“I can’t help but think that part of the reason why there’s such reverence for [McCain] today is because of who’s in the White House right now,” Jake Tapper said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Because they are polar opposites.”
This next week will be a reminder that America is better than Trump. It might also serve as an inspiration to Congress, the GOP, and the public to rise above Trump. https://t.co/YltO1BZ5NZ
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 27, 2018
Adding insult to injury: Trump's instagram tribute to McCain features pictures of … himself https://t.co/BCcHuYTjXm pic.twitter.com/PPHiwRJjB7
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) August 27, 2018
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wapo:
The passing of John McCain also marks the passing of an era
The death of Sen. John McCain marks the passing of a man, an American patriot and a politician whose record of service to country will always be his defining attribute. His death also punctuates the passing of an era of American politics, one that in these troubled times seems almost irretrievable. McCain would not want to hear that, but he would know it to be true.
The accolades for the Arizona senator that poured forth in a torrent of admiration and respect in the hours after his death are deserved. The words vary from one statement to another but they all sound the same note. John McCain was a heroic figure who put country first, ahead of party, ahead of everything else. Not a perfect man, as he was often the first to say, but someone whose very flaws made him a more authentic and effective advocate for the causes he pursued.
[…]
With Bush in the White House, McCain, with then-Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), forced through Congress a campaign-finance reform bill opposed by many of his GOP colleagues and by the president himself. McCain didn’t care. It was the cause that had carried him through the campaign itself. The bill hardly solved the problem of big money in politics, but it was a start at dealing with something that mightily offended McCain’s sensibilities, which was the flagrant pursuit of ever-bigger contributions from the wealthiest Americans.
[…]
He chose his battles, picked his fights and then found allies wherever he could, whether in his own party or the other party. He thrived on cross-partisan cooperation, when it was possible. He was part of the Gang of 14 that headed off a Senate crisis over judicial nominations. He was part of the Gang of Eight that produced a comprehensive immigration bill that passed the Senate and then hit a wall in the House.
He worked with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). Their politics differed but they shared a belief in compromise as the path to progress and a love for the institution of the Senate. McCain’s death came exactly nine years after Kennedy’s. For both, the cause of death was brain cancer.
McCain’s style was what has now become known as authenticity and transparency. He wore his convictions, his beliefs, his disappointments, his anger, his ebullience openly. He was not afraid of reporters; in his 2000 campaign, aboard the bus he called the Straight Talk Express, he wore out the traveling press with rolling news conferences that seemed to last indefinitely. In those days, he called the press, jokingly, “my base.” Such was the friendliness of the coverage
[…]
In one of his final acts, he turned against the president and his own party to sink the bill that would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care Act. That moment last year, theatrical in its unfolding, devastating for what it did to the Republican Party and the president, stands as a reminder of the man and the time in which he long served.
McCain rarely wavered in the way he conducted himself and his politics, even to the end. But times change. He was asked once whether anyone could replicate the Straight Talk Express in the age of Twitter and round-the-clock news cycles. No, he said with some sadness in his voice, it was no longer possible. His death is a reminder not only of the loss of a giant in American politics, but of a new time, with new challenges for the generation that now must follow in his footsteps. Will anyone pick up the legacy he leaves behind?
SFB has not issued a declaration to fly flags at half staff until after the burial. He allowed the WH flag to be flown at half staff for only a day. Such a petty, little man he is. I hope the WH staff has a good inventory of the contents because it will be needed when the grifter and his cult are tossed out.
John McCain:
“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur,” McCain said in an interview with C-Span. “That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”
One man’s opinion
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LDRgW_dd3wk
Time to cut the grass–didn’t have a chance to do it over the weekend
Himmler
The slug knew that putting that flag at full mast would steal attention back to him. It shouldn’t, because it’s exactly what everyone, including his base, would expect……point it out and get back to John.
“Everyone who has exhibited any type of Honor at any point in their life—take one step forward.”
“Not so fast, Cadet Bonespurs.”
