“The September 11, 2001 attacks were the result of an unmitigated intelligence failure. No, 9/11 was not an “inside job,” as many conspiracy theorists believe. Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network were responsible. But the 9/11 plot did not happen in a vacuum.
In reality, America’s elephantine national security state had known of bin Laden and his network years before the horrific events of 9/11. Some of the most powerful people in the national security state routinely downplayed and ignored the threat al-Qaeda posed to the United States before 19 hijackers murdered 2,911 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
More troubling, though, is the fact that many of the same people who downplayed or ignored the threat of 9/11 and al-Qaeda were also intimately involved in nearly every foreign policy disaster of the last 18 years—from the Iraq War blunder to the inexcusable plot to frame President Donald Trump as a Russian agent.
John Brennan: A Career of Failure
The enduring failures of the national security state—from its inability to anticipate 9/11 in spite of clear warning signs, to advocating boneheaded Mideast policies—can be plotted in the career paths of individual members of the so-called deep state.
Consider John Brennan. Here is a man who was a self-described Communist when he joined the CIA in the Reagan Administration, at the height of Cold War against the Soviet Union. A supposed expert in U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, as well as a fluent Arabic speaker, Brennan eventually rose to the rank of CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (where he may or may not have converted to Islam).
While there, Brennan apparently developed a powerful case of “clientitis” (a term for when U.S. foreign policy experts become so involved in their regions of focus that they start substituting U.S. national interests for those of the countries they are observing).
Brennan routinely ignored calls from his colleagues to pressure his Saudi counterparts to hand over more information on bin Laden and the rising al-Qaeda terrorist network in the 1990s (al-Qaeda was, first and foremost, a political and religious movement consisting of and controlled mostly by Saudi nationals).
Things got so bad with Brennan that when the Clinton Administration considered using force either to kill or capture bin Laden in the 1990s, Brennan led the effort to stop it. Had Clinton followed through with his earlier promises of bringing bin Laden to justice, instead of listening to compromised bureaucrats like Brennan, 9/11 might have been avoided. Of course, it did not help that Clinton’s own CIA director, George Tenet, backed Brennan’s opposition to the proposed bin Laden raid.””
“Fetus-Collecting Abortionist Connected To Unlicensed Abortion Facility In Buttigieg’s Town
Abortion apologists are now distancing themselves from abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer, who was recently found to have kept the remains of more than 2,000 babies. But they weren’t before.”
Last week news broke that family members of the late South Bend, Indiana abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer had unearthed at his home in northern Illinois preserved remains of more than 2,000 unborn babies. This discovery came just months after a federal court injunction allowed the Texas-based abortion chain Whole Women’s Health to open a new center without the required state license in this Midwestern town where presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg serves as mayor.
These developments raise myriad questions about Buttigieg’s support for Whole Women’s Health, which has a history of violating state laws regarding the disposal of fetal remains and had named a former Klopfer colleague as the clinic director in its South Bend, Indiana licensing application.
Klopfer, who died on September, 3, 2019, has not performed abortions since at least 2016—as far as we know, that is—when the Indiana State Department of Health revoked his medical license indefinitely, finding he violated state law nine times, including by not reporting “an abortion on two girls under the age of 14,” as required by the state. That ended the career of “likely Indiana’s most prolific abortion doctor in history with numbers going into the tens of thousands of procedures in multiple counties over several decades,” reported the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, an Indiana newspaper, in 2016.
It is unclear how Klopfer preserved the dead babies or whether any of the unborn babies were of a gestational age of 20 weeks or later. Indiana law bans such late abortions, except in cases where “necessary” to prevent a “substantial permanent impairment of the life or physical health” of the mother.
Klopfer’s Supporters Open New Abortion Facility
Abortion apologists are already distancing themselves from the now-deceased Klopfer, as they did with Kermit Gosnell, another abortionist with an eerie penchant for collecting body parts from his victims. Yet when the Indiana State Department of Health revoked Klopfer’s license in 2016, abortion supporters told a different story.
When the Indiana State Department of Health pulled Klopfer’s license three years ago, the South Bend abortion clinic that he ran since 1978, The Women’s Pavilion, closed its doors. At the time, activists such as Pro-Choice South Bend Director Liam Morley expressed gratitude “for the abortions that Dr. Klopfer provided to the community for over 30 years.” Klopfer, a doctor of osteopathy, also performed abortions in Gary and Fort Wayne, Indiana.”
The concept that babies are not human until they breathe, and have no right to live even after they are born, are doctrines of a death cult.”
“In a recent interview, South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg argued that a proper interpretation of Christianity would “point you in a progressive direction.” The implication, obviously, is non-progressives are bad Christians. But there’s more to it. Buttigieg explained, “there’s a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath.”
For Buttigieg, a beating heart isn’t enough. “The most important thing,” he went on, “is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision.” That would be the decision to terminate the child in the womb. Those pondering that choice might consider arguments that have nothing to do with the Bible, faith, or theology of any kind.
The offspring of human beings is human because it can’t be anything else. Any attempt to dehumanize pre-born humans as “fetal tissue” and such runs up against that reality. The dehumanizers also clash with the possibilities of surgery on the pre-born, and the ability to see them in the womb with increasing clarity. And as mothers and fathers know, human beings like to get their kicks long before they see the light of day.
This is a simple reality, not religious dogma of any kind.”
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“Like other Democrats, Pete Buttigieg shows no curiosity about how many presidents, Supreme Court justices, and Nobel laureates perished before their first breath in the millions of abortions since the “landmark” ruling of 1973.”
“Andy McCarthy: Manhattan district attorney ‘politicizing state law’ by going after Trump tax returns”
“New York authorities are playing a “really dangerous game” by subpoenaing the tax returns of President Trump and the Trump Organization, Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy said Tuesday on “America’s Newsroom”.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office reportedly issued the subpoena late last month, seeking the records through the Trump Organization’s accounting firm.
Jennifer Farrington, the chief marketing officer for Mazars USA –which has represented both Trump and the Trump Organization– told Fox News, “We have received a subpoena.” She wouldn’t give specifics.
McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, said it’s legal for tax returns to be subpoenaed under state law, but argued that Vance’s decision appears to be politically motivated.
“This is basically an obvious politicizing of state law to try to investigate the president for political purposes. In politics, just like in law, what goes around comes around and this is something that could bite the Democrats if a Democrat is in the White House at some later point,” he said, adding that prosecutors will have to show that the subpoena is “relevant” to an investigation and not “political harassment.”
