As Trump’s fixer, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress, Trump was famous for never texting, never using email, and never actually saying he wanted criminal actions taken; rather, he would suggest a course of action that others carried out. As Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, and Jacqueline Alemany of the
How many times can I say it? This is one of the most exciting letters HCR has written! The shift from an impossible BBB passage (right now) to Voting Rights legislation shows us that the Democrats in the Senate are energized, focused and being as nimble as possible.
Let's pause for a moment and recognized the efforts of Senator Amy Klobuchar. This is a woman who I thought (and think) would make an excellent President. And now she is pursuing the most important project of our lifetime. Without voting rights re-established at the Federal level (and strictly enforced by the DOJ!) everything we care about will be toast - including the planet.
I understand that many here are very angry. And very frustrated. And this is a forum where people, who have done and are doing good work diligently, can emote. Mea Culpa.
But I would plead for more critique and less drama. For the sake of our shared mission and for the sake of our individual effectiveness.
What would HCR do? The evidence is, something less to do with cursing the darkness and more with shining a light.
I lived Watergate numbed by it all and knew jailed Bob Allen of Gulf Resources (GRE) and George S. McGovern, Thomas F. Eagleton Jr., and R. S. Shriver well… and put a grandson of W. Mark Felt through law school… and fixed Felt’s rising damp garage walls..
We are numbed today by GOP racism, criminality and the banality of evil…
Everything associated with Donald Trump reeks of corruption. One way or another, this RNC expenditure will eventually be discovered to have coercion, blackmail, or bribery behind it. There absolutely must be at least one quid pro quo in play.
Reading the Washington Post article,I realized that Meadows is willing to go to prison to please Donald Trump. How ironic is it that he was part of the “Freedom Caucus”? Where’s the freedom in all your actions being dictated by the whims of another? Co-dependence at its most extreme expression.
I really hate what I am going to say here, I have been trying my best to believe otherwise for the past couple months, but today ripped the curtain away.
It's not "Build Back Better." It's Build Back Never. There is no way in hell they get anything like this done in March, by which time every moderate in the party will be standing away from it like it was poison while they campaign. If they think Manchin will change then what he won't change now, I want some of whatever it is they're smoking because that is some powerful shit.
And if they do not find a way to make the Child Tax Credit come back to life by February, they can bend over and kiss their asses good-bye, because all those people who got help and then got the rug pulled out from under them are going to be Mighty Pissed.
And here's a newsflash they should have heard back this summer at the latest, but never doubt the ability of the Left to cover its eyes and ears so well it is cut off from reality: you do not do bills like BBB with no margin for error. If they wanted that to happen they should have pulled their heads out of their asses last year and not lost their working majorities in the House and Senate. If they had the more normal 5-6 seat majority in the Senate, Manchin and Sinema could be thrown out the tenth-story windows they so richly deserve to be.
Do politics right and you get to do what you want. Bring a butter knife to a firefight, and you get you ass handed to you.
Joe Manchin, revels in the god-like position in which he finds himself by the luck of numbers. While he lives the high life on his boat in DC funded by his coal buddies he plays with his poor constituents in West Virginia. I often see him as the Democrat Trump. “I got mine ; screw you!”
It's not just our right to vote. It's our right to have our vote count. The GOP, as HCR has been recounting here, are working hard to make the votes they don't like not count. We need to write our representatives and let them know we are watching, they can't lose the forest for the trees.
As an observer of Donald Trump since November 2016, I cannot help but comparing his behavior to that of heads of organized crime "families". I am not accusing him of criminal offenses. I have just discovered for myself that in understanding his actions and next moves, it helps to imagine "what would a Don do?".
(Note: I have studied resp. observed each US president since Roosevelt. I have not detected such behavior in any other president)
As a non-lawyer I am bewildered as to what criminal punishment can/will be imposed on the principal perpetrators of a scheme to violate the Constitution and engineer a political insurrection (aka coup). What about Jabba the Hutt and his White House lackeys? What about Republican members of Congress who were complicate? What about the Giuliani gang and other legal Mafiosos?