Yesterday Rick and I went to a local summer production play of George Bernard Shaw’s “A Man of Destiny”. Funny how much the character of Napoleon looks like trump. It reminded of this… “that history book on the shelf is always repeating itself”…
I hope Trudeau can afford to say no
Trumpsky abuses the flag when it served his own PR-shiny object purposes.
Cadet Bone Spur’s disrespect for Senator McCain are only a commentary on his own moral short-comings. They do nothing to reduce the memory of the good Senator.
I only wish he had picked someone else as his running mate, as it was the only thing that kept me from voting for McCain. He said he regretted that decision, too.
I hope his transition inspires others to act in a more conscientious manner.
The GOP had best wake up & speak out now. Folks will remember who kept mum or who helped the orange bum when it’s time to vote.
Yes, BB. Count the silverware.
nbc news:
[….]
According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the “flag is to be flown at half-staff at all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels in the Washington, D.C., area on the day and day after the death of a United States senator, representative, territorial delegate, or the resident commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.”
On Monday, the Pentagon, like the White House, had also raised its flags back to full-staff. According to Department Defense guidelines, a member of Congress only receives a flag lowering for flags at Department of Defense buildings, grounds and naval vessels around the world on the day of his death and through the following day. An extension of that rule for government buildings can only come from the White House.
In a letter, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said they wanted flags on all government buildings to be at half staff until McCain’s funeral and asked the Department of Defense of help in doing so, Schumer’s spokesman tweeted.
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Haha his big announcement was all about Senator Mac
and the rest of the world takes notice of the petty snub
bbc: John McCain: White House urged to lower flags for senator
US senators have issued a bipartisan call to lower American flags in honour of John McCain after the White House raised its Stars and Stripes back up.
Top Democrat Chuck Schumer and top Republican Mitch McConnell said flags on all government buildings should be at half-staff for the late senator.
[….]
Critics have questioned why Mr Trump has not issued a presidential proclamation to lower the flags, as previous presidents have done for major political figures.
President Obama ordered flags at the White House be flown at half-staff for nearly five days after Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts died in 2009.
And Mr Trump himself issued flag flying proclamations following mass shootings in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida.
He also had the flags lowered when former First Lady Barbara Bush died until she was buried.
Since taking office, the enmity between the president and McCain has been well documented.
Earlier this month, when he signed a multi-billion dollar defence bill named after McCain, Mr Trump did not say his name.
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This one truly is a:
“Loose cannon on deck.”
reuters via msn:
[…]
“For both the government of Vietnam and its people, Senator McCain was a symbol of his generation of senators, and of the veterans of the Vietnam war,” Vietnam’s foreign minister Pham Binh Minh wrote in a condolence book at the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi on Monday.
“It was he who took the lead in significantly healing the wounds of war, and normalizing and promoting the comprehensive Vietnam-U.S. partnership,” Minh said.
[…]
A monument on the shores of the Hanoi lake where McCain was captured has turned into a de facto shrine to the late senator since news of his death reached Vietnam early on Sunday morning.
Both Vietnamese people and U.S. citizens in Hanoi have flocked to the grey, concrete monument to offer flowers, incense, flags and other tributes to McCain.
“Condolences to senator and war veteran John McCain, who greatly contributed to the normalization of Vietnam-U.S. relations,” said one message in Vietnamese, left at the sculpture attached to a bouquet of flowers on Monday.
The curators should go and authenticate every piece of public property in the West Wing without delay. Re-authentication should take place randomly but no less often than monthly.
Oh man….talk about stealing the towels……
Special Counsel reported to have phones and computers of Erik Prince ….is that real and/or new?
patd…
amazing… the Vietnam government is more respectful of an American war hero than the American government. But the morons who still support trumpty dumpty won’t care.
Two countries disrespect Captain Senator McCain, Russia and the U.S. (our “president” is the head of our country). Vietnam honored their former enemy.