“Like growing numbers of public high school students across the country, many California kids are receiving classroom instruction in how race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship status are tools of oppression, power and privilege. They are taught about colonialism, state violence, racism, intergenerational trauma, heteropatriarchy and the common thread that links them: “whiteness.” Students are then graded on how well they apply these concepts in writing assignments, performances and community organizing projects.
At Santa Monica High School, for example, students organize and carry out “a systematized campaign” for social justice that can take the form of a protest, a leaflet, a workshop, play or research project. They demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter by teaching about social justice to middle school students.
Students at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale are assigned to write a “breakup letter with a form of oppression,” such as toxic masculinity, heteronormativity, Eurocentric curriculum or the Dakota Access Pipeline. Students are asked to “persuade their audience of the dehumanizing and damaging effects of their chosen topic.”
Students at schools in Anaheim, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are taught how to write a manifesto to school administrators listing “demands” for reforms. Some conduct a grand jury investigation to determine who was responsible for the genocide of the state’s Native Americans. And one class holds a mock trial to determine which party is most responsible for the deaths of millions of native Tainos: Christopher Columbus, the soldiers, the king and queen of Spain, or the entire European system of colonialism.
These are just a few examples of the ethnic studies courses taught at 253 California schools, nearly 20% of the state’s high schools, according to 2017-18 data. California is now looking at expanding this approach in a proposed statewide curriculum. The expansion could affect up to 1.7 million high school students if a second bill, making ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, is approved.
The ethnic studies movement has been underway for years and is now poised to enter the mainstream, raising tough questions for educators and policymakers about how to present such material to teenagers. Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.
Two years ago, the Indiana legislature mandated that high schools offer an ethnic studies elective. As approved by the state’s education department, the class teaches about the contributions of ethnic and racial groups, various cultural practices, as well as such concepts as privilege, systematic oppression and implicit bias. And now three states – California, Oregon and Vermont – are trying to create authoritative statewide templates that, advocates hope, will make it easier for schools to adopt ethnic studies.
Advocates believe they are within striking distance of making ethnic studies a graduation requirement in high schools across the country, making it a prerequisite for preparing students to navigate the world, much as learning about the Western tradition had once been. They say the shift to ethnic studies appears inevitable because of the nation’s changing demographics, the growing awareness of white supremacy and other forms of systemic discrimination, and a newfound political clout for the ethnic studies movement.
“We don’t want students to have the option not to take ethnic studies,” said Melina Abdullah, a professor Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and a board member of the national Association for Ethnic Studies. “It is as important as taking a lab science.””
“Congrats, New York Times! And Politico. And CNN. You’re all the Dunking Kids. You keep throwing down on the Trump administration. The backboard of truth keeps falling on your head. The rest of us laugh.
The New York Times just issued its most spectacular correction since my personal favorite, from Nov. 7, 2012: “An earlier version of this article misspelled the singer’s surname in a number of places. He is Bruce Springsteen, not Springstein.”
This Sunday’s correction cut the legs out from under its big Saturday scoop about a supposed new sex scandal about Brett Kavanaugh involving a woman who supposedly had Kavanaugh’s penis shoved into her hand when they were both at Yale. The Times’ gobsmacking correction noted that in the book from which its Saturday report was derived, “the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”
Backboard of truth meets skull.
This capped off a week in which the Times had to delete a tweet praising Mao Zedong, one of history’s greatest mass murderers, as “one of history’s great revolutionary figures” and another tweet saying that what happened on 9/11 was that “airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center.” Times editors doubtless thought that mentioning radical Islamists were the ones who aimed those airplanes would play into Trump’s hands.
Meanwhile, Politico was sticking with a bonkers attempt to make a scandal out of Air Force members paying a cheap $130 a night to stay at a Trump resort in Scotland called Turnberry while they were refueling their planes at a nearby airport Trump does not own or profit from.
Politico solemnly reported that “up to 6 percent” of Air Force members had stayed at the Trump property while refueling at the airport. So the resort is affordable, service members have been staying there since the Obama years and at least 94 percent of those staying in the area stay at some other hotel. Politico tried to frame this as a violation of the Emoluments Clause that forbids presidents from cashing in on their position while in office. That doesn’t pass the laugh test.
Meanwhile, MSNBC gave airtime to Jason Johnson, a journalism professor from Morgan State, who made the following vicious, defamatory and utterly bonkers statement about Justice Kavanaugh: “I’ve never heard of a guy who is a one-time rapist. I’ve never heard of a one-time sexual assaulter. I grew up with guys like this. He’s from around this area, right? He is the fifth guy in a gang rape. He’s the guy who comes in after he is drunk because everybody else encourages him and he can get away with it. He’s been pretty much covered his entire life. And now he’s on the Supreme Court.”
Just a few days earlier, CNN issued a report on the circumstances around an American spy being taken out of Russia that was so wrong, the Times felt moved to contradict it: The decision to extract the spy was made while Obama was president, the Times reported, yet CNN blamed Trump for endangering the agent and forcing his extraction.
This isn’t just a story of media bias. It’s a story of utter unbe-frickin’-lievable obliviousness by the media. CNN doesn’t bother putting a fig leaf on anything anymore: A glance at CNN’s homepage on any given day is like looking at an assortment of Democratic Party press releases.”
“NY Times Opinion: Dems Should Pack The Courts To Allow For ‘Broad Readings Of The Constitution’”
“What happened to all of those people worried about norms? I feel like we’ve heard a lot about norms in the past couple years from outraged Democrats. So where are the ‘norms’ people on court-packing?
NY Times’ opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie doesn’t bother trying to make a case that packing all of the federal courts up to and including the Supreme Court is an objectively good idea. Writing for progressives who read the Times, Bouie has a much lighter load to lift: It would benefit Democrats. Of course, you can’t pack the courts without first taking the White House and the Senate from Republicans, so this piece is really an argument for how to best abuse power once Democrats have it.
Democrats are left in an unenviable position. Should they win a federal “trifecta” — the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives — they’ll still have to deal with a Trump-branded judiciary. It’s entirely possible that a future Democratic agenda would be circumscribed and unraveled by a Supreme Court whose slim conservative majority owes itself to minority government and constitutional hardball.
So what should Democrats do? They should play hardball back. Congress, according to the Judiciary Act of 1789, decides the number of judges. It’s been 150 years since it changed the size of the Supreme Court. I think it’s time to revisit the issue. Should Democrats win that trifecta, they should expand and yes, pack, the Supreme Court. Add two additional seats to account for the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh nominations. Likewise, expand and pack the entire federal judiciary to neutralize Trump and McConnell’s attempt to cement Republican ideological preferences into the constitutional order.
