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George Rebane

In the affairs of Man ignorance trumps plenty every time.

After hearing the Republicans expose all the exculpatory evidence the Dems withheld, their position now is 1) well OK, maybe our evidence against Trump is really not all that “overwhelming”, but 2) the real overwhelming evidence exists and will come out if we can continue the investigation and hear from our list of witnesses.  The president’s defense team’s position is 1) let’s use that overwhelming evidence of yours that took three years to develop, then 2) there’s no need to continue this investigation in the Senate, but if required, we have our own list of witnesses to be called.  Wanna play?

The lamestream media coverage has been all one-sided.  Last week they hung on every word from Schiff, Nadler, et al as they spun out their allegations, presumptions, beliefs, … without a shred of evidence that any of it constituted “high crimes and misdemeanors” or for that matter, any acts historically unique to this president in carrying out his duties.  When the Republican defense took the podium, the major lamestream outlets gave those arguments short shrift, and focused entirely on their new great hope, the presumed testimony of former national security adviser John Bolton.  (Attentive readers know that FN is the only voice of balance and reason against the phalanx of leftwing propaganda continually spewed by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC.  National news is not a level playing field.)

To give credit where due, the lamestream has perfectly performed as the public communications arm of Team Schiff and his House managers.  Nowhere do they inform their viewers that it was not Donald Trump but Joe Biden who pulled off the quid pro quo with Ukraine by threatening to withhold aid if they did not immediately (within six hours) fire the prosecutor investigating Ukraine’s Burisma on whose board sat energy naïf Hunter Biden raking in cartloads of cash.  That Obama-launched corruption was a ripe target for investigation to understand how our aid monies were spent.  But that was a politically incorrect endeavor, and therefore not considered by anyone outside the administration, most certainly not by Team Schiff.

Circling back to John Bolton, it interests me no end to follow the career of the former Trump staffer after he publishes his ‘kiss and tell’ memoir that claims to out at a most inconvenient time the confidential Oval Office conversations between him and the president of the United States, the man he was sworn to serve in a professional manner.  Who in hell would now engage Bolton in any kind of consulting or advisory capacity knowing that he has demonstrably defected in positions that demand confidence and trust?

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262 responses to “Meanwhile back at the Senate”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, my. Looks like I missed Mount Odlaj erupting. Warned ya’ll she was ready to blown. You could hear the rumblings growing louder and more frequent with pressure building for days. Darn, left for a few and I missed the Scanners moment.
    Cleanup on Aisle 3.
    I don’t know why the put Climate Crisis on the top of the list when we have the real bigger going on right now and nobody is paying attention. Go figure.
    Montage. Oh, I just love montages.
    https://news.grabien.com/story-supercut-trumps-inevitable-acquittal-not-going-over-well

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  2. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    Posted by: Walt | 31 January 2020 at 03:57 PM
    ,,,Sure Wally,,,you mean like the Conjobs did with Clinton??? That ”’crucial”’ investigation went on for years and started before he was elected…flippin’ hypocrite!!!

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  3. 2ndchancebill@comcast.nel Avatar
    2ndchancebill@comcast.nel

    Oh odlaa, Say it, don’t spray it. Now is to Clinton back in the nineties? Ok,
    Joe Biden says no need for witnesses. I believe him.
    “In January 1999, then-Sen. Joe Biden argued strongly against the need to depose additional witnesses or seek new evidence in a memo sent to fellow Democrats ahead of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial.” Bresnahan and Everett add: “The Biden campaign declined to comment.”
    Quotable quote (from Biden memo): “In light of the extensive record already compiled, it may be that the benefit of receiving additional evidence or live testimony is not great enough to outweigh the public costs (in terms of national prestige, faith in public institutions, etc.) of such a proceeding. While a judge may not take such considerations into account, the Senate is uniquely competent to make such a balance.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/dems-then-now-biden-memo-edition.php
    Boring.

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  4. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,The Progression of Wally’s Friday afternoon…
    Posted by: Walt | 31 January 2020 at 03:53 PM —one hit of hooch — EBT cards and ECO buggies
    Posted by: Walt | 31 January 2020 at 03:54 PM —two hits of hooch — personal insults
    Posted by: Walt | 31 January 2020 at 03:57 PM —three hits of hooch — threats of future conspiracies…
    ,,,Party on Dude!!!

