And McCain too. (It’s probably too soon still for the man’s death to have sunk in for that jackass in the White House.)
In other news (New York Times), Republicans made sure to lift sanctions for Oleg Deripaska, Manafort’s good buddy and close pal of Uncle Vlad. They can’t give government workers their wages, but they can make sure Putin is looked after.
Daily Kos listed the 42 Republican senators who came roaring to the aid of Trump to ensure the sanctions would be lifted. I was dismayed to see Richard Burr’s name among them. Also the “new maverick of the Senate,” Mr. Mitt Romney.
Getting uglier by the day.
I do. The man can’t keep two ideas in his head at once. The last idea that somehow grabs hold is one he thinks he came up with himself.
The problem with the ideas of an Oval Office address and a rally address: neither one of them includes footage of angry Democrats sitting with crossed arms while Trump brags about his own glorious magnificence.
Said footage demonstrates Trump’s Awesome Power. And you’d better believe that he was looking forward to that demonstration.
Sure, he doesn’t like reading the Teleprompter----so he would just stop reading it, and say whatever he wanted to. And he’d have guests that would fry the livers of Pelosi and Schumer and Hillary Clinton, for that matter. It would have been so, so bigly great and fun.
… He will be very, very angry that this treat has now been snatched away.
In fact, he will be so angry that he might even consider making some sort of deal. As long as he could boast that the Dems Totally Caved (even if they didn’t), he’d be okay with it.
And now he has a real incentive.
Is there any word for what the Republicans have done, here, other than “disgraceful”?
Perhaps “deplorable.” And it may be that “treasonous” is somewhere floating in the background, too.
by the way, if there was any doubt in anyone’s mind, this was clearly not a typo
To crush your enemies under your feet, and hear the lamentations of their women.
“Expected” comes to mind.
Sure; she’s a woman, that’s more than enough for him to hate the thought of doing anything she wants. Women exist to be raped and abused in the eyes of men like him, not listened to.
Because he’s too irrational and stupid to manipulate reliably, both by his allies or his enemies. That was a complaint of his handlers during the campaign; he’s forget any advice they gave him almost immediately.
Rudy Guiliani to Chris Cuomo on CNN tonight:
"I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign… I have not. I said” no collision with, “the President of the United States.”
There’s not a bus big enough to run over all the people Rudy just threw under it. Maybe if it backs up a few times.
I like your words very much.
Absolutely yes. She has superglued him firmly between a rock and a hard place.
The Atlantichas a good write-up on this.
Nancy Pelosi’s Power Move on the State of the Union
President Trump might be able to keep the government closed indefinitely. But the new Democratic speaker can deny him use of the country’s most effective pulpit to make his case to the public.
Then why is she not doing more? Command him to run for re-election, so he’ll refuse just to show her. Say he doesn’t have the balls to declare he’s an atheist who conned millions of Christians, so he’ll announce exactly that on live national television. Tell him he’s too dumb to get ‘DUMB’ tattooed on his forehead. Something. Anything.
If he’ll just do the opposite of what she says, then why limit it to this?
The one thing which hasn’t been mentioned, TGWP, is the perception of powerlessness which Pelosi just hoisted upon the President. Even if he says “No, TV is great, that’s where I shine best”, he will still be on TV, by himself, because Nancy Pelosi said “Naw, don’t want this.”
I don’t really care about the effect this will have on Individual-1, but the effect on the more worshipful members of his base will be profound as they see him alone because Pelosi banished him from Congress.
You know what the saddest thing about today is?
I now remember with fond nostalgia the days when I thought that, at worst, our government had been bought by *American *oligarchs.
ETA: Aside to TGWP: Dude. Give her a break. She’s only been Speaker for 12 days.
I’ve seen two references to TGWP now, and I’ll be danged if my peanut brain can figure out what it stands for. Can someone help me out?
I’m assuming they mean The Other Waldo Pepper, but I’m damned if I know where the ‘G’ is coming from.
Lol, I acronymed the movie, not the poster. My bad!
(The Great Waldo Pepper, starring Robert Redford)
And I followed blindly along.
Ooops. Sorry, TOWP!
(Also, JohnT, is your screen name a reference to Rio Bravo, by any chance?)
Right. So we’re supposed to believe that Donald Trump - a man who has made it clear he doesn’t hire people for their competence or initiative or experience and that the only qualities he demands are absolute loyalty and a willingness to blindly follow his orders - hired a bunch of people who were breaking the law without him telling them to do it. That all these people who worked alongside Trump every day were willing to commit major felonies and risk imprisonment to perform illegal actions that would benefit Donald Trump not themselves. And not even tell him what they were doing this on his behalf.