Personally, he may well be as deplorable–obsessed and mentally odd and ethically-challenged–as Trump.
But he’s nowhere near as popular. So Congress WILL stand up to him.
In that sense Pence is very much “better than” Trump.
Yeah, but Pence is one of them! I’m pretty sure there are current Republican representatives (if not current GOP senators who were representatives before) who were in Congress at the same time as Pence. He’s not just a VP, he’s a colleague.
You’re probably correct in thinking that many members of Congress would be more likely to cut Pence some slack on the basis of his being a former colleague.
However, that doesn’t mean they’d roll over and play dead if he tried to do any number of things they’ve let Trump get away with: things at the level of the family separations and locking-up of kids on the border; the nutty tariffs; and the obstruction-of-justice moves (firings, removal of clearances, etc.) They wouldn’t let Pence give away classified information to Russians in the Oval Office; they wouldn’t let him cash in the way Trump has.
Not that Pence would necessarily try the same stuff Trump has. (It would be more along the lines of forcing gay people into “therapy” if they want to hold federal contracts, and such.) But anything Pence might try that would reach Trumpian levels of serious-violation-of-norms-if-not-laws would be met with some push-back. For example, Congress has acted to counter Trump’s attempts to end/ameliorate sanctions on Russia. There would be more of that sort of thing with Pence.
Sigh.
In the upcoming book documenting the crimes and outrages of the Trump Administration, there’ll be a chapter on Trump’s Disastrous Impact on the Environment. (Alphabetically, it’ll come between “Emoluments Clause” and “Foreign Relations”.)
A new children’s book brought to you by Rudy Giuliani.
Don’t forget “Our Favorite Judges and Justices.”
Love it!
C’mon, let’s keep it believable.
No way are they going to get all the way up to F in the first volume.
Oh, I don’t know. I wouldn’t mind seeing one that featured Trump in a tumbrel.
Paraphrasing iDJiT on the deportation of Jakiw Palij: “Anti-Semitism does not belong in my America!”
Okay, so, you had some relatively harmless 95-year-old death camp guard kicked out. When are you going to speak out against the anti-Semities who were in Charlottesville?
You will be able to tell that the private army is patriotic, because it will refuse to take any raises.
Hell, I once dropped a quarter in the dryer, and the secret service was on my shit before it finished the cycle.
Cohen reaches plea deal!
As part of its efforts to Make America Great Again, the Trump Administration plans to replace Obama’s Clean Power Plan with the Affordable Clean Energy rule. According to The New York Times …
Note that these are not hypothetical deaths from global warming but more clear-cut deaths in the near-term from heart and lung disease.
It was Pruitt’s own EPA that reports this bad news. In defense of Scott Pruitt, he was too busy stealing taxpayer money to pay his call-girls, or whatever it was, to complete the firing of EPA scientists.
The Trump Administration is on the ball though. Oh, they’re not trying to save the 1400 lives annually; they want to kill the messenger:
I really want this to be a GD or Elections thread mocking the threads we’re getting from the right-wing idiots. But I don’t have the energy to do it. Anyone else up for the effort?
A Day Filled with Gifts!! (Reuters)
Making it two-for-two, for indictments of the first two Congressional endorsers of Donald Trump’s candidacy. (Chris Collins being the first endorser.)
Can Dana Rohrabacher be far behind? 
I keep hearing references to Mueller gearing up to drop a number of indictments before the mid-terms. It’s what I believed would happen, I want it to be true – and maybe it will be, after all.
As an atheist I’m not quite sure where to address this, but: please don’t let it be the case that we get our hopes up that the rule of law is NOT dead, and that justice WILL be served for all who’ve undermined our democracy-----and then have our hopes dashed.
Please, please don’t let it be Orwell’s ‘boot stamping on a human face, forever’…
maybe it would be a tiny clown boot, but even so: please, no.
I always thought that Mueller would wait until after the mid-terms, so as not to interfere with the election process. But after being referred to as ‘Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller’ by tRump, he might be a bit more inclined to not wait until after November 6.
I hate to be a party pooper, but today actually produced some very good news for Trump: his very own Willie Horton.
2 Things:
One: Sherred, I don’t know what your avatar is, but it looks like a hit of blotter acid.
Two: Duncan Hunter. How about that name? That name sounds like the guy who has it should be compelled to mention it twice during any introduction. “Duncan Hunter. Nice to meet you. Duncan Hunter.”
As another atheist, I understand your feelings. Here’s what I think, though:
It will be the rule of law that holds the line against the Trumpists. It is the courts that have stopped Trump’s worst abuses against the rule of law. There will be some steps forward and some steps backward (in tiny clown boots), but in the end, the rule of law will prevail.
Mueller and his team, Rosenstein, Wray, along with the DOJ and the FBI, working alongside the entire American justice system, are highly motivated to work themselves to the bone to succeed. Mueller didn’t dedicate his many years rehabbing the FBI from 9/11 just to watch it sink under the (substantial) weight of the criminal currently occupying the Oval Office and his “end-justifies-the-means” antics. It is Mueller’s agents who are being wrongly maligned. This is personal for him and many others who believe in the rule of law.
They know what they’re doing, and they’ve only just gotten started. The scope of this investigation is vast. It will take time to fully roll it out. Honestly, I expect there are aspects and reverberations of it that will still be going on long after I have been scattered to the winds.