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    So typical. Odlaf blaming the R’s because Schfty Schiff screwed up big time. Huge mistake made by the House. All because they wanted to be home for Christmas. I can see why odlax flies in formation with The Punch Drunk One.
    I expected massive incoming, but it looks like it’s petering out. Maybe just a calm before the storm.
    Man, they are all over the map today.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Poor Oddie.. Your buttsore is showing.. MAN.. It’s baboon red, and the acquittal vote has yet to be taken! Need a case of Dr. J.D.Trump’s buttsore creme? 9 out of 10 LIBS say it soothes that burnt brown eye.

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “Montage. Oh, I just love montages.” followed by a clip.
    lol. They don’t mean nuthin’ by it. No doubt there was a meeting (isn’t there always?), talking points assigned, everybody fans out to the various captive news shows to do their thing. Twas ever thus. If there’s any outrage in their faces, it’s from being made to look stupid by this whole situation, not any care about ‘justice’.
    Courtesy of reddit
    a montage of salt.
    https://i.redd.it/436n10frf6e41.png
    Blast from the past.
    https://i.redd.it/gpdn43ud35e41.jpg
    In a nutshell
    https://i.redd.it/4n46z0ykn5e41.jpg

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    IT’S ALL OVER BUT THE WHINING [UPDATED]
    With Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski announcing that they will vote against calling witnesses, the Senate’s impeachment proceeding nears an end. I thought they might actually vote tonight and bring the farce to a merciful conclusion, but apparently that isn’t happening. The New York Post offers a bipartisan explanation, but I suspect that part of what is going on is that the Democrats hope to extend the process beyond President Trump’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
    Why? Why not? As the final vote approaches, we are reminded that the president’s acquittal in the Senate was always a foregone conclusion. It has never been clear how the Democrats will avoid looking silly when their scheme inevitably falls far short. I think a plurality of voters already believe the whole impeachment process has been a waste of time, and that conclusion will only become stronger when it ends in failure.
    Our long national nightmare is about to end. Unless you’re a Democrat.
    UPDATE: As expected, the Senate voted against calling witnesses, 51-49. Legislation has been introduced in Utah to permit recall of a sitting senator..
    Quote, unquote.
    ———
    Walt @ 4:28 pm
    Very magnanimous of you to offer to turn odlam’s brown eye blue. You are indeed a humanitarian, my brother.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Just waiting for the Fat Lady to sing.
    Impeachment Charade Almost Over?
    What Paul endeavored to force Democrats to answer is precisely what Mark Alexander has asserted from the early days of this charade and reiterated Wednesday in his column, “Topping My Impeachment Witness List: Adam Schiff” — Schiff and his staff colluded with Ciaramella. “Schiff has coordinated the entire impeachment narrative and is its principal author and director. Thus, subjecting Schiff to Republican cross-examination would reveal his collusion with the ‘whistleblower’ — which would unravel the entire case against Trump.”
    While Roberts blocked Paul’s question, he did read a similar one from Sen. Ron Johnson that asked about Schiff’s reported hiring of an individual who had contact with the whistleblower — a hiring that occurred the day after Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president. Schiff responded with righteous indignation suggesting that the question itself was a “smearing of the professional people that work for the Intelligence Committee” and that he “will not dignify those smears on my staff by giving them any credence whatsoever; nor will I share any information which I believe could or could not lead to the identification of the whistleblower.”
    But Chief White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was having none of Schiff’s obfuscation. He argued, “So I think [the senators] deserve an answer to that question, and I think it’s time in this country that we stop assuming that everybody has horrible motives, in the puritanical rage of just everybody’s doing something wrong, except for you. ‘You cannot be questioned’ — that’s part of the problem here.”
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/68277-impeachment-charade-almost-over-2020-01-31?
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10157041693380914/?

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    What a glorious ending to the impeachment circus – both sides are deliriously happy with the outcome. Only our split Congress could pull off something like that – everyone wins!!

