Just NO

 

Yes, he's far too old.  There are other places for him to serve the greater good.  And also, Clyburn is the reason we had Joe Biden and not Bernie Sanders for president.

These are people who care far more about themselves than the people they are elected to serve.  I hope they lose to a primary challenger.

Maxine has had enough of Gym Jordan

Thank you, Ms. Waters.  I, too, am tired of Jordan's mouth.

Sit down, Corey

He wants Mueller to testify and "we should continue this investigation."  Corey, that's what an impeachment proceeding would do.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday called for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, wading into a topic that other 2020 White House hopefuls have so far been wary of discussing.

[...]

"Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress: 'Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.' The correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment," she said in an email announcing her position.

[...]

Democratic presidential contenders have so far been reluctant to address the question of whether Congress should initiate impeachment proceedings against Trump, fearing that doing so could energize the president’s supporters and isolate many of the moderate and independent-minded voters that Democrats are hoping to win over in 2020.

  The Hill

A terrible excuse for shirking their responsibility to the country

Elizabeth Warren: The Massachusetts senator was the first 2020 presidential candidate to call for impeachment, writing that not holding such proceedings “would suggest that both the current and future presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways”.

“The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty,” she tweeted. “That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president of the United States.”

Julián Castro: The former housing secretary and hopeful for the Democratic nomination said he would support Congress opening impeachment proceedings, telling CNN “it would be perfectly reasonable for Congress” to do so.

[...]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: On Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez said she would sign-on to Tlaib’s resolution, in the wake of the Mueller report. “Many know I take no pleasure in discussions of impeachment. I didn’t campaign on it, and rarely discuss it unprompted,” the New York representative and progressive star tweeted. “We all prefer working on our priorities: pushing Medicare for All, tackling student loans, and a Green New Deal. But the report squarely puts this on our doorstep.”

Maxine Waters: The Californian who chairs the House finance committee – and who has been attacked by Trump – backed impeachment on Thursday. “Congress’s failure to impeach is complacency in the face of the erosion of our democracy and constitutional norms,” she said. “Congress’s failure to impeach would set a dangerous precedent and imperil the nation as it would vest too much power in the executive branch and embolden future officeholders to further debase the US presidency, if that’s even possible.”

Al Green: The Texas representative has pushed for impeachment since Trump fired the FBI director James Comey in May 2017, forcing two unsuccessful votes on the articles of impeachment. He continues to push on. “I call for the impeachment of the president of the United States of America,” Green said in a press conference streamed on Facebook. “This rests solely now on the shoulders of the Congress of the United States of America.”

[...]

Nancy Pelosi: The speaker of the House [...] “Let me assure you that whatever the issue and challenge we face, the Congress of the United States will honor its oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States to protect our democracy,” she told reporters this week. “We believe that the first article – Article I, the legislative branch – has the responsibility of oversight of our democracy, and we will exercise that.”

  The Guardian

Deftly managing not to mentione the word impeach.

Hakeem Jeffries: The New York representative who chairs the House Democratic caucus said voters were much more interested in issues beyond impeachment. “The avenue is not impeachment,” he said this week. “The avenue is further disclosure to the American people.”

Angus King: The independent senator from Maine, who caucuses with Democrats, said the decision to keep Trump as president – or not – should be taken by voters. “In my view, there’s an even better political process coming right down the road on almost the same time frame and that’s the elections of 2020,” King told CNN on Friday. “For Congress to go through an impeachment process would be, it would take probably 18 months, which would lead right up to the election. And it would be divisive.”

Refusing to do something so close to the election is how we ended up in this situation. And you think we're NOT devided already?

Pete Buttigieg: The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, another 2020 hopeful who has surged in the polls, said there was “evidence that this president deserves to be impeached”. But he also said it was up to Congress to decide whether to proceed, prompting debate over his true meaning.

Sounds pretty clear to me. Trump deserves to be impeached. It's up to Congress whether to proceed. Both are true. Both statements are clear. Where's the debate?

Jerrold Nadler: The chairman of the House judiciary committee said his panel would hold “major hearings” with prominent people featured in the Mueller report. The New York representative, who has subpoenaed the unredacted report, has discussed impeachment repeatedly as it would originate with his committee. This week he remained noncommittal.

“The idea is not whether to debate articles of impeachment,” Nadler said. “The idea is to find out exactly what went on, who did what, what institutional safeguards were gotten around and how they were gotten around, and then decide what to do about it.”

