Obama appointed State Dept Inspector General wants to brief 8 congressional committees today. WTF?
Rebulicans in Congress are about to forever be remembered as enablers of a crime boss. Really? That’s what you want?
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Obama appointed State Dept Inspector General wants to brief 8 congressional committees today. WTF?
Rebulicans in Congress are about to forever be remembered as enablers of a crime boss. Really? That’s what you want?
Pat
Right now, I’ve set myself to writing “The Grand Gorge Tires Polka”. It’s going to wind up on every jukebox in the Catskills. I just don’t have time for frivolous endeavor.
wapo: ‘A Presidency of one’
sturge, that polka project could be a novel, autobio and a musical composition; all of the above and you’ve hit a trifecta.
It’s a radio ad jingle which might lead to a mascot of some sort or another who might do who knows what.
oooh an ad jingle! an ear worm kind and you’ll be a millionaire, you’ll live forever in infamy.
Just saw Spicey’s disco routine from DWTS. Worse than last week’s effort. Think a middle aged chubby Tony Manero with no sense of rhythm who can’t dance a move. But he had a white three piece suit and black shirt. 🙄
And does anyone else find it ironic that Nixon’s impeachment inquiry was driven in part by a recording of discussions about trying to gather dirt on his political opponent?
coup alright, but he’s got it backwards. to paraphrase the song:
he’s for coup and the coup is you.
nobody near him to see him or hear him.
no friends, just relations taking their rations
for him alone.
another day, another scandal
the hill:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is scheduled to join Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) on Wednesday morning for her weekly news conference with reporters.
The two lawmakers are expected to address the House’s impeachment inquiry, which was launched last week.
The inquiry comes amid a whistleblower complaint accusing President Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son for Trump’s personal gain.
The news conference is set to begin at 10:45 a.m.
Jamie, for you. according to the hill it was just released first ad nationally
Did Nancy put Nadler in lockup? He seems to have disappeared.
Bernie Sanders has surgery for artery blockage, cancels campaign events
The big picture: A senior adviser to Sanders’ campaign said the 78-year-old was “conversing and in good spirits.”
https://www.axios.com/bernie-sanders-artery-blockage-surgery-cancel-events-4c668f2a-462f-4776-8ff3-3aa623296074.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics
Just saw the Bernie announcement.
Kamala first out with comments: Thinking of Bernie Sanders today and wishing him a speedy recovery. If there’s one thing I know about him, he’s a fighter and I look forward to seeing him on the campaign trail soon.
And then Liz Warren: Bruce, Team Warren, and I are sending all our best wishes for a speedy recovery to @BernieSanders. I hope to see my friend back on the campaign trail very soon.
My best to Bernie. Time for him to reconsider things and leave the campaign trail. R&R is best thing for him.
Sorry to hear about Bernie. It’s what I said, age is a thing. The older you get the more stuff goes wrong. You get hit with the unexpected. Unfortunately, it’s just how it is.
Sanders has heart stent surgery after chest discomfort
PatD
Thanks for the Amy ad. It will be interesting to see if the Sanders surgery shakes up the race and will his age have an effect on the two candidates of similar senior status: Biden and Warren.
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Hey, if you had impeachment hearing updates everyday, along with potential hearing schedules, i’d appreciate it, and it might bring some extra eyeballs to your blog. Just a thought
If you wish to be an old man long, you must begin to be an old man early.
—-Cicero
Need you in the senate, Bern, so quit screwing around.
Not surprised about Bernie, he has been looking like walking heart attack for some time.
As I’m not running for political office all I can say is good riddance and don’t let the door hit you in the back side.
So do the Bernie Bros find a new lost cause or hang on to their love of Bernie. Inquiring minds……..
Jack
And no, I don’t want him back in the Senate, Retire Bernie, getthe f***outofhere.
Yeah I know, that’s being mean to a poor old man. But some poor old men………
Jack
A picture from Saturdays play in the mud tulip planting event at the park.
My sister Diana supervising an energetic crew.
Sturgeone, we sure do need Bernie in the senate!
Great work, Jack
Bye Bye Bernie…
Trump is on tv completely crazy
I will wish him well… but my sentiments are with Jack and KGC on Bernie…
so long chump.
Yes KGC, Trump’s presser was utterly insane. 25th Amendment was written for this.
…hang together or hang separately, people. We approach that literal reality more closely each day.
caligula was a great guy too. He built some very classy buildings. He was going to build a border wall and make the Marcomanni pay for it, but those sneaky holdover bureaucrats from tiberius’ Administration kept causing trouble. Also, caligula was unlucky in love, ‘though the gods know he tried. People griped that he erected a golden home for Bucephalos, and gossiped about an affair between them, but cal was just horsing around.
Bink, when it come to the Senate, Bernie is a cipher, a big zero. In all his years he has never learned how to work with the senate.
A good counter example is Ted Kennedy, in the 70’s and early 80’s he had earned the reputation of being a loose cannon, pain in the ass. Someone you couldn’t work with. He changed and started building coalitions to get his legislation passed. By the time he died he was a well respected member of the senate.
If Elizabeth Warren doesn’t become President she could be a good successor to Kennedy, if she follows the Kennedy path with the rest of her career. But if she were to follow the Bernie model then she would continue to be an isolated gadfly, whose main accomplishment would be naming post offices.