Bouie does make one passing attempt to claim this isn’t about progressive policy wins but it’s not very convincing.
The goal isn’t to make the courts a vehicle for progressive policy, but to make sure elected majorities can govern — to keep the United States a democratic republic and not a judge-ocracy. Yes, there are genuine constitutional disputes, questions about individual rights and the scope of federal power. At the same time, there are broad readings of the Constitution — ones that give our elected officials the necessary power to act and to solve problems — and narrow readings, which handcuff and restrict the range of our government.
He’s already established that this plan is founded on Democratic majorities so we already know which policies are set to benefit. As for the balance of individual rights and federal power, you can probably guess what a “broad” reading of the Constitution means. Hint: It’ll mean more federal power over individuals. Granted he’s not quite saying the courts should be a rubber stamp for progressives but, as he puts it, Democrats should make sure their goals aren’t hampered by Trump’s judges:”
One’s repugnance at the spectacle of Lewandowski shouldn’t blind us to its significance. It was the essence of Trumpism: Not merely contempt for the truth or disdain for the law, but a kind of visceral loathing for the institutions and norms of a constitutional liberal democracy.
What in his life suggests Donald J. Trump has ever been moved by "love of country," "devotion to family," or "profound faith?" What he has shown is an ability to take advantage of millions of Americans for whom these qualities are real. https://t.co/n7grwrvuJ9
The infighting between Jerry Falwell, Jr., and his so far unnamed Liberty University foes raises the question: Can Liberty have an identity beyond the Falwell brand? https://t.co/hd7xLk39uS
We like our new Indian Texans. They work hard and their children behave in school.
#Analysis | Texas is home to a quarter million Indian-Americans, having the fourth-largest Indian-American population in the US after California, New York and New Jersey.
I’ve also spent a weekend in Lynchburg, which is dominated by the University but not by Falwell per se. I’d forgotten about him until I attended Thomas Road Baptist church for a cultural excursion.
Overwhelming enterprise, glitzy service, but Falwell’s preaching was very good, impressive even. It’s not my type of church.
The good Falwell son (Jonathan) is the pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church.
The other one (Jerry Jr.) is the President of Liberty U. Litttle Jerry needs to find other work. There are some very good faculty and students at Liberty. I am not sure how much lasting damage Jerry Jr. has done to the school. In that respect, Little Falwell and Liberty are like Trump and the Republican Party. We won’t know the extent of the damage until after the cancer has been removed,
Let it go. You lost, Trump won. It’s his party now. There’s no returning for you, you’ve made that clear by the way you alienate and ridicule millions of Trump voters, and they won’t be going anywhere, and I know you won’t want to associate yourself with such unwashed masses, so move on. Get on your high horse and ride. The sun will still come up tomorrow and it’s not the end of the world.
And so you know, you and your ilk have been so wrong about every detail of the Russia hoax, obstruction, SharpieGate, anything Trump related, you name it…..
You have become the little boys and girls who cried wolf. Repeatedly. And now you’re just shouting in the wilderness because no one listens to you anymore.
“Ed Buck, Democrat donor, arrested, charged with running drug den after latest guest overdose”
” Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic Party donor, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house after a third man reportedly suffered an overdose inside his West Hollywood home last week and survived.
Buck has faced public scrutiny after two black men died from overdoses 18 months apart inside his home. He was not charged in those cases.
Buck is due in court Wednesday to respond to three counts of battery and injecting the alleged third victim with methamphetamine on Sept. 11, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Prosecutors wrote in court papers obtained by the Times that Buck used his position of power to manipulate his victims into participating in his sexual fetishes.
“These fetishes include supplying and personally administering dangerously large doses of narcotics to his victims,” the prosecutors wrote, according to the Times.”
I think Nichols and Cupp are a little harsh here. Trump appeals to and brings out the worst in his supporters. It is possible that a President Walker or Jindal might have appealed to the better parts of their nature.
Corey Lewandowski is Exhibit A in @secupp's comment that the Forgotten Man was forgotten for a reason. Resentment, ignorance, and shamelessness wrapped in faux patriotism and the pretense of working-class virtue.
An actual conservative article from The American Conservative:
"Without a strong economy, we cannot have a strong military. Thus an endless trade war endangers American security in the long term." https://t.co/Aw4HZtZgn1
An actual conservative article from The American Conservative:
"Without a strong economy, we cannot have a strong military. Thus an endless trade war endangers American security in the long term." https://t.co/Aw4HZtZgn1
He treated them like a joke because they are a joke.
WATCH: Corey Lewandowski's full opening statement
“We as a nation would be better served if elected officials like you concentrated your efforts to combat the true crises facing our country as opposed to going down rabbit holes like this hearing.” pic.twitter.com/g2AQjghb2C
Rep. Nadler: "Is it correct that as reported in the Mueller Report on June 19, 2017 you met alone in the Oval Office with the president?
Corey Lewandowski: "Is there a book and page number you could reference me to, please? I don't have a copy of the report in front of me." pic.twitter.com/4KHYhfxo0C
Corey Lewandowski blatantly disrespecting Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: "Could you repeat the question? I didn't hear it…Just a rant."
Keep in mind that Lewandowski had intentionally wasted her time and delayed and refused to answer questions for several minutes leading up to this. pic.twitter.com/Jcof65ABhL
It’s bring your donor to work day at House Judiciary. Democrats refused to allow a Republican member of Congress to question the witness immediately after allowing a private, paid consultant—and $70K+ donor to Democrats—to grill the witness for 30 minutes straight. pic.twitter.com/fFvaHFoa3h
Why worry about being truthful to the people who have spread lies about you for 3 years?
The audience's disappointed groan when Lewandowski all but admitted he routinely lies to the media was to me the most memorable part of Tuesday's hearing pic.twitter.com/4nPcw1I0u6
“Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee as chaired by Fat Jerry Nadler was revealed to the world for the collection of lackwits that it is. The proximate cause of this revelation was Nadler’s insistence on obtaining televised testimony of former Trump aide and occasional campaign manager and New Hampshire senate candidate Corey Lewandowski. ”
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“The audience’s disappointed groan when Lewandowski all but admitted he routinely lies to the media was to me the most memorable part of Tuesday’s hearing”
“Somehow this is a major revelation to the same people who pushed lie after lie upon the American people with the Russia Hoax.
