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Gee, you'd think the US government wouldn't want such a person serving in its military.

Guess I can't trust those idiots with my sensitive information about Russia. Thanks for the heads up!

 

Biden surrogate calls Warren a hypocrite.

Honestly? He has a point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html?noredirect=on

Shortly after announcing her candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in February, Warren said she would shun high-dollar fundraising events. “That means no fancy receptions or big money fundraisers only with people who can write the big checks,” Warren wrote in an email to supporters.

Now, Warren has every right to make that pledge even if she had obtained significant contributions from donors in the past. Doing that didn’t make her a hypocrite. But there are two other reasons why the description applies.

First, because she transferred $10.4 million from her Senate reelection campaign to her presidential campaign fund. More than $6 million came in contributions of $1,000 and up, as the New York Times recently noted. The senator appears to be trying to have it both ways — get the political upside from eschewing donations from higher-level donors and running a grass-roots campaign, while at the same time using money obtained from those donors in 2018.

The $10.4 million gave Warren a substantial head start in building a presidential-campaign staff and doing other things for which money is essential. If she wasn’t being hypocritical, she would have taken only the dollars raised in smaller increments from her Senate race and transferred those into her presidential account.

 

I can certainly relate to that last paragraph.

 

Answer's still 'no,' as it is every time we do this.

 

No one, but no one cares about this in the slightest. In the Age of Trump, as long as a candidate's funds are raised exclusively from Americans, they have the moral high ground. It's also dangerous territory for a Biden surrogate to enter, considering Biden fund-raised for six different Senate campaigns and two disastrous Presidential campaigns.

 

The Sandernistas do
They say she took it from the Hillary playbook
They’re ready to take their ball and go home again if St. Bernie doesn’t win

 

A dramatic tax increase? Hmmmm.

 

The Trump poison runs deep:

"The most interesting part of Sotomayor’s dissent may be the citation to a forthcoming law review article by Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas. In that piece, Vladeck notes that Trump’s Justice Department has been far more aggressive than its predecessors in asking the Court to intervene at early stages of litigation. “To take one especially eye-opening statistic,” Vladeck writes, “in less than three years, the Solicitor General has filed at least 20 applications for stays in the Supreme Court (including 10 during the October 2018 Term alone).

By contrast, “during the 16 years of the George W. Bush and Obama Administrations, the Solicitor General filed a total of eight such applications — averaging one every other Term.”

Justice Sotomayor warns the Supreme Court is doing "extraordinary" favors for Trump

 

OK, so who doesn’t get to come?

 

RTExpress' wife's relatives.