It looks like the veterans organizations letters finally had an effect on SFB, he allowed the U.S. flag to be flown at half staff on the WH. I am guessing that he is not sending out the tweets or sent the order to lower the flag. Most likely he is in a room eating KFC and Macs, with extra fries, while others run the show. What a pitiful little creep he is.
I never would have guessed how hard it is to make vanilla ice cream with choco bits when the temp is about ninetyish and the heat index is around one hundred. At least I will have a cold delight this evening, as good as a very good martini.
Field Marshal Bonespur, the greatest military leader in American History, has probably already filled trump tower with thousands of reams of presidential letterhead and ‘signing’ pens. nixon made off with pillows – $10,000 retail value in mid-1970s prices.
Think bigger : the extra tires and spark plugs for the presidential limousine. Rental of the Lincoln bedroom through the hotel trump. Divots from the White House lawn to patch the golf courses. A yard sale of ultra secret documents – to be held at the commie Chinese Embassy. 500 parentless children to be let go at rock bottom prices.
I never had a run-in with a South Vietnamese while in Vietnam during ’65-’66. That said, every place I went I was armed to the teeth. I was also polite. And, I was also an experienced NCO who had already had three tours in the Far East.
I realized that we had four problems in Vietnam. A rotten South Vietnamese government, a North Vietnamese government committed to communism, an American government determined to do the most self-serving thing at every juncture, Military leadership that lacked the fortitude to challenge their civilian leadership. I’ll go ahead and add a fifth factor: Senior enlisted leadership that didn’t have the balls to tell the general officers that things were all fucked up.
It didn’t take me long to figure out that the South Vietnamese population wasn’t enthusiastic about this war; they had their wish–the French were gone. Likewise with the North. But, they ‘insisted’ that the average draftee do what he was told or face summary execution. Hence, their extreme level of motivation.
And, now I’m tired–before I jump ahead a few years– actually, until the end of ’72. I will return with B-52s, many B-52s. Headed to Hanoi/Haiphong. Making our POWs ecstatic. Heralding their release and our exit from Vietnam.
The peace talks resumed. Each of us kept our sides of the deal, we evacuated to Guam, they got the mess that was South Vietnam, and now we are quasi allies.
In 1st grade, we were told to bring something to send a soldier & also canned goods for some reason. I got my soldier a pink/orange (that 60s, clear, neon pink that’s almost orange) toothbrush like mine.
Then when I heard about fighting, I didn’t want to send it because if my soldier didn’t have a toothbrush, he couldn’t stay and fight…because you have to brush your teeth & he’d have to come home. (I didn’t understand where or why or that I had no special soldier except in my mind.).
A few years later, they pushed a TV set into the class room in elementary school a couple of times, to watch POWs come home. I remember being surprised the second time because I thought they were all home after the first time.
business insider:
[…]
Veterans groups ripped into Trump for raising the flag on Monday
The American Legion said in a letter to Trump on Monday: “I strongly urge you to make an appropriate presidential proclamation noting Senator McCain’s death and legacy of service to our nation, and that our nation’s flag be half-staffed through his interment.”
American Veterans was more direct in its statement, accusing Trump of disrespecting all veterans by flying the flag at full staff.
“It’s outrageous that the White House would mark American hero John McCain’s death with a two-sentence tweet, making no mention of his heroic and inspiring life,” said Joe Chenelly, the group’s national executive director.
“By lowering flags for not one second more than the bare minimum required by law, despite a long-standing tradition of lowering flags until the funeral, the White House is openly showcasing its blatant disrespect for Senator McCain’s many decades of service and sacrifice to our country as well as the service of all his fellow veterans,” Chenelly added.
Veterans of Foreign Wars also called on the White House to extend the honor of flying the flag at half-staff for McCain.
[…continues…]
politicususa:
Before talks broke down, Paul Manafort was trying to cut a plea deal with Robert Mueller, in a sign that the rumblings about a pardon coming from the White House weren’t good enough for Trump’s former campaign chairman.
The Wall Street Journal reported:Paul Manafort’s defense team held talks with prosecutors to resolve a second set of charges against the former Trump campaign chairman before he was convicted last week, but they didn’t reach a deal, and the two sides are now moving closer to a second trial next month, according to people familiar with the matter.
