The disgusting remarks by the Odious Orange Orifice in chief when it gives the state of the union speech about how it was vindicated by the Senate will be the defining end to the experiment that the Founding Fathers so wanted to succeed!
I’m looking forward to November, but first we have to to watch out for the landmines the Dems/socoalists/communists/liberals will be planting along the road
For me, watching Obama’s first inauguration felt like moving from a hog “waller’s” mire into a pristine park while a gentle, warm, summer rain washed away 8 years accumulation of filth.
On Friday, Republicans in the United States Senate—with the exception of Mitt Romney and Susan Collins—voted to prevent John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, from testifying in the impeachment trial of the president.
The reason they did so is undeniable: They did not want to hear from the most credible fact witness of all, one whose account would further implicate the president in his corrupt scheme—his “drug deal,” in Bolton’s words—to pressure the Ukrainian government to open an investigation to harm Trump’s main political opponent.
Republicans, from beginning to end, sought not to ensure that justice be done or truth be revealed. Instead, they sought to ensure that Trump not be removed from office under any circumstances, defending him at all costs.
The job of Senate Republicans was to make their acquittal of the president as quick and painless for them as possible. In this particular case, facts and evidence—reality—were viewed as grave threats, which is why they had to be buried.
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What Republicans who have rallied behind Trump don’t fully grasp yet is the toxic effect he’s had on the younger generation, and on college-educated, suburban, and nonwhite voters. (Trump is wildly popular among blue-collar and rural voters, who are shrinking as a percentage of the voting population.)
The damage done by Trump won’t be limited in its reach. He has imperiled the future of the party he leads.
And those who think the GOP will simply snap back to the best of what it was pre-Trump—who think the worst elements of Trumpism will vanish once he leaves the White House—are kidding themselves.
The fight for the future of the Republican Party, post-Trump, will be an intense one. Those of us who are conservatives and those on the center-right who believe the soul of GOP is still worth fighting for will not go gently into the good night.
Well, if you hooked up with Ukraine to wage war on the United States, as the first senator from Tennessee did, you could be expelled. But this wasn’t that. This was the kind — what the president should have done was, if he was upset about Joe Biden and his son and what they were doing in Ukraine, he should have called the Attorney General and told him that and let the Attorney General handle it the way they always handle cases that involve public figures.
CHUCK TODD:
And why do you think he didn’t do that?
SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER:
Maybe he didn’t know to do it.
CHUCK TODD:
Okay, this has been a rationale that I’ve heard from a lot of Republicans. “Well, boy, he’s still new to this.”
SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER:
Well, a lot of people come to —
CHUCK TODD:
At what point, though, is he no longer new to this?
~
Donald Trump is in his fourth year in office. He is no longer new at being president. Sen. Alexander left out the fact that Barr was involved in the Ukraine plot and is currently hiding incriminating evidence against the president.
If Trump is too stupid to follow the law, then he is incompetent and should not be president.
Ignorance is no excuse under the law, as the Republican excuses for not removing Trump from office are impossible to believe and insulting.
Senate Republicans are digging their own political graves.
If Republicans do not allow at least a few witnesses into the Senate impeachment trial, they will pay a heavy political price if evidence emerges later proving deep corruption by President Trump.
Such evidence almost certainly will emerge.
When former national security adviser John Bolton goes on 60 Minutes showing contemporaneous, detailed notes of Trump outlining an explicit, thoroughly indefensible quid pro quo with Ukraine’s president, Republican senators will be blamed for complicity.
When political fixer Lev Parnas releases yet more audiotapes, more photographs, and more emails all indicating Trump’s perfidy, the Republican senators will be blamed.
When other witnesses turn over new evidence while looking for immunity in the investigation of Trump by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Republican senators will be blamed. They will be seen as having engaged in a cover-up. They will be seen as having undermined justice. They will be seen as having embraced all the dangerously extravagant theories expounded by Trump’s lawyers during the trial, such as Alan Dershowitz saying that if a president self-defines his own political interest as being equivalent to the national interest, he can do almost anything he wants.