In short, I doubt that there was ever a witness before any House committee who was more richly in contempt of the membership and the process than was Lewandowski. And it was only fair. Nadler and his fluffers have worked long and hard to reach the level of assclownishness they have achieved and they should not be deprived of their reward.
This morning, CNN had Lewandowski on to be interviewed by one of it dimmer bulbs (this, in a universe of talent that includes Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and Brian Stelter is not much of a distinction), Alisyn Camerota. It went about as well as could have been expected given Camerota’s lack of talent.”
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CNN's interview with Corey Lewandowski was, predictably, a mess. Here he is steamrolling Alisyn Camerota as she tries to ask him questions. pic.twitter.com/ctBFyUxECk
I’d amend that to say “It’s his party (for) now.” Nothing’s permanent in politics.
The landscape and personalities will shift and, though it’s unpredictable what it will look like or what (or who) might emerge after 2020 or 2024, there will be ‘something’ of a political party and new leadership after Trump fades from the scene.
I’m reminded of the phrase “This, too, shall pass.” A phrase that applies to politics in spades. It’s all temporary and constantly in flux, bracing for the “next thing” — whatever it may be.
Entertaining, disruptive, mesmerizing, surreal, wonderful and/or horrible, shocking, enthralling — all depending on the point of view from where you’re standing.
I don’t follow all the political issues as much as I used to, so please bear with my question if it has already been discussed. What is up with cancelling “some” (?) Republican primaries? Which ones, and why?
All your heroes are frauds. Dishonest political hacks, and traitors too. The IG testimony proves it. Trump has been right. It is you and your ilk who weren’t. Trump has been honest about the whole affair, again, unlike you and your ilk. Just admit it, apologize, and move on.
A question for Trumpkins: Which of the 11 examples of obstruction of justice set forth in Part II of the Mueller Report do you believe are not actually obstruction of justice?
Educate yourself by reading the Mueller Report and assorted articles about obstruction of justice.
If you really believe that Donald Trump has ever been honest about anything, let your spouse handle all of your family’s investments.
I will help you on the question. There is really only one defense for Trump and both Paul Ryan and I suggested it in 2016 when Trump started openly and publicly obstructing justice: You must say that Trump is not guilty because he is of unsound mind. You must argue that he is and was an imbecile who could not understand that what he was doing was wrong.
There will have to be a new question for prospective FBI Directors:
What would you do if you are fired by the new President after seeing bizarre though humorous behavior which can only be explained in one of the three ways:
1. The new President is The Manchurian Candidate.
2. The new President is an Inspector Clouseau character who is moronically framing himself of being The Manchurian Candidate.
3. The new President is an imbecile who may not have conspired with the Russians, but who may be compromised by decades of questionable behavior, much of which involved Russians.
We now know that we expect our Directors to assume that #2 is correct.
Comey detailed his biggest mistake in his book, and I am not sure he yet realizes it was a mistake. He said that in spite of what many had told him, after he met Trump he regarded Trump to be a man of approximately normal intelligence.
When I told my son about that part of the book, he burst out laughing and then got very serious, saying:
“That is the single most disturbing thing I have heard in this entire farce. The man is the head of the FBI and he apparently hasn’t paid any attention to Trump’s 18 months of daily idiocy during the campaign.”
I recognize Trump and McCabe as nerds. They have probably come across some dumb criminals in their careers, but they never expected Home Alone level stupidity from someone who was just elected president. The whole thing confirms one of my favorite maxims: If something can be explained by either evil or idiocy, bet on idiocy every time.
“Rep. Meadows: Comey’s Congressional Testimony At Odds With What He Told IG Horowitz, New Referral Needed”
“The DOJ Inspector General’s work is never done. Just last month IG Horowitz released a report which concluded that former FBI Director James Comey violated bureau policy by treating official records as if they were his personal documents. Today, Horowitz testified before Congress and was asked by Rep. Mark Meadows about some apparent discrepancies between what Comey told the IG during that investigation and what Comey had said during congressional testimony last year. Rep. Meadows said a referral would be forthcoming and Horowitz agreed to look over the information.
“We’ve taken, now, your report and we’ve put it side by side [with] congressional testimony that James Comey made before the joint oversight and judiciary hearing and I’m finding just a number of irregularities,” Meadows said. He continued, “So would it be appropriate if ranking member Jordan and I were to refer those inconsistencies to the IG and if we did that would the IG look at those inconsistencies?”
“It’s certainly appropriate for us to get a referral about a then-employee of the department, which is I think the hearing you’re probably referencing, and then we would assess it,” Horowitz replied.
“I’ll give you one example,” Meadows said. Referring to testimony Comey gave in December of 2018, Meadows continued, “Mr. Gowdy was asking, he said ‘Did you initiate an obstruction of justice investigation based on what the president said?’ It was a very clear question. Mr. Comey said ‘I don’t think so. I don’t recall doing that so I don’t think so.’
“However, on page 13 of your IG report, it says that Comey purposefully leaked the memo so that they could have a special counsel appointed to investigate obstruction of justice. So two of those can not be true. They’re at opposite dynamics in terms of what they’re constructing. And we have dozens of examples where that has happened.”
Meadows added, “So we’ll be referring those inconsistencies to you today, Mr. Horowitz, and I think that it’s important that the American people get to look at this.”
With Trump, history repeats itself almost daily. Now a whistleblower in the intelligence community has reported that Trump made a shocking and improper promise to another world leader. The Dems are convinced Trump committed treason. Adam Schiff will investigate. My prediction as always: Trump again simply did something stupid.
Trump’s communications with a foreign leader are part of whistleblower complaint the Intel Inspector General called an “URGENT CONCERN”. Republicans are covering up the troubling promise Trump made to a foreign leader, again putting party above country. https://t.co/JEhw7CGwZF
The whistleblower should learn the Comey/McCabe lesson. If Trump blurts out CIA secrets to the Russian Ambassador, or attempts to obstruct FBI investigations 11 times, or confesses to multiple sexual assaults or obstruction of justice to an NBC reporter, or explains border security secrets on TV for the benefit of illegal immigrants, or makes ridiculous concessions to Putin, Kim Jong Un or the King of Tonga, say nothing and do nothing! We elected this imbecile and are entitled to four full years of imbecility.
Wandering Views 
Hehe. 🙂
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The Onion , not to be outdone, parodies Vox. 🙂
https://twitter.com/ChuckEChaves/status/1173244716214829057
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And it even has a handy graph that could just as easily refer to Never-Trumpers. 😅🤣😂
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Never forget how they failed our country.
