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He has given in.
He said he 100% is behind the Scarramucci hire and looks forward to working with him. These people have no spine whatsoever.
I still think it's going to come out that he was one of the major leakers in this white house.
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Steele's dossier paints a picture of a sustained, high-level coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
What would have to come out to make you think that happened?
Dang. Waters just don't GAF...
Good for her.
“This Can’t Get Any Worse” House Republicans Are Livid At Trump’s Incompetence And Their Own Impotency
all of the efforts by Republicans in the House of Representatives so far this year are floundering, leaving many of the conservatives and pseudo-moderates in the party angry, unhappy and frustrated
“My gosh, we have the levers of government now – we have them all!” an irate Rep.Steve Womak (R-AK) told CNN yesterday. “And we still can’t do our jobs and this is getting old.”
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said in a radio interview yesterday, speaking about the Senate’s failure to pass a TrumpCare bill, “we’re pretty frustrated.”
“I’d like to say it can’t get any worse,” Rep. Mark Walker (R-N.C.), who heads a group of fiscal conservatives in the House told CNN, adding that there is “widespread frustration” among his members who are “upset at the process.”
Add to that the pathetic reality that the House couldn’t get their version of the budget passed or make any progress on the government funding bill that comes due this fall.
Republicans on the House appropriations committee have been busy packing 12 budget-related spending measures into one huge “omnibus” spending bill
The Republican House leaders instead plan to put forward a series of “minibus”spending bills
Womack, usually a sure vote for Ryan, accuses him of “hijacking” the process from those who worked on the bigger bill because
they are “afraid” of those members on the far right. (aka, the Freedom Kockus)
“I think leadership is conceding way too early on this,” Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) told CNN.So after years of sitting on the sidelines and
boasting about how great America would be if they controlled both Houses of Congress and the White House,
they are scrambling to get anything done.
they look as ineffective and spiritless as they would if they were not in control.
as they gaze at Trump, busy worrying about the Russia investigation and battling his own personal demons – while insisting he must win at any cost – they have to ask if the cost of winning the Trump way might actually be too high – even for the grand old party that in only six months under Trump has set a new meaning of the lowest common denominator when it comes to the purpose and function of the American government.
http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/07...nce-impotency/
Freedom Kockus assassinated Boner, now less Ryan's balls shrink up in fear of the Freedom Kockus.
What a show the Repugs, and their asshole voters, visit on USA
Once Trump's fall is obvious, will the Russians spill whatever they have on him? I am going to guess wikileaks will suddenly find a raft of material on his business dealings.
Isn't she the same re who thought "Crooked Hillary" was a strategy from Putin?
Steele's dossier is garbage
Mueller’s investigation is only just getting underway.
President Trump is openly attacking Mueller, demanding to control the scope of Mueller’s probe and threatening to fire him before the probe has even gotten underway.
The only explanation for the President’s behavior is that he will not accept any investigation of himself or his family –
which is to say that he is insisting that the operation of the law will not be permitted with respect to himself and his family.
That is really the only reasonable interpretation of the day’s news.
the President is concealing grave wrongdoing which he will not allow to be uncovered.
We are far, far past the point where ego, impetuousness, inexperience or anything else is a credible alternative explanation.
Steele's dossier paints a picture of a sustained, high-level coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
What would have to come out to make you think that happened?
(shrugs)
Raw intelligence is often something that needs sifting. Its ultimate value is to provide a basis for which direction to be looking.
I noticed you completely dodged my question.
I guess I can try an alternate.
If the president and his campaign had colluded/coordinated what would that look like?
Would the people involved lie about meetings?
Also alternately:
What would you accept as proof of coordination/collusion?