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that they failed to kill the king they get back to rigging the dem nomination like good ol’ dems-
    In conversations on the sidelines of a DNC executive committee meeting and in telephone calls and texts in recent days, about a half-dozen members have discussed the possibility of a policy reversal to ensure that so-called superdelegates can vote on the first ballot at the party’s national convention. Such a move would increase the influence of DNC members, members of Congress and other top party officials, who now must wait until the second ballot to have their say if the convention is contested.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/dnc-superdelegates-110083
    😉

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yes, Trump’s Acquittal Is Real, And It’s Spectacular
    “The most amazing thing about Democrats and their allies in the media is that they never actually lose. Any time it seems like they lose, it’s actually the result of cheating and chicanery.
    Hillary Clinton didn’t lose 2016, the Russians interfered and the Electoral College is racist. Stacy Abrams didn’t lose in Georgia, the election was stolen. And sure enough, the calls have already come out to say that House Democrats aren’t really going to lose the impeachment trial, because without additional witnesses the trial isn’t legitimate and the acquittal isn’t real.
    Not this time. Mitch McConnell, President Trump’s legal team, and the GOP made fools of the Democrats and drank their milkshake. But this will not stop the aggrieved cackling heads from claiming this is all somehow fake.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/31/yes-trumps-acquittal-is-real-and-its-spectacular/

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    He is going to pay for telling the truth – WINNING!
    CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin: ‘Trump won’ and ‘that’s how history will remember’ this impeachment
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-jeffrey-toobin-trump-won-impeachment
    😉

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Yup, now back to the business at hand. Screwing over Burnie with a rigged election.
    Gotta love Socialist style candidate picking. Keep thinking your vote means something LIBS, HELL. Only two states really have a say who you will vote for as President wannabe. Well that’s as long as they “vote” for the one your deep staters decide.
    Venezuela…. American style.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 05:11 PM
    “The most amazing thing about Democrats and their allies in the media is that they never actually lose. Any time it seems like they lose, it’s actually the result of cheating and chicanery.
    Hillary Clinton didn’t lose 2016, the Russians interfered and the Electoral College is racist. Stacy Abrams didn’t lose in Georgia, the election was stolen. And sure enough, the calls have already come out to say that House Democrats aren’t really going to lose the impeachment trial, because without additional witnesses the trial isn’t legitimate and the acquittal isn’t real.

    This is the approach you have to take when a significant fraction of your constituency have the maturity of 14 year old girls………cough, cough…. Roberta Cross… cough, cough.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Yes LIBS,, Bloomers can just buy his uh,, “nomination”.
    A true “brokered” convention.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    True dat –
    Senate Votes Down Extra Impeachment Witnesses, Paves Way for Trump Acquittal
    Top Democrats Humiliated
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/31/senate-votes-down-extra-impeachment-witnesses-paves-way-for-trump-acquittal/
    😉

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Buck on his Twitter machine:
    *“This impeachment was always a grotesquely dishonest partisan overreach that had no prayer of success and was destined to change the mind of not a single intelligent, honest observer
    Go enjoy your weekend knowing the good guys won this round 🇺🇸“
    ——————
    Buck gives advice:
    “Don’t waste your time reading semi-rational new sites right now
    Go right to the Left wing Democrat-socialist garbage dumps. They are far more entertaining at the moment. Check out Huffpo⬇️ 😂”
    https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1223387860738433024?

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Stay tuned for the next exciting adventure of Wile E. Proggy.
    How will Roadrunner Trump fry his ass in the next episode?
    (My bet it the cliff breaks off for a LONG freefall)

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Left Wing Democrat-Socialist Garbage Dumps
    The Salt Must Flow Edition.
    a good list w/plenty of news sites. Extra bonus is the tens of thousands of mewling folks.
    https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ewx4f7/megathread_senate_votes_not_to_call_witnesses_in/
    …for those who don’t know, the reddit ‘/r/politics’ subreddit is nearly all left wing democratic socialists, the quarantined and close-to-banned ‘/r/the_donald’ subreddit is for the modern right. ‘politics’ is another one of those modern oddities, like the New York Times, in that a rather innocuous name represents a full-throated backing of a political philosophy. We are surrounded by newspeak.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Called it.. Well almost.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/31/bloomberg-dnc-debate/
    “Several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates accused Michael Bloomberg of buying his way into the Democratic Party debates Friday after the Democratic National Committee announced changes to its debate-qualification thresholds that appear to benefit the former New York City mayor.
    Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, businessman Tom Steyer and a spokesman for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders all slammed the rule change”

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill quotes someone as saying
    “The most amazing thing about Democrats and their allies in the media is that they never actually lose.”
    How about the Repubs losing the last Congressional less than two years ago by 41 seats? That was a true measure of support for Trump and it hasn’t changed since then.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paule: “How about the Repubs losing the last Congressional less than two years ago by 41 seats?”
    lol. Did you even read his post?