….
A plea deal is not the same as a cooperation agreement, and one suspects that the issues that might have held up a potential deal involved the level of cooperation that Mueller wanted from Manafort on elements of the Russia investigation.
Paul Manafort is looking at 80 years in jail. Donald Trump could be impeached for abusing his presidential pardon power if he pardons Manafort, so the idea that Trump is going to make all of his former campaign chairman’s problems go away has always been more than a little dicey.
Trump looks out for only Trump, so if he doesn’t think that he can get away with pardoning Manafort, a pardon is not coming.
Paul Manafort might be cracking, and if he decides to cooperate, it could mean the damn fully breaking on the Russia scandal and Donald Trump being swept out of the White House.
wapo: Three-judge panel rules unconstitutional gerrymandering in North Carolina
A panel of three federal judges held Monday that North Carolina’s congressional districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to aid Republicans over Democrats and said it may require new districts before the November elections, possibly impacting control of the House.
The judges acknowledged that primary elections have already produced candidates for the 2018 elections but said they were reluctant to let elections take place in congressional districts that courts have twice found violate constitutional standards.
North Carolina legislators are likely to ask the Supreme Court to step in. The court currently has eight members since Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s retirement earlier this summer. Senate hearings on President Trump’s nominee, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, commence Tuesday.
The North Carolina case is a long-running saga, with federal courts first striking down the legislature’s work as a racial gerrymander and then as a partisan gerrymander.
The Supreme Court told the three-judge panel to take another look at the case in light of the court’s decision in a Wisconsin partisan gerrymandering case, in which the justices said those who brought that case did not have legal standing.
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Trumpsky is a wee wee little man child.
Not that I have any right to offer an opinion, I would be emotionally satisfied if Mrs McClain were appointed to her late husband’s seat.
bId, I agree with your 2152, truly a pathetic drip
Flatus, capital idea.
wasn’t that the traditional way — and one of the only ways women were able to attain a political seat?
margaret chase smith among others.
Just saw the IMPOTUS bungling with the phone clip. Dumbass. He had to have taken a few minutes between that and his meeting with his praying (preying?) base to chew some ass of whoever he perceived caused him to look like the idiot he is on the TV.
wfmz-tv: New Pence book deems VP a ‘shadow president’
The first major book focusing on Vice President Mike Pence during his time in the executive branch is set to be released Tuesday.
Penned by authors Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner, “Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence” purports that the vice president’s rise in politics has been carefully calculated through the years. It draws contrasts between Pence and President Donald Trump, but also comparisons in their use of mass media (Pence once had a radio show in Indiana and jokes he is “Rush Limbaugh on decaf”) to build profiles in separate political circles over the years.
The authors deem Pence a “replacement president,” pointing to his recent trips this year to Israel and South Korea where he where he presided over “landmark events.”
Between his political connections to the religious right and powerful fundraising groups, a Trump administration filled with many of his proteges and friends, and his statesman approach to the world stage, D’Antonio and Eisner paint Pence as a “shadow president.”
[….]
Pence believes he can save Trump’s soul: citing “one of Pence’s closest aides,” the authors write extensively of Pence’s religious journey from growing up as a Catholic to evangelical Christianity.
One person close to Pence asserts that “the vice president actually believed he could bring Trump to Jesus, and like Jesus, he was willing to do whatever was necessary to help save Trump’s soul.”
Pence also attends a regular Cabinet prayer meeting presided over by Reverend Ralph Drollinger, where Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Sonny Perdue and more are regulars.
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hope Mueller also knows what the shallow “shadow president” knows and flips him in time before he comes out of the shadows.
wapo: Mueller prosecutors ask to admit evidence of alleged past ‘bad acts’ by Paul Manafort in D.C. trial
Prosecutors and attorneys for Paul Manafort are set to appear Tuesday morning in federal court in Washington to argue over whether evidence of his alleged past “bad acts” should be shown to a jurors at his September trial.
