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True. I stand corrected on that difference.
Yet he managed to avoid scrutiny on obvious lies about his role in stealing emails when he was confirmed for his current gig. Perhaps the enormity of the stage that has been set will make a difference now. I somehow doubt it. Even if two Trumpists flip, spineless red-state alleged Democrats like Manchin et al might spit in the eyes of every woman in their states and vote for this cretin.

 

This is a very valid point, though it perhaps explains even more when they are trying to lock down one certified ringer.

 

If you have AXS on your TV, Willie is headlining Farm Aid right now.

Political angle: The sax player has on a “Beto for Texas” shirt.

 

All of the rhetoric about Ford ignores that she named a witness, one that she knew was Kavanaugh's friend at that. If the committee does not interview the three people who were in the room at the time of the incident then they can't claim to have investigated, let alone impartially.

As to Flake, he'll posture but he'll vote with the herd.

 

Yep and LBJ stole his Senate seat in 1948.

 

I've got an old "Kinky Friedman for Governor" shirt around here someplace.

 

I always appreciated my brothers on this thread.
My wayward gang from the distant past is mostly dead (and buried here where I stand), and I'm just here trying to make things right.
I have never said it enough, or on its previous iteration, or to our overseers (whom I have always said had the patience of several men named Job).

But I love you dingleberries on the Politics Thread. Don't ever forget it.

 

I'll wade in here. For those who haven't seen me on other threads, I was a former poster here when I was a sports writer. I left the newspaper business in 2012, and now I teach high school U.S. Government/Civics.

I am about halfway through the Woodward book. So far, there haven't been any bombshells to me. There is some good stuff in there, but if you read the news and follow this entire clown show, your reaction is ... "Yeah, I can see that happening."

One thing I've read that made me chuckle was late in the campaign, Bannon, Kushner, and Mnuchin forced Trump to give $10 million of his own money to the campaign. He reluctantly agreed. Mnuchin produced a wire transfer for him to sign. He started backpedaling, wanting to know why he had to sign it then. They wouldn't let him leave until he did. Trump's own people know he's such a deadbeat that he wouldn't have paid if they just took his word that he would.

 

Driftwood, I read the whole book and didn’t really find anything incendiary.

 

JC takes lame shots at another poster? The hell you say!

 

The incendiary stuff is not the reprehensible or horrifying things Fatfuck says or does (anybody paying any attention already knew all that) it's that, if the book is to be believed, that many of his inner circle fully understand the gravity of the situation.

Before, you had to just convince yourself that they had all been snowed or brainwashed, and sung themselves to sleep at night saying, "it'll be all right." And that many actually believe Fucko is doing what he genuinely believes is right for the country.

The book indicates, that except for a tiny few who are truly deluded, none of them believe any such things about him.

Which in the end may provide the best hope.

 

What were you anticipating?