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery | 01 February 2020 at 08:14 AM
    So that must be equal to the 63 seats lost by the democrats in 2010 who were Obama fans? And you voted for that loser. Sorry your analogies are crap.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Morn’n poor memory Emery. Now why don’t you go back and read your own posts from before the midterm.
    But I’m sure your voting against all the great advances Trump has done. No need to answer that. That’s a forgone conclusion.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That was then Todd This is now.
    Scenes
    Are you saying Trump didn’t lose the house in the last election?

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    No Paul Emery you cannot pick and choose. You still attack GWB for his service and the Iraq war. We are aware you voted for Obama and love the crease in his pants. He was responsible for losing the most House seats ever in 2010. The democrats regained 41 in 2018. I think the NOW is NOW and you can cry all you want but we kicked your sorry ass a lot more than you did ours.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    The Buzzard of Broad St. votes AGAINST American greatness.
    Hates the advances Trump had made.
    Wants a return to the Obummer economy.
    You have pretty much shown you would like all of America be be as “F”ed as Kaliunicornia.
    Anything to say for yourself Emery? Naaaa.. You went out and caught more crickets.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 01 February 2020 at 08:14 AM
    The Punchybot ”nuance” subroutine is malfunctioning again!

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  30. Walt Avatar

    BTW Emery,, Trump STAYS President.
    Now remember.(if you can) Your swamp queen said,” Losing the House is worth impeaching Trump.”-N. Pelosi.
    Seen the anger and vitrial coming out of your queen Emery?
    MAN is she pissed Trump stays in office. Her kangaroo courts just got shown the door. Naddless and Schitt for brains threw way too many insults in, and at the Senate. Manufactured evidence didn’t help.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    fish: “The Punchybot ”nuance” subroutine is malfunctioning again!”
    That’s what I was thinking.
    It’s always possible that I misjudged him. Maybe it’s just that he’s not a native English speaker.
    In the meantime, life goes on.
    https://i.redd.it/ty8sbe1yvae41.jpg

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    Are you saying that Bolton is manufactured evidence?

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I cannot believe I turn on RR to Punchy’s knee jerk reaction. It would be nice if Paul responded rather than react.
    Paul, you don’t have to read my 5:11 pm link. You don’t have to do anything. But, it might behoove you to at least read the first three paragraphs of my 5:11 pm to get the context. Life is not all black and white, but to use a horrible metaphor, it’s 50 shades of gray.
    During the Obama years (ending just 3 years ago), the R’s took back something like 1,150 federal, state, county, and municipal elected seats. The governorships that went R in that 6 year period (2010-2016) were most noteworthy.
    I heard (not read) from someone reading breakdowns that the 2018 midterms resulted in almost half the Dem’s Obama era losses (from top to bottom) were won back by the Democrat Party. 600 plus seats. So, it took just two years under Orange Man Bad and under the Russian Collusion Delusion Witch-hunt Hoax for the Dems to claw back half their losses.
    So, there is your bone for the day. Blame Trump for losing Statehouses and Congressional seats in 2018, including AB-15. They are still working hard on AR-15. There, all better now.
    And yes, you should be dancing in the streets with the dumb stupid mind-numbed Senate R’s not calling for witnesses in the impeachment trial. They just committed suicide! It’s manna from heaven dropped in your lap, Paul. How fortunate for you. You hit the jackpot with a lot of help from the Senate R’s. Don’t they read the polls???
    The Circle of Jerks has turned into a circular firing squad and the voters will crush the R’s at the ballot box come November. It’s your wet dream come true, Mr. Emery. The light at the end of the tunnel just got much bigger and brighter.
    You won, we lost. You are big, we are small. You are many, we are few. We cannot do anything but accept our fate and hang our heads low in shame. At least we can show you how to accept losing.
    Good thing Punchy does not do satire well. He has difficulty wrapping his head around it. Always has.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill writes:
    “The Circle of Jerks has turned into a circular firing squad and the voters will crush the R’s at the ballot box come November.”
    Well we agree on that Bill