In truth, Republicans’ electoral prospects this fall are already dire. Already, 27 Republican House members are retiring or seeking uncertain political promotions, many of them from competitive districts, whereas only nine Democrats are doing so. Six Republican-held Senate seats are thought to be in danger, whereas only one Democratic seat is seriously threatened. Democratic voters and donors are so fired up against Trump that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is warning of a fundraising crisis, with Democrats “kicking our ass” on that metric.
Artist’s commentary: In another strip (Luann), there had been some discussion in the past over those who have “eyes” vs. those who only have “dots” (for eyes). For what it’s worth, in this strip, Carmen looks better with the “dots.”
kaffekup almost 5 years ago
Yes, Carmen, the whole country has been sullied.
That whirring sound you hear?
Lincoln.
braindead Premium Member almost 5 years ago
The ‘dirty’ was not and is not from the impeachment.
It is from what caused the impeachment — and the behavior during the impeachment trial.
Especially the exercise of the “oaths”.
w6nim7 almost 5 years ago
A “trial” without witnesses or evicence? The juror’s oath must have been modified to ‘protect and defend the PARTY’, not the law and constitution.
Sanspareil almost 5 years ago
The disgusting remarks by the Odious Orange Orifice in chief when it gives the state of the union speech about how it was vindicated by the Senate will be the defining end to the experiment that the Founding Fathers so wanted to succeed!
RobinHood almost 5 years ago
Once I never could hope to win
You starting down the road leaving me again
The threats you made were meant to cut me down
And if our love was just a circus you’d be a clown by now
You know I’m still standing better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid
I’m still standing after all this time
Picking up the pieces of my life while I’m still on your mind
I’m still standing yeah yeah yeah
I’m still standing yeah yeah yeah
Bernie Taupin / Elton John
45Nasrad almost 5 years ago
I’m looking forward to November, but first we have to to watch out for the landmines the Dems/socoalists/communists/liberals will be planting along the road
rossevrymn almost 5 years ago
lametoon
Brain Pudding almost 5 years ago
That feeling is “winning”. Frankly, I am not sick of all the winning. More please, President Trump; lead the way!
A# 466 almost 5 years ago
For me, watching Obama’s first inauguration felt like moving from a hog “waller’s” mire into a pristine park while a gentle, warm, summer rain washed away 8 years accumulation of filth.
Silly Season almost 5 years ago
On Friday, Republicans in the United States Senate—with the exception of Mitt Romney and Susan Collins—voted to prevent John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, from testifying in the impeachment trial of the president.
The reason they did so is undeniable: They did not want to hear from the most credible fact witness of all, one whose account would further implicate the president in his corrupt scheme—his “drug deal,” in Bolton’s words—to pressure the Ukrainian government to open an investigation to harm Trump’s main political opponent.
Republicans, from beginning to end, sought not to ensure that justice be done or truth be revealed. Instead, they sought to ensure that Trump not be removed from office under any circumstances, defending him at all costs.
The job of Senate Republicans was to make their acquittal of the president as quick and painless for them as possible. In this particular case, facts and evidence—reality—were viewed as grave threats, which is why they had to be buried.
✄
What Republicans who have rallied behind Trump don’t fully grasp yet is the toxic effect he’s had on the younger generation, and on college-educated, suburban, and nonwhite voters. (Trump is wildly popular among blue-collar and rural voters, who are shrinking as a percentage of the voting population.)
The damage done by Trump won’t be limited in its reach. He has imperiled the future of the party he leads.
And those who think the GOP will simply snap back to the best of what it was pre-Trump—who think the worst elements of Trumpism will vanish once he leaves the White House—are kidding themselves.
The fight for the future of the Republican Party, post-Trump, will be an intense one. Those of us who are conservatives and those on the center-right who believe the soul of GOP is still worth fighting for will not go gently into the good night.
Https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/broken-trump/605959/
Silly Season almost 5 years ago
SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER:
Well, if you hooked up with Ukraine to wage war on the United States, as the first senator from Tennessee did, you could be expelled. But this wasn’t that. This was the kind — what the president should have done was, if he was upset about Joe Biden and his son and what they were doing in Ukraine, he should have called the Attorney General and told him that and let the Attorney General handle it the way they always handle cases that involve public figures.
