“While the president and Prime Minister Abe were golfing, the press corps was actually put into a basement, with windows that had black plastic over them — they looked like garbage bags,” said Alex Howard, deputy director of the Sunlight Foundation, which says it wants to create a more open, transparent government.

slugsrbad wrote:Need a special prosecutor. No way Sessions can Farley investigate this. Also the Senate needs to have more visible hearings on the entire administrations connections to Russia.

drsmooth wrote:

slugsrbad wrote:Need a special prosecutor. No way Sessions can Farley investigate this. Also the Senate needs to have more visible hearings on the entire administrations connections to Russia.

No, Farley won't do. Send for Farbman

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JFLNYC wrote:If there's any good news from the first few weeks it's that, despite all the bombast from Trump and his henchmen, he has been almost totally ineffective on his signature issues. Nothing happening on The Wall (Congress is ignoring him), repeal and replace Obamacare (stuck in the inconvenient reality that it can't be done without millions losing their insurance), banning of immigrants (smacked down by the courts), promises about moving US embassy to Jerusalem and supporting more Israeli settlements (flip flop), major infrastructure spending (see Congress' reaction to first point), etc.

He may have made more noise in 3 weeks than other Presidents have in 4 years, but his actual achievements so far have been seriously lacking.

A wise man wrote about this at length last week.

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

That was Lincoln

slugsrbad wrote:In non-Russia news, the Freedom Caucus (or Fuckhead Caucus, if you're tired and unoriginal) have taken an official stance that they will oppose any repeal/replace plan that preserves Medicaid expansion. Jon Favreau states that the Senate GOP does not have enough votes to end Medicaid expansion, putting ACA work in a bind.