Republicans

[Dumpington]

YDB95 writes: "Could it be Leningrad Lindsey actually has some shame?"

There is NO city named Leningrad anymore - they changed its name back to St. Petersburg about thirty-years ago!

The Soviet Union that Bernie Sanders once honeymooned in is no more!

The far-left socialists in the Democratic Party who once admired the U.S.S.R. were devastated by its collapse, and they blamed the policies of Republican Ronald Reagan for ending the Cold War with a lopsided victory by the capitalist west!

Today the Hollywood-progressive-left STILL has Communist Cuba to visit (and report nice things about), ignoring the fact that Cuba remains to this day a repressive Marxist-Socialist dictatorship (like Russia once was!)

Democrats today claim to oppose Russia - but during the Obama presidency, when Russia seized portions of the Ukraine (including the entire Crimean peninsula), our limp-wristed president did nothing. But Obama DID ship billions of dollars to Russia's America-hating ally, Iran, in the hope that they wouldn't destroy his presidency like they did to Jimmy Carter! Obama & the Democrats were also furious when President Trump ordered the U.S. military to take-out Iranian General Qassem Soleimani with a hellfire missile.

Funny how they blamed Trump instead of blaming the hellfire missile, the way they do with guns here in the U.S.!

 

[JackLuis]

Republicans Outraged Over Republican Mocking Republicans On CNN

Rick Wilson is not a liberal.

Rick Wilson is a Republican. Not only is he a Republican, he is a Republican who pretty much invented the whole "Reverend Wright scandal." You know, the thing where they did a commercial showing Reverend Jeremiah Wright saying a bunch of very obviously true things and then Obama had to apologize for having gone to his church in Chicago? That was him. He made that commercial. He later said he made that commercial with the end goal of "scaring the living shit" out of white people in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

He is also a Never Trumper who is now very popular among the subset of cable news bookers who think the real problem with Donald Trump is the fact that he is tacky, and would have no real problem with anything he's done if he were just classier about it.

This Never Trumper status lends itself well to CNN appearances, like this one from Saturday in which he, Don Lemon and Wajahat Ali discuss Mike Pompeo's demand that an NPR reporter find Ukraine on a map. This led to Wilson doing a bit about Trump not being able to "find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter 'U' and a picture of an actual, physical crane next to it," which quickly devolved into him making a bunch of jokes about how Trump supporters think maps and reading are for the elites.

I watched the subject conversation and found it only mildly amusing. Unlike Don Lemon who lost his poise, Laughing his ass off after Rick blew chunks on Trumpinistas.

But the truth is Rick is the tool of conservatism, unburdened by ethical discrimination. In short, a Dickhead.

However as a Never-Trumper, I laugh with him.

 

[Dumpington]

JackLuis posts: "Republicans Outraged Over Republican Mocking Republicans On CNN"

Yes, Jack - I've watched that entire clip! Emily Jashinsky writes on The Federalist web-site that CNN has just created the perfect Trump campaign ad. And when she says “perfect,” she mean flawless as the world’s most immaculate diamond; glistening, sparkling, blindingly impeccable. It’s that good.

In the CNN segment, Rick Wilson mocks the president’s “credulous Boomer rube demo” by breaking into a southern accent and wheezing, “Donald Trump’s the smart one, and y’all elitists are dumb!”

The other guy, Wajahat Ali, who really wanted to be a part of the joke, then chimes in: “You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling!”

Rather than pushing back in the interest of balance, CNN “anchor” Don Lemon found this so funny that he struggled to catch his breath, giggling like, well, a rube.

The Trump campaign could literally just slap their logo on this clip, run the full pathetic display in swing states from now until November, and have an extremely effective re-election ad. But to Wilson and Ali and Lemon, it’s far more important to engage in self-satisfied mockery than advance any cause other than the cause of feeling cute on cable.

