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"President Trump's statement about Kansas was incorrect," Senator Lamar Alexander said Monday. "But it didn't rise to the level of a mistake."

 

If we judge by last night it looks like Pocohontas is going to beat Trump.

Chiefs ... Pocohontas ... one thing leads to another.

 

These are the people voters chose to represent them.

Montana lawmaker Rodney Garcia: Constitution says socialists get shot

BILLINGS, Mont. – The Montana Republican Party on Saturday condemned a comment made by a state GOP lawmaker who said the U.S. Constitution calls for people who identify as socialists to be jailed or shot.

Garcia stood behind his remarks on Saturday when asked by a reporter about them, though he couldn’t point out where in the Constitution it says socialists are to be shot or jailed.

 

The FNC Trump Defense Team is on the case this morning about that Kansas tweet. Their defense? "Well, the New York Giants actually play in New Jersey ... so there!"

 

“I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken”. I use that whenever I am incorrect about something.

 

Trumpfansayswhat

 

John Kerry overheard discussing possible 2020 bid amid concern of 'Sanders taking down the Democratic Party'


OMFG, No!

That might actually be worse than running Hillary again. At least at one point she had enough voters to win the popular vote.

 

I get that they're trying to do the diversity thing with the managerial team but the House shit the bed with the speakers it chose.

You've got 350-game winner and 5,000-strikeout guy Adam Schiff ... and a bunch of Rick Honeycutts.

I like President Val Demings but her tongue and her twang just ain't made for this kinda oratory.

The Colorado guy should stop reading notes and just fucking talk. If you don't know the facts like Schiff by now then you're not ready for primetime.

Hakeem thinks he's Carlton.

At this point just fucking let Schiff pitch his complete game 1-hitter in an hour-forty-five and go out on a high note.

 

Next up, Jimmy Carter plots his comeback! "Carter/Mondale '20: We're Back, Bitches!!"

 

USA Today has an opinion piece today saying if Trump gets booted in November, he'll pull a Grover Cleveland and run again in 2024.
There's no way that walking poster child for bad health would be able to run again in 2024 even if he is still alive.

 

It's hard to run a campaign from Rikers.

 

I saw a couple of good articles at the Atlantic this morning.

The Downfall of the Republican Party

David Frum:

"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 Next Trump Crisis Is Already Here

"From the beginning, the impeachment process carried dreadful risks. I worried in May, before the Ukraine story broke:

An acquitted Trump will be an immunized Trump. Is it vexing to hear Trump’s team misrepresent Robert Mueller’s report as an “exoneration”? Imagine what they will say and do if they defeat impeachment on a party-line Senate vote. It was all fake news, a plot by the Deep State. As false and wrong as those claims will be, how will Democrats sustain the momentum to hold Trump to account after a trial and acquittal? Won’t they then have to submit to the jeers of Trump henchpersons: This issue was litigated, and it’s time to move on?

Yet the impeachment process has achieved something. It has removed deniability from the Republicans. They were enablers; now they are accomplices. They are all Carmela Soprano in the classic scene with the psychiatrist who speaks the truth about her criminal husband: “One thing you can never say: that you haven’t been told.” The Republican Party as an institution has utterly merged itself into the Trump cover-up machine, and there is no escape for any of them—not the concerned Susan Collins nor the troubled Marco Rubio nor the thoughtful Ben Sasse."