“The September 11, 2001 attacks were the result of an unmitigated intelligence failure. No, 9/11 was not an “inside job,” as many conspiracy theorists believe. Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network were responsible. But the 9/11 plot did not happen in a vacuum.
In reality, America’s elephantine national security state had known of bin Laden and his network years before the horrific events of 9/11. Some of the most powerful people in the national security state routinely downplayed and ignored the threat al-Qaeda posed to the United States before 19 hijackers murdered 2,911 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
More troubling, though, is the fact that many of the same people who downplayed or ignored the threat of 9/11 and al-Qaeda were also intimately involved in nearly every foreign policy disaster of the last 18 years—from the Iraq War blunder to the inexcusable plot to frame President Donald Trump as a Russian agent.
John Brennan: A Career of Failure
The enduring failures of the national security state—from its inability to anticipate 9/11 in spite of clear warning signs, to advocating boneheaded Mideast policies—can be plotted in the career paths of individual members of the so-called deep state.
Consider John Brennan. Here is a man who was a self-described Communist when he joined the CIA in the Reagan Administration, at the height of Cold War against the Soviet Union. A supposed expert in U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, as well as a fluent Arabic speaker, Brennan eventually rose to the rank of CIA station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (where he may or may not have converted to Islam).
While there, Brennan apparently developed a powerful case of “clientitis” (a term for when U.S. foreign policy experts become so involved in their regions of focus that they start substituting U.S. national interests for those of the countries they are observing).
Brennan routinely ignored calls from his colleagues to pressure his Saudi counterparts to hand over more information on bin Laden and the rising al-Qaeda terrorist network in the 1990s (al-Qaeda was, first and foremost, a political and religious movement consisting of and controlled mostly by Saudi nationals).
Things got so bad with Brennan that when the Clinton Administration considered using force either to kill or capture bin Laden in the 1990s, Brennan led the effort to stop it. Had Clinton followed through with his earlier promises of bringing bin Laden to justice, instead of listening to compromised bureaucrats like Brennan, 9/11 might have been avoided. Of course, it did not help that Clinton’s own CIA director, George Tenet, backed Brennan’s opposition to the proposed bin Laden raid.””
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All under the watchful eye of Mayor Pete.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/17/fetus-collecting-abortionist-connected-to-unlicensed-abortion-facility-in-buttigiegs-town/
“Fetus-Collecting Abortionist Connected To Unlicensed Abortion Facility In Buttigieg’s Town
Abortion apologists are now distancing themselves from abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer, who was recently found to have kept the remains of more than 2,000 babies. But they weren’t before.”
Last week news broke that family members of the late South Bend, Indiana abortionist Ulrich George Klopfer had unearthed at his home in northern Illinois preserved remains of more than 2,000 unborn babies. This discovery came just months after a federal court injunction allowed the Texas-based abortion chain Whole Women’s Health to open a new center without the required state license in this Midwestern town where presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg serves as mayor.
These developments raise myriad questions about Buttigieg’s support for Whole Women’s Health, which has a history of violating state laws regarding the disposal of fetal remains and had named a former Klopfer colleague as the clinic director in its South Bend, Indiana licensing application.
Klopfer, who died on September, 3, 2019, has not performed abortions since at least 2016—as far as we know, that is—when the Indiana State Department of Health revoked his medical license indefinitely, finding he violated state law nine times, including by not reporting “an abortion on two girls under the age of 14,” as required by the state. That ended the career of “likely Indiana’s most prolific abortion doctor in history with numbers going into the tens of thousands of procedures in multiple counties over several decades,” reported the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, an Indiana newspaper, in 2016.
It is unclear how Klopfer preserved the dead babies or whether any of the unborn babies were of a gestational age of 20 weeks or later. Indiana law bans such late abortions, except in cases where “necessary” to prevent a “substantial permanent impairment of the life or physical health” of the mother.
Klopfer’s Supporters Open New Abortion Facility
Abortion apologists are already distancing themselves from the now-deceased Klopfer, as they did with Kermit Gosnell, another abortionist with an eerie penchant for collecting body parts from his victims. Yet when the Indiana State Department of Health revoked Klopfer’s license in 2016, abortion supporters told a different story.
When the Indiana State Department of Health pulled Klopfer’s license three years ago, the South Bend abortion clinic that he ran since 1978, The Women’s Pavilion, closed its doors. At the time, activists such as Pro-Choice South Bend Director Liam Morley expressed gratitude “for the abortions that Dr. Klopfer provided to the community for over 30 years.” Klopfer, a doctor of osteopathy, also performed abortions in Gary and Fort Wayne, Indiana.”
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“Abortion Dogma Lives Loudly in Pete Buttigieg
The concept that babies are not human until they breathe, and have no right to live even after they are born, are doctrines of a death cult.”
“In a recent interview, South Bend, Indiana mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg argued that a proper interpretation of Christianity would “point you in a progressive direction.” The implication, obviously, is non-progressives are bad Christians. But there’s more to it. Buttigieg explained, “there’s a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath.”
For Buttigieg, a beating heart isn’t enough. “The most important thing,” he went on, “is the person who should be drawing the line is the woman making the decision.” That would be the decision to terminate the child in the womb. Those pondering that choice might consider arguments that have nothing to do with the Bible, faith, or theology of any kind.
The offspring of human beings is human because it can’t be anything else. Any attempt to dehumanize pre-born humans as “fetal tissue” and such runs up against that reality. The dehumanizers also clash with the possibilities of surgery on the pre-born, and the ability to see them in the womb with increasing clarity. And as mothers and fathers know, human beings like to get their kicks long before they see the light of day.
This is a simple reality, not religious dogma of any kind.”
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“Like other Democrats, Pete Buttigieg shows no curiosity about how many presidents, Supreme Court justices, and Nobel laureates perished before their first breath in the millions of abortions since the “landmark” ruling of 1973.”
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Democrats using the law as a political weapon?
Well it’s the first I’d heard of it….. 🙄
https://www.foxnews.com/media/andy-mccarthy-new-york-subpoena-trump-taxes
“Andy McCarthy: Manhattan district attorney ‘politicizing state law’ by going after Trump tax returns”
“New York authorities are playing a “really dangerous game” by subpoenaing the tax returns of President Trump and the Trump Organization, Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy said Tuesday on “America’s Newsroom”.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office reportedly issued the subpoena late last month, seeking the records through the Trump Organization’s accounting firm.