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson to introduce such evidence, arguing it could help convince jurors that President Trump’s former campaign chairman knowingly committed charged crimes, including conspiring against the United States, money laundering and obstructing justice.
Manafort’s attorneys asked Jackson to reject the requests, saying the law bars prosecutors from using past acts simply to suggest a defendant is likely to commit crimes.
[….]
One government request seeks to show that Manafort for years falsely claimed tax deductions on a Trump Tower condo he bought in New York City in 2006 for $3.7 million, by saying it was used solely for business purposes. Prosecutors allege that in January 2015 Manafort sought to borrow on the unit and bolster his teetering finances by directing his tax preparer to tell the lender it was a personal residence.
Prosecutors also asked to introduce new evidence related to the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom law firm, to which Manafort allegedly funneled $4 million from offshore accounts he controlled in Cyprus. The money, prosecutors say, was to pay for a 2012 report supporting the imprisonment by Manafort’s client, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, of his political rival, Yulia Tymoshenko.
Prosecutors want to argue that Manafort and others arranged for Skadden — where attorney Gregory B. Craig, former Obama White House counsel, was leading the project — to appear to be retained for $12,000, instead of for millions, to circumvent Ukrainian contracting rules.
They also want to show that Manafort and subordinates structured what they say were “sham loans” between Cyprus entities they controlled to hide income from the U.S. Treasury.
[…continues…]
also this morning in wapo:
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said Tuesday that if President Trump replaces Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his new nominee would have to promise the Senate that he would allow special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to complete his investigation.
Graham raised eyebrows last week when he seemed to give Trump his blessing to fire Sessions, telling reporters that the president was “entitled to an attorney general he has faith in.”
[…]
During an appearance Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show, Graham stood by his assessment that Trump should have an attorney general he trusts but stressed an important caveat.
“You have to replace him with somebody who is highly qualified and will commit to the Senate to allow Mueller to do his job,” Graham said. “Nobody is going to take Jeff’s place that doesn’t commit to the Senate and the country as a whole that Mueller will be allowed to finish his job without political interference.”
Graham said he understands Trump’s frustration with Mueller’s investigation, but added: “Here’s what I believe about Mueller: He’s a fine man. He’s not on a witch hunt. Let him do his job.”
Mueller is investigating whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election and whether Trump has obstructed the probe.
Graham said he has seen “no evidence of collusion to this point.”
“At the end of the day, if there is collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, that will be it for me,” Graham said. “Anything else will be just noise.”
[….]
“This relationship is beyond repair, I think,” Graham said Tuesday.
Graham said the rift between Trump and Sessions is “much deeper” than their differences over the Mueller investigation but would not elaborate.
“It’s a pretty deep breach,” Graham said.
He added that Sessions is “not the only man in the country that can be attorney general.”
“This is a dysfunctional relationship,” Graham said. “We need a better one.”
lindsey on nbc today:
Sen. Lindsey Graham, who had been an ally of John McCain and one of the Arizona Republican’s closest friends, revealed the late lawmaker’s last words to him in an emotional interview on NBC’s “Today.”
“The last thing he said to me was, ‘I love you, I have not been cheated,’” Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said, as a tear rolled down his cheek.
[…]
“John has shown it’s not about you. Country first,” Graham said. “Country first hurts, but it’s the right way to go.”
[….continues…]
Regarding Sessions, Graham is doing the equivalent of putting up wallpaper without repairing the wall, thinking it will cover the holes and no one will notice. My take is that for those few instances when Sessions found the balls to do the right thing when Impotus would have him do the wrong thing, Impotus cannot abide that. Graham knows that whoever SFB nominates to replace Ernie will tell the Senate that of course he or she will let Mueller complete his investigation, and as soon as the confirmation is complete will somehow have amnesia about that.
Thanks PatD, I was recently trying to remember Margaret Chase Smith’s name, when Cindy surfaced as a possible replacement. Smith was in the Senate when I was a page. Once while riding with her on the monorail to the offices she threw up on me. That was my only interaction with her.