We are witnessing the most fully documented Mafioso conspiracy/crime in American history. [The Mafia left more bodies than finger prints.] In Watergate the principal perpetrators, including the former Attorney General of the United States,, were sentenced to up-to-four-years in the slammer. [[Nixon was never indicted.] Will any of the principal perpetrators of the BIG LIE/1/6 actually go to jail for their villainy?
About 500 individuals have been brought into the judicial system for their physical involvement in the Capitol Building insurrection. Several have already gotten four-year-sentences in the slammer. Some outrageous, third-rate lawyers are involved in civil suits that could be personally costly. Steve Bannon has been indicted for contempt of Congress and has a trial scheduled for mid-2022. Mark Meadows and others may also be indicted for contempt of Congress. These suits/trials may drag on until the 2022 House elections. Were there a Republican House, I would expect these contempt of Congress indictments would be quashed.
So the RNC is footing Trump’s legal bills for activity unrelated to any political issues.
One wonders when they’re going to also provide household staff; maids, butlers, valets, cooks, and bottle washers. Imagine the luxury of having a congressman cleaning your toilet for you.
An article in the Washington Post was headlined 'All Eyes On Manchin'. That about says it all.
The beauty of the Democratic legislation is that it is all of one piece. I think of it as being like a bicycle. We need all the moving parts together. The gears mesh, we move forward.
Conjuring an imaginary future, Manchin is sacrificing the real potential of this hard won and fleeting moment of political power. So many worked so hard for this. Lost, lost, lost to a fool's mission.
I am appalled, as we approach the end of President Biden’s first year, that neither the $2+/- trillion social infrastructure bill nor the John Lewis Voting Rights bill have passed Congress. Both have broad popular support and are essential components of President Biden’s PROMISES MADE/PROMISES KEPT mantra. The headline bickering on both greatly weakens the Democrats’ image as a cohesive and competent governing group.
At a time when fear, uncertainty, and Trumpite naysayers are in full flush, President Biden deserves and requires full-throated support from his congressional ‘team.’ Either he receives it in early 2022 or we will have a cruel and chilly Congressional elections year.
How many times can I say it? This is one of the most exciting letters HCR has written! The shift from an impossible BBB passage (right now) to Voting Rights legislation shows us that the Democrats in the Senate are energized, focused and being as nimble as possible.
Let's pause for a moment and recognized the efforts of Senator Amy Klobuchar. This is a woman who I thought (and think) would make an excellent President. And now she is pursuing the most important project of our lifetime. Without voting rights re-established at the Federal level (and strictly enforced by the DOJ!) everything we care about will be toast - including the planet.
I understand that many here are very angry. And very frustrated. And this is a forum where people, who have done and are doing good work diligently, can emote. Mea Culpa.
But I would plead for more critique and less drama. For the sake of our shared mission and for the sake of our individual effectiveness.
What would HCR do? The evidence is, something less to do with cursing the darkness and more with shining a light.
Take heart.
I lived Watergate numbed by it all and knew jailed Bob Allen of Gulf Resources (GRE) and George S. McGovern, Thomas F. Eagleton Jr., and R. S. Shriver well… and put a grandson of W. Mark Felt through law school… and fixed Felt’s rising damp garage walls..
We are numbed today by GOP racism, criminality and the banality of evil…
We can lose it all if all do not act.
Everything associated with Donald Trump reeks of corruption. One way or another, this RNC expenditure will eventually be discovered to have coercion, blackmail, or bribery behind it. There absolutely must be at least one quid pro quo in play.
Reading the Washington Post article,I realized that Meadows is willing to go to prison to please Donald Trump. How ironic is it that he was part of the “Freedom Caucus”? Where’s the freedom in all your actions being dictated by the whims of another? Co-dependence at its most extreme expression.
I really hate what I am going to say here, I have been trying my best to believe otherwise for the past couple months, but today ripped the curtain away.
It's not "Build Back Better." It's Build Back Never. There is no way in hell they get anything like this done in March, by which time every moderate in the party will be standing away from it like it was poison while they campaign. If they think Manchin will change then what he won't change now, I want some of whatever it is they're smoking because that is some powerful shit.
And if they do not find a way to make the Child Tax Credit come back to life by February, they can bend over and kiss their asses good-bye, because all those people who got help and then got the rug pulled out from under them are going to be Mighty Pissed.
