They’re fed up to the point that they’re organizing against him, and by “organizing,” we mean that they’ve started an actual 501(4)(c) organization intended to stop any attempts to fire Mueller. It’s called Republicans for the Rule of Law, with people like Bill Kristol as one of the founding directors. For those who don’t know, Bill Kristol is very conservative on a lot of issues, but he also can’t stand Trump any more than anyone else with brains bigger than amoebas."
Thanks for the tip, Bill. I should say it seems pretty generous to DT, but shows his problems are getting clearer even to those who take a less dim view of him than I.
Another day, another herd of headlines from politicalwire.com[Click]
Zuckerberg Holds Up Under Lawmaker Questioning [Item: Facebook has made contributions to most of the senators involved.]
Nunes Sees Fundraising Spike [Item: his fundraising in the first quarter is about the same as that of Andrew Janz]
U.S. Agents Tried to Dump Injured Man Over Border [Cute—and NBC has the video]
Mueller Interviewed Dana Boente [Former acting AG, who kept handwritten notes…]
Trump Taunts Putin Ahead of Possible Missile Strike [Missile strikes, probably with cruise missiles, which generally are effective only with absolute air superiority. Why do US Presidents insist on demonstrating the limits of the US military?]
Comey Compares Trump to a Mob Boss >>>>>[ABC Sunday 10 PM]<<<<<
Ryan Will Not Run Again “…It could also trigger another wave of retirements among Republicans not eager to face angry voters in the fall and taking their cue from Mr. Ryan.” [That works for me!]
GOP Senators Send Signal to Not Fire Mueller
Comey Did 5-Hour Interview with ABC News “The James Comey media blitz has officially begun…”
I don’t remember where I found this yesterday: “We knew this day was coming. Whatever else we might say about Richard Nixon, he went quietly into the night. Not Trump. He will drag us through the misery of a constitutional crisis before, to quote John Brennan, he enters the dustbin of history.”
Ah, here is where I found that quote; thanks, Google: The Cohen raid is a game changer: Trump's reaction tells us so[Click] Lawrence Douglas [The James J Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, at Amherst College, Massachusetts]
—Alan
P.S.: Thinking of the brain of an amoeba, that would overlap with "less brains than God gave a goose."
Woo hoo! This one has a lot of profanity in it so I won't paste content here - even though I LOVE cursing, it's a great stress reliever. But this anonymous guy says exactly what I feel about Cheetolini. And I can't feel sorry for Republicans because they have earned everything they have coming!
It is certainly appropriate that it was posted on RAWstory.com. But one shouldn't be quite so sure of the future course of events; the Dems might well choose to leave Trump in office to drag the GOP farther down the drain; and what if Ms Pelosi were to make way for another Dem as majority leader? That would also knock the pins out from under the GOPers. Speaking of which, yesterday an unkind designation for Trump supporters occurred to me: "MAGAts."
“The Average Joe of Congress (there are 529 of them) gets paid $174,000 per year. But not everyone is average; the Speaker of the House gets $223,500 a year…”
Ryan will have been in Congress for twenty years, and Speaker for three years. If he set aside a reasonable amount of money from his salary, he should have very a comfortable nest egg. And if that isn’t enough, there is the little matter of the Congressional retirement plan(s).[Click]
I don’t think Mr. Ryan will have to go back to driving the Wienermobile to make ends meet. He'd probably prefer the rubber chicken circuit, anyway.
Is McConnell just saying this to keep Trump happy and engaged, like dangling something shiny in front of a toddler, or does he really intend to waste Senate time on something that is guaranteed to go nowhere?
McConnell Open To Trump’s Idea Of Paring Back $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill - Click
Presumably, the "wasteful spending" that so troubles Trump is bagatelles such Food Stamps, highway repair and safety inspections for food and medication and the like. Who needs that crap? We all know the only thing the government has to do is make sure the Defense Department's budget is larger than the budgets of most countries. :P ReplyDelete Replies
Anonymous4/10/2018 10:53:00 PM
I think the US still spends more on the military than all other countries in the world combined. That was one of the things that brought down Rome.
--Alan Delete Catreona4/10/2018 11:05:00 PM
Don't be silly, Alan. It was all those immigrants! Delete Anonymous4/10/2018 11:45:00 PM
After peoples "immigrated" with the help of Roman armies, they in time were granted Roman citizenship...
First, a clarification. "the budgets of most countries" should read "the national budgets of most countries."
As to the point that the immigrants eventually were granted Roman citizenship: My hunch is that Trump would contend it was precisely this assimilation that cause the fall of the Roman empire, providing he could be made to understand the concept at all.
Hallo dear Friends. I've been away. We made a swift trip "there and back again" to Maine to say goodbye to our sister in law, who is very near death. She is my age. Heartbreaking. After days of her being mostly asleep, and with everyone saying she would likely die Monday night, she woke up lucid and had a Rally Day yesterday. We were so fortunate to be able to have an hour with her when she was perfectly cognizant, funny, serious and so loving. A truly treasured experience.
