Brownback has been doing this for a while now.
Separation of Powers, how does it work?
Good thing that’s not what Carson actually said…people need to read articles past the headlines.
What Carson actually said was “I’d rather endorse any of the other candidates, but I don’t think that can win, so I am endorsing Trump even though I don’t want to.” Which is a pretty stupid idea, in and of itself. The discussion of a position in Trump’s administration came two or three topics later in the conversation. While I’ll concede the timing is slightly suspicious, absolutely nothing in the actual conversation directly or indirectly implies a quid pro quo.
TL;DR: There’s plenty of real shit to criticize Trump and Carson about. Stop making shitty accusations up; all it does is give them plausible deniability for their genuine evil/ignorance.
My reading of the Kansas constitution (IANAL) is that, similarly to the US Constitutionl, the lower house can pretty much impeach anyone subject to impeachment for anything (high crimes and misdemeanors).
So this bill is just a standard conservative bit of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
“He does love America. And he does want to be successful. And he will surround himself with very good people,” Carson said.
“And will one of them be Dr. Ben Carson?” asked Malzberg.
“I will be doing things as well, yes,” Carson confirmed. “Certainly in an advisory capacity.”
“That’s been determined? When you sat down with him that was discussed?” Malzberg asked.
“Yes,” Carson said. “We haven’t hammered out all the details, but it is very important that we work together to save this country… Again, I’m not going to reveal any details about it right now because all of this is still very liquid.”
As ThinkProgress points out, it is illegal for a candidate to promise “the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy.”
The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party in the Kansas House of Representatives has apparently taken over the House and are radically changing the membership in House committees. At least one Republican member has said he would resign, but apparently changed his mind later in the day.
So is your gray matter, Doc.
Limbaugh: “Jeb Bush will be the nominee.”
Please, please, please, please, please, please.
I’m with this too and I am still beyond surprised Jeb! still isn’t in it. The word “Bush” makes all hardcore republicans feel warm inside. But his campaign didn’t seem to take Trumpy Wumpy seriously, so out he went.
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I agree verbatim.
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Merciful Og, how could it come to this – to the point where anyone of good will could say that about a Bush and mean it?! :eek:
Well, now I see a potential upside to a Trump nomination: the chance it will destroy Limbaugh.
Because Jebya is so incredibly pathetic that Rod Blagojevich could probably beat him without leaving his “hotel room”.
Hey, she’s not against rape kits in general. Just against actually testing them.
Well, in that cast, who needs voter-ID laws that only exist to calm the fears of the general public who might believe without evidence that voter fraud actually exists?
Limbaugh is losing his luster with the freepers. Trump is badly damaging the conservative media, I think.
It’s really odd, because no Republican could get away with being so clearly non-Christian and phony about it, saying they’ll be neutral toward Israel, saying all the shit Trump is, and have ANY support by those people. Yet they flock to him and his content-free rabble rousing, and we keep hearing about how angry they are with the ‘Establishment’.
It’s almost as if the dim bulb of ‘Hey, those rich guys were just using us and never had any intention of honoring OUR agenda’ has gone off, but they haven’t quite grasped that their new messiah doesn’t give a shit about it either. He’s just using them like the other rich guys did. So they’re singing Talking Heads’ ‘Burning Down the House’, gathering pitchforks and lighting torches, and throwing their own damned agenda out the window along the way.
That’s exactly what’s going on, with the Trump supporters. They don’t care exactly what he believes according to some ultra-conservative playbook. They just want to hurt those they feel have betrayed them, and he’s the vessel for that.
And that anger isn’t going to go away when he loses the General.
El Rushbo has been all over the map defending Trump, supporting Cruz, thinking about Jeb in a brokered convention, etc.
With the Breitbart brouhaha it is clear to me that more than a few reporters and editors in the conservative media are showing that there is still a bit of decency and independent thought among the conservative media left.
But it will be harder going forward to even pretend that they are “fair and balanced” and virtually all opposed to Trump will clearly see the bullshit that the new supporters of Trump in the general election will come with. We even know already that they will lie a lot to themselves or to others.