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She will never get booted. The only way to boot an Art. III judge is via impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate just like with the President. That's happened like 15 times in history.

 

Exclusive: State Department officials told House investigators they created Afghanistan withdrawal plans from scratch | CNN Politics

Mentioned it before - but in the 20 years of fighting in Afghanistan the military, State waited until Kabul fell before coming up with an evac plan? Amazing. Figured at least some West Point student would have written a paper on it, using previous withdrawals as a comparison.

 

Come on, man!

 

There are other ways but let's not get into that right now.

 

Good politics may not good policy and the reverse is true as well. Its why we're so screwed up. Now it seems the more people you can piss off is the point. Tom DeLay once said something to the effect of wanting a bill to pass that was as "conservative" as possible. If it had bi-partisan support, it wasn't conservative enough.

 

No Labels? More like no future, amirite?

https://www.wsj.com/politics/electi...on-2024-presidential-campaign-effort-4b4e5121

 

They’ve already got RFK Jr. in the “fuck things up” lane.

 

If you mean in the middle of Hudson Bay in a rowboat with one oar, I like the cut of your jib.

 

Trump cheats at gold, too!

 

How Trump moved money around to pay his legal bills. (With any luck, his campaign will be broke by mid-summer thanks to all this.)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/27/us/politics/trump-cases-legal-fund.html

 

Rep. Gerry Connolly blasted a Republican bill to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after former president Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges,” said Mr. Connolly, whose district includes a portion of Dulles.

“If Republicans want to name something after him, I’d suggest they find a federal prison,” he said in a statement Tuesday.

I agree with representative Connolly. Can think of no better comeuppance than sending Trump to the prison named after him.