So basically Nunes went rogue and issued a subpoena to get this info on his own using his committee chair power even though he recused himself. Wtf?
is the dnc showing some balls? ignore the ratio and the comments from the cretins who think what flake did is somehow honorable
youre going to find some both sides, exiled GOP types decry this rhetoric as politically tone deaf & ill-timed. I really am not sure how to handle it. Commend quitting rather than fighting against an existential threat to our Democracy? Flake should have left the GOP caucus. And apologized for all his past sins; obstructing government, stealing a SCOTUS seat, not standing up against the Birther movement, rubber-stamping a fascist regime. Too little, too weak, too late from the GOP.
At today’s meeting... “He said the tax cuts are ‘going to be great,’ ” without going into any detail, said one GOP senator who requested anonymity to assess the meeting candidly. “He just went on and on, talking about his accomplishments and going off on tangents. It was inane,” the lawmaker added.
it is politically tone deaf and ill timed. something like “we welcome anyone willing to work with us to remove an existential threat to our democratic Republic and restore our standing as the leader of the free world. we realize there will always be debate and differences... blah blah etc etc” would accomplish way more.
This DNC/campaign partial funding of the Steele dossier is the exact sort of news story that the mainstream outlets will report, the right wing groups will exaggerate and obfuscate, creating a feedback loop that will in turn bring more attention to their insane ideas and create false equivalency between the campaigns. So frustrating. Did this really need to get pushed out on the WaPo news app? Because Maggie and Ken Vogel got their feelings hurt because a spokesman lied to them? They don’t even work at the same fucking paper!
She is a glutton for punishment because she gets destroyed in the comments every time she tweets and follows it up with shit like this.
We know the actual persons name now. Before we didn't and they also denied it when questioned by Mags
Amazing in all this is the GOP donor is still unknown and no one gives a fuck. That is all you need to know about this bullshit story
wow so now BTH and his vagina touching buddies have swindled WaPo, jeb!, hillary and mueller with their troll dossier what a pr genius
I think we’ve long suspected this was the Mueller plan, the only way to get someone to roll was a state charge as anything else has no teeth, because our president will pardon anyone.
SDNY is federal, the head of that office was Preet Bhahara before Trump fired him for completely legitimate reasons, I'm sure
President only has pardon authority over federal crimes; state crime pardons have to come from the governor
It's pretty damming that Republicans choose to quit over actually doing something. It just proves there's no sense of duty to the people that elected them; they had no plan to better society. When things get hairy they say fuck it and quit. Some real quality leadership you got there, GOP.
Yes, he had zero chance of winning unless, as he implied, he ran a campaign based upon fear which appeals to Trump voters.
That's exactly my point. He has no internal drive to fight for what he believes in. "I want to do X and I will fight for it." "You will almost assuredly lose." "Oh well never mind then."
BTW, that weight you just felt come off your shoulders is from all the freedom Senate Republicans gave us by voting to make it harder for you to sue banks that ripped you off.
Just, you know, normal stuff. Reminder that GOP senators literally yelled YOU LIE at Obama during a speech.