Wilson and Ali took a predictable victory lap on Twitter, claiming they had “triggered” “snowflakes” and generated “fake outrage” from “hustlers.” The “fake” part of that is what will doom them, capturing their failure to understand that no Trump supporter needs conservative media to tell him to be outraged over that hackneyed performance. And why shouldn’t CNN’s classist insult porn outrage them? (By the way, the trio also appears to be operating under the very telling and very ignorant notion that Trump’s base is uniformly sycophantic.)

Few things induce more cringing than people reveling in their own bad jokes. This, perhaps, explains CNN’s ratings. But tempting as it is to let the clip make you angry, I submit that it’s far more constructive to laugh at it.

Sure, it’s infuriating to watch actual elites, perched on their primetime thrones, callously mock “rubes” over their distaste for the political class that has legitimately failed them many times over. It’s infuriating because it’s a mean stereotype that describes very few people. It’s infuriating because it reflects the same base-level divisiveness they claim to oppose from the president. It’s infuriating because the same people who peddled a conspiracy theory for years are still patronizing the skeptics. It’s infuriating because after half a decade of the Trump phenomenon they, the self-styled experts, should really know better.

But more than anything, it’s hilarious—and not for the reasons they want it to be. It’s funny because it’s just so mind-numbingly self-defeating. To borrow a phrase from Wilson, y’all elitists are dumb.

 

[JackLuis]

Adam Schiff terrifies Donald Trump and his Republican lackeys

The one bright light in all this has been the professionalism of the seven House impeachment managers, led by House intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff, Democrat of California. Calmly laying out the case for impeachment with logic and skill, Rep. Schiff has been resolute in the face of threats and ad hominem attacks from Trump and his Republican menials. In so doing, he has, in the words of conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, “succeeded in lifting the hearts of his fellow Americans, stripping away the lies and vulgarity and corruption of this president and challenging us to be worthy of our democracy.”

Trumpublicunts are scared of Adam who has his facts and witnesses all lined up and they have... nothing.

Trumpublicunts dodge and dissemble deflect and ... yes Lie to avoid actually refuting the allegations.

Silly Trumpublicunts!

 

[JackLuis]

Sen. Ron Johnson scrambles after accidentally becoming fourth GOP senator to support Bolton testimony

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday briefly became the fourth Republican senator to say that former National Security Adviser John Bolton should testify — and then he changed his mind.

Democrats would need four Republican senators to vote with them in order to hear Bolton’s testimony. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mitt Romney (R-UT) are all on record wanting to hear Bolton’s testimony.

And on Tuesday, Johnson suggested to reporter Adam Klasfeld that he was ready to hear Bolton’s testimony. But the senator quickly walked back his remarks.

"Oh shit! Did I say that?"

 

[YDB95]

Johnson was already known as one of our dumbest senators. No surprise here.

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pompeo’s behavior is straight out of Nixon VP’s playbook: historians

Whether he knows it or not, Pompeo is drawing from a playbook written a half century ago and perfected by a politician once voted the worst vice president in American history. Secretary Mike Pompeo, meet Vice President Spiro Agnew.

A product of the Baltimore suburbs, Agnew was Richard Nixon’s poster boy for the Silent Majority, drawing votes from the suburbs, border states, and reaching into the ranks of George Wallace’s southland. Compared to Pompeo–who graduated first in his West Point class, went to Harvard Law School, and made a fortune in the aerospace industry before being elected to Congress from Kansas–Agnew’s background was more modest.

After failing out of Johns Hopkins, Agnew joined the Army and served with distinction in World War II. The future Vice President returned from Europe and finally earned his combined undergraduate and law degree at the University of Baltimore, a then-unaccredited night school.

On the evening of November 13, 1969, in Des Moines, Iowa, Agnew delivered a broadside for the ages against journalism. With help from Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchanan, Agnew accused the national press of having set itself against Republicans and, by extension, against middle America in a carefully constructed speech.