I’d like to see Flake resign and get appointed, give him another 2 years, guess that’s a bit farfetched.
Cindy McCain would be a good choice but Megan McCain would be great. Is she old enough?
KC, she’s old enough at 33 – the requirement is 30. She’d be a good choice – would really piss IMPOTUS off, that’s for sure, and that’s a huge plus in my book.
Toles has a wonderful piece today about how IMPOTUS would eulogize John McCain – In a word, it is brilliant (I read that somewhere – oh yes, in my comment to the piece).
It gets better.
ive been trying to figure out why i have not felt too bad that Senator Mcain passed away for a cpl of days now. At first i felt guilty…i believe that we are all connected, no matter what.
But human emotions won out on this one. My spiritual side lost. On Mcain being a hero due to the fact that he was an prisoner of war…is ok with me….but there were many many more, not in the lime light… Yes what he did to let t he ot her prisoners go home before him was heroic imo….but other performed many acts of courage in t he war.
He was someone t hat….i sometimes liked ….and some t imes disliked……so ergo my feelings of losing one of our cosmic stars….that we all are….is kinda sad….im also sad for those that are lost each and every day…..but that is the way of the universe….we were never born…so we never die…we just exist as energy…and we return to our true natural state as energy when the time comes….
What we make of it ….our health, the way we treat others.. with love and respect….knowing our true selves…is to me, knowing that we are all one…even that shit trump (he just not in my galaxy is all….he way out t here no?) and that when our shine is no longer…we are reincarnated along with our loved ones (had a dream once where all our loved ones that we shared a brief time here on earth with….waits until we are all together…..and we return to find our way to each other…)…
I do think that Mcain …like all politicians that live and die in politics….are somewhat narcissistic. Mcanin dedicated his time to t he Senate for m ore than love of country, he could have long ago retired and shared his time with his family….not the other senators….or his staff…..his staff new him a whole lot better than his family…maybe?….some of the time i liked him….some of t he t ime not so much…..
The way that i am going to miss him…..is that knowing that he was not evil……not like this new kind of politicians….Rs or Ds……
There are a lot of these evil politicians in our country…..we need to start teaching real history….how we became an empire, who build this country brick, by brick….rail by rail……farm by farm….how we grew each and every state….not just because some politician, or group took credit for it…..but point out each and every group that contributed to our growth….
Mcain in his last letter….wants us to stop tribalism……well we need to teach the truth to our kids….as soon as they are born or before…..religion is taught to them while still in the womb…..they are not thought that they are in the universe with for their t i me so come out and shine………no more tribalism…..that works for me……but the Marine still does come out of me….im not taking any shit from racists and will put t hem on the spot no matter where…….Just recently i had the opportunity to let some Trumpster know his place after he was talking about a Muslim looking guy at the gym…..later its so hot that im going to cook some eggs on the parks sidewalks……
John McCain is the standard for people can grow and change. He learned from his experiences and changed.
My favorite thing about him was his support for ala carte pricing for cable television.
I did not like his tendency to violence as a way of solving problems –who can forget “Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.”
SC, cogent thoughts nicely said
Megan!!!!!!!! I think she would be great. A good start to the Republican Party reclaiming itself
And did the Bush Family ever apologize for their horrendous behavior in the NC primary
And the Republicans in NC need to apologize for thinking that having a black child is a reason not to vote for someone
China moves to end two-child limit, finishing decades of family planning https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/asia/china-family-planning-one-child-intl/index.html
~Cuz if there’s one thing this planet needs, it’s more people~
French environment minister quits during radio interview https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/europe/france-environment-minister-hulot-quits-intl/index.html
NK “agreement” -fail. Master negotiator, LoL ?