Jennifer Farrington, the chief marketing officer for Mazars USA –which has represented both Trump and the Trump Organization– told Fox News, “We have received a subpoena.” She wouldn’t give specifics.
McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, said it’s legal for tax returns to be subpoenaed under state law, but argued that Vance’s decision appears to be politically motivated.
“This is basically an obvious politicizing of state law to try to investigate the president for political purposes. In politics, just like in law, what goes around comes around and this is something that could bite the Democrats if a Democrat is in the White House at some later point,” he said, adding that prosecutors will have to show that the subpoena is “relevant” to an investigation and not “political harassment.”
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It’s clearly just more harassment.
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Woke history, because America needs more brain dead, indoctrinated sheep.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/09/17/woke_history_is_making_big_inroads_in_americas_high_schools_120363.html
“Like growing numbers of public high school students across the country, many California kids are receiving classroom instruction in how race, class, gender, sexuality and citizenship status are tools of oppression, power and privilege. They are taught about colonialism, state violence, racism, intergenerational trauma, heteropatriarchy and the common thread that links them: “whiteness.” Students are then graded on how well they apply these concepts in writing assignments, performances and community organizing projects.
At Santa Monica High School, for example, students organize and carry out “a systematized campaign” for social justice that can take the form of a protest, a leaflet, a workshop, play or research project. They demonstrate their mastery of the subject matter by teaching about social justice to middle school students.
Students at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale are assigned to write a “breakup letter with a form of oppression,” such as toxic masculinity, heteronormativity, Eurocentric curriculum or the Dakota Access Pipeline. Students are asked to “persuade their audience of the dehumanizing and damaging effects of their chosen topic.”
Students at schools in Anaheim, San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco are taught how to write a manifesto to school administrators listing “demands” for reforms. Some conduct a grand jury investigation to determine who was responsible for the genocide of the state’s Native Americans. And one class holds a mock trial to determine which party is most responsible for the deaths of millions of native Tainos: Christopher Columbus, the soldiers, the king and queen of Spain, or the entire European system of colonialism.
These are just a few examples of the ethnic studies courses taught at 253 California schools, nearly 20% of the state’s high schools, according to 2017-18 data. California is now looking at expanding this approach in a proposed statewide curriculum. The expansion could affect up to 1.7 million high school students if a second bill, making ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, is approved.
The ethnic studies movement has been underway for years and is now poised to enter the mainstream, raising tough questions for educators and policymakers about how to present such material to teenagers. Teachers around the country are already offering ethnic studies classes, units or lessons on their own initiative, citing a growing urgency to confront racism, sexism, homophobia and other entrenched social inequalities.
Two years ago, the Indiana legislature mandated that high schools offer an ethnic studies elective. As approved by the state’s education department, the class teaches about the contributions of ethnic and racial groups, various cultural practices, as well as such concepts as privilege, systematic oppression and implicit bias. And now three states – California, Oregon and Vermont – are trying to create authoritative statewide templates that, advocates hope, will make it easier for schools to adopt ethnic studies.
Advocates believe they are within striking distance of making ethnic studies a graduation requirement in high schools across the country, making it a prerequisite for preparing students to navigate the world, much as learning about the Western tradition had once been. They say the shift to ethnic studies appears inevitable because of the nation’s changing demographics, the growing awareness of white supremacy and other forms of systemic discrimination, and a newfound political clout for the ethnic studies movement.
“We don’t want students to have the option not to take ethnic studies,” said Melina Abdullah, a professor Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and a board member of the national Association for Ethnic Studies. “It is as important as taking a lab science.””
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Lost their minds……
https://nypost.com/2019/09/16/the-media-has-officially-lost-its-damn-mind/
“Congrats, New York Times! And Politico. And CNN. You’re all the Dunking Kids. You keep throwing down on the Trump administration. The backboard of truth keeps falling on your head. The rest of us laugh.
The New York Times just issued its most spectacular correction since my personal favorite, from Nov. 7, 2012: “An earlier version of this article misspelled the singer’s surname in a number of places. He is Bruce Springsteen, not Springstein.”
This Sunday’s correction cut the legs out from under its big Saturday scoop about a supposed new sex scandal about Brett Kavanaugh involving a woman who supposedly had Kavanaugh’s penis shoved into her hand when they were both at Yale. The Times’ gobsmacking correction noted that in the book from which its Saturday report was derived, “the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”
Backboard of truth meets skull.
This capped off a week in which the Times had to delete a tweet praising Mao Zedong, one of history’s greatest mass murderers, as “one of history’s great revolutionary figures” and another tweet saying that what happened on 9/11 was that “airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center.” Times editors doubtless thought that mentioning radical Islamists were the ones who aimed those airplanes would play into Trump’s hands.
Meanwhile, Politico was sticking with a bonkers attempt to make a scandal out of Air Force members paying a cheap $130 a night to stay at a Trump resort in Scotland called Turnberry while they were refueling their planes at a nearby airport Trump does not own or profit from.
Politico solemnly reported that “up to 6 percent” of Air Force members had stayed at the Trump property while refueling at the airport. So the resort is affordable, service members have been staying there since the Obama years and at least 94 percent of those staying in the area stay at some other hotel. Politico tried to frame this as a violation of the Emoluments Clause that forbids presidents from cashing in on their position while in office. That doesn’t pass the laugh test.
Meanwhile, MSNBC gave airtime to Jason Johnson, a journalism professor from Morgan State, who made the following vicious, defamatory and utterly bonkers statement about Justice Kavanaugh: “I’ve never heard of a guy who is a one-time rapist. I’ve never heard of a one-time sexual assaulter. I grew up with guys like this. He’s from around this area, right? He is the fifth guy in a gang rape. He’s the guy who comes in after he is drunk because everybody else encourages him and he can get away with it. He’s been pretty much covered his entire life. And now he’s on the Supreme Court.”
Just a few days earlier, CNN issued a report on the circumstances around an American spy being taken out of Russia that was so wrong, the Times felt moved to contradict it: The decision to extract the spy was made while Obama was president, the Times reported, yet CNN blamed Trump for endangering the agent and forcing his extraction.
This isn’t just a story of media bias. It’s a story of utter unbe-frickin’-lievable obliviousness by the media. CNN doesn’t bother putting a fig leaf on anything anymore: A glance at CNN’s homepage on any given day is like looking at an assortment of Democratic Party press releases.”
