already "what he has become". He has been for a long time. Before 2008 even. Don't fool yourself.
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (LTAWK)
pep - I voted for Romney, and what's more, I'd vote
for him again today in a contest with Obama. Presidential elections
aren't an up/d own vote.
I thank Romney every day for giving us Trump.
Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (BsCoj)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (svbBD)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (1CjJc)
Better, he admitted to extortion using Public funds.
Posted by: Don Q at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (McuK3)
He looks, acts and sounds like a major douche bag.
How the hell did he get to the SCROTUS in the first place?
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (+Smjf)
The good news: the costly delay is a sign that the studio is making it a priority to attempt to make the series, which was originally planned as a movie, a quality entry in the Star Wars franchise
Kimberly Potts @ rottentomatoes tinyurl.com/qthtfn3
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (ykYG2)
Also, there are Dems that will probably switch.
Sinema and Manchin, for example. Crossing over actually helps them
retain support at home.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
It'll be instructive how Doug Jones votes. If he votes to acquit, it means he still thinks he has a chance. If to convict, it means he knows he's toast, and YOLO.
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (T6t7i)
My prediction is 2 D's and 2 R's respectively cross the aisle. The
count would be the same as a party line vote but the 4 aisle crossers
give the illusion that the vote was bipartisan.
Posted by: Eric at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (a2F+C)
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I will remind people that Kavanaugh was confirmed via "pairing," which is a venerable Senate tradition. The Dems could have been pricks, but the Senate isn't the House.
These people have to work with each other, and they take perverse pride in these weird conventions.
So yes, if the GOP says there are 51, there are at least that many. Bernie and Warren want to get campaigning again. The polls aren't moving.
And under no scenario does Trump get removed, so dragging this out is pointless.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 28, 2020 07:20 PM (1CjJc)
His defense is he was trying to remove a corrupt prosecutor. Does anybody believe that? Even for a single second? There must be thousands of similarly corrupt top officials all over the world. What makes this one special?
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (nfcV2)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (Z+IKu)
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Another great Bush appointee!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
it's phishing via text message
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: BluesFish at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (WQZ1O)
Posted by: Mittens Rombley at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 28, 2020 07:23 PM (McuK3)
You have to think that. Trump's no dummy.
Will he play the Rudi/Ukraine card? Hopefully Rudi has the goods he claims he does.
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:26 PM (37uGP)
Posted by: bill in arkansas at January 28, 2020 07:26 PM (C1Lsn)
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at January 28, 2020 07:26 PM (3DZIZ)
Posted by: BluesFish at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (WQZ1O)
Does not look like it.
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:26 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: ...
No, I can see that point, but I think in 2012 he could have gone either way. Losing, and then having Trump tease him with SoS, the pull it away, turned him in to Gollum.
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:26 PM (T6t7i)
If the President asserts Executive Privilege, Bolton can't testify to
privileged conversations unless the Court upends centuries of rulings.
Unlikely in the extreme.
Posted by: Manufactured News Network at January 28, 2020 07:15 PM (Ndje9)
________
Can Bolton disregard that and testify anyway? You know, to goose sales?
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (WqPYg)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (nfcV2)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (G8B4j)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (+ldAm)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (zr5Kq)
Btw, I voted for Romney... and heretofore I had thought McCain was the worst vote I ever cast! Little did I know.
Posted by: mnw at January 28, 2020 07:28 PM (Cssks)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2020 07:24 PM (cfSRQ)
They're going to drag it out. It's not pointless. It's a time and news suck.
Democrats are terrified that Trump and his massive political movement will stick the knife in idiotic socialism for another generation. He has the power to do it for two or three generations. They will never back off because they can't let him have the microphone unimpeded.
Once you see it, you will never unsee it. I will gladly eat crow if I am wrong. But I haven't been wrong on this thing yet.