Cat, I posted a note for you two threads back. Forgive me, I don't have it in me to read all that you posted. Perhaps another time. I am exhausted and sad and so deeply moved by this great woman and her soon-to-be untimely passing.
Susan, thank you for this, and I fully concur: "I hope they throw the net over Cheetolini before he starts WWIII."
Listener, you'll get no argument from me on the point that Our Lord posed major political problems to the Jewish leaders of the time. At the same time, the Gospel narratives make plain that it wasn't just a question of corruption or political expediency. As Lewis says, either the man was what he claimed to be, or he was mad. I would add the further most distressing possibility that he was a blasphemer. In other words a sincere, believing Jew, like for instance Saul of Tarsus, would be outraged and deeply distressed at Jesus' claims. After all, logic and reason clearly were totally against the possibility of his being what he claimed. Since he couldn't possibly be what he claimed, he posed a great danger to the status quo. Here they were, an occupied nation, occupied what's more by the most powerful military and political power that had yet been. And here's this charismatic young itinerant preacher, claiming to be the Son of God, curing the sick, raising the dead. Seems to me, no corruption at all is necessary to explain what happened.
I hope at some point, you will be able to read and give me your response to my discussion. I'd value your considered response. Not for quite some time though! You need time to grieve. ♥
http://addictinginfo.com/2018/04/11/republicans-are-now-openly-organizing-against-trump-this-is-unprecedented/
ReplyDelete'
They’re fed up to the point that they’re organizing against him, and by “organizing,” we mean that they’ve started an actual 501(4)(c) organization intended to stop any attempts to fire Mueller. It’s called Republicans for the Rule of Law, with people like Bill Kristol as one of the founding directors. For those who don’t know, Bill Kristol is very conservative on a lot of issues, but he also can’t stand Trump any more than anyone else with brains bigger than amoebas."
And this editorial from the Chicago Tribune: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Trump. Note that the Tribune tends to lean a bit right.
DeleteThanks for the tip, Bill. I should say it seems pretty generous to DT, but shows his problems are getting clearer even to those who take a less dim view of him than I.
DeleteAlan
Gee...the brain of an amoeba is pretty small...
ReplyDeleteAnother day, another herd of headlines from politicalwire.com[Click]
Zuckerberg Holds Up Under Lawmaker Questioning [Item: Facebook has made contributions to most of the senators involved.]
Nunes Sees Fundraising Spike [Item: his fundraising in the first quarter is about the same as that of Andrew Janz]
U.S. Agents Tried to Dump Injured Man Over Border
[Cute—and NBC has the video]
Mueller Interviewed Dana Boente [Former acting AG, who kept handwritten notes…]
Trump Taunts Putin Ahead of Possible Missile Strike [Missile strikes, probably with cruise missiles, which generally are effective only with absolute air superiority. Why do US Presidents insist on demonstrating the limits of the US military?]
Comey Compares Trump to a Mob Boss >>>>>[ABC Sunday 10 PM]<<<<<
Ryan Will Not Run Again
“…It could also trigger another wave of retirements among Republicans not eager to face angry voters in the fall and taking their cue from Mr. Ryan.” [That works for me!]
GOP Senators Send Signal to Not Fire Mueller
Comey Did 5-Hour Interview with ABC News
“The James Comey media blitz has officially begun…”
I don’t remember where I found this yesterday:
“We knew this day was coming. Whatever else we might say about Richard Nixon, he went quietly into the night. Not Trump. He will drag us through the misery of a constitutional crisis before, to quote John Brennan, he enters the dustbin of history.”
—Alan
Ah, here is where I found that quote; thanks, Google:
ReplyDeleteThe Cohen raid is a game changer: Trump's reaction tells us so[Click] Lawrence Douglas [The James J Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, at Amherst College, Massachusetts]
—Alan
P.S.: Thinking of the brain of an amoeba, that would overlap with "less brains than God gave a goose."
Hey! Amherst College, situated in the town of the same name (pronounced Am'erst), is right in my back yard. How 'bout that?
DeleteThanks for the pronunciation guidance, Cat; I learn something ever day if I'm not careful!
DeleteAlan
OK, one last political story, and then I must get moving.
ReplyDelete—Alan
MSNBC’s surging ratings fuel Democratic optimism[Click] “While Fox and CNN slump, left-leaning hosts on MSNBC help the network reap a 30 percent ratings gain.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/republican-congressman-unloads-motherfker-trump-furious-top-message-conservative-pundit/
ReplyDeleteWoo hoo! This one has a lot of profanity in it so I won't paste content here - even though I LOVE cursing, it's a great stress reliever. But this anonymous guy says exactly what I feel about Cheetolini. And I can't feel sorry for Republicans because they have earned everything they have coming!