The context was the networks’ reaction to a recent Nixon television address in which he announced his “Vietnamization” plan of turning more of the fighting over to the South Vietnamese army. In Agnew’s view, when the TV analysts reacted coolly to Nixon’s speech, it automatically proved their bias against the President. “It was obvious that their minds were made up in advance,” he insisted.

In October 1973 Agnew pled no contest to tax evasion stemming from a federal investigation into bribery from his time in Maryland politics. The Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Post exposed the details of the case to a stunned public. Despite his full-throated denials and accusations of press bias, Agnew quickly resigned as Vice President.

Agnew’s fiery speeches were therefore doubly effective: they intimidated the press, at least for a time, and convinced his followers there was a conspiracy to bring him down. It also left behind a useful playbook for future Republican politicians. When cornered, President Trump and Secretary Pompeo stoke conspiracy and deny inconvenient facts. According to CBS’s Lesley Stahl, then Candidate Trump came clean in 2016: “You know why I do it [attack the press]? I do it to discredit you all & demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.” Spiro Agnew could not have said it better himself.

Read the whole article, it's worth the LOL.

 

[JackLuis]

John Cornyn admits he doesn’t care if Trump broke the law

On Fox Business on Tuesday, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) outright said that he doesn’t care whether President Donald Trump pursued a quid pro quo against Ukraine — it doesn’t change his mind about blocking additional witnesses in the impeachment trial.

“If the president did indeed tell John Bolton that there was a relationship between getting that information on the Bidens and aid to the country, that wouldn’t be enough for you say, let’s look into this more?”

“No,” said Cornyn. He added that “president’s always leverage foreign aid,” notably leaving out that presidents generally leverage foreign aid for U.S. objectives, not to secure an investigation against a political opponent.

I think he nees a (T) beside his name now, Trumpublicunt!

 

[JackLuis]

Mitch McConnell targeted by new group that plans to take him down — and anyone who supports him: report

According to an exclusive report from Axios, a new group has been formed with the express purpose of making sure that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is ousted in the 2020 election with a plan to also go after his closest allies.

The report states that “a new independent expenditure group called Fix Our Senate will launch on Tuesday to go after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, ” declaring, “McConnell is already the least popular politician in America — now, we’re going to shine a light on McConnell and every ally who supports him.”

That's bitch, Mitch.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Although is it "possible" that the coup could succeed, on the more likely assumption it is thwarted, it will be refreshing to drop in here and say "I told you so".

If it does succeed, you've given the oval office on a silver platter to Paul, for next year.

 

[JackLuis]

Paul??? You mean Rand Paul. Aha ha ha ha ha !

Mitch McConnell Goes Limp On Impeachment Witnesses

Never, never, NEVER, bet against Mitch McConnell. That guy is as competent as he is evil, and he knows how to whip his caucus. That said ... LOL forever! Mitch ain't got the votes to put this impeachment to bed without calling witnesses, at least not yet.

The Wall Street Journal was first to report yesterday that, after Trump's lazyass legal team noped out before 3 p.m., McConnell assembled the GOP senators to concede that he doesn't have the votes. Which means that at least one other Republican besides Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski looked at the Bolton revelations and reasoned that #TeamSham was maybe not the safest place to be if you want to walk down the street without getting the full Giuliani treatment.

Moscow Mitch has a flaccid gavel!

 

[KeithD]

Paul??? You mean Rand Paul. Aha ha ha ha ha !

Mitch McConnell Goes Limp On Impeachment Witnesses



Moscow Mitch has a flaccid gavel!

Not really. I think Moscow Mitch is just telling Trump he's not going down with Trump's ship (although, he is) and that Trump should stop shooting himself in the feet daily and carry some of his own water on making this look less like a coverup of what he obvious did and seems to be proud in public that he did.

 

[JackLuis]

GOP Rep. Doug Collins launches Senate run — and fellow Republicans quickly slam his ‘stunning shortsightedness’

Fast-talking Georgia GOP Rep. Doug Collins did a lot of grandstanding during the House impeachment hearings, and it now appears defending President Donald Trump was not his only goal in grabbing the spotlight time and time again.