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:28 PM (LTAWK)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:28 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: deplorable unperson at January 28, 2020 07:28 PM (nfcV2)
Can Bolton disregard that and testify anyway? You know, to goose sales?
Posted by: ShainS
If we're to believe Fake News, all the damning dirt is already in Bolton's goddam book!
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:28 PM (+C1V+)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (G8B4j)
You have a point. Although I think she'll vote for witnesses but vote to acquit.
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:28 PM (37uGP)
Rubin was always a dimwit, from the first time I heard of her (one of Hugh Hewitt's many many idiots he showcased back when I had his show on as background for yard work). She's really like a dumb teenager now - but then again, so are 98% of pundits and columnists.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (El6T/)
Posted by: runner at January 28, 2020 07:25 PM (zr5Kq)
He could, but he's already agreed to testify if the Senate wants him to. It's part of his book tour.
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (wGeit)
What about Sen Doug Jones from Alabama? He has to know a vote for shampeachment will doom any chance he has for re-election.
Also Joe Manchin. What about his vote?
Votes from one or both would make the Republican In Name Only Senators subversion irrelevant.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 28, 2020 07:03 PM (sy5kK)
As some Moron said the other day - watch Jones' vote.
If he votes for anything the Dems want, his seat is lost completely, he knows it, and just wants to stick it to Trump.
If he votes at all with anything the GOP wants, he thinks he still has a chance . . .
Posted by: Marybeth at January 28, 2020 07:07 PM (37uGP)
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He's 65 fucking years old. If he votes for this and gets destroyed in Nov., what's going to happen to him? He's going to get some cushy make work job in AL? Going to work as a lobbyist? Talking head?
I doubt it. He will be done - done. If he's on edge of flip the coin losing this gig and he likes being a Senator, his choice is clear.
Posted by: Groundhog at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (VYwSh)
Posted by: runner
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OANN or Breitbart is streaming...
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (+ldAm)
And do you believe the fake news?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (ZLI7S)
Good thing I'm not into politics, but I got to say, by Feinstein's standard the Whitehouse should basically stay empty in perpetuity, as a matter of law.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (pYsYa)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (+C1V+)
This is an outrage. Has she looked around at her Democrat colleagues? They include someone who actually WAS impeached AND convicted, not to mention any number of assorted scum.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (YqDXo)
Can Bolton disregard that and testify anyway? You know, to goose sales?
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:27 PM (WqPYg)
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What is he going to say that will matter to anyone?
He's Julie Swetnik with a walrus mustache.
Cocaine Mitch is playing this perfectly. He's making ALL senators personally uncomfortable. They are sick of this shit-show and the last thing they want is to then get into votes over witnesses and drag this out for a few more weeks.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 28, 2020 07:29 PM (cfSRQ)
Posted by: Braenyard at January 28, 2020 07:30 PM (iEXgF)
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at January 28, 2020 07:30 PM (+ldAm)
Posted by: Skip at January 28, 2020 07:31 PM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: zombie at January 28, 2020 07:21 PM (fK2gX)
_______
ISWYDT
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:31 PM (WqPYg)
could have gone either way. Losing, and then having Trump tease him with
SoS, the pull it away, turned him in to Gollum.
Posted by: pep at January 28, 2020 07:26 PM (T6t7i)
You could be right. I'm not in the guy's heart. But I was a huge supporter in 2008 and always wondered why he gave the speech of a lifetime upon stepping down against McCain. Full of (comparative) red meat. Like he'd been pulling his punches all along.
Once I realized more recently that it was all a game and he was in on it, that snapped the whole picture together for me. I think we have to go back to Reagan to find the last time We The People had a legitimate choice in an election.
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:31 PM (LTAWK)
Same as "Why would NBC hire Chelsea Clinton?" It wasn't for her journalism chops (as low a bar as even that is). NBC wanted access and power with the Clintons and to profit off the relationship. Same as with institutional boards. A few are there and tangibly productive. Some proportion of the remaining are there to trade influence/access and to vote each other high annual salaries for "synergistically optimizing profitizing strategery".