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I’ll translate……
Trump keeps winning and packed the court with non-activists and we hate that! We can’t win this way.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/09/17/ny-times-opinion-dems-pack-courts-neutralize-trump/
“NY Times Opinion: Dems Should Pack The Courts To Allow For ‘Broad Readings Of The Constitution’”
“What happened to all of those people worried about norms? I feel like we’ve heard a lot about norms in the past couple years from outraged Democrats. So where are the ‘norms’ people on court-packing?
NY Times’ opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie doesn’t bother trying to make a case that packing all of the federal courts up to and including the Supreme Court is an objectively good idea. Writing for progressives who read the Times, Bouie has a much lighter load to lift: It would benefit Democrats. Of course, you can’t pack the courts without first taking the White House and the Senate from Republicans, so this piece is really an argument for how to best abuse power once Democrats have it.
Democrats are left in an unenviable position. Should they win a federal “trifecta” — the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives — they’ll still have to deal with a Trump-branded judiciary. It’s entirely possible that a future Democratic agenda would be circumscribed and unraveled by a Supreme Court whose slim conservative majority owes itself to minority government and constitutional hardball.
So what should Democrats do? They should play hardball back. Congress, according to the Judiciary Act of 1789, decides the number of judges. It’s been 150 years since it changed the size of the Supreme Court. I think it’s time to revisit the issue. Should Democrats win that trifecta, they should expand and yes, pack, the Supreme Court. Add two additional seats to account for the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh nominations. Likewise, expand and pack the entire federal judiciary to neutralize Trump and McConnell’s attempt to cement Republican ideological preferences into the constitutional order.
Bouie does make one passing attempt to claim this isn’t about progressive policy wins but it’s not very convincing.
The goal isn’t to make the courts a vehicle for progressive policy, but to make sure elected majorities can govern — to keep the United States a democratic republic and not a judge-ocracy. Yes, there are genuine constitutional disputes, questions about individual rights and the scope of federal power. At the same time, there are broad readings of the Constitution — ones that give our elected officials the necessary power to act and to solve problems — and narrow readings, which handcuff and restrict the range of our government.
He’s already established that this plan is founded on Democratic majorities so we already know which policies are set to benefit. As for the balance of individual rights and federal power, you can probably guess what a “broad” reading of the Constitution means. Hint: It’ll mean more federal power over individuals. Granted he’s not quite saying the courts should be a rubber stamp for progressives but, as he puts it, Democrats should make sure their goals aren’t hampered by Trump’s judges:”
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Kristol was very good yesterday:
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As I said:
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I’m becoming a big fan of Andrew Egger.
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We like our new Indian Texans. They work hard and their children behave in school.
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I know people whose children attended Liberty and no one ever talks about Falwell.
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I’ve also spent a weekend in Lynchburg, which is dominated by the University but not by Falwell per se. I’d forgotten about him until I attended Thomas Road Baptist church for a cultural excursion.
Overwhelming enterprise, glitzy service, but Falwell’s preaching was very good, impressive even. It’s not my type of church.
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The good Falwell son (Jonathan) is the pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church.
The other one (Jerry Jr.) is the President of Liberty U. Litttle Jerry needs to find other work. There are some very good faculty and students at Liberty. I am not sure how much lasting damage Jerry Jr. has done to the school. In that respect, Little Falwell and Liberty are like Trump and the Republican Party. We won’t know the extent of the damage until after the cancer has been removed,
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Ricky,
Your TDS is growing tiresome.
Let it go. You lost, Trump won. It’s his party now. There’s no returning for you, you’ve made that clear by the way you alienate and ridicule millions of Trump voters, and they won’t be going anywhere, and I know you won’t want to associate yourself with such unwashed masses, so move on. Get on your high horse and ride. The sun will still come up tomorrow and it’s not the end of the world.
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And the only people left that give an credence to what that fraud Kristol says are as brain rotted from TDS as he is.
Sad and pathetic is what you guys have become.
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And so you know, you and your ilk have been so wrong about every detail of the Russia hoax, obstruction, SharpieGate, anything Trump related, you name it…..
You have become the little boys and girls who cried wolf. Repeatedly. And now you’re just shouting in the wilderness because no one listens to you anymore.
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Democrats’ second favorite pervert money man has been arrested.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/major-democratic-donor-ed-buck-arrested-charged-with-running-drug-den
“Ed Buck, Democrat donor, arrested, charged with running drug den after latest guest overdose”
” Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic Party donor, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house after a third man reportedly suffered an overdose inside his West Hollywood home last week and survived.
Buck has faced public scrutiny after two black men died from overdoses 18 months apart inside his home. He was not charged in those cases.
Buck is due in court Wednesday to respond to three counts of battery and injecting the alleged third victim with methamphetamine on Sept. 11, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Prosecutors wrote in court papers obtained by the Times that Buck used his position of power to manipulate his victims into participating in his sexual fetishes.
“These fetishes include supplying and personally administering dangerously large doses of narcotics to his victims,” the prosecutors wrote, according to the Times.”
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I think Nichols and Cupp are a little harsh here. Trump appeals to and brings out the worst in his supporters. It is possible that a President Walker or Jindal might have appealed to the better parts of their nature.
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An actual conservative article from The American Conservative:
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An actual conservative article from The American Conservative:
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He treated them like a joke because they are a joke.
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And once again, the Rep. from Texas looks like a moron, because she is. 🙂
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It’s a joke. An unfunny one for Democrats. 🙂
They changed the rules to allow this nonsense.
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Why worry about being truthful to the people who have spread lies about you for 3 years?
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Yep.
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/09/18/ive-said-unkind-things-corey-lewandowski-take-back/
“Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee as chaired by Fat Jerry Nadler was revealed to the world for the collection of lackwits that it is. The proximate cause of this revelation was Nadler’s insistence on obtaining televised testimony of former Trump aide and occasional campaign manager and New Hampshire senate candidate Corey Lewandowski. ”
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“The audience’s disappointed groan when Lewandowski all but admitted he routinely lies to the media was to me the most memorable part of Tuesday’s hearing”
“Somehow this is a major revelation to the same people who pushed lie after lie upon the American people with the Russia Hoax.
In short, I doubt that there was ever a witness before any House committee who was more richly in contempt of the membership and the process than was Lewandowski. And it was only fair. Nadler and his fluffers have worked long and hard to reach the level of assclownishness they have achieved and they should not be deprived of their reward.
This morning, CNN had Lewandowski on to be interviewed by one of it dimmer bulbs (this, in a universe of talent that includes Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo, and Brian Stelter is not much of a distinction), Alisyn Camerota. It went about as well as could have been expected given Camerota’s lack of talent.”
