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It's 10:30 and Trump still stinks!
Great God Almighty, Trump stinks!
It's not just me… House moderates are also starting to see it – and hear it: do nothing and you appear weak. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/house-dems-are-nearing-a-tipping-point-on-impeachment-because-theyre-sick-of-looking-weak-cnn-reporter/
Being goaded is not a good reason for action. I’m still amazed at how, “But Mom, Billy made me do it!” had a failure rate of, if I remember correctly, 100% of the time around my house . . . even in those instances where it was sorta’ maybe a little bit true.
Wanting to win this and being ready to win this, are not the same thing.
. . . but hell, why not, I mean things could turn out really bigly different this time, cuz’ it’s us super well-intentioned good guys who really, really want them to???
Throwing stuff up against the wall and hoping that it somehow sticks is neither a strategy, nor a sporting event.
I don't necessarily want an impeachment to go to a vote so much as a prolonged drip, drip, drip of hearings, subpeonas and contempt filings of members of the administration and his family that continue into mid-2020. Put out all the crap in the light of day as the election gets closer and closer. He'll screw up or quit.
Well said, Mr. Prosser. You advocate the same process I advocated for some months ago. Unfortunately, many of the resident progressives around here want impeachment done yesterday.
Oh, he won't quit. But his cracking those steel balls during the presidential debates will be a fun thing!
There's enough corruption to take the hearings all the way to Election Day 2020. Every single day.
So far the hearings have failed to impress. No-one is actually testifying with the force they could be because Trump and Barr are muting them. If focusing on impeachment to the exclusion of legislating is a bad look for freshmen Dems in conservative areas, what is the perpetual hearing schedule?
The freshmen Dems in conservative districts need to tell their story better perhaps? The House has proven (the present optics as tweeted by POTUS aside) they can walk and chew gum at the same time. I'm with Pelosi on this one: when is the press going to turn its focus to the upper chamber, #MoscowMitch, and their obstruction?
Well, if you think about a court trial some of the best evidence is not testimony but other kinds of evidence. House members just need to turn things over to their expert staffers.
He's not going to quit.
He's not going to leave unless/until the park police escort him from the building.
You know how he says he's a great deal maker? great with debt?
What he means is he just gets more lawyers and litigation forever. Eventually he writes a check and moves on.
He is not going to quit.
Which leaves four ways he leaves office:
– death
– election lost
– impeachment> Senate convction
– alien abduction
– 25th amendment
Two seem much more likely and therefore the politics of the other three must be a factor.
No, but having your power systematically stripped away is.
Breaking news from The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/462633-dnc-raises-qualifying-thresholds-for-fifth-presidential-debate?userid=289091
Meanwhile, several Democratic leaders in Iowa are calling Candidates 12-19 and asking them to stay in so voters can have a say, not just arbitrary standards of the DNC and its debate mavens. Because if someone can't get to 2% support in the national or early state polls, there's a chance for a breakout in the next four months.
And in other inconsequential news, Tulsi got to a 2% level in a third poll, meaning she is just one away from qualification by the Oct 1 deadline.
She wants a full pardon for Edward Snowden.
She's done.
‘We’ve been very weak’: House Democrats decry their oversight of Trump, push Pelosi on impeachment
This.
Sandusky, Ohio, Makes Election Day A Paid Holiday — By Swapping Out Columbus Day
Business fee hikes don’t violate TABOR, Colorado Supreme Court rules
Ha . There will be no joy at the Independence Institute today. Caldara’s been after those modest business fees for more than a decade. The problem, as they see it, is that the election side of the Secretary of State’s office is supported by fees from the business side….and without those fees, Colorado wouldn’t be doing such a bang up job conducting secure, high turn out elections.
Because when more people vote, Democrats tend to win.
This is not written by anyone I know. But it reminds me of someone – I just can't think of who.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-trump-impeach-ukraine-whistleblower-biden-democrats-huppke-20190923-tfemkklrcndn7bvdxmoqbwrfda-story.html
Funny/sad….and.way too true.
A good read..thanks.
It's infuriating, but he's funny.
Dems moving to formally condemn Trump as impeachment fever grows
Seven freshman Democrats: These allegations are a threat to all we have sworn to protect
By Gil Cisneros, Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Elaine Luria, Mikie Sherrill, Elissa Slotkin and Abigail Spanberger
Biden-Linked Firm Tests Messages to Undercut ‘Medicare for All’
Sounds familiar…most people don't bother to actually read policies – they'll believe whatever their preferred propaganda outlet tells them the policy says.