That takes care of Russian interference, but what about obstruction of justice?

Kamala Harris: “I think that there is definitely a conversation to be had on that subject,” the California senator and presidential hopeful told MSNBC on Thursday, “but first I want to hear from Bob Mueller and really understand what exactly is the evidence that supports the summary that we have been given today.”

Read the report.

Bernie Sanders: At a South Carolina campaign stop on Friday, the Vermont senator ignored questions from reporters about impeachment. Instead he tweeted: “While we have more detail from today’s report than before, Congress must continue its investigation into Trump’s conduct and any foreign attempts to influence our election.”

Fortunately, Bernie, there's a specific group in the House who can walk and chew gum whose duty it is to investigate Trump's conduct - and impeachment proceedings are oone Constitutional avenue to do that.

Beto O’Rourke: The 2020 contender and former Texas representative said he believed voters cared more about policy discussions than impeachment, telling reporters on Thursday: “I don’t know that impeachment and those proceedings in the House and potential trial in the Senate is going to answer those questions for people.”

See response to Bernie Sanders above, Beto.

Why is anyone acting like impeachment proceedings are a zero sum venture? If they conduct impeachment proceedings, they can't do anything else?

Elijah Cummings: The House oversight committee chairman told MSNBC on Friday the Mueller report revealed actions that were “at least 100 times worse” than those that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. “We’ve got to go against this, we’ve got to expose it. A lot of people keep asking about the question of impeachment,” Cummings said. “But right now, let’s make sure we understand what Mueller was doing, understand what Barr was doing, and see the report in an unredacted form, and all of the underlying documents.”

Impeachment proceedings would cover all those things.

Eric Swalwell: The California representative, also running for president, told MSNBC on Friday impeachment was “a conversation we have to have as far as holding this president accountable” but stopped short of saying whether he supported impeachment proceedings. “I’m for bringing Bob Mueller in and see what the evidence is,” he said.

Steny Hoyer: The House majority leader, from Maryland, said the Mueller report was “a damning recitation of lies, misinformation, and malfeasance” that clearly sets a basis for “probable cause that crimes were, in fact, committed”. But he did not mention impeachment.

What a bunch of bold and courageous people, our Democratic Congressfolk are.

Kudos to Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Al Green, Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Julián Castro, and any others who are ready, willing and able to carry out their Constitutional duties and responsibilities to the American people.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Mnuchin is as big an asshole as you thought he was

This is great. (House Financial Services Committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.)




Don't fuck with Maxine, you ignorant prick.

The gravel.







...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Walls closing in

Wait. Is he gone?

Because if he's not, Maxine is about to get more nasty Trump Twitter.  Or, if he's been given his walking papers, this coming from Maxine might be just enough to get him re-invited.



...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

He'll never stop

All he has to do is say her name.  They know exactly what he would about her. In fact, he COULD just give a whole rally speech by listing names and nouns.  He repeats the same shit anyway, and all they need is a cue word.

Lock him up!

And, another mass shooting...

Five people have died and several others are "gravely injured" after a shooting Thursday at the Capital Gazette newspaper building in Annapolis, Maryland, local and federal officials say. The suspected shooter is in custody, and authorities are interrogating him, officials said at a news conference.

  NBC 4

Build that wall!  NO CRIME!  This killer surely came across the Mexican border, right?

THE ASSHAT CRIMINAL IN CHIEF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SHOOTING.  His constant ranting about journalists being the enemy of the people was bound to encourage some nutjob to kill some.  LOCK HIM UP!

Threats against journalists have been on the rise in recent years. Press freedom groups have also reported an uptick in physical assaults on journalists, particularly at campaign events and other political venues.

  CNN

I wonder why. And no, it's not "particularly at campaign events."  It's "particularly at Trump campaign events."

This son-of-a-bitch is an accessory.

Am I getting ahead of the facts here?



So, is a verbal attack on innocent journalists doing their job a verbal attack on every American?

UPDATE:

The attack may have been a personal grudge.

UPDATE:

Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday insisted that he "wasn't being serious" when he recently told two reporters that he “can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists.”

  The Hill

"Conservative provocateur" must be the new euphemism for Nazi.

Also...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has canceled a pair of public events after she received a “very serious death threat,” CNN reported Thursday.