Wednesday morning Congressman Collins announced he intends to become Senator Collins – by directly running against the current incumbent, Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler.

He was immediately destroyed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee is (NRSC), the Senate group that works to get Republicans elected to the Senate.

”The shortsightedness in this decision is stunning. Doug Collins’ selfishness will hurt David Perdue, Kelly Loeffler, and President Trump,” National Republican Senatorial Committee executive director Kevin McLaughlin said in a statement. “Not to mention the people of Georgia who stand to bear the burden of it for years to come. All he has done is put two senate seats, multiple house seats, and Georgia’s 16 electoral votes in play. The NRSC stands firmly behind Sen. Kelly Loeffler and urges anyone who wants to re-elect President Trump, hold the GOP senate majority, and stop socialism to do the same.”

Rethuglicunts in disarray!

 

[phrodeau]

GOP Rep. Doug Collins launches Senate run — and fellow Republicans quickly slam his ‘stunning shortsightedness’



Rethuglicunts in disarray!

Shortsightedness is a common Republican trait.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Bwah ha ha ha hah

 

[YDB95]

Although is it "possible" that the coup could succeed, on the more likely assumption it is thwarted, it will be refreshing to drop in here and say "I told you so".

If it does succeed, you've given the oval office on a silver platter to Paul, for next year.

How do you figure?
If Trump is removed from office, Pence becomes president and there is NO reason to think he'll step aside. There is also no sign that Paul is planning on challenging him. Even if he did, defeating an incumbent president in the primaries is nearly impossible (even Gerald Ford managed to clench the nomination, albeit barely) and, even setting that aside, Paul would have essentially no time at all to raise money and hire a staff. If you're thinking the GOP establishment is going to replace Pence with someone else, that's not out of the question, but that Paul would be that someone else IS out of the question. He's a thorn in the side of the party establishment, and his own presidential bid showed he's none too popular with GOP primary voters either.

Either way, if I were you, I'd hold that "I told you so" for after the elections.

 

[jaF0]

How do you figure?
If Trump is removed from office, Pence becomes president ...

That's the part they don't get. If Donny goes out, Mikey goes in. Their coup done flew the coop.

 

[gunthernehmen]

How do you figure?
If Trump is removed from office, Pence becomes president and there is NO reason to think he'll step aside. There is also no sign that Paul is planning on challenging him. Even if he did, defeating an incumbent president in the primaries is nearly impossible (even Gerald Ford managed to clench the nomination, albeit barely) and, even setting that aside, Paul would have essentially no time at all to raise money and hire a staff. If you're thinking the GOP establishment is going to replace Pence with someone else, that's not out of the question, but that Paul would be that someone else IS out of the question. He's a thorn in the side of the party establishment, and his own presidential bid showed he's none too popular with GOP primary voters either.

Either way, if I were you, I'd hold that "I told you so" for after the elections.

Peeve would becone president and might or might not run for president in 2020. If he gets the nomination, he'll probably lose. Somewhat more likely, Paul press his name in the hat against Pence (not against Trump). If he doesn't run against Pence in 2020 he will run in 2024 or 2028 depending on how Pence plays out.

 

[YDB95]

Even if I agreed with that, I don't see how Paul will ever get the nomination.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Even if I agreed with that, I don't see how Paul will ever get the nomination.

Too liberal.....the very notion of that much freedom freaks the control freaks on both sides out.

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

Trump has basically declared himself to be above the law.

In the Ukraine affair, his lawyers have argued that nothing is impeachable or illegal about using his official powers to coerce a weak ally to announce a corruption investigation into a domestic political rival, and the Senate’s Republican majority will likely vote to acquit him.

Along the way, Mr. Trump’s legal team came up with a theory by which the executive branch could lawfully withhold from Congress a whistle-blower complaint that an inspector general had deemed an “urgent concern.” A law says that the administration “shall” disclose such a complaint to lawmakers.

