Atticus
Atticus's JournalA mini-rant: I suppose this will show that I am, indeed, an unsophisticated fossil, but
I am reasonably sure that the over-arching purpose of being a member of Congress is SUPPOSED to be the service of constituents, NOT getting re-elected no matter how big a whore you have to be. And, yes, on a matter of substance, a part of the job is doing what you know is right, EVEN IF that means likely defeat in the next election.
Joe Manchin never ceases to disappoint. Being from a red state does not "justify" giving
aid and comfort to the GOP neo-fascist asshats! It does not "justify" the obsequious ass-kissing we just witnessed on TV, with Manchin saying "Sure", Hunter Biden would be a relevant witness.
His campaign slogan should be "I'm not really a Democrat, but I play one on TV. "
How bad is he? He thought Dershowitz made sense.
Just a little food for thought:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and
again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
-------Theodore Roosevelt
Just saw some of the pix of the crowd lined up in Jersey for Trump's rally. As usual,
even sitting in the privacy of my own family room, I can feel my face flushing with shame that, after all that has come out, there are still that many of my countrymen who have apparently decided we need a dictator.
I have dealt with these people face to face as they scream and spit and lie and threaten. I am almost as ashamed that there are those who STILL suggest that we "reach out" to the people who attend these "rallies". Good luck with that.
If Trump's NSC refuses to "clear" Bolton's book for publication because it "contains too much
sensitive classified information", would that stop Bolton's publisher from releasing it?
Could the NSC "redact" enough of the book's text to make it useless and meaningless?
I'll go on record now as someone who would contribute generously to any leaker's defense fund.
Trump's tweet about Schiff, stated another way:
"Who will rid me of this meddlesome Democrat?"
Sound sorta familiar?
A question for some of our legal beagles: other absolute powers of a POTUS--- to classify or
declassify information, to replace an ambassador or to claim executive privilege---all seem to have one "however". These cannot be used for a "corrupt purpose" or to "conceal criminality of the POTUS".
Why does the same exception not apply to the pardon power?
Are we sure it doesn't or has it never been challenged?
I may know why we haven't seen AG Barr lately.
According to one rumor( which I'm starting with this post ), he's recovering from surgery. He's had silicone implants inserted over both kneecaps so he won't have to be bothered with those damn kneepads---on, off, on, off, on---------he's a busy man!
"It's what's in the trunk".
You may have heard someone ask---quite reasonably--- "Why can't the Congressional Republicans just admit they made a big mistake in supporting Trump and get rid of him so we can move on as a nation?"
This is similar, in my mind, to the occasional news story we see about a driver who, when a LEO attempted to pull them over for a minor traffic offense, sped away and eventually, after miles of high-speed chase and a shootout, was arrested for multiple felonies. His trunk, you see, was filled with either multiple duffel bags of hundred dollar bill's or dead bodies.
It wasn't the speeding ticket that they were running from; it was what they knew was in the trunk.
Mr. McConnell, Mr. Graham, Mr. Cotton---the others who continue to run from the truth about Trump---what's in your trunk?
To Pam Bondi: To paraphrase an old joke, "We've already established what you are. Now
we're just wondering about your price. "
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