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"As the President has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while also offering a veiled threat that I should 'be careful', even more individuals are leaving (threatening) messages and sending hostile mail to my office," Waters said in the statement, according to CNN.

She said there was "one very serious death threat" made against her on Monday from a person in Texas, "which is why my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were cancelled this weekend."

"This is just one in several very serious threats the United States Capitol Police are investigating in which individuals threatened to shoot, lynch, or cause me serious bodily harm," Waters said.

  The Hill

Sit down, Chuck

What would be the "American" way to deal with this administration, Chuck?  Pack up, ship out and find a native-only country to take over?

If it's not American, it's time to become.  This isn't a monarchy.  Yet.

And if anything happens to Maxine Waters

That is incitement to "his people".

Maxine Waters did no such thing.  This is what she said:

“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” the congresswoman said.

  HuffPo

That's not "supporters" - that's administration officials.

I'd like to see an actual IQ test on Trump.

He's going after people right and left this evening.  Well, left and left.

What's illegal - let alone "highly" illegal about him making such a claim? The only thing that's approaching illegal that I can see is Trump slandering someone on Twitter.

And if we're being transparent with hearings, let's see a video of Don Jr's testimony, and make sure the cameras are rolling when Trump gives his Stormy Daniels deposition.

And did I say Giuliani is a bag of shit?

If I didn't, I meant to.

Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday dared Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) to continue calling for Trump’s impeachment.

“I challenge Maxine Waters to say impeachment,” Giuliani said. “Say it. Say ‘impeachment’, sweetheart. Just say it.”

Giuliani appeared on Fox News with host Sean Hannity to blast the Democrat who has continually called for Trump to be removed from office.

  The Hill

"Sweetheart"?  I hope Maxine puts a boot up his misogynistic ass.

“The people who will decide this are the people of the United States in the 2018 election,” Giuliani said. “And, boy, they are switching fast and Democrats are running for cover.”

“You don’t hear them say the words impeachment anymore,” he added.

Trump said last month that if Republicans lose the House majority in the midterms, he’ll face impeachment from Democrats.

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Waters called for Trump’s impeachment earlier this month after he decided to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal.

“Trump, further isolating the United States, thinks he knows better than our negotiators and all of our global allies who agreed to the Iran deal," Waters tweeted. "How long do we have to suffer his gigantic ego and narcissistic behavior? Impeachment is the only answer."

[...]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders have tried to quell the impeachment push, arguing that they need more firm evidence of wrongdoing to press for Trump's removal.

Pelosi said just “being a jerk” doesn’t rise to the level of impeachment.

Jesus Christ, Nancy. Is that all you think is problematic here?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Maxine is way ahead of the rest of you goons

She's calling for impeachment. She's right to.

“Donald Trump is a racist and indecent man with no good values who is woefully unfit and undeserving of the office in which he serves. That this president, a deeply flawed human being with no understanding of public policy, would make such ill-informed and deplorable comments about Haitians, Salvadorans, and immigrants from African countries, merely underscores everything we already know about him: he is a hopeless and ignorant bigot."

Full statement on Maxine Waters' government webiste.

Don't forget Deutsche Bank

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When history looks back on today, it will note not the Jill Stein story, or Don Jr. trumpeting "Deep State" conspiracy theories, or even a destructive tax bill that will either discredit the GOP or be ditched when the Dems take over—or both—but this story:

(And not the Ivanka Trump inappropriately dressed at the 2016 US Open story, either, I might add.)

Representative Maxine Waters, the California Democrat who is the ranking member on the House Committee on Financial Services, has been pushing since March to connect dots that could link Donald Trump, his associates, Germany’s Deutsche Bank, and Russian oligarchs. Now, it appears, she’s getting some help from Robert Mueller, the Russiagate special counsel, whose office has issued a subpoena to Deutsche Bank over accounts linked to various associates of the president.

The twin efforts could determine whether or not various members of Trump’s inner circle benefited from the flow of money-laundered funds from Russian oligarchs, through Germany and Cyprus, to Trump-linked businesses and people in Trump’s inner circle, including Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law.

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Since March, Waters has been relentless is demanding that both DOJ and the Republican-controlled committee investigate ties between Deutsche Bank and Trump.

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To understand why this might be important, consider two facts: First, Deutsche Bank was caught red-handed in a money-laundering scheme that involved $10 billion in dirty money from Russian oligarchs, and in 2017 it was forced to pay fines totaling $671 million to New York’s Department of Financial Services, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority, and the US Federal Reserve. Second, since the 1990s the German financial colossus has been Donald Trump’s personal, go-to piggybank, which has supplied Trump and his companies with a staggering $3.5 billion in loans and loan-guarantee agreements since 1998.

