The 6-page litter mentions that she wants she impeachment process to be bipartisan. Why? Does she think that there is still something of value to be had from the Republiopath Party? There is clearly something wrong inside the Speaker’s head if she does not think that she Rs need to be thoroughly and completely repudiated forthwith. They have become dysfunctional and have to be excised like a vestigial appendage so that the country can stop being dragged down by its atrophied parts.
A Republican Nebraska state legislator came after Individual 1 for trying to claim that there is a United Republican Party, and other Republicans joined in.
Per Jonathan Karl of ABC News, in a tweet today:
Eric Ueland is Legal Affairs Director. He is not an attorney.
I"m shocked that Miller was one of this manifesto’s architects.
At the risk of being whooshed, why the fuck do you find that shocking?
He’s got a heart?
quids pros quos
Or maybe quisd pros quos.
The US Department of Defense and the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division honored the men who fought at the Battle of the Bulge by celebrating a German officer who massacred 84 US prisoners of war.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Defense-Army-units-remember-Battle-of-the-Bulge-14912164.php?
Maybe finding that out was the event…?
Meant to be snarky - I’m not shocked at all, actually.
And every accusation is also a projection, and it signals what Trump and his party’s true intentions are. When they write that the Democrats are the “enemies of Democracy,” that’s a pretty chilling thought, because if they view the Democrats as the enemies of the very foundation of our political system, it simultaneously signals that they are the ones who have been ordained to ‘protect’ us from their threat. And if they regard the threat to their form of democracy is a unique one, which they do, then it lays down the foundation for novel ‘solutions’ to this problem.
Again, the undoing of democracy ultimately requires some form of complicity and consent on the part of ordinary voters. We’ve now had pretty compelling evidence that the administration solicited foreign interference, that they obstructed justice into the resulting investigation, and that they tried to use tax-funded foreign aid to compel a foreign government to do political favors for a sitting president. This is behavior that would make the Framers roll in their graves, and yet the majority of this country clearly doesn’t care (enough) to demand that this behavior be put to an end. And this administration knows that, and their rhetoric and behavior indicates that they’re normalizing the abuse of power, and that they intend to do much more of it in the future.
I’d add that the partisan Supreme Court isn’t helping to keep the branches of power separate either, given their keen interest in reviewing congressional powers that are already clearly established by statute.
I’ve been having a thought lately about this and things I’ve been hearing about the NRA being funded by the Russians (which might be just a conspiracy theory, not sure). The “jokes” about him staying in office for a 3rd term or becoming king or whatever, have been making me a touch nervous. It seems to me that the second amendment was originally intended to allow the people to rise up and prevent our democracy from being corrupted into a dictatorship. So it seems pretty puzzling that all of the NRA fans have been on Trumps side. If you look at it that way, the rumors of the NRA being funded by the Russians makes a kind of sense. It’s playing the long game, for sure, so it could just be conspiracy theory. But if it’s true, it’s pretty terrifying.
Not enough is being said about how completely BONKERS this letter is! Jennifer Rubin of Washington Post steps in:
Bullet points pulled out from wall o’ text by me to emphasize them.
This is just one more alarming example of how all of us have gotten used to his crazy behavior and “normalized” it. Okay, we’re used to the daily tweetstorm. We’re used to him conducting policy (such as it is) by tweet. We’re used to senior staffers fingin gout they’ve been fired in a tweet. We’re used to his lies (up into five figures now). Ho Hum. Yawn.
But a six-page harangue addressed to the Speaker of the House???
We don’t need no stinkin’ euphemisms! Call this what it is: NUTS. This is not the action of a sane, mature, capable public servant with his head screwed on properly. This is Grandpa at Christmas Dinner.
WHAT IF OBAMA HAD PULLED SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
Pretty soon we froggies will be cooked.
"Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers started this country, and did a good job of it. Great job. Not like that Jerky Jeff Davis and his crowd, Losers, all of them, like we just showed here at Gettysburg. "
My response to the letter would have been along the lines of “It’ll be a cold day in hell when I take constitutional interpretations from a guy who thinks Article II means ‘I can do anything I want.’”
I think it would have been great if she just called a press conference and shredded the letter on live TV.
Four score and what the hell is a score anyway, and who wants a score of four? It’s a lousy score, four! So anyway, I was speaking with that guy Franklin the other day, not many people know this but he did a pretty good job with the Post, not like it is now, what a bunch of losers and he said, he told me "sir, mister president, …
sorry but I’m not going to try and go for six pages. I want to keep my head mainly over my shoulders and in one piece.
Hm, reading the first paragraph I can note that 1. impeachment is in fact precedented. I’ll let calling it ‘partisan’ slide. 2. It is entirely constitutional. 3. How is it an abuse of power? The House is granted this power by the Constitution, and in this case they seem to be using it as intended. 4. It is Democratic party. He gets it right that the good ol’ US is almost 250 years old.
Good grief, I’m going to work now, alert me if something makes sense out of this administration.
Another aspect to the NRA money angle conspiracy theory is a lot of Republicans also got tainted money through the NRA like Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell and this explains why they don’t want this looked at more closely and their unwillingness to criticize Trump–they’re all in the same boat (although Ryan bailed out) and it’s hanging over their heads.
Cenk Uygar of The Young Turks the other day was opining that one reason the Democrats are focusing on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress and not Trump’s financial shenanigans is that many of them also take money from big corporations in the same way Republicans do and so they are beholden to this money and don’t want their own donations looked at the same way.
Sure the dems take money from big corproations, but for Cenk to draw an equivalence between that and the reps’ fiscal chicanery?
Hmmmm…
Here’s the clip: Trump Fighting With Mitch McConnell Over Impeachment Trial
Rewatching it, it’s more about campaign finances in general and taxes, Ana Kasparian brings it up and then Cenk offers his commentary (starts just before the 6 min mark).