President non grata that about sums it up
I’m not sure of the source it appears in a number of articles published today about why no one wants him at any events
KC, because he’s such an ass? Just speculating, but …
Pogo
very succinct
craig, forgot her name, a person who tossed her cookies all over you on the capitol underground express? the brain does try to blank out painfully disgusting things like that.
otherwise Margaret was pretty notable…. particularly her “declaration of conscience” speech 6/1/50 when she berated her colleagues on the senate floor. worth reading whole thing but here’s an excerpt:
[…]
I think that it is high time for the United States Senate and its members to do some soul searching — for us to weigh our consciences — on the manner in which we are performing our duty to the people of America — on the manner in which we are using or abusing our individual powers and privileges.
I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think that it is high time that we remembered; that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.
Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism –
The right to criticize;
The right to hold unpopular beliefs;
The right to protest;
The right of independent thought.
The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs. Who of us doesn’t? Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. Otherwise thought control would have set in.
[….continues…]
here’s a “well, Duh! of course” headline for you from nytimes:
Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime. Now He’s a Target of Trump.
[…]
On Tuesday, Mr. Ohr is to appear before a closed hearing of the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees, jointly investigating F.B.I. and Justice Department activities related to the 2016 election. Republicans are likely to ask Mr. Ohr why he met with Mr. Steele even after the F.B.I. terminated its relationship with Mr. Steele for speaking to the news media and who approved the meetings.
Those who know Mr. Ohr seem perplexed that the president has singled him out. Co-workers and former associates describe him as a scrupulous government official who cares deeply about the Justice Department.
[….continues…]
[be sure to read the whole article. quite informative]
Cover Story
Barry Blitt’s “Closing In”
By Françoise Mouly
August 24, 2018
The artist Barry Blitt, a contributor since 1994, has drawn more than a hundred covers for the magazine—and, since 2015, more than fifteen featuring President Trump. His latest (“Sending sketches because I couldn’t help myself,” the accompanying note said) takes inspiration from a “Sopranos” scene. It also, of course, riffs on a dark moment for the White House: in a pair of courtroom dramas, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, pleaded guilty to the violation of campaign-finance laws, and Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chair, was judged guilty on eight counts of bank and tax fraud.
[…continues…]
Lindsay Graham what a f—king hypocrite
Yup, Ms Cracker, what a f**king hypocrite.
Lock’em ALL up.
The McCain black child primary incident from rove was SC
but all them Carolinas look alike in the end……
Without his friend John around to keep him honest, Lindsay is reverting to the weasel that he’s somehow been able to keep hidden for the past few years. He’s already become and IMPOTUS boot licker in the past year since McCain left the Senate to attend to his treatment.
BTW, solar, I read your comment above. Very thoughtful, and I have to tell you that I agree with the vast majority of it. Glad to see you poke your head in the tent from time to time and give us your 3 cents worth.
With the fate of the world being dumped on by SFB (emptying his cranium) other things hit home. I hope I am not alone in forgetting to mark a package with contents before putting it in the freezer. I just realized a pack of sausages looks like brats, Italian sweet sausage, Italian hot sausage or hot links. So with in an hour I will find out exactly what I defrosted and am cooking for dinner. Life in the little peoples, or something lost by the greedy old perverts.
BB, LOL. I do that with some regularity – particularly if I think I could never mistake what’s in the baggie for something else. Mrs. P could attest that it is not all that uncommon for me to ask her if she can tell what “this” is.
Speculation is rampant that someone has some serious dirt on cousin Lindsey.
I speculated here Sunday that the grifter was having a most thoroughly rotten day……report from WH source that he spent the day calling people and screaming.
it would not be a surprise, given McCain’s penchant to reach out to adversaries to get things done that he thought important, to find he had instructed his sidekick lindsey to cozy up to the twit to be both a mole and a maneuverer but mostly a canary in the cave giving early warnings and playing jester to fool the emperor.
if you pay close attention (down to the commas, conditional weasel words, subtle winks of eye and sleights of hand) ole’ lindsey looks like sly brer rabbit in the briar patch at times.
Don’t give Lindsey so much credit. If McCain suggested he work with Trump when possible, what’s to stop Graham from going native without his friend and moral compass?
BiD, ever the optimist, hopeful that sanity prevails even in the senate.