[...]

Did Trump, Kushner, and their partners—along with others in Trump World, including Paul Manafort, Gen. Michael Flynn, and Wilbur Ross, the billionaire who serves as Trump’s commerce secretary—benefit from illegal Russian money that flowed through Deutsche Bank? If so, does President Trump have a hidden obligation to Russia or to Russian oligarchs? And why did the official US investigation of Deutsche Bank’s illegal transactions, conducted under the auspices of Jeff Sessions’s Justice Department, go “dormant” earlier this year?

  The Nation

Because Jeff Sessions is in trouble, too?

[T]he bank loaned Donald Trump $300 million—money that the president still owes the bank—to get him out of a sticky debt situation. And, second, Jared Kushner secured a $285 million loan from Deutsche Bank on the eve of last year’s election, in a transaction that, The Nation reported in August, involved a cast of characters tied to the infamous June 6, 2016, Trump Tower.

[...]

[E]xasperated, and concerned over reports that the Justice Department had let the Deutsche Bank inquiry go cold, in a December 1 letter Waters wrote to Rod Rosenstein, the deputy US attorney general, asking Rosenstein why DOJ had not moved forward with the investigation. “Not only is the President a client of Deutsche Bank, but so too are his daughter, Ivanka Trump, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Kushner’s mother, Seryl Kushner."

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(1) Is the investigation into Deutsche Bank’s role in a $10 billion Russian mirror trading scheme still ongoing? If not, what is its present status? (2) What has Attorney General Sessions’ involvement been with the investigation since his appointment? (3) Has President Trump, or his immediate family or any other campaign or White House official inquired about or sought to influence the investigation of Deutsche Bank in any way, including any other potential investigations into the Bank? (4) Is the Department committed to determining who participated in and who may have benefited from the Deutsche Bank Russian mirror trading scheme? (5) Should there be any nexus between Deutsche Bank, the Russian mirror trading scheme and the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, will the information be provided to Special Counsel Robert Mueller?

I'm sure it will.

So far—and contrary to some initial reports, which claimed that Mueller’s Deutsche Bank subpoenas were aimed at Trump directly—the subpoena from Mueller apparently involves only people in Trump’s orbit, but not the president himself. That could change, however, as Mueller’s inquiry moves forward.

Maxine Is Mad

Click here to hear.

At the end, Ms. Waters makes the point that Tillerson and Trump's meeting with and bowing to Putin is about opening up the arctic to oil drilling.  She has a point.

Whoa! Maxine!

She'll be on the blood list, too.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Dear Dems,

When you're in a hole, stop digging.

[T]he demand on the US left right now isn’t so much for the damning big picture, or the details of what investigators are looking into. It’s for the proverbial smoking gun.

That demand is so clear and intense in the global information market that it was visible to an alleged Italian con man, who went about filling it with a detailed forgery. Progressive activists fell for a hoax that told them exactly what they wanted to hear, paid thousands of dollars for a forgery, and passed it on to journalists.

[...]

Meanwhile the actual frontline detectives — congressional investigators — aren’t so sure. “I don’t think the conclusions are going to meet people’s expectations,” one warned BuzzFeed News’ Ali Watkins.

[...]

[T]ake seriously Russia’s role in the 2016 election, a major historical fact and a blight on Trump’s legitimacy. But it is also a simple fact that while news of Russian actions on Trump’s behalf is clear, hard details of coordination between his aides and Putin’s haven’t emerged.

[...]

And those of us covering the story and the stew of real information, fantasy, and — now — forgery around it need to continue to report and think clearly about what we know and what we don’t, and to resist the sugar high that comes with telling people exactly what they want to hear.

  Buzzfeed

And, Maxine dear, there are plenty of real, provable, incidents such as Trump's plays to gut America's already thin safety net for its citizens, foreigner-phobia and militarism that ought to be of concern to Dems.  You people are destroying your own legitimacy.

What the Hell happened to Maxine?  She used to seem like one of the few sane people in Congress.

Putin is advancing into Korea??

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 3/18:

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) on Thursday said Congress needs to consider whether Russia's cyber campaign during the U.S. presidential election was an act of war.

  The Hill

Does she want it to be?