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Word.
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“It’s his party now”
I’d amend that to say “It’s his party (for) now.” Nothing’s permanent in politics.
The landscape and personalities will shift and, though it’s unpredictable what it will look like or what (or who) might emerge after 2020 or 2024, there will be ‘something’ of a political party and new leadership after Trump fades from the scene.
I’m reminded of the phrase “This, too, shall pass.” A phrase that applies to politics in spades. It’s all temporary and constantly in flux, bracing for the “next thing” — whatever it may be.
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It’s a passing parade. 🙂
Entertaining, disruptive, mesmerizing, surreal, wonderful and/or horrible, shocking, enthralling — all depending on the point of view from where you’re standing.
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Lewandowski was lying and trying not to cooperate, yet as Amash pointed out yesterday, he still confirmed that Trump committed obstruction of justice.
Then other Trump worshipers attacked Democrats for being dumb and fat. Do we think they saw the irony or are they all clones of Helen Keller?
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I don’t follow all the political issues as much as I used to, so please bear with my question if it has already been discussed. What is up with cancelling “some” (?) Republican primaries? Which ones, and why?
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You’re following the wrong hearing…
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Amash? The China sympathizer? Because his family business makes all their products there? The one who can’t win his own primary?
Please….. why would anyone care what his opinion is? He’s on his way out. 🙂
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Watch Tychicus’s video Ricky. Educate yourself.
All your heroes are frauds. Dishonest political hacks, and traitors too. The IG testimony proves it. Trump has been right. It is you and your ilk who weren’t. Trump has been honest about the whole affair, again, unlike you and your ilk. Just admit it, apologize, and move on.
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A question for Trumpkins: Which of the 11 examples of obstruction of justice set forth in Part II of the Mueller Report do you believe are not actually obstruction of justice?
Educate yourself by reading the Mueller Report and assorted articles about obstruction of justice.
If you really believe that Donald Trump has ever been honest about anything, let your spouse handle all of your family’s investments.
I will help you on the question. There is really only one defense for Trump and both Paul Ryan and I suggested it in 2016 when Trump started openly and publicly obstructing justice: You must say that Trump is not guilty because he is of unsound mind. You must argue that he is and was an imbecile who could not understand that what he was doing was wrong.
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Re the IG’s Report:
There will have to be a new question for prospective FBI Directors:
What would you do if you are fired by the new President after seeing bizarre though humorous behavior which can only be explained in one of the three ways:
1. The new President is The Manchurian Candidate.
2. The new President is an Inspector Clouseau character who is moronically framing himself of being The Manchurian Candidate.
3. The new President is an imbecile who may not have conspired with the Russians, but who may be compromised by decades of questionable behavior, much of which involved Russians.
We now know that we expect our Directors to assume that #2 is correct.
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Comey detailed his biggest mistake in his book, and I am not sure he yet realizes it was a mistake. He said that in spite of what many had told him, after he met Trump he regarded Trump to be a man of approximately normal intelligence.
When I told my son about that part of the book, he burst out laughing and then got very serious, saying:
“That is the single most disturbing thing I have heard in this entire farce. The man is the head of the FBI and he apparently hasn’t paid any attention to Trump’s 18 months of daily idiocy during the campaign.”
I recognize Trump and McCabe as nerds. They have probably come across some dumb criminals in their careers, but they never expected Home Alone level stupidity from someone who was just elected president. The whole thing confirms one of my favorite maxims: If something can be explained by either evil or idiocy, bet on idiocy every time.
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8:27
2016 should be 2017.
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Speaking of which:
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Everyone is talking about it. Jonah Goldberg does it in the most humorous way while targeting the Dems.
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That’s it Ricky, keep defending the indefensible behavior of Comey and company.
As the video Tychicus posted shows, even more lies from Comey have been exposed. Add perjury to his list of crimes.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/09/18/republicans-will-refer-comeys-congressional-testimony-consideration-ig-horowitz/
“Rep. Meadows: Comey’s Congressional Testimony At Odds With What He Told IG Horowitz, New Referral Needed”
“The DOJ Inspector General’s work is never done. Just last month IG Horowitz released a report which concluded that former FBI Director James Comey violated bureau policy by treating official records as if they were his personal documents. Today, Horowitz testified before Congress and was asked by Rep. Mark Meadows about some apparent discrepancies between what Comey told the IG during that investigation and what Comey had said during congressional testimony last year. Rep. Meadows said a referral would be forthcoming and Horowitz agreed to look over the information.
“We’ve taken, now, your report and we’ve put it side by side [with] congressional testimony that James Comey made before the joint oversight and judiciary hearing and I’m finding just a number of irregularities,” Meadows said. He continued, “So would it be appropriate if ranking member Jordan and I were to refer those inconsistencies to the IG and if we did that would the IG look at those inconsistencies?”
“It’s certainly appropriate for us to get a referral about a then-employee of the department, which is I think the hearing you’re probably referencing, and then we would assess it,” Horowitz replied.
“I’ll give you one example,” Meadows said. Referring to testimony Comey gave in December of 2018, Meadows continued, “Mr. Gowdy was asking, he said ‘Did you initiate an obstruction of justice investigation based on what the president said?’ It was a very clear question. Mr. Comey said ‘I don’t think so. I don’t recall doing that so I don’t think so.’
“However, on page 13 of your IG report, it says that Comey purposefully leaked the memo so that they could have a special counsel appointed to investigate obstruction of justice. So two of those can not be true. They’re at opposite dynamics in terms of what they’re constructing. And we have dozens of examples where that has happened.”
Meadows added, “So we’ll be referring those inconsistencies to you today, Mr. Horowitz, and I think that it’s important that the American people get to look at this.”
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With Trump, history repeats itself almost daily. Now a whistleblower in the intelligence community has reported that Trump made a shocking and improper promise to another world leader. The Dems are convinced Trump committed treason. Adam Schiff will investigate. My prediction as always: Trump again simply did something stupid.
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The whistleblower should learn the Comey/McCabe lesson. If Trump blurts out CIA secrets to the Russian Ambassador, or attempts to obstruct FBI investigations 11 times, or confesses to multiple sexual assaults or obstruction of justice to an NBC reporter, or explains border security secrets on TV for the benefit of illegal immigrants, or makes ridiculous concessions to Putin, Kim Jong Un or the King of Tonga, say nothing and do nothing! We elected this imbecile and are entitled to four full years of imbecility.
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