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    It was your guy Trump that called for Bush to be impeached for lying about the need for war yet you never say a word about that.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yes Paul we agree!
    As far as the impeachment goes, it’s over. Man is it ever. Sometimes there is a commenter here that is always the last to know. Strike ‘sometimes.’
    It was our dear Gregory who had to break the news to Paul the last time…the Mueller Report.
    “Do you deny that Mueller did not exonerate Trump?”…followed by hours and days of “Trump is NOT exonerated!!” and links. Do you deny Trump is not exonerated for Obstruction of Justice?. Here read this quote from Mueller’s statement. Do you deny he said that???!!!!!?????!!!”
    Then, a solitary voice of reason appeared in a clear, conscience, and complete statement from Gregory:
    “It’s over Paul”.
    It’s over Paul. No Bolton , no what ifs. It’s a good day…unless you are a Democrat. Then you are still fighting the last war and the lost war.
    I think we can live with that just fine. Friday the NYT dropped another bombshell. Another Hail Mary. Another missile that landed in the ocean.
    It’s over, Paul.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The po’ ol’ fakenewsman seems to forget the strategic victory in the senate that has changed the federal judiciary and brushed aside schiff for brains kangaroo congress games.
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yeah, Tood, what about BDS?
    Yesterday was quite informative. Mt Odlar erupted and spewed out everything he was holding back and recircled the same barn a dozen times. Bill Clinton got screwed, the sites we read are Fakenews, we are dumb, corrupt in bed with Putin and on and on.
    During the eruption, I heard shades of Roberta, shades of Punchy, shades of Michael P Anderson, shades of Steve’ s butt boy, shades of ‘M’, shades of them plus more all rolled up into one. Rather interesting.
    Wouldn’t it be something if we only have one sock puppet here with multiple personalities…kind of schizo doing the Lord’s work.
    Hmm, Odau disappears and Punchy emerges. Then Roberta emerges to give Punchy backup. The they disappear and the current Oldam emerges to do the heavy lifting. Suppose it is not a tag team, but a guy who goes to family reunions to pick up dates?
    Excuse the diversion off topic, Dr. Rebane, but teachers’ pets can get away with it f not done too much. 🙂
    Meanwhile back at the Senate, the custodians are cleaning up the Lying Sacks of Schiffs’ mess.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Meanwhile over at the Senate…..
    While the Fakenews and Lefties are trying with everything they have to win arguments, while we are racking up victories. Truly, they are ‘Number Two!’ with a string of ‘winning’ arguments while not winning. Ok, I concede. They get the boobie prize, the door prize, and a seat in the audience. All we get is the speaker’s podium and the folks on stage.

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  40. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    First I have to say to those of you resting on the laurels being bestowed upon the Senate by your deplorable brethren, there is certainly another shoe to drop. If it does not drop between today and Wednesday at 1 pm (EST) when the Senate convenes to vote on removal, it will drop in the near future, exposing the Republican party for the sycophantic hot mess that it is.
    Second, I believe that John Bolton, whose musings continue to leak out exposing the President as both a liar and a dangerous tyrant, has a tough choice to make over the next few days; will he be remembered as a patriotic defender of the Constitution, or a weak willed, self interested, fraud.
    That Bolton disagreed with and opposed President Trump’s extortion of Zelensky is clear–reported by multiple parties and in his won words–but will he speak?
    Many years ago I read Robert S. McNamara’s book “In Retrospect.”
    Halfway through the book I threw my arms up in disgust when I realized that while he was publicly supporting expansion of the war in Vietnam in private he was advocating for withdrawal because he had become convinced that the war could not be won.
    In 1965 McNamara and McGeorge Bundy wrote President Johnson telling him “…”both of us are now pretty well convinced that our present policy can lead only to disastrous defeat..” which led to a dramatic escalation of the war and commitment of 280,000 troops over the next year. By 1966 McNamara was saying behind the scenes that the war likely could not be won and we should be finding the way out.
    Here he was, a public official, a person in a position of serious trust, a man who sent more than another 300,000 young men to Vietnam after he had concluded it was a lost cause and before he finally left the administration in 1967, who failed to speak up, in front of Congress when he had the opportunity several times in 1966 and 1967, in public after he left, or for 30 years after.
    John Bolton can be a patriot or he can be Robert McNamara….he can speak up now that he is out of office, or he can stay silent, and we will hear the first hand report in a book for $30 a pop in March.
    President Trump, regardless of whether you like any other policies he advocates, is personally a weak, compromised, immature, intellectually challenged, self absorbed man child…he cares about nothing but his dick and his wallet…and in a crises he will crumble.
    A crises will come and Americans will die because Trump is President.
    Bolton has a choice…