It is certainly appropriate that it was posted on RAWstory.com. But one shouldn't be quite so sure of the future course of events; the Dems might well choose to leave Trump in office to drag the GOP farther down the drain; and what if Ms Pelosi were to make way for another Dem as majority leader? That would also knock the pins out from under the GOPers. Speaking of which, yesterday an unkind designation for Trump supporters occurred to me: "MAGAts."
Delete--Alan
Relief, and telling, that Ryan won't be running for Preznit. Dear Lord--po' man'll have to get a real job . . .
ReplyDelete“The Average Joe of Congress (there are 529 of them) gets paid $174,000 per year. But not everyone is average; the Speaker of the House gets $223,500 a year…”
DeleteRyan will have been in Congress for twenty years, and Speaker for three years. If he set aside a reasonable amount of money from his salary, he should have very a comfortable nest egg. And if that isn’t enough, there is the little matter of the Congressional retirement plan(s).[Click]
I don’t think Mr. Ryan will have to go back to driving the Wienermobile to make ends meet. He'd probably prefer the rubber chicken circuit, anyway.
Alan
Senate Committee Moves Bill Protecting Mueller[Click] I guess that puts pressure on Dear Leader to move quickly.
ReplyDelete—Alan
Mueller Asks Judge To Issue 35 Subpoenas For Manafort Trial In Virginia[Click]
ReplyDeleteRepublicans Run Pro-Mueller Ad During Fox And Friends In DC Market[Click]
A Single Solution for New York's Two Biggest Problems[Click]
Wow! Maine to experiment with ranked choice voting![Click]
And now to murder weeds.
—Alan
Who Was Working With Michael Cohen? - Click
ReplyDeleteCatreona4/10/2018 09:18:00 PM
ReplyDeleteIs McConnell just saying this to keep Trump happy and engaged, like dangling something shiny in front of a toddler, or does he really intend to waste Senate time on something that is guaranteed to go nowhere?
McConnell Open To Trump’s Idea Of Paring Back $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill - Click
Presumably, the "wasteful spending" that so troubles Trump is bagatelles such Food Stamps, highway repair and safety inspections for food and medication and the like. Who needs that crap? We all know the only thing the government has to do is make sure the Defense Department's budget is larger than the budgets of most countries. :P
ReplyDelete
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Anonymous4/10/2018 10:53:00 PM
I think the US still spends more on the military than all other countries in the world combined. That was one of the things that brought down Rome.
--Alan
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Catreona4/10/2018 11:05:00 PM
Don't be silly, Alan. It was all those immigrants!
Delete
Anonymous4/10/2018 11:45:00 PM
After peoples "immigrated" with the help of Roman armies, they in time were granted Roman citizenship...
First, a clarification. "the budgets of most countries" should read "the national budgets of most countries."
As to the point that the immigrants eventually were granted Roman citizenship: My hunch is that Trump would contend it was precisely this assimilation that cause the fall of the Roman empire, providing he could be made to understand the concept at all.
Hallo dear Friends. I've been away. We made a swift trip "there and back again" to Maine to say goodbye to our sister in law, who is very near death. She is my age. Heartbreaking. After days of her being mostly asleep, and with everyone saying she would likely die Monday night, she woke up lucid and had a Rally Day yesterday. We were so fortunate to be able to have an hour with her when she was perfectly cognizant, funny, serious and so loving. A truly treasured experience.
ReplyDeleteCat, I posted a note for you two threads back. Forgive me, I don't have it in me to read all that you posted. Perhaps another time. I am exhausted and sad and so deeply moved by this great woman and her soon-to-be untimely passing.
Susan, thank you for this, and I fully concur:
"I hope they throw the net over Cheetolini before he starts WWIII."
puddle, I'm glad you enjoyed the sheepies!
Alan, keep the links coming!
{Listener}
DeleteOh, heavens. I'm very glad you could have a bit of time with the one you knew, listener.
DeleteAlan
Listener, you'll get no argument from me on the point that Our Lord posed major political problems to the Jewish leaders of the time. At the same time, the Gospel narratives make plain that it wasn't just a question of corruption or political expediency. As Lewis says, either the man was what he claimed to be, or he was mad. I would add the further most distressing possibility that he was a blasphemer. In other words a sincere, believing Jew, like for instance Saul of Tarsus, would be outraged and deeply distressed at Jesus' claims. After all, logic and reason clearly were totally against the possibility of his being what he claimed. Since he couldn't possibly be what he claimed, he posed a great danger to the status quo. Here they were, an occupied nation, occupied what's more by the most powerful military and political power that had yet been. And here's this charismatic young itinerant preacher, claiming to be the Son of God, curing the sick, raising the dead. Seems to me, no corruption at all is necessary to explain what happened.
ReplyDeleteI hope at some point, you will be able to read and give me your response to my discussion. I'd value your considered response. Not for quite some time though! You need time to grieve. ♥
Pardon me, Cat, but I was under the impression that Jesus is not quoted in the Gospels as saying he was the Son of God, but rather the son of man.
DeleteAlan