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at January 28, 2020 07:31 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 28, 2020 07:32 PM (+C1V+)
Nothing could please the Both Sides Cucks more.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at January 28, 2020 07:32 PM (puu6v)
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The "peace plan", considering the administration's otherwise sensible
policies in the region, is pointless and harmless, like many of them
over the years.
It's really kind of astonishing, given how Trump has made waves by
aggressively s**t-canning disastrous mistakes like Obama's insane Iran
policy, and questioning other long-standing arrangements that are
inertial, that he is engaging in the most ludicrous perennial kabuki
there is, the Israel-Palestinian "peace plan".
Posted by: rhomboid at January 28, 2020 07:04 PM (El6T/)
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+1 There can never be a peace plan when one side wants the other (whether it's merely their state or it's occupants) exterminated (the old until they stop hating Jews more than they love their children idea).
There will only be peace in the ME when one side finally annihilates the other. Israel should have made it so in early on ...
Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 28, 2020 07:17 PM
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Every US President must come up with a Mideast Peace Plan. It might as well be in the Constitution.
The important thing,
What is President Trump making Israel give up without any Palestinian matching sacrifices?
If the Israelis give up nothing up front, then this is a good peace plan, because you know the Palestinians will reject it.
The Palestinians have already rejected it, and are planning riots, killings, and general acting like animals.
And Iran will be financing the violence as well as encouraging the violence. Expect a Palestinian Rejectionist Conference in Tehran next month.
Posted by: rd at January 28, 2020 07:34 PM (+0uDE)
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:38 PM (LTAWK)
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:39 PM (LTAWK)
Posted by: ... at January 28, 2020 07:39 PM (LTAWK)
No, the Senate can't allow him to testify in defiance of the Courts.
Posted by: lowandslow at January 28, 2020 07:39 PM (4thlk)
I have not commented there for years and have only made a handful of comments since I joined.
Posted by: Denny Crane! at January 28, 2020 07:39 PM (QxTuE)
Then what? The Palestinians will never see a dime again -from anyone. The Iranians? Yeah right, pay them with what exactly?
Just cut off all the Pali money and recognition. Make continued "resistance" very expensive and boring and potentially lethal.
Look, the world has moved past this shit. Waaaaay past it. no one gives a rats's ass about Palestinians.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 07:42 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 07:43 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 28, 2020 07:47 PM (BqBId)
Wow! New Jersey Data:
158,632 Requested Tickets (92,841 distinct signups)
73,482 Voters Identified
10.4% Didn't Vote in 2016
26.3% Democrats
Mind boggling.
Posted by: Tami at January 28, 2020 07:53 PM (cF8AT)
And Trump decides not to cancel all fights to and from China but will monitor the situation daily.
Posted by: Ahwoo Flu at January 28, 2020 07:53 PM (+Smjf)
I had to show up one evening every week, and usually had some homework to do before meetings. I spoke the language and was intimately familiar with the energy business. Once a year we had a weekend long meeting to plan.
We would occasionally let someone on the board for political reasons, but they were excepted to contribute, and got the same pay. Never had a problem getting people to sit for the board - they liked it, and saw it as a stepping stone to better things, or a retirement plan for extra cash.
It's why my blood just boils over Hunter Biden. Fucking Democrat hypocrites. Trump is corrupt? Three words: Hunter Fucking Biden. If it wasn't illegal it should have been. How many thousands of qualified board members could Burisma hire for $50k per month? Just in Europe? But they picked a crackhead lawyer from the U.S.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at January 28, 2020 07:54 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Ace's liver at January 28, 2020 06:39 PM (wGeit)
She ran as an independent last time (or time before that) after losing primary.
Posted by: Fox2! at January 28, 2020 08:17 PM (H4GNL)
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