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is the core of the problem for the frishy set who think in times of crisis he will crumble, not following the news much eh? –
    LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump thinks differently than any client he has ever had, often contradicting common wisdom and then seeing his way work out in the end, former White House counsel Don McGahn said Friday at a conference of conservative lawyers and scholars.
    Others will tell the president that something is impossible. Nevertheless, the president will pursue it, “but then it works,” McGahn said at a conference of Florida chapters of The Federalist Society.
    “He goes through a decision-tree faster than anyone I’ve seen, to get where he thinks the situation is going to go,” McGahn said during a question-and-answer format with Jan Crawford, CBS News’ chief legal correspondent . “He thinks differently than anyone else I’ve represented.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-white-house-counsel-says-231540605.html
    😉

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Steven Frisch | 01 February 2020 at 11:24 AM
    A crises will come and Americans will die because Trump is President.
    Bolton has a choice…

    Really…..and this condition would be significantly different under a Clinton administration?

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  43. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 01 February 2020 at 11:34 AM
    Posted by: fish | 01 February 2020 at 11:41 AM
    I think that what both of you miss, and that you and many other here are in complete denial about, is that a persons core character matters when a crises occurs….are they motivated by a higher purpose and values, or their dick and their wallet?
    No amount of “whataboutsim” from fish, or the contention that the President is a superhuman mutant capable of rapid decision making, can make up for the fact that the President is functionally ignorant, reactionary and fearful.
    A crises will happen and the gang here will be either making excuses for his behavior or rushing to wash the blood off their hands.

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Stephen writes:
    “A crises will come and Americans will die because Trump is President.”
    That crisis is upon us-it’s called global warming and wild fires

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  45. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Not to mention the fact that one should never trust tough decisions to one who brags about not reading anything, who has such a low level of intellectual capacity that everything must be put into pictures or 30 second videos, and who communicates in the language and syntax of a 12 year old.
    He is a complete fucking idiot….you are trusting our country in the hands of a child…children may make quick decisions but they are less commonly good decisions.

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Steven Frisch | 01 February 2020 at 12:04 PM
    Ok Steve! You will just need to prevail next November. Make a better selection than in 2016.

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  47. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    sp: Steven
    Yes he is an idiot and mentally ill as well. Anyone could ignore the reality of Global Warming is either an uneducated idiot or delusional at best.

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  48. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 01 February 2020 at 12:15 PM
    Respectfully Paul, any mention of climate change here is a rathole so let’s try another example.
    Posters here are trusting the fate of the nation to a man who is intellectually and emotionally incapable of handling the job….he is just too stupid to be President.
    Ironically, I have always mostly disagreed with John Bolton but have respected his mind….Iiberal/conservative, right/left, man/woman, urban/rural; in national security crises, natural disaster, economic crash or beyond a certain scale of crises, all I care about is smart/stupid.

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  49. Terry Trumplestein Avatar
    Terry Trumplestein

    there is still another option…if the Senate republicans say they have enough evidence and don’t need any more.. perhaps they will actually have some balls and vote guilty? This is their last chance to save the republican party from the doom that awaits them. 75% of Americans wanted witnesses. Remember the Whigs?

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  50. George Rebane Avatar

    Well then, we do have a conundrum going into November. What puzzles me no end is the question, ‘Are the supremely hubristic socialists – proudly promising disastrous public polices that have led to the decline/demise of nations at great human costs – of the Dems clown car of candidates better than the supposedly evil-spirited, incompetent Donald Trump whose suppressed salutary walk is smothered by his lamestream amplified, foot-in-mouth talk??’

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