My eyes rolled back so fucking much when Andrea Mitchell opened the nightly news with news about Comeys letter.
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US PoliERA 2018 |OT13| And now the fun starts
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I believe the AG actually is responsible for it staying open this long (Trump wanted to close it, likely to try to head off any investigations, but the AG intervened and prevented them from doing so).
I'm not that interested in assigning blame, at least not in high stakes legislative negotiations. To a first approximation, of course, nearly all bullshit in the political process is down to some Republican transgression or other, in this case a willingness to hold people who are American citizens in all but name hostage in a legal limbo to build a thoroughly useless and racist wall.
But if we liked $25 billion for the wall and DACA in January, I don't know why we should refuse $5 billion for the wall and DACA now that our negotiating position has improved.
I think there's a reasonable chance that this is true, but if it is, isn't playing along and letting Trump torpedo yet another bipartisan compromise good politics? If voters like compromise and Trump is only pretending to be willing to compromise, call his bluff.
Yeah the reporting i heard said Trump/Co wanted to shut it down sooner. So the AG held it up to be shut down with government supervision.
It's what they always wanted, the right wing. Not that they'd ever admit it.
basically it's being dissolved and the government will handle the documents and where the remaining money goes (to real charities)
To prevent them from just stuffing it back into Trumps pocket. Which is what they were trying to do privately and be able to hide the documents and money.
Back when the deal was originally proposed, I absolutely would've taken it.
Now that the balance of power has shifted? No fucking way. genewilder_yougetNOTHING.gif
Trump has had one stupid policy position since his stupid announcement, and it's that damn freaking wall. Under no circumstances do you give him his stupid wall when we literally hold the cards on all funding issues. You don't hand your opponent signature legislation. It's idiotic.
That wall is just gonna turn into a violent symbol of unrest if it ever gets build. History has shown us shit like that always goes bad.
One fact that often gets overlooked in discussions about why the wall is a terrible idea is the creation of access roads during construction. Roads will have to be built all along the US-Mexico border in areas that previously were desert so construction materials can be delivered. The drug trade already makes use of underground tunnels and turning hazardous desert into a paved road will only serve as a distribution gift to the cartels.
Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur
McConnell says that after Schumer rejected his offer, "I'm in conversation with the White House on the way forward" for a gov't funding bill that Trump will sign.
"I believe incoming Speaker Pelosi has little latitude to make a deal," McConnell says with a grin, hinting she's worried about her left flank.
REPORTER: "Are you convinced we won't see a shutdown over Christmas?"
McCONNELL: "Yeah, I am."
McCONNELL says he's negotiating with Schumer to expedite "some kind of package" on judges and executive nominations before the holidays.
"We've got a lot of them stacked up."
McConnell says that after Schumer rejected his offer, "I'm in conversation with the White House on the way forward" for a gov't funding bill that Trump will sign.
"I believe incoming Speaker Pelosi has little latitude to make a deal," McConnell says with a grin, hinting she's worried about her left flank.
REPORTER: "Are you convinced we won't see a shutdown over Christmas?"
McCONNELL: "Yeah, I am."
McCONNELL says he's negotiating with Schumer to expedite "some kind of package" on judges and executive nominations before the holidays.
"We've got a lot of them stacked up."
Manu Raju @mkraju
GOP and Democratic senators, emerging from private lunches, make it clear they believe the only way to avoid a shut down is to pass a short-term CR to keep government open until early next year. Just asked Richard Shelby about a short-term deal, he said it's "looking toward that"
GOP and Democratic senators, emerging from private lunches, make it clear they believe the only way to avoid a shut down is to pass a short-term CR to keep government open until early next year. Just asked Richard Shelby about a short-term deal, he said it's "looking toward that"
Pretty much, and now that we have more leverage, i'd demand a path to citizenship for all the asylum seekers Trump is now suddenly trying to deport.
LMAO at McConnell implying Pelosi will have trouble whipping votes and getting something through her caucus.
I'm thinking the quote lost context but it sounds like they're not concerned that Flynn worked for a foreign government because it doesn't involve Trump. Eh?
I don't know why Trump and McConnell keep making the argument that Nancy being worried by progressives is somehow the reason she doesn't want the wall. She never wanted to begin with so it doesn't matter if she does have to worry about other Democrats. Also a CR bill will just make it harder to pass it in next year because the House Dems are in control and red state Dem senators don't have to care.
That's rich coming from the man who stays up until 4am writing bills in crayon on cocktail napkins and couldn't pass a bill the GOP had campaigned on for seven years.
The more poignant point is there aren't really many red state senators left. The only one who would face any immediate repercussions is Jones, who seems to appreciate that he's on borrowed time.
McCaskill, Donnelly, Heitkamp and Nelson lost. Manchin, Tester and Brown don't have to worry about re-election for another six years (and Manchin, probably never again). Same with Casey, Baldwin and Stabenow whose states will probably go to the Democrat in 2020 anyway. The only other red state senator is Gary Peters from Michigan who, see the last sentence.
A lot of the crummy judicial deals were made because 1) Schumer really doesn't have much if any leverage with that and 2) he wanted to burnish the red state Democrats' "moderate" credentials. Election's over and number 2 is out the window. He still doesn't have much leverage for appointments, but at least with standard legislation there's really nothing McConnell can wield against him and the other Democrats.
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Which gun rights group? If its not the NRA then they either don't care or are out of money. Both good things.
It will be some thing like, "You thought Bernie would win? You should have known Beto".
If it makes it freeze all other aspects of the GOP governing then I'm okay with that
I don't even know what McConnell's rush is. If Democrats won the Senate, yeah, I could totally see him trying to squeeze the most appointments out of the lame duck period, but next year he'll have a bigger caucus.
I wish they could both lose.
Transcript for Comey's second interview was released: https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Comey-interview-12-17-18-redacted.pdf
Mentions 'Clinton' 60 times.
Also this bit:
Mentions 'Clinton' 60 times.
Also this bit:
People always talk about pissing on Trump's grave but if the day turtle man dies isn't a day celebrated by millions of Americans, I'm going to be very disappointed. He's one of the greatest villains this nation has ever seen.
Capuano salty af that he got mauled by Ayanna:
https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/12/18/capuano-exit-interview
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bitch.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2018/12/18/capuano-exit-interview
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bitch.
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