Do you even find the concept of a US presidential campaign coordinating with foreign intelligence services to be problematic?
there's nothing wrong with opp research from international sources... the real issue at heart is if there was a more widespread collusion that included russia taking steps such as the DNC hacks and publishing them to wikileaks. there's still no evidence that the DNC hacks were the bidding of the trump campaign with the russians merely being the surrogates.
but we know now there was at least a line of communication and some efforts to collaborate, generally. i dont think "juniorgate" is the smoking gun, but it does open a lot of doors
The Basic Formula For Every Shocking Russia/Trump Revelation
1. The New York Times or Washington Post releases an article that at first blush appears extremely damning.
2. Anti-Trump pundits and Democrats react reflexively to the news, express shrieking outrage, and proclaim that this finally proves untoward collusion between Trump and Russia — a smoking gun, at last.
3. Aggrieved former Clinton apparatchiks *connect the dots* in a manner eerily reminiscent of right-wing Glenn Beck-esque prognostication circa 2009.
4. Self-proclaimed legal experts rashly opine as to whether the new revelation entails some kind of criminally actionable offense. (Recall the now-laughable cer ude that felled National Security Advisor Mike Flynn violated the 200+ year old Logan Act.) This latest version is the cer ude that Jeff Sessions committed perjury, when that at the very least is highly questionable.
5. The notion of Russian “collusion” being key to toppling Trump becomes further implanted in the minds of the most energized Democratic activists, as evidenced this time around by a troupe of protesters who showed up to the Department of Justice headquarters brandishing trademarked “Resist” placards, chanting “Lock Him Up,” and (as usual) hyperventilating about Putin. As I’ve written before, Trump/Putin theories are increasingly the top concern that plugged-in “Resistance” types bring up at the highly-charged town hall meetings that have received so much attention of late.
6. Pointing out these glaring flaws in the latest anti-Russia frenzy is immediately construed by cynics as “defending Trump” or “defending Sessions” when it most assuredly is not. At least in my own case, it’s a defense of not getting enraptured by irrational hysterics to further short-term political aims.
7. People who’d spent the past 12 hours frothing at the mouth gradually come to realize that their initial furor was probably overblown, and that a more sober look at the actual facts at hand reveal that the anti-Trump chorus probably got ahead of itself…again.
8. Democrats who sought to capitalize on the uproar end up looking extremely foolish.
9. It becomes “normalized” (that new favorite buzzword!) to cast any meetings or contacts with Russian officials as inherently sinister. Rather than just a basic function of a Senator’s ordinary duties, meeting with “The Russians” is increasingly viewed as evidence of nefarious intent, and perhaps participation in a grand global conspiracy.
10. Political inep ude and clumsiness (as was very probably the case with Flynn) gets interpreted as something more calculated than it really is. Sessions could’ve avoided this ridiculous controversy by saying something to the effect of: “I did not meet with any Russian officials in my informal capacity as Trump campaign surrogate, but I did speak with Russian officials over the course of my ordinary Senatorial duties.” The problem is, such an admission would’ve probably blown up into a big political snafu; Democrats would’ve seized on it as evidence of Russian collusion. So Sessions tried to lawyer himself out of trouble with an ambiguous comment during sworn testimony. This allowed him to sneak through the confirmation process, but created an even bigger political storm later.
11. A Trump official’s least egregious quality ends up being portrayed as his most egregious quality. There were any number of reasons to be highly worried about the presence of Mike Flynn in the Trump administration, from his bellicose posture toward Iran, to his outlandish views on the alleged threat posed by Islam. Conversing with the Russian ambassador about reducing tensions would very clearly not have been on the “reasons to be worried about Flynn” list. Likewise, Jeff Sessions is a troubling figure for a whole host of reasons, ranging from his hawkishly retrograde at ude about Drug Prohibition to his dicey history on racial matters. That he spoke to the Russian Ambassador in September 2016 would not be on the “reasons to be worried about Sessions” list.
12. The overall political climate gets further degraded and warped without any commensurate upside.
13. Repeat.
https://medium.com/theyoungturks/the...n-e9ae390d9f05
Sorry I asked.
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