CHUCK TODD:
And why do you think he didn’t do that?
SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER:
Maybe he didn’t know to do it.
CHUCK TODD:
Okay, this has been a rationale that I’ve heard from a lot of Republicans. “Well, boy, he’s still new to this.”
SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER:
Well, a lot of people come to —
CHUCK TODD:
At what point, though, is he no longer new to this?
~
Donald Trump is in his fourth year in office. He is no longer new at being president. Sen. Alexander left out the fact that Barr was involved in the Ukraine plot and is currently hiding incriminating evidence against the president.
If Trump is too stupid to follow the law, then he is incompetent and should not be president.
Ignorance is no excuse under the law, as the Republican excuses for not removing Trump from office are impossible to believe and insulting.
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/02/02/lamar-alexander-trump-stupid.html
Silly Season almost 5 years ago
(Once again…)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-longer-gop-blocks-bolton-the-more-he-will-hurt-them
Senate Republicans are digging their own political graves.
If Republicans do not allow at least a few witnesses into the Senate impeachment trial, they will pay a heavy political price if evidence emerges later proving deep corruption by President Trump.
Such evidence almost certainly will emerge.
When former national security adviser John Bolton goes on 60 Minutes showing contemporaneous, detailed notes of Trump outlining an explicit, thoroughly indefensible quid pro quo with Ukraine’s president, Republican senators will be blamed for complicity.
When political fixer Lev Parnas releases yet more audiotapes, more photographs, and more emails all indicating Trump’s perfidy, the Republican senators will be blamed.
When other witnesses turn over new evidence while looking for immunity in the investigation of Trump by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Republican senators will be blamed. They will be seen as having engaged in a cover-up. They will be seen as having undermined justice. They will be seen as having embraced all the dangerously extravagant theories expounded by Trump’s lawyers during the trial, such as Alan Dershowitz saying that if a president self-defines his own political interest as being equivalent to the national interest, he can do almost anything he wants.
In truth, Republicans’ electoral prospects this fall are already dire. Already, 27 Republican House members are retiring or seeking uncertain political promotions, many of them from competitive districts, whereas only nine Democrats are doing so. Six Republican-held Senate seats are thought to be in danger, whereas only one Democratic seat is seriously threatened. Democratic voters and donors are so fired up against Trump that House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is warning of a fundraising crisis, with Democrats “kicking our ass” on that metric.
Cheapskate0 almost 5 years ago
Artist’s commentary: In another strip (Luann), there had been some discussion in the past over those who have “eyes” vs. those who only have “dots” (for eyes). For what it’s worth, in this strip, Carmen looks better with the “dots.”
RobinHood almost 5 years ago
Best part of the Super Bow
I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench an old man was sitting there
I said, your old courthouse is kinda run down
He said, naw, it’ll do for our little town
I said, your old flagpole has leaned a little bit
And that’s a ragged old flag you got hanging on it
He said, have a seat, and I sat down
Is this the first time you’ve been to our little town?
I said, I think it is
He said, I don’t like to brag
But we’re kinda proud of that ragged old flag
You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when
Washington took it across the Delaware
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing say can you see
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin’ at its seams
And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the texas flag, but she waved on though
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg
And the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag
On Flanders field in World War one
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun
She turned blood red in World War Two
She hung limp and low a time or two
She was in Korea and Vietnam
She went where she was sent by Uncle Sam
She waved from our ships upon the Briny foam
And now they’ve about quit waving her back here at home
In her own good land here she’s been abused
She’s been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused
And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land
And she’s getting threadbare and wearing thin
But she’s in good shape for the shape she’s in
‘Cause she’s been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more
So we raise her up every morning
We take her down every night
We don’t let her touch the ground and we fold he
RobinHood almost 5 years ago
So we raise her up every morning
We take her down every night
We don’t let her touch the ground and we fold her up right
On second thought, I do like to brag
‘Cause I’m mighty proud of that ragged old flag
Johnny Cash