And before the Ukraine affair came to light, lawyers in the White House budget office developed a legal theory that Mr. Trump had constitutional authority to withhold congressionally mandated military aid from Ukraine, overriding the Anti-Impoundment Act. They never activated that theory, since he released the aid after the whistle-blower filed his complaint.

The president’s edgy views of executive power did not start with Ukraine. Mr. Trump himself has repeatedly claimed that Article II of the Constitution, which creates the presidency, gives him “the right to do whatever I want.”


He has said he could pardon himself and vowed to systematically stonewall “all” congressional subpoenas.

Mr. Trump broke with a long-held norm by personally ordering an investigation into the Russia investigators, and he repeatedly tried to impede the special counsel inquiry, boasting that he has “an absolute right to do what I want to with the Justice Department.”

After William P. Barr, a longtime believer in a maximalist interpretation of presidential power, privately provided the Trump administration with a legal theory by which obstruction of justice laws do not apply to presidents who abuse their power over the Justice Department, Mr. Trump appointed him attorney general.

In domestic policy, Mr. Trump has pushed the limits of emergency powers laws to claim a right to spend more taxpayer money on a border wall with Mexico than Congress was willing to appropriate. In foreign policy, he launched strikes at the Syrian government without permission from Congress, and nearly brought the country to war with Iran by killing a senior Iranian general without consulting lawmakers.

Against the backdrop of all this and more, critics of Mr. Trump seized on Mr. Dershowitz’s remarks. The leader of the House impeachment managers, Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, told the Senate on Thursday that Mr. Trump’s team had embraced the vision of a presidency that exists above the law — “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal” — that Richard Nixon famously articulated to defend his conduct after Watergate.

“We are right back to where we were a half-century ago — and I would argue we may be in a worse place because this time, this time that argument may succeed,” Mr. Schiff said, accusing Trump defenders of embracing “the normalization of lawlessness” by a president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/politics/dershowitz-trump-impeachment.html

 

[gunthernehmen]

Trump has basically declared himself to be above the law.

What law did he break? Everyone is dying to find out.

 

[YDB95]

What law did he break? Everyone is dying to find out.

Psst. I'll let you in on a secret here:

No one here believes you're still unaware of that, just because you keep saying so. No one, with the possible exception of yourself. Only you know that one for sure, I suppose.

 

[Dumpington]

Adam Schiff & Jerry Nadler have announced that they NOW plan to file impeachment charges against ALL FIFTY-ONE Republican U.S. Senators who voted against adding witnesses, charging all 51 of them with "OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS!

Nancy Pelosi says that impeaching each of the G.O.P. senators will prove to be ridiculously expensive & time consuming, with ZERO change of getting through the Senate itself, but she feels confident that the national news media and the Hollywood entertainment community will side with her party nonetheless!

Adam Schiff says "I like the attention that I've been getting," adding that if Joe Biden wants to pick him to be his running-mate this fall he would immediately accept! Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he would rather run with a gay black transgendered woman from south of the border, but said he will consider Schiff if he can't find anybody who fits that description.

 

[cuck72]

Adam Schiff & Jerry Nadler have announced that they NOW plan to file impeachment charges against ALL FIFTY-ONE Republican U.S. Senators who voted against adding witnesses, charging all 51 of them with "OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESS!

Nancy Pelosi says that impeaching each of the G.O.P. senators will prove to be ridiculously expensive & time consuming, with ZERO change of getting through the Senate itself, but she feels confident that the national news media and the Hollywood entertainment community will side with her party nonetheless!

Adam Schiff says "I like the attention that I've been getting," adding that if Joe Biden wants to pick him to be his running-mate this fall he would immediately accept! Joe Biden has repeatedly said that he would rather run with a gay black transgendered woman from south of the border, but said he will consider Schiff if he can't find anybody who fits that description.

HAHAHAHAHA! I love this, really good.