And here's a newsflash they should have heard back this summer at the latest, but never doubt the ability of the Left to cover its eyes and ears so well it is cut off from reality: you do not do bills like BBB with no margin for error. If they wanted that to happen they should have pulled their heads out of their asses last year and not lost their working majorities in the House and Senate. If they had the more normal 5-6 seat majority in the Senate, Manchin and Sinema could be thrown out the tenth-story windows they so richly deserve to be.
Do politics right and you get to do what you want. Bring a butter knife to a firefight, and you get you ass handed to you.
Fuckin' Dummycraps.
Joe Manchin, revels in the god-like position in which he finds himself by the luck of numbers. While he lives the high life on his boat in DC funded by his coal buddies he plays with his poor constituents in West Virginia. I often see him as the Democrat Trump. “I got mine ; screw you!”
“China’s development of biotechnology has always been for the well-being of mankind.”
The perfect Orwellian Big Brother statement.
I have only one thing to say to that:
Hah Hah Hah Hah Hahah Hahahahahahaha
It's not just our right to vote. It's our right to have our vote count. The GOP, as HCR has been recounting here, are working hard to make the votes they don't like not count. We need to write our representatives and let them know we are watching, they can't lose the forest for the trees.
As an observer of Donald Trump since November 2016, I cannot help but comparing his behavior to that of heads of organized crime "families". I am not accusing him of criminal offenses. I have just discovered for myself that in understanding his actions and next moves, it helps to imagine "what would a Don do?".
(Note: I have studied resp. observed each US president since Roosevelt. I have not detected such behavior in any other president)
As a non-lawyer I am bewildered as to what criminal punishment can/will be imposed on the principal perpetrators of a scheme to violate the Constitution and engineer a political insurrection (aka coup). What about Jabba the Hutt and his White House lackeys? What about Republican members of Congress who were complicate? What about the Giuliani gang and other legal Mafiosos?
We are witnessing the most fully documented Mafioso conspiracy/crime in American history. [The Mafia left more bodies than finger prints.] In Watergate the principal perpetrators, including the former Attorney General of the United States,, were sentenced to up-to-four-years in the slammer. [[Nixon was never indicted.] Will any of the principal perpetrators of the BIG LIE/1/6 actually go to jail for their villainy?
About 500 individuals have been brought into the judicial system for their physical involvement in the Capitol Building insurrection. Several have already gotten four-year-sentences in the slammer. Some outrageous, third-rate lawyers are involved in civil suits that could be personally costly. Steve Bannon has been indicted for contempt of Congress and has a trial scheduled for mid-2022. Mark Meadows and others may also be indicted for contempt of Congress. These suits/trials may drag on until the 2022 House elections. Were there a Republican House, I would expect these contempt of Congress indictments would be quashed.
PUT THE DAMNERS INTO THEIR SLAMMERS!
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act passed. Good.
Let’s pass the voting rights acts!
Insane lying Republicans wish to protect Uyghur civil rights and will fail and wish to trash Black civil rights and may succeed.
So the RNC is footing Trump’s legal bills for activity unrelated to any political issues.
One wonders when they’re going to also provide household staff; maids, butlers, valets, cooks, and bottle washers. Imagine the luxury of having a congressman cleaning your toilet for you.
An article in the Washington Post was headlined 'All Eyes On Manchin'. That about says it all.
The beauty of the Democratic legislation is that it is all of one piece. I think of it as being like a bicycle. We need all the moving parts together. The gears mesh, we move forward.
Conjuring an imaginary future, Manchin is sacrificing the real potential of this hard won and fleeting moment of political power. So many worked so hard for this. Lost, lost, lost to a fool's mission.
I am appalled, as we approach the end of President Biden’s first year, that neither the $2+/- trillion social infrastructure bill nor the John Lewis Voting Rights bill have passed Congress. Both have broad popular support and are essential components of President Biden’s PROMISES MADE/PROMISES KEPT mantra. The headline bickering on both greatly weakens the Democrats’ image as a cohesive and competent governing group.
At a time when fear, uncertainty, and Trumpite naysayers are in full flush, President Biden deserves and requires full-throated support from his congressional ‘team.’ Either he receives it in early 2022 or we will have a cruel and chilly Congressional elections year.