Jack
So they are letting Trump be Trump.
Sounds good.
BTW there is nobody left in the Trump administration who has the balls to invoke the 25th amendment.
It impeachment or suffer.
Jack
A. Are the present republican senators more or less noble and patriotic than the republican senators of 1974, who pushed richard nixon from office ?
B. What frightens the ripper senators facing 2020 elections more, being primaried by trumpies, or running in the general election as the pro-crime & pro-russia candidate ?
Our ferret-eyed vice usurper strikes a pensive pose.
It’s Septimius Severus you gotta worry about.
If we all share the common goal of vomiting out this toxic administration, it’s probably best not to alienate Berniecrats, whose votes and enthusiasm will be needed to that end, but you do you.
He’s done, now- no need to shit on him, anymore.
today’s query: when did the word “jock” as used in jock strap become a must-be-bleeped profanity?
why was that particular word and not “bullshit” a no-no in the know-no prez’s no-no mind?
said in oval office:
“He can’t — you know there’s an expression, he couldn’t carry his blank strap”
“I won’t say it, because they’ll say it was so terrible to say, but that guy couldn’t carry his blank strap, do you understand that?”
but twit had tweeted earlier:
The Do Nothing Democrats should be focused on building up our Country, not wasting everyone’s time and energy on BULLSHIT, which is what they have been doing ever since I got overwhelmingly elected in 2016, 223-306. Get a better candidate this time, you’ll need it!
Yeah, I was coming back from a hearing and listened to the press conference. The Finnish president shoudl get a medal for suffering through that unhinged nonsense from SFB. What a goddam idiot.
So embarrassed to see Finland’s fine president endure our lunatic president today. Sorry @FinnEmbassyDC maybe we should sacrifice an Olympic game or something to make amends. We owe you a national apology for this fiasco.
The president of Finland should have handed SFB a broom
The Dow has dropped 1100 points since September 13 and is back where it was around September 3. In the past month it has gained that 1100 points and lost them. Yippee /S
(P.S. – loves me that edit button)
Poobah, honest to god – If brains were dynamite SFB wouldn’t have enough explosive power in that huge skull of his to blow his nose,
From what I have read, it sounds like SFB did his full blown Loony-Tunes act in front of a real president. In Finland he would be acting like Olla kaikki muumit laaksossa (not all the Moomins in the field – Moomins are a Finn thing)
Jacob Burckhardt, writing in Die Zeit Constantins des Grossens stated that there appeared to be a disease of the mind that all who sat upon the throne following Marcus Aurelius contracted, whether or not of the same family, class, region, mother language, or training, all the way down to Constantine and his sons, two hundred fifty years later. I disagree, believing the entire string from Augustus to Constantine XI Dragases Paleologos was murderously insane. To my mind, the best of the bunch was Julian (The Apostate) and he was crazy enough to get himself totally dead, at Charax, in only two years in command.
By any chance did trump ever go to a museum and sit on an Imperial chair ?
Book of the Interim
JVLIAN, by Gore Vidal, 1964.
in re Julian the Apostate
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(novel)
Wiki
Plot summaryEdit
Julian was the last direct relative of Constantine the Great to take up the purple, his father being Constantine’s half-brother. As emperor, he attempted to destroy the influence of the Christian church. His goals were to bring back firstly the worship of the old Roman pantheon, secondly other religions including Judaism (he attempts to restore the Jewish Temple), and thirdly – with special emphasis upon the growing crisis on Rome’s frontiers – Mithraism, a mystery religion that had been popular among Roman soldiers.
Mithraism loves company.
Sturg… Vidal’s “Julian” was one of the best reads of my life. I found a dog-eared used copy at a small local fair several years ago. It was almost falling apart. I treasure it.
Thanks, Mr Sturgeon,
The actual Julian attempted to give all religions equal standing under the Roman Law. Those who didn’t follow the pagan gods would not have to make sacrifices to the pagan gods. Those who weren’t Christians wouldn’t have to tithe to Constantine’s church.
The Christians won out through the support of the emperors, so they got to write our (their) histories, and burn the other folks histories. I our (their) histories, Julian is an ungrateful turncoat and hater of Jesus (they mean the Church heirophants)
The book was Vidal’s best, imo.
Bernie’s lips were blue at the last debate. It’s time for him to take care of his health. Forward with Warren.
Republicans know no shame. They are un-American. They are anti-democracy. Any claiming to be Christian while supporting this lying slimebag are clearly lying slimebags themselves.
Live From Golgotha is another good one by GV.
Pence in the mix of Ukraine plot, WAPO reports. President Pelosi!
Pence… 🙄 useless idiot of Trumpco. The guy is dumashit. And SFB? … WaPo (not the New York Times…
Stupid ass
“The president of Finland should have handed SFB a broom” LOLOL
It’s getting depressing watching all those old, white men line up behind that old, white SFB.
Where are all of the Bible thumping, God fearing, tight assed evangelicals when the SFB is ranting and obscene and swearing? Disgusting!!! Crickets!
Remember the video of saddam enjoying a cigar at the ba’ath party meeting, as member after member is hauled out and shot ? The mass of the party sits paralyzed by fear, all praying that their ‘great leader’ won’t be able to read their own particular thoughts.
That oil & gas company was also linked to deripaska and manafort, and they are linked to trump.
That’